I’m building a Bass Case playlist on Amazon Music. I’m looking for songs with a killer bass-only or at least bass-heavy intro. Mostly punk, metal, rock, etc. but open to just about anything. Bass guitar or a bass VI, not electronic bass or keys.

This is the start of it (but not all of it) so far:

• Metallica – “(Anesthesia)—Pulling Teeth”
• Black Sabbath – “N.I.B.”
• Misfits – “London Dungeon”
• Type O Negative – “Black No. 1 (Little Miss Scare-All)”
• Rancid – “Journey to the End of the East Bay”
• Alice In Chains – “Would?”
• Beastie Boys – “Gratitude”
• Queen – “Under Pressure [feat. David Bowie]”
• Green Day – “Longview”
• Ozzy Osbourne – “No More Tears”
• Motörhead – “Ace of Spades”
• AFI – “Miss Murder”
• Primus – “My Name Is Mud”
• The White Stripes – “Seven Nation Army”
• Metallica – “For Whom the Bell Tolls”
• Beastie Boys – “Sabotage [Explicit]”
• Queen – “Another One Bites The Dust”
• The Cure – “Just like Heaven”
• Guns N’ Roses – “Rocket Queen”
• Megadeth – “Peace Sells”
• Anthrax – “Got The Time”
• The Cure – “Burn”
• Operation Ivy – “Sound System”
• Jimi Hendrix – “Born Under a Bad Sign”
• Black Flag – “Six Pack”
• Primus – “Jerry Was A Race Car Driver”
• Fugazi – “Waiting Room”
• Faith No More – “We Care a Lot”
• Guns N’ Roses – “You Could Be Mine”
• TOOL – “Schism”
• The Dead Milkmen – “Bitchin’ Camaro”
• Red Hot Chili Peppers – “Higher Ground”
• Black Flag – “TV Party”
• Violent Femmes – “Blister In The Sun”
• Metallica – “Crash Course In Brain Surgery”
• NOFX – “The Idiots Are Taking Over”
• Faith No More – “Falling to Pieces”
• The Breeders – “Cannonball”
• Rick James – “Super Freak”
• Duran Duran – “Rio”
• Jane’s Addiction – “Mountain Song”
• The B-52’s – “Rock Lobster”
• Rage Against The Machine – “Bombtrack”
• A Flock Of Seagulls – “What Am I Supposed To Do”
• Weezer – “Only In Dreams”
• The Commodores – “Brick House”
• Death Cab For Cutie – “I Will Possess Your Heart”
• Iron Maiden – “Killers”
• Nirvana – “Lounge Act”
• Jane’s Addiction – “Three Days”
• Van Halen – “Runnin’ with the Devil”
• The Cure – “Fascination Street”
• The Smithereens – “Blood And Roses”
• The Stone Roses – “I Wanna Be Adored”
• Metallica – “King Nothing”
• The Byrds – “Eight Miles High”
• The Stone Roses – “She Bangs the Drums”
• The Clash – “The Magnificent Seven”
• Lou Reed – “Walk On the Wild Side”
• Joe Jackson – “Got The Time”
• Stevie Wonder – “I Wish”
• War – “Low Rider”
• The Jam – “Pretty Green”
• The Temptations – “Papa Was A Rollin’ Stone”
• Sonic Youth – “My Friend Goo”
• Pennywise – “Ace of Spades”
• The Beatles – “Come Together”
• AFI – “Death Of Seasons”
• NOFX – “Hobophobic (Scared of Bums)”
• Thin Lizzy – “Dancing In The Moonlight (It’s Caught Me In It’s Spotlight)”
• The Monkees – “You Just May Be The One”
• Metallica – “The God That Failed”
• Bad Brains – “The Regulator”
• Rancid – “Maxwell Murder”
• Deee-Lite – “Groove Is in the Heart”
• Talking Heads – “Psycho Killer”
• Dead Kennedys – “Viva Las Vegas”

Song name/artist would be more helpful than a Spotify link because I can’t copy/paste from there into Amazon Music.

…and this is subject to change pretty quickly & often.