"The brilliance of Forbes’ bass lines is not complexity but propulsiveness." Brilliant insight. Thanks for your stimulating top 10. Nice work!
@jiros009 күн бұрын
Theme for Great Cities and New Gold Dream are my favourites. Very pleasing on the ear. Thanks.
@barriem531815 күн бұрын
This Fear of Gods is classic!
@barriem531815 күн бұрын
Great video!!! You sound fantastic
@RobvanBerlo15 күн бұрын
@@barriem5318 Thank you!
@MikeOfAmerica20 күн бұрын
Bravo
@RobvanBerlo20 күн бұрын
@@MikeOfAmerica Thank you!
@MikeOfAmerica20 күн бұрын
@@RobvanBerlo These bass lines always made me want to play ... maybe now I can try!
@MikeOfAmerica20 күн бұрын
Good job on the backing tracks too
@elduuude26 күн бұрын
I love this!!! Thank you!!! 😊 Bass has for a long time been my favourite instrument. I love basslines, have made looong lists of favourite basslines. But a week ago, I realised that some of my favourite songs ("On Mercury", "Caravan" and "Find the River" among them!) have a melodica in them and I started making a list. That's how I ended up here. So enjoyable to watch and hear this! And what a great selection! Now I'll list some other songs with melodica that I love. Perhaps you don't even know all of them and have some nice things to discover? Tim Timebomb - Be Yourself Tim Timebomb - Old Friend Malian Musicians, Damon Albarn - Sunset Coming On Augustus Pablo - Bedroom Mazurka (the 2:28 mins version) Friska Viljor - Oh Oh The Magnetic Fields - Swinging London Gorillaz - Clint Eastwood Gorillaz - Tomorrow Comes Today Cornershop - Sleep on the Left Side (is it a melodica?) Peter Doherty - Last of the English Roses The Go! Team - Huddle Formation J-Live: Satisfied (Dub Version) Jack Johnson - If I Could Jack Johnson - No Good with Faces The Melodic - On My Way The Wannadies - Someone Somewhere Sleater-Kinney - A Quarter to Three Tortoise - I Set My Face to the Hillside Tim Timebomb - Let Me Go Embrace - Hey, What You Trying to Say Hochzeitskapelle - If I Think of Love (is it a melodica though?!? If not, it might easily be replaced by one) The Good, The Bad and The Queen - Herculean Calexico - Dub Latina PJ Harvey - Shame Gang of Four - It's Her Factory Not all of them are really great melodica lines, I have to admit. With some of them, the melodica is just a small side note.
@RobvanBerlo26 күн бұрын
@@elduuude Thank you!
@RobvanBerlo26 күн бұрын
'Spot the melodica' is a fun game! I played it a lot when I did research for my video. Ik know some of the songs you listed. And some I didn't. I easter egged some Clint Eastwood lines into my Augustus Pablo bit. By the way, the first three notes in my video are the intro notes from David Bowie's Golden Years. You can list that one also. Cornershop's Sleep on the Left Side sounds definitely like a harmonium (not surprisingly so considering Tjinder Singh's heritage). The melody from If I Think of Love (Hochzeitskapelle) sounds very much like melodica. Although I found some album liner notes in which three band members are credited for harmonium. Melodica not mentioned. But the melody sounds a bit too thin to be harmonium. Have fun discovering more melodica lines in pop music.
@elduuude26 күн бұрын
@@RobvanBerlo Oh, right, indeed, Clint Eastwood in there :D And I have to admit that I did not know the Bowie song at all... A gap that was now filled. Thanks - yes, a harmonium it is then. I sometimes find it difficult. I'm not a musician. I had actually started with making a harmonica list on Spotify. And then I realised that with some of the songs it was a melodica. And I realised that melodica most of the time seems to appeal a little more to me (although I love a lot of songs with harmonica as well). Indeed, it's a fun game, spotting the melodica! I just found another one: Uncle Brian's Abbatoir by Trampolene & Peter Doherty. Well, thank you! And I'll check out some more of your videos soon. And Spotify lists. My several bass lists include more than 500 songs. But I am very sure I will discover more in your lists ;-) I love that (just like me), you cover all kinds of genres and decades. You have a really good overview!
@davidcooper71727 күн бұрын
Derek Forbes is one of the very best ever. Simple Minds the best. Well done Rob
@RobvanBerlo27 күн бұрын
@@davidcooper717 Thank you!
@rfarevaloАй бұрын
Melidocia for the win with Depeche Mode. It was so cool watching Depeche Mode use this instrument in live shows.
@donatelladelpriore3375Ай бұрын
❤
@donatelladelpriore3375Ай бұрын
❤
@levyashin232 ай бұрын
Apocalypse in 9/8
@jacqdanieles2 ай бұрын
Outstanding 👏👏👏
@RobvanBerlo2 ай бұрын
Thank you!
@Adambutler23 ай бұрын
Really enjoyed this. Like to see you do Kick Inside of Me
@ashleybarker9373 ай бұрын
Not many pick up on the second bass part in Waterfront
@user-mi7ld3ox4d3 ай бұрын
いつもありがとう❗️
@czypauly073 ай бұрын
This is brilliant! 20th century promised land AND sweat in bullet, my favourite basslines. Awesome work thankyou for sharing! 🙏
@flipmacyt3 ай бұрын
coool ! \
3 ай бұрын
Derek, alongside Mick Karn, were my top bassplayers back then.
@jasonmoffat28114 ай бұрын
Best on KZbin by miles! 👌
@RobvanBerlo4 ай бұрын
Thank you!
@Gkirby0014 ай бұрын
Excellent. Hard to choose a favourite but Glittering Prize is outstanding. Premonition is deceptively amazing.
@Gkirby0014 ай бұрын
This is terrific. Will share with Dan The Man.
@user-mi7ld3ox4d4 ай бұрын
最高❗️
@mantra30004 ай бұрын
The sound on Sparkle was so rough I never could figure out if that "dut-duddut-duddut" bass throughout "Waterfront"was a synth or not.
@stuartcarswell28154 ай бұрын
Superb tribute to the main man .great sound too
@nicktichelaar61604 ай бұрын
Volledige versie
@timothyholland80705 ай бұрын
Cool
@user-mi7ld3ox4d5 ай бұрын
very very good!😊
@permaveg5 ай бұрын
I watched an interview with Derek recently and he said his favourite bassline in the Minds was 'This Fear of Gods'.
@brucestellmacher55965 ай бұрын
Nice tribute to Derek Forbes. His bass lines were so essential to the first SM albums.
@velox__5 ай бұрын
Spinvis 🥰
@johnmcguire85315 ай бұрын
Well done Rob. Just brings me back to why I learnt Bass fist day and had a very good career from it. I deffo owe Derek a few Bevvys....
@user-du1yk7uk9v5 ай бұрын
Simple Minds are one of the best band EVER! Even their last album is very very good.
@LiquidAudio5 ай бұрын
Awesome work, super smooth, my faves are New Gold Dream, Colours Fly and Theme for Great Cities.
@odaikorob5 ай бұрын
Nice work on LON there mate.
@odaikorob5 ай бұрын
Great work there on TFGC, mate!
@billyclegg30846 ай бұрын
Just proves that Brian & Derek are Mega...
@AadLips6 ай бұрын
Mesmerising !
@huishaai6 ай бұрын
Leuk !
@1thess5236 ай бұрын
I'm not familiar with Simple Minds outside of their mainstream MTV songs from the 80's but it's crazy how good some of these bassist were back in the day but I never realized it, yesterday i was listening to Huey Lewis and The News and i was like 🤯🤯.
@cometomeifrit6 ай бұрын
Not Badlo
@Nephilim-817 ай бұрын
What a charming, great video! ❤
@haimirick7 ай бұрын
An opera, great!!!
@haimirick7 ай бұрын
Du bist superh!
@haimirick7 ай бұрын
AMAZING
@RobvanBerlo7 ай бұрын
Thank you!
@haimirick7 ай бұрын
@@RobvanBerlo I m sad dont find U in facebook I share yr show 🤟🏼
@haimirick7 ай бұрын
G R E A T
@MrLozza707 ай бұрын
Derek is a bass legend. You're not bad yourself.
@stefanobutini88387 ай бұрын
Bravo!
@windyhillbomber7 ай бұрын
Wow, that tone sounds spot on. Enjoyed a lot.
@mrsuperger54297 ай бұрын
Derek Forbes was the true musical brain behind Simple Minds. They are now a pale imitation of those days.