Animal Logic - first release - Stanley Clarke, Stewart Copeland and Deborah Holland. Not a 'bass showcase' by any means but certainly a good listen.
 
Speaking of Haden - Recently picked up The Haden Triplets self titled disc - song birds! Beautiful harmonies.

When I discovered Animal Logic?s first release, back in its day, I thought it was one of the best made pop albums ever, not by the pop music standards, but my own, personal music standards. Songwriting, sense of melody, good playing, musicianship, the sound... it spun for hours and hours on my CD player back then, and I became a fan. Years later I got their second release, and loved it as well (although not as much as the first one, I have to admit). I STILL think that album is really wonderful,  
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaGQ5I4w_3o&list=PLD22894B0C58A6D54

Needed an afternoon pick me up:
Anvil - This Is Thirteen

Ricki Lee Jones!
 
I agree with you whole-heartedly on that call Graeme.
I have played that LP so many times that I almost can hear both sides at the same time.
 
I still use the Easy Money bassline as a warm-up for upright bass gigs.
 
slawie

That Animal Logic stuff is good! I'll have to look for it for those times I need a dose of pop...my old  bandmates were a bit weirded out when I bought Matthew Sweet and Ass Ponys cd's on tour...if you've never heard them, check out Ass Ponys, truly some of the best 'bent americana'; they shoulda been rich but were just too weird for A&M (their old label) Tony

Camped out by the computer today:
Beck Bogert and Appice - self titled, classic Rock-n-Roll - Tim Bogert plays a mean bass!
Beth Orton - Central Reservation - something softer, really like her voice.
Bill Wyman  - Monkey Grip Glue - it's Bill!
Bullfrog - self-ttiled first release - absolutely fabulous Kraut Rock band!
Brian Auger - Oblivion Express
Jon Butcher - Wishes; don't know why he never really beacme a 'big' name . . .

Slawie,  
           Ricki Lee Jones was  once a customer of mine when I worked for CBS specialty stores ( Pacific Stereo).   I think that must have been in 1981.

Wolf; I just listed to Face of the Deep off The All Seeing Eye.  Thanks!  Once again, I feel like I'm learning something new about music.

You are welcome Dave. I have a very eclectic taste .Today  I am currently re exploring early Pink Floyd___  Set the controls for the heart of the Sun  and earlier, even back to the Syd Barrett years.

Jesse winchester.  RIP.

I like to listen to some early Pink Floyd from time to time too.  I also like the early Floyd in David Gilmour's recent live videos.

Another rainy day here in Minnesota so it was Ralph Towner and Eberhard Weber: Solstice, and Colors of Chloe.  Reminds me of a concert triple I was fortunate to attend many years ago in Springfield, Massachusetts of all places that featured Towner's Oregon, The Gary Burton Quartet, and Return to Forever. They played from 6:00 PM to 1:00 AM in a quaint little theater with fabulous acoustics. One of the best concerts I've had the pleasure to attend.

Brian ,  
That period of the ECM discography remains quite memorable to me . Manfred Eicher of ECM really knows how to pick them !
I would expect nothing less of a good Bass player ____
 
Wolf  
 
.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manfred_Eicher

Oregon, Gary Burton, and RTF on one bill; that would have been a full night of music.

It was quite possibly the best concert I've ever seen/heard/experienced: Towner, Burton, and Corea at their best. To this day, I honestly have no idea as to how I ended up back in my dorm room the next morning. The only thing that came close was a concert at which I worked at Dillon Stadium in Hartford CT which included the Allman Brothers and Santana as opening acts for the Dead. My job...to walk around the concert grounds with a broom stick perched atop of which was a red colored pie plate that when raised indicated that I had found someone having a bad trip who needed help. I ran in to enough individuals in this category that I later decided to major in psychology and have been working in the human service profession for 30 plus years.