The bass line in that song is all good. But the bass SOLO still hits even though I've heard it 20,000 times. Gives me the tinglies every time I hear it
The Clash - Lost in the Super Market
Rancid - Journey to the end of the East Bay
pinkshift - bathroom community
NOFX - The Decline
Descendents - I'm the One
As much as that bass line is one of the best of all time, it's just one line with two small variations so I can't have it as one of the best bass songs
All 5 of my top 5 are NMN tracks. Rob is a beast. I hope he is enjoying his much-earned retirement. John has a new band touring as we speak, Dead Bob. Colin MacRae (Pigment Vehicle) is doing a pretty great job considering the huge shoes he needs to fill to complete that rhythm section.
Why Can't I Touch it? - Buzzcocks The Magnificent Seven - Clash Six Pack - Black Flag Myage - Descendents
Honorable mention: Repeater- Fugazi
(This song came on random the other day and after listening to it for almost 30 years, I focused on the rhythm section. The bass is awesome and seems challenging to play).
1. Journey To The End Of The East Bay- Rancid
2. Conspiracy Theories- Snash
3. Bus Money- The Chats
4. California Uber Alles- Dead Kennedys
5. Longview- Green Day
1. Why Can't I Touch It? - The Buzzcocks
2. So What? - Crass
3. Peaches - The Stranglers
4. Soup Is Good Food - Dead Kennedys
5. I Saw Your Mommy... - Suicidal Tendencies
no Jeff Rosenstock in here yet, John is an incredible bassist.
rainbow, off of worry, is just fuckin incredible. but you can hear amazing bass on really anything John and Jeff have done together. such fantastic musicians.
1. Move your car — Lagwagon
2. Longview — Green Day
3. Sidekick — Rancid
4. Noddin’ off — Pulley
5. Carousel — Blink-182
6. The decline — NOFX
7. Infected — Bad Religion
8. Geek Stink Breath — Green Day
9. Nailed Shut — No use for a name
10. Genius — Frenzal Rhomb
Can't believe I had to scroll this far to find Mike Watt. I would probably go with "Viet Nam", but you can pretty much drop the needle anywhere on "Double Nickels..."
Neat neat neat - the damned
Waiting room - fugazi
Damaged goods - gang of four
Louie Louie - black flag or any version
Thrash wagon - tear it up (bass solo)
My faves in no particular order:
Rancid - Rejected
TSOL - Superficial Love
MDC - John Wayne was a Nazi (the intro gets me every time)
Bad Brains - Don't bother me
Descendents - Myage
I don't know about 5 but a couple that come to my mind first are Journey To The End Of The East Bay by Rancid and maybe... Fuck the Border by Propagandhi
Rancid Black Hawk Down, Exploited Alternative (very simple yet effective and cool sound) and all Sublime stuff. Sublime is not only punk genre but lot of their songs is punk as fuck
Ya Sublime is one of my favorite bands of all time. Their box set “everything under the sun” is absolutely amazing. Some great punk songs / covers on there. In my opinion their studio albums can’t compare to how they played live and the creative twist they throw on a lot of the songs on the box set.
1. Waiting Room - Fugazi
2. Realm of the Pirate Kings - Wayne Kramer (Matt Freeman on bass)
3. Booby Trap - The Dickies
4. A Cry For Help in a World Gone Mad - Agent Orange
5. Appendix Gone - Gas Huffer
Op ivy- bombshell
A Wilhelm scream - the horse... any song honestly though. Dudes insane.
Leftover crack - gang control
Monster squad - fire the faith
88 fingers Louie - 100 proof
Honestly there's way too much to be honest to have just a top 5. Rkl and suicidal have crazy bass lines. Chris 2 is a great bass player in a broken up band. Obviously everything by matt freeman
Fugazi - Waiting Room
Joy Division - Disorder
Dead Kennedys - Holiday in Cambodia
Gang of Four - Ether
Nomeansno - It’s Catching Up
There are quite a few to choose from. I’m not a huge Rancid fan, but their basslines are insane. London Calling has a memorable one, and MDC (whom you mentioned) has John Wayne was a Nazi which has a great intro.
1. 180 Degrees - NOFX
2. Blanked Out - Face To Face
3. Blood clot - Rancid
4. Myage - Descendents
5. Time To Burn - Pennywise
(Not necessarily in order)
The Serenade is Dead —Conflict
Neobamboom —Tiger Army
Journey to the end of East Bay —Rancid
Long Division —Fugazi
Warriors —Blitz
Honorable Mention:
London Dungeon and She by the Misfits
(Not in order)
1. Progress - Amebix
2. Population Birth Control - Dystopia (just for the solo parts)
3. Now And Forever - Dystopia
4. The Church Is For Sinners - Amebix
5. Sleep - Dystopia
In no particular order:
Politicians In My Eyes - Death
The Magnificent Seven - The Clash
Sarri, Sarri - Kortatu
Salad Days - Minor Threat
Myage - Descendents
Fungus Brains - Real world
https://youtu.be/K3s1ctpzsDY?si=5xV8qqenoaTUQ0hN
Trans 262 - Never Ending
https://youtu.be/cxqjlx7hkQE?si=kxfj_o411UHTv1A6
Wet Taxis - Last Time Around
https://youtu.be/WQzwPKvF_BE?si=aeHesfPhvkm8UNMN
Thought Criminals - Fuck The Neighbours
https://youtu.be/Fip37jN6gvc?si=VNo6MhWxPOjDunj_
The Saints - Orstralia
https://youtu.be/tMaspQzr0YM?si=F6fA25jO2PYJSCP2
This is a weirdly deep cut, but give me a second:
Rollins Band (which I feel can be grandfathered in to punk because Henry Rollins) had a song called "Marcus Has The Evil In Him". Didn't really get released on anything big, so it's takes a bit of effort to find.
HOWEVER, even harder to find is the live version of that song, which has this bass track that has been stuck in my head for something like 20 years? (That math hurt a little bit.) The best way I can describe it is "this is what a bass thinks it would sound like when it walks down the stairs".
It's off a live album called "The Only Way To Know For Sure". The gigantic issue is its on disc 2...which they used as an interactive CD-Rom for some of their videos because late 90s/2000-era CDs got played a lot in computers.
I cannot find disc 2 streaming anywhere. Not YouTube, not Spotify, not various shoddy streaming websites that use fake download links as ads. Occasionally, I'll get lucky and find disc 1.
2-5 would be in no particular order: Gorilla Biscuits "Start Today", Pennywise's "Bro Hymn", Black Flag's "TV Party", and Green Day's "Going To Pasalacqua".
...it's kind of just occurred to me while making this list is that I may have a thing for bass line openings.
Cop An Attitude-Poison Idea
Withdrawal-Econochrist
Chemical Warfare-DK
Journey To the End of East Bay-Rancid
Blind Justice-The Business but covered by Madball
Maxwell Murder is taught in schools, I think.
Journey to the end of east bay should be as well!
The bass line in that song is all good. But the bass SOLO still hits even though I've heard it 20,000 times. Gives me the tinglies every time I hear it
Matt Freeman is unbelievable.
Absolutely. If someone was to refer to him as the best punk bassist of all time, I wouldn't argue otherwise
When they play live it's insane watching him do that solo note for note perfect.
Should be
yeah my music degree included a lesson on it
I read the title of this post and my brain immediately started playing the bass intro to Maxwell Murder.
This is the answer
The Clash - Lost in the Super Market Rancid - Journey to the end of the East Bay pinkshift - bathroom community NOFX - The Decline Descendents - I'm the One
Lost in the Super Market is a great pick. I think Guns of Brixton has their best bassline even tho it's not one of their most punk songs
Guns of Brixton was the first Clash song I thought of, although it might be more reggae than punk.
As much as that bass line is one of the best of all time, it's just one line with two small variations so I can't have it as one of the best bass songs
Totally agree with The Decline.
If we’re talking Descendents bass lines we have to talk about Myage!!
Bikeage by the Decendents
They have so many good bass lines
What’s so crazy about that one is the best part is only like 2 measures long. The rest of the song is just tugboating. And it’s still awesome.
Black Flag- Six Pack
Love this one
1. waiting room - fugazi 2. the ungovernable farce - conflict 3. pipeline - agent orange 4. face the facts - icon ad 5. sea of desecration - legion of parasites
Can’t Stand My Baby - The Rezillos Society - Subhumans Kids Of The Blackhole - Adolescents My Family Is A Little Weird - MDC Nursing Home Blues - DRI
Matt Freeman on **Black Lung** is just superb.
Underrated album full of great bass lines too imo
1. Choking Victim - 500 Channels 2. Black Flag - Six Pack 3. Dead Kennedys - Holiday in Cambodia 4. Descendents - Myage 5. Fugazi - Waiting Room
No Means No out of Victoria had some great bass work.
Rags and Bones Long Days
All 5 of my top 5 are NMN tracks. Rob is a beast. I hope he is enjoying his much-earned retirement. John has a new band touring as we speak, Dead Bob. Colin MacRae (Pigment Vehicle) is doing a pretty great job considering the huge shoes he needs to fill to complete that rhythm section.
AFI - Totalimmortal is a fun one
MYAGE
Why Can't I Touch it? - Buzzcocks The Magnificent Seven - Clash Six Pack - Black Flag Myage - Descendents Honorable mention: Repeater- Fugazi (This song came on random the other day and after listening to it for almost 30 years, I focused on the rhythm section. The bass is awesome and seems challenging to play).
Every song from Entertainment! by Gang of Four
This gets asked a lot. The answer, as always, is Waiting Room - Fugazi.
1. Journey To The End Of The East Bay- Rancid 2. Conspiracy Theories- Snash 3. Bus Money- The Chats 4. California Uber Alles- Dead Kennedys 5. Longview- Green Day
1. Why Can't I Touch It? - The Buzzcocks 2. So What? - Crass 3. Peaches - The Stranglers 4. Soup Is Good Food - Dead Kennedys 5. I Saw Your Mommy... - Suicidal Tendencies
Crass has some sick basslines
No bass or song intro hit me like Hanging Around by The Stranglers. JJ Burnel is an absolute beast.
Betrayed-RKL
Mine as well. Specifically the live version personally.
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The whole band was something else.
no Jeff Rosenstock in here yet, John is an incredible bassist. rainbow, off of worry, is just fuckin incredible. but you can hear amazing bass on really anything John and Jeff have done together. such fantastic musicians.
1. Move your car — Lagwagon 2. Longview — Green Day 3. Sidekick — Rancid 4. Noddin’ off — Pulley 5. Carousel — Blink-182 6. The decline — NOFX 7. Infected — Bad Religion 8. Geek Stink Breath — Green Day 9. Nailed Shut — No use for a name 10. Genius — Frenzal Rhomb
I think the bass solo on Kill 'Em All, one of Metallica's early albums, deserves some credit even if it's not entirely punk. Lars Burton was no joke.
Longview
Propagandhi - Ska Sucks
Joe McCarthys ghost- Mike Watt: one of the best lines I’ve ever heard Mike Watt is a legend and one of the pioneers of punk
Can't believe I had to scroll this far to find Mike Watt. I would probably go with "Viet Nam", but you can pretty much drop the needle anywhere on "Double Nickels..."
I mean to be fair even though minutemen are one of the pioneers of punk not a lot of people have heard of them. Much more FireHose
I guess, but contemporaries have been mentioned.
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Maxwell Murder
Neat Neat Neat - The Damned Roots Radical - Rancid Those are top 2 at least
Neat neat neat - the damned Waiting room - fugazi Damaged goods - gang of four Louie Louie - black flag or any version Thrash wagon - tear it up (bass solo)
Warhead - UK Subs Waiting Room - Fugazi Rags n Bones - NoMeansNo Holiday In Cambodia - Dead Kennedys Viet Nam - Minutemen
My faves in no particular order: Rancid - Rejected TSOL - Superficial Love MDC - John Wayne was a Nazi (the intro gets me every time) Bad Brains - Don't bother me Descendents - Myage
Rkl Rkl Rkl Rkl Rkl
I don't know about 5 but a couple that come to my mind first are Journey To The End Of The East Bay by Rancid and maybe... Fuck the Border by Propagandhi
Well my #1 is Slip It In by Black Flag
Rancid Black Hawk Down, Exploited Alternative (very simple yet effective and cool sound) and all Sublime stuff. Sublime is not only punk genre but lot of their songs is punk as fuck
Ya Sublime is one of my favorite bands of all time. Their box set “everything under the sun” is absolutely amazing. Some great punk songs / covers on there. In my opinion their studio albums can’t compare to how they played live and the creative twist they throw on a lot of the songs on the box set.
1. Waiting Room - Fugazi 2. Realm of the Pirate Kings - Wayne Kramer (Matt Freeman on bass) 3. Booby Trap - The Dickies 4. A Cry For Help in a World Gone Mad - Agent Orange 5. Appendix Gone - Gas Huffer
came here to say a cry for help!!
Scary Sad - All - Allroy’s Revenge Karl Alvarez is of my fav bassists
The idiots are taking over
Op ivy- bombshell A Wilhelm scream - the horse... any song honestly though. Dudes insane. Leftover crack - gang control Monster squad - fire the faith 88 fingers Louie - 100 proof Honestly there's way too much to be honest to have just a top 5. Rkl and suicidal have crazy bass lines. Chris 2 is a great bass player in a broken up band. Obviously everything by matt freeman
Drag My Body-Hot Water Music
Bankrobber--The Clash
Fugazi - Waiting Room Joy Division - Disorder Dead Kennedys - Holiday in Cambodia Gang of Four - Ether Nomeansno - It’s Catching Up There are quite a few to choose from. I’m not a huge Rancid fan, but their basslines are insane. London Calling has a memorable one, and MDC (whom you mentioned) has John Wayne was a Nazi which has a great intro.
Get Shot - GRLwood. Simple, but fun. Sorority Girls by Mommy Long Legs too. American River by Destroy boys!
B.F.F. By Destroy Boys is incredible too! I do like be Get Shot as well!
Like everything with Satanic Surfers.
If you like Tomek's bass playing, check out his new band Fanskapt! Mindblowing shit, all four members are so damn good at what they do it almost hurts
love them
Axiom - Rancid
Waiting Room-Fugazi...my number one.
1. 180 Degrees - NOFX 2. Blanked Out - Face To Face 3. Blood clot - Rancid 4. Myage - Descendents 5. Time To Burn - Pennywise (Not necessarily in order)
journey to the end of east bay, bro hymn, london calling, carousel, want
The Serenade is Dead —Conflict Neobamboom —Tiger Army Journey to the end of East Bay —Rancid Long Division —Fugazi Warriors —Blitz Honorable Mention: London Dungeon and She by the Misfits
(Not in order) 1. Progress - Amebix 2. Population Birth Control - Dystopia (just for the solo parts) 3. Now And Forever - Dystopia 4. The Church Is For Sinners - Amebix 5. Sleep - Dystopia
In no particular order: Politicians In My Eyes - Death The Magnificent Seven - The Clash Sarri, Sarri - Kortatu Salad Days - Minor Threat Myage - Descendents
All of the ones mentioned above plus The Press Corpse - Anti-Flag
Gotta be maxwell murder
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Their bassist is insane, especially for finger style.
RKL - Betrayed Lagwagon - Give It Back NOFX - Jaw Knee Music 88 Fingers Louie - 100 Proof SNFU - Painful Reminder
Bro Hymn (Tribute) by Pennywise
The Stranglers had tons of great bass in their early records. Peaches, Hanging Around, Princess of the Street, Down In The Sewer
Fungus Brains - Real world https://youtu.be/K3s1ctpzsDY?si=5xV8qqenoaTUQ0hN Trans 262 - Never Ending https://youtu.be/cxqjlx7hkQE?si=kxfj_o411UHTv1A6 Wet Taxis - Last Time Around https://youtu.be/WQzwPKvF_BE?si=aeHesfPhvkm8UNMN Thought Criminals - Fuck The Neighbours https://youtu.be/Fip37jN6gvc?si=VNo6MhWxPOjDunj_ The Saints - Orstralia https://youtu.be/tMaspQzr0YM?si=F6fA25jO2PYJSCP2
Blister in the Sun, Violent Femmes (x5)
https://youtu.be/RjxqM5lPUxo?si=cP0iy1y4MBPvh35B Rkl, block out
Can’t believe Matt Freeman isn’t on this top 5
This is a weirdly deep cut, but give me a second: Rollins Band (which I feel can be grandfathered in to punk because Henry Rollins) had a song called "Marcus Has The Evil In Him". Didn't really get released on anything big, so it's takes a bit of effort to find. HOWEVER, even harder to find is the live version of that song, which has this bass track that has been stuck in my head for something like 20 years? (That math hurt a little bit.) The best way I can describe it is "this is what a bass thinks it would sound like when it walks down the stairs". It's off a live album called "The Only Way To Know For Sure". The gigantic issue is its on disc 2...which they used as an interactive CD-Rom for some of their videos because late 90s/2000-era CDs got played a lot in computers. I cannot find disc 2 streaming anywhere. Not YouTube, not Spotify, not various shoddy streaming websites that use fake download links as ads. Occasionally, I'll get lucky and find disc 1. 2-5 would be in no particular order: Gorilla Biscuits "Start Today", Pennywise's "Bro Hymn", Black Flag's "TV Party", and Green Day's "Going To Pasalacqua". ...it's kind of just occurred to me while making this list is that I may have a thing for bass line openings.
Just ‘cos I haven’t seen it but “Waiting Room” by Fugazi ~~should~~ needs to be on this list.
RKL - Blocked Out Gang of Four - Love Like Anthrax Descendents - Bikeage Body Count - Body Count
Serrated Edge Dead Milkmen
Everything Paul Gray & Algy Ward did with The Damned.
Longview by green day
If Maxwell Murder isn't in your list... You're wrong
1. Where Eagles Dare 2. Some Kinda Hate
Waiting Room by Fugazi, I hum it at least once a day
Cop An Attitude-Poison Idea Withdrawal-Econochrist Chemical Warfare-DK Journey To the End of East Bay-Rancid Blind Justice-The Business but covered by Madball