It’s kind of the other way around for me: ever since I started learning to play bass, I’m paying more attention to the bass line in music. Here’s one I particularly like:
https://youtu.be/hmbOLTWggXI
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mine were definitely Longview and Welcome to Paradise by Green Day, the bass is sooooooo good in those
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That one is a lot of fun to play! That song and A Forest are my two favorite Cure songs, and some of the first songs I tried learning after getting my bass.
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Wtf I’ve never seen Robert Smith without the hair and makeup
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Seventeen Seconds era Cure, by far my favorite 
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Rush…Red Barchetta…
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Who is whose discount version?
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The entire Kansas Leftoverture album, Carry On Wayward Son, specifically.
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Not really a song as such. For me necessity, I was in a band that needed a bassist. But Stanley Clarke and Jaco turned me on to the potential of the instrument
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PamPurrs, I doubt Ginger would have gotten along with any bassist to be honest
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Tool- schism
Nirvana -lounge act
The cure- jumping someone else’s train
Rhcp- aeroplane
Not in any order,but before then I was always focused on guitar riffs,then it just snowballed. I still love rhythm guitar ,but bass is the thing that makes my body move
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As a old school hip-hop head, you can say I generally prefer a good thump on what I listen to, and some of the old school rap had lots of Funk samples in it too. As I evolved musically I generally leaned towards bands with a prominent bass player by nature (Metallica, RHCP, Tool) or ones whose guitarist played pretty scooped (James Hetfield has entered the chat…). A lot of the times, I couldn’t really tell you it was a bass, I just like how hard the Riffs hit.
Wife encouraged me to put the Xbox controller down, and get a cheap bass to start since I would always mention different bass lines, and here I am now. Fell off the wagon for a bit (too exhausted from work, but just got back into it).
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I saw the WHO open for Herman’s Hermits in 1968, John Entwistle was, and still is, my inspiration. The song was My Generation, he played a lot of 3 finger plucks.
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Back in the 1996 when I heard this two bands for the first time I thought to myself: "these are the most badass sounding basses I’ve ever heard…long story short it took only 24 years for me to finally buy one.
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For Me, I’d say it’s a tie between Jeff Belin with Bill Bruford playing Sample and Hold
and Jaco’s Donna Lee.
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It’s gotta be this one, this particular song where someone pumped up the bass.
I had heard “Orion” before, but not this way. Couldn’t believe they mixed the bass so low in the original track. It kicks serious ass.
A few months later, I bought my first bass, and here I am now.
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