… hear old favorites but now focus on the bass track.
I’m loving going through songs from my teen/20 years and now focusing on Bass.
Listened to XTCs Generals and Majors with Colin Moulding ripping a really fast and fun bass riff.
Any other folks here find themselves doing same? Any gems?
Have you seen this?
Doesn’t help with your question, but it brings back memories!
I’d not seen this! Thanks for sharing.
I always thought XTC was under rated. Never quite seemed to catch fire.
Sad they were screwed over by Virgin records. Poorly managed and Partridge developed stage phobia from stress of touring and not seeing rewards from the band’s success. Very talented artists.
Abso-bl00dy-lutely!! Go take a look at my bass covers on www.youtube.com/@sunDOGbass.
Since starting to play the bass, I basically hear stuff from my yoof (plus before and after) and think wow, I wanna play that! For the harder stuff, I have to get a bit better, but there is plenty to have a go at in the here and now!
BTW, the XTC song I’ve always loved is Senses Working Overtime, beautiful bass tone on a fretless 
Awesome!!! 
. Love the covers.
Senses Working Overtime is another fav for me as well.
Curious what software do you use to pull out the bass and sub in your cover? I’m fiddling with connect my bass into my Mac.
Moises.
Basically, you upload an MP3 and it splits out instruments into individual files that can be then uploaded into GarageBand.
Ah, Thanks 
. I have Moises but I’ve not tried loading into GB yet. I’ve just been playing along through speakers 
Yeah, my bandmate and I kind of have this a bit too 
Geoff–
I’ve been doing a ton of that lately, listening to my “back catalog” with new ears. Fun and enlightening. Other than bass parts, I notice other things that I either didn’t notice or didn’t esteem in my younger days, like this:
Not only do I now appreciate Bob Glaub’s bass line a lot more, but it also hits me that this is a near perfectly-crafted pop song. You’ve got drums (live ones, not a synth), bass, two guitars, a flute, a saxophone, keyboards, a string section, and backup vocalists. None of them overplay, and none of them try to outshine Nicolette’s lead vocal. (And Nicolette could actually sing, which is no longer a requirement for a career in the music business.)
The arranging is on point too. That sax intro grabs you from the opening bars, the strings add harmonic complexity to an already busy number without muddying things up, and a flute solo works wonderfully in this.
Five stars, Nicolette. May you rest in peace.
Fun Aside: Nicolette was her first album. A then relatively-unknown Edward Van Halen contributed a guitar part on one of the tracks, for which he wasn’t credited.
On Van Halen’s third album, Women and Children First, there is an uncredited female backup singer on “Could This Be Magic?” That was Nicolette returning the favor.
Thanks Mee!
Always love listening to a reco that others are passionate about. I will give it a listen and consider it for my post B2B 50 songs in a year list (I’ve found 24 as a start).
Cool back story as well with Van Halen.
And I agree with your modern singer sentiment but that may just indicate I’m becoming a grumpy old man…. “These durn kids don’t know nothin about good music” 