Favorite fretless songs?

[DanTheMan]

I think it's been mentioned, but I automatically thought of The Eagles - 'New York Minute'.

 

[five7]

Percy Jones from BRAND X on Morrocan Roll. Goodsal, Lumbly, and Collins help Jones tear it up.

 

[Duarte]

Anything from 'the lion king'

Great fretless lines in there. Seriously.

 

[brasco68]

Sunset Grill - Don Henley

Pino Palladino - Bass

Great song...great bass....up here with Henley's best work including the Eagles stuff.

 

[MM_Charlie]

Jaco's Donna Lee, c'mon that's got to be the greatest

YouTube - Donna Lee theme on my fretless Bongo

Jaco's Donna Lee FTW !

 

[oddjob]

Jelly Roll - Blue Murder (with Tony Franklin on bass) -most of the first album is 80s hair band fretless metal

 

[MM_Charlie]

oh and how could I forget Jaco's version of Chromatic Fantasy.. epic

 

[Moose308]

For whatever reason I really enjoy Ghosts by The Jam.

 

[gafman]

I think it's been mentioned, but I automatically thought of The Eagles - 'New York Minute'.

When I saw this song performed on the 'Hell Freezes Over " dvd i went out and bought a fretless. Awesome song, great fretless work.

Anything from 'the lion king'

Great fretless lines in there. Seriously.

Couldn't agree more Zak. My kids love the movie, I love the score. It is seriously worth checking out. Big swelling fretless bass on this one., though I am not sure who is responsible.
I just had a listen and it is The Lion King 2 that I am thinking about. Still not sure who the bass player is though.

 

[ectoflanger]

One more: Naked Eyes Fuel for the Fire "Me I See in You" I don't know the bassist but it's some of the most blatant fretless playing I've ever heard.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-74mn_eM4s8&feature=PlayList&p=A4603E8E9D5FDBFF&index=27]YouTube - Naked Eyes "Me I See In You" 1984[/ame]

Also Frank Zappa Joe's Garage: Parts II and III "He Used to Cut the Grass"
Patrick O'Hearn I believe.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wztJI_7_-f0&feature=PlayList&p=A4603E8E9D5FDBFF&index=26]YouTube - "He Used to Cut the Grass" - Frank Zappa[/ame]

 

[Alvabass]

Also Frank Zappa Joe's Garage: Parts II and III "He Used to Cut the Grass"
Patrick O'Hearn I believe.

Arthur Barrow was FZ's bass player at the time.

 

[MudvilleStomper]

Memory Motel by the Rolling Stones. kinda cheesy, bubblegummy, but i'm willing to admit in public that i dig it.

 

[Elad_E]

Peter Gabriel - Dont Give Up (actually, the whole So album has great fretless lines by Tony Levin).

Don Henley - Boys of Summer. Pino is credited for playing the bass on the album so I guess he recorded it with his fretless Ray.
btw, theres a nice version of this song on Don's Inside Job DVD.

 

[Aussie Mark]

Tony Levin does some nice fretless work on Pink Floyd's "Momentary Lapse of Reason". Most of the bass on that album was Levin (and some Gilmour), with Guy Pratt playing on the subsequent tour.

 

[ectoflanger]

Eberhard Weber did some cool fretless (actually an upright electric bass) work for Kate Bush. Here's a sample from her Hounds of Love album in a song called "Mother Stands for Comfort"

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOCI446c2JE]YouTube - Kate Bush-Mother Stands For Comfort[/ame]

 

[ectoflanger]

Pete Townshend's "Give Blood" from the White City: A Novel album. Although four different bassists were credited on the album, I believe Pino Palladino played on that song.