Melba Moore - Love's Comin' At Ya (1982)

Time for some good old fashion analog synth bass and some scantily clad leotard backup dancers. How can you tell it's analog? Look at the year the song was made. How can you tell they are leotard backup dancers? Just look at how none of the goofy 80s mustache guys are looking at or even pointed at the singer, haha. Possibly an ill planned out placement of women in low cut leotards.

In any case, the bass here is as analog synth bass as it gets. I love this sound, and I respect it for how simple it is. When you have a synth bass like this, everything comes down to the envelope of the filter and the amplitude. For the people that don't know what the hell I just said, the quick and dirty explanation is how bouncy the bass is going to sound. But it isn't just as simple as setting that values, the player, themselves, also has to get in tune with the timing of those values and play it appropriately.

This is what sets the good players apart from the mediocre ones. I guy like Stevie Wonder or George Duke can make any patch sound amazing because they have unbelievable finesse with their keyboard skills.

With this song as well, the player himself is actually playing every note. When the key is pressed and released is under his finesse, and it's why this genre of music is so damn good.

There is definitely something incredible about cold sterile midi synth sounds in the mid to later 80s. But those early 80s had a brand of synth stuff you didn't really hear ever again. Shout out to Kashif on synth bass here.