Best Bass Riffs in Rock History

                            

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Let's get to the list of the Best Bass Riffs in Rock History.

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Needless to say, this is my absolute favorite list!

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There are simple, cyclical ones, others that are very technical and complex, with fretless bass, 5 or 6 strings, double bass, slow and fiery... There's everything, but these riffs are, to some extent, responsible for making a song immortal and leaving it tattooed in our minds. The bass is what makes us jump, even if sometimes it goes unnoticed. These are, in my opinion, the most memorable and outstanding bass riffs in history, the ones I most enjoy listening to and playing... Which are your favorites?

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Best Bass Riffs in Rock History:

 

1 Money (Pink Floyd)

2 Sunshine Of Your Love (Cream)

3 Come Together (The Beatles)

4 Dazed & Confused (Led Zeppelin)

5 Mercy, Mercy, Mercy (Weather Report)

6 Another One Bites The Dust (Queen)

7 Roundabout (Yes)

8 XYZ (Rush)

9 Strange Brew (Cream)

10 The Lemon Song (Led Zeppelin)

11 Another Brick In The Wall Pt 2 (Pink Floyd)

12 The Real Me (The Who)

13 Dance of the Eternity (Dream Theater)

14 Bourée (Jethro Tull)

15 L.A. Woman (Doors)

16 Day Tripper (The Beatles)

17 Aenethesia/Pulling Teeth (Metallica)

18 Coffee Shop (Red Hot Chili Peppers)

19 Under My Thumb (Rolling Stones)

20 N.I.B. (Black Sabbath)

21 Freewill (Rush)

22 Black Market (Weather Report)

23 Smoke On The Water (Deep Purple)

24 Thank You Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin (Sly & Family Stone)

25 Last Train To London (Electric Light Orchestra) 

26 No More Tears (Ozzy Osbourne)

27 Badge (Cream)

28 Jeremy (Pearl Jam)

29 New Born (Muse)

30 Hey Bulldog (The Beatles)

31 London Calling (The Clash)

32 For Whom The Bells Toll (Metallica) 

33 I Want You - She's So Heavy (The Beatles)

34 Burning My Soul (Dream Theater)

35 My Name Is Mudd (Primus)

36 Thela Hun Ginjeet (King Crimson)

37 Hysteria (Muse)

38 Heartbreaker (Led Zeppelin)

39 Higher Ground (Red Hot Chili Peppers)

40 In A Gadda Da Vida (Iron Butterfly)

41 Sweet Emotion (Aerosmith)

42 One Of These Days (Pink Floyd)

43 Sparks (The Who)

44 Birdland (Weather Report)

45 Schism (Tool)

46 Otherside (Red Hot Chili Peppers)

47 Green-Eyed Lady (Sugarloaf)

48 Break On Through (Doors)

49 Tom Sawyer (Rush)

50 I Will Survive(versión de Cake)

51 Let There Be More Light (Pink Floyd)

52 Since I've Been Loving You (Led Zeppelin)

53 One Of These Nights (Eagles)

54 Time Of The Season (The Zombies)

55 Black Is Black (Los Bravos)

56 We Gotta Get Out of This Place (The Animals)

57 White Rabbit (Jefferson Airplane)

58 Distant Early Warning (Rush)

59 Girls & Boys (Blur)

60 Taxman (The Beatles)

61 By The Way (Red Hot Chili Peppers)

62 Rain When I Die (Alice In Chains)

63 My Generation (The Who)

64 Love Buzz (Shocking Blue)

65 Rotten Apple (Alice In Chains)

66 Scumbag Blues (Them Crooked Vultures)

67 Summertime Blues (versión The Who)

68 Susie Q (Creedence Clearwater Revival)

69 Jerry Was A Racecar Driver (Primus)

70 Fire (Jimi Hendrix)

71 Crossroads (versión Cream)

72 Paranoid Android (Radiohead)

73 Metropolis Pt. I (Dream Theater)

74 White Room (Cream)

75 Karn Evil 9 (ELP)

76 Dawn Patrol (Megadeth)

77 Orion (Metallica)

78 My Sharona (The Knack)

79 Warning (Green Day)

80 Under Pressure (Queen)

81 Riders On The Storm (The Doors)

82 Lie (Dream Theater)

83 One Time (King Crimson)

84 Can't Stop (Red Hot Chili Peppers)

85 Oh! Darling (The Beatles)

86 Obscured By Cluods (Pink Floyd)

87 King Nothing (Metallica)

88 Epic (Faith No More)

89 Baba O'Riley (The Who)

90 Crazy Train (Ozzy Osbourne)

91 I Miss You (Rolling Stones)

92 National Anthem (Radiohead)

93 Tommy The Cat (Primus)

94 Something Else (Eddie Cochran)

95 Where I End and You Begin (Radiohead)

96 Crazy Little Thing Called Love (Queen)

97 Something (The Beatles)

98 Sound Chaser (Yes)

99 Have You Ever Seen The Rain (Creedence)

100 National Anthem (Radiohead)

101 Tommy The Cat (Primus)

102 Won't Get Fooled Again (The Who)

103 The Soft Parade (The Doors)

104 25 Or 6 To 4 (Chicago)

105 Peace Frog (The Doors)

106 Hey Joe (Jimmy Hendrix)

107 Something Else (Eddie Cochran)

108 When I Come Around (Green Day)

109 Know Your Enemy (Rage Against The Machine)

110 You Could Be Mine (Guns N' Roses)

111 Bullet With Bulletproof Wings (Smashing Pumpkins)

112 Ytse Jam (Dream Theater)

113 Aeroplane (Red Hot Chili Peppers)

114 Bela Lugosi's Dead (Bauhaus)

115 Dear Prudence (The Beatles)

116 I Wanna Be Adored (Stone Roses)

117 Packt Like Sardines in a Crushd Tin Box (Radiohead)

118 Would (Alice In Chains)

119 Fascination Street (The Cure)

120 Come As You Are (Nirvana)

121 A Whiter Sade of Pale (Procol Harum)

122 Love Will Tear Us Apart (Joy Division) 

123 Holiday (Green Day)

124 Coma (Guns N' Roses)

125 Drive My Car (The Beatles)

126 Next Girl (Black Keys)

127 La Villa Strangiato (Rush)

128 Good Times Bad Times (Led Zeppelin)

129 Pigs (Pink Floyd)

130 Stand By Me (Ben E. King)

131 I'm So Glad (Cream)

132 Love Her Madly (The Doors)

133 One Head Light (Wallflowers)

134 Longview (Green Day) 

 

By Corvan

Jan/13/2009

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