"Forgot about this monster. A long-time favourite. Good vocoder at the start too"
Gap Band! Lot of things could be mentioned as regards the Gap Band and bass. As played by Robert Wilson, although synth-bass enters at a certain point I should have thought. Even while it's bass guitar it's so thickly textured, so legato-lubricious, so large as a presence in the sound, it feels like synth-bass.
Slip 'n 'slide
Jon also points to a post-prime Simple Minds beauty, the B-side to "Don't You Fuggedabout Me", albeit not particularly for its bass element:
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CJ comes again:
Gap Band! Lot of things could be mentioned as regards the Gap Band and bass. As played by Robert Wilson, although synth-bass enters at a certain point I should have thought. Even while it's bass guitar it's so thickly textured, so legato-lubricious, so large as a presence in the sound, it feels like synth-bass.
Slip 'n 'slide
Jon also points to a post-prime Simple Minds beauty, the B-side to "Don't You Fuggedabout Me", albeit not particularly for its bass element:
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CJ comes again:
That's Michael "Busta Cherry" Jones on the bs there.
My Life in the Bush of Ghosts is crawling, wriggling, with brilliantly strange bass, especially on side 2 where it is like pretzel bass, contortionist bass, Escher-bass.
Like this one:
As well as Busta, Bill Laswell and Tim Wright play bass on a few tracks on the album, but on that one it appears to be either Byrne or Eno who handled the bass-gloop duties.
Same here
and here
Another killa B o' G B-line - the effect is sort of yammering, or like a heart pounding, like eyelids fluttering moth-mad, as the eyeballs start to roll back and the exorcisee starts shaking and going into convulsions
Do not understand the typical reviewer's verdict at the time - 1981 - which was that MLitBoG was "coldblooded" and"egghead" and "laboratory white-coat scientist" in vibe. To me it sounds ecstastic, fascinated in the original magical-hypnotic sense... full of longing and awe.... You can hear B & E's neck hairs a-tingling almost...
The excised cut
Back to CJ's picks
The Banshees single I always forget about. Fluorescent sounding.
What a tune... When Ja ruled.
About the latter, CJ notes the "pun on words" and producer "Metro Boomin with a quasi-Mentasm stab."