Best Music For Bass

[Jammyb]

I'm interested in finding CD's and tracks with good deep bass.

I've compiled the following (with your comments) from the best subwoofer moments thread:

Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Part2
there is some SERIOUS sub workout there....

Asian Dub Foundation - Enemy of the Enemy
which is positively seismic.

The Prodigy - Experience
track 6 Charly (trip into drum & bass version) at about 2 mins 20 sec and on has a really low bass line which on mine amazing.

Leftfield - Rhythm & Stealth

Leftfield - Leftism album has superb bass as well

Daniel Paul - Outta Space (Meitz remix Dub)
It has some lovely deep bass - I have it on a mixed CD called Other-Wordly Fusions, which is very well produced and has strong bass all round

Yello - The Eye

Yello's 'Tied up on 12" EP is a surprising feast from the days before the domestic subwoofer.

Pink Floyd's - The Wall
Double album choc full of beautiful base moments that will move your furniture.

Gus Gus - 'This Is Normal'
Track 3 Starlovers....seriously low bass note almost all the way through only acheivable properly by a sub

Roysopp - Melody AM
Some serious deep bass going on in some tracks

Peter Gabriel - So
This Is The Picture has some seriously nice bass on Tony Levin's 'bass stick', but a good system will let the beat kick you through the bass line.

Gladiator - Soundtrack

Blink 182 - I'm Feeling This
Has some really deep tones just before the chorus.

Sneaker Pimps - Becoming X
has loads of deep bass on pretty much every track.

system 7 - mirror system
Especially track 2, great chill-out ambient type music

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
"Welcome To The Machine" The first 60 seconds. I thought there was a helicopter landing in the garden.

kraftwerk - minimum maximum
"Aerodynamic live"

Taken from the SVS site:

Beastie Boys -- "Brass Monkey"
Killer 50Hz stuff.

City of Angels (Soundtrack) -- "Uninvited"
The graph shows one "boom" slowly fading, and then the next starts right at the bottom of the graph. Great high 20s bass in this one. If you look closely at the bottom--- you can see the harmonics of the low bass in the actual recording (28/56/84hz peaks).

AC/DC -- "Highway to Hell"
The little spikes in the upper right is the guitar intro leading into the kick drum. Any musicians might be able to correlate those to music notes. The kick drum starts toward the bottom. One interesting bit of bass trivia -- there's a bit of 10-18hz noise throughout the track. Maybe a defective high-pass filter? Who said audio was boring?

Metallica "Cunning Stunts"
has been something of a head-banger bass standard for some time. See why here:
"Enter Sandman" (cannon shot)* Disk 3 Track 3 (0:10:05)
"One" (opening gunfire)* Disk 1 Track 7*

Nine Inch Nails -- "Closer"

Notorious B.I.G. -- "Dead Wrong"
Main bass is 30hz and up...but there's a good bit of signal real low too --- like 10-20Hz low.

System of a Down -- "Sugar"

Marilyn Manson -- "Great Big White World"
At about 45-55 seconds into the song, check out the synthesized bass bridge. And...the end of the same song (see next chart), as the volume drops quickly and just before DOPE SHOW starts (signified by the burst at the very bottom of the chart). More good synthesized stuff down to the mid 20Hz range.

Couple of my own I've noticed tearing through my collection in the last couple of weeks:
Moloko - Things To Make And Do

Stanton Warriors - Stanton Sessions Vol.2

Right what other do you think need adding?

[Ian J]

Moving from subwoofer hardware forum.

[Knyght_byte]

Massive Attacks latest hits album, has some of their bassier stuff on it such as Unfinished Sympathy and Teardrop

Ashanti, the track with the guitar riff start, there is some gorgeous deep bass on that....you dont think there would be till you hear it...heh

definitely agree on the Yoshi battles the pink robots, especially track 2....omg...lol i remember when i first played that on my REL Quake and loved it, then when i got my Strata 5 broken in and played it i was in heaven.....lol

Corrine Bailey Rae surprisingly has a few tunes on her album with some deep stuff going on....

some Orb stuff is a little vibrant, likewise Lemon Jelly

remember the Levis (i think..eek.lol) advert with the hand puppet? on the CD single, track 3 had some nice low bass, i'll dig out the disc tomorrow to get the track name...

couple others i use but cant think of them off the top of my head....

[rOAdeh]

The Eels - Mr E.'s Beautiful Blues always has bass that makes me smile, albeit not all that deep but somehow it's one of the best to fill a room.

As already mentioned a lot of the Prodigy/Leftfield stuff is gonna have a lot of deep bass.. also DnB will be good if you can stand it

[FeisalK]

Jammyb

if you took some from SVS's site - how could you miss Blue Man Group

esp TV Song from Audio (DVD-A preferably, the whole album is a bass orgy *lol*)

[CJROSS]

Track number 8 - Tumbanga - best bass I have ever heard in a digital recording quite simply. Jowl tremblingly stunning.



Blows Orbital, Kraftwerk, Sasha or any others into the weeds that I have heard a very special CD IMHO.