saddest bass line ever?

[wobble man]

IMO the technical aspects of playing bass can be perfected by anyone willing to put in enough hours of practice, but really using the instrument to convey emotion is another matter... though it requires technique of course as well.

I am a fan of Tony Levin, and when I first bought a copy of Lou Reed's Berlin years back, I was psyched when I saw Levin played bass on a track. Having first becoming a TL fan after seeing Peter Gabriel live, it is somewhat different here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YY_i-R2ldyA

His use of space and the weepiness of the fretless is just genius on one of the saddest rock albums ever made.

So I am just curious... Can anyone name a truly sad bass line? One that really moves you?

 

[skee616]

Weather Report - A Remark You Made - does it for me every time.

 

[cjmodulus]

'Round here' by counting crows is one for me. That whole song is pretty sad, but the way that Matt malley builds up the bass line on that last chorus with the vocals... I get chills every time I play along to it.

 

[Bassist4Eris]

Weather Report - A Remark You Made - does it for me every time.

+1. I was gonna say this. For me, Jaco's ballad playing is even more impressive than his 16th-notes-of-fury.

 

[vegas532]

I always thought that Simon Gallup's bass brilliant counter-melody in "Watching Me Fall" had a sad, somber quality to it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9mtHn0ONds

 

[obsidianbass]

'Round here' by counting crows is one for me. That whole song is pretty sad, but the way that Matt malley builds up the bass line on that last chorus with the vocals... I get chills every time I play along to it.

Big +1. Love this tune. Or anything in D minor, the saddest of all keys.

 

[Hamlet7768]

Cliff's line on Fade to Black has always held a kind of sombreness to me.

 

[Basshappi]

Weather Report - A Remark You Made - does it for me every time.

THIS. One of the most beautiful bass lines ever.

 

[rodl2005]

'Round here' by counting crows is one for me. That whole song is pretty sad, but the way that Matt malley builds up the bass line on that last chorus with the vocals... I get chills every time I play along to it.

They're a sad band.

 

[Epitaph04]

I always thought John Myung's bass playing starting at 3:07 of Dream Theater's In The Presence of Enemies pt 1 was sad.

Born of the Flickering by Old Man's child.

 

[Hamlet7768]

I always thought John Myung's bass playing starting at 3:07 of Dream Theater's In The Presence of Enemies pt 1 was sad.

Oh, that one reminds me. Through Her Eyes.

 

[sandmangeck]

The saddest song or Lilah by Morphine.

 

[bcgd]

Joy Division - Atmosphere

http://youtu.be/-7U8wHUdmXg

 

[Cosmeticplagues]

NOFX - "Whoops I OD'd"

 

[ProgRocker]

Oh, that one reminds me. Through Her Eyes.

Agreed!

 

[BenBL]

Song for Our Fathers - Explosions in the Sky

 

[leegreenman]

Anything in D minor instantly makes me weep.

 

[blackest_frank]

Anything I play is pretty sad...

 

[halfjackson]

The saddest song or Lilah by Morphine.

Morphine might just be my favorite band ever. Certainly in the conversation. I'll say "The Night" by Morphine (Mark Sandman).

Can't go wrong with "A Remark You Mad" by Weather Report.

 

[Tupac]

Anything I play is pretty sad...

Lol'd.