[brad4634]

i dunno... im just in one of those moods... wanna play the most sad song i can..

any sugestions?

[goldrush]

Ohhhhh saddest song. I saw "sadist" and thought you meant a sadist (a sadistic person). The most sadistic songs I know are "Midnight Rambler" by the Stones, and "Martin Scorcese" by King Missile. As for the saddest song....well, there's alot of them. A lot of blues songs could qualify.

[NTHDOGG5]

play "everybody hurts" by REM...cant get much easier than that and its a pretty good song

[kirsti]

'Sound of White'
Missy Higgins - truly awesome

[stuartmerenbloom]

How Can You Mend A Broken Heart..Bee Gees
Feelings.....Morris Albert
Honey...Bobby Goldsbourgh
I'm Sorry....John Denver

[robbiedogg]

hi guys im pretty new here, hope your all ok. i would have to say the sadist song i would play would be "i've still got the blues for you" by gary moore

[randomorwhat]

Hmm...intriguing actually

Hey You - Pink Floyd
From Clare to Here - Lots of people have done it!
Between the Bars - Elliott Smith
Ghost of a Shark - Tom Mcrae

[Silver68]

I would say,

Iris - Goo goo dolls
Sad Song- oasis

I can think of a ton of oasis songs, but not all people like them...

wherever you will go- the calling (i think)

thats a pretty sad song

[jldrichardson]

The sadest song I know of is the one I'm looking for a more complete tab of, Frank Wilson the origanal "Last Kiss"

i dunno... im just in one of those moods... wanna play the most sad song i can..

any sugestions?

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[B.B. Hudson]

Robert Johnson - Come On In My Kitchen

[grzegorz_panek]

Try some fado. Try Mariza

[rweezera]

i've got you all beat. the most depressing song is definitely "padriac my prince" by bright eyes.

[xplizit]

'Closer' by Nine Inch Nails

[epearson]

Not Dark Yet-Bob Dylan, ridiculously sad, even for the guy who wrote Blood on the Tracks
Dangerbird-Neil Young, from what I know, it's about his divorce?
The Long and Winding Road-The Beatles, gonna need a capo for this one.
Say Goodbye-Fleetwood Mac, one of Lindsey's greatest guitar parts, and his best songwriting possibly. Problem is, I've never seen tabs for this song. Go Insane is a pretty sad one two, but pretty hard for the non-fingerpicker.

[dadfad]

I kind of think the saddest tunes aren't the ones about losing your girlfriend or something, but more like the kind that are, as one looks back over their life, feels only regret and pain and hopelessness. A resignation to having failed at Life. BB's choice was a good one. So was Random's "Clare To Here". A couple more that to me as I've learned and performed them stir that feeling in me are one by Fred McDowell he showed me many years ago, "Many A Time". He sang it as almost a "moan" (a "moan" is an extremely sad moaning kind of blues. No real words, just a sad humming and soft moaning for lyrics, like Blind Willie's "Dark is the Night, Cold is the ground", etc) (which is another good one I guess. Anyway...). It was one of the first slide-tunes I ever learned. It's in simple doublets. Very simple words, but full of that kind of desparate saddness. Another slide-tune, from Johnnie Shines, is "Peace In Hell". I know the lyrics to both so well I'll put them below. Another bluesman, Robert Pete Williams, has many in that vein.... a sense of quiet desparation and utter hopelessness. Anyway, here are a couple....


MANY A TIME
(Mississippi Fred McDowell)

Many a time, Lord, I drove you from my door.

Drove you from my door.



My ways were wicked, Lord. I was too blind to see.

Too blind, too blind to see.



I am so weary, no peace can I find.

No peace, no peace can I find.



Hear me knockin, Lord. Knockin' at your door.

Knockin' at your door.

Please allow me....

To lay by your fire,

Lay by your fire, Lord,

And make my pallet on your floor



PEACE IN HELL
(Johnnie Shines)

Yeah, Lord, if ya hear my prayer won't you send some kinda sign.

My memories won't let me be, and I'm about to lose my mind.

I'm livin' in world o' pain and I jus' can't escape.

Never meant to hurt no one, but I guess it's jus' my fate.



Wasted all my youth runnin' wild, like a fire tryin' ta burn.

Took from my friends an' family, givin' nothin' in return.

Had true love in the palm of my hand, an' I let it slip away.

I realize jus' what I've lost, an' I guess that's what I have to pay.



I'm payin' for the things I done, before I knew the rule...

Treat others as you'd be treated, or you'll wind up bein' a fool.

My life on earth ain't been nothin' but a goddam mess.

I'll be glad to get to Hell, so I can lay by the fire and rest.

[airdog4125]

Anything you know that's mellow will get you whgere you want to be.

[trothsey]

Anything you know that's mellow will get you whgere you want to be.

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I'll pay that.

Sad songs?

"And the band played Waltzing Matilda": I prefer The Pogues version, but Tom Waites' is also good.

Also by the Pogues..."Fairytale of New York"

Sinéad O'Connor..."The Last Day of our Aquaintance"
"She Moved Through the Fair" I think Jethro Tull and Rory Gallagher both did versions (?)

Look at all the Irish!!!

Another yank one "The Boxer" Simon and Garfunkel
a bunch of Poms "Dapple Rose" by Slade (if you like horses), and either "Up the Junction" or "Labelled with Love" by (UK) Squeeze, or Elvis Costellos version of "Good Year for the Roses"

And finally some Aussies...
"Only 19" by Redgum
"Four Walls" by Cold Chisel

oh yeah, and the Patti page version of Tennessee Waltz, and Skeeter Davis - Catch me I'm falling (but only if you have some friends to do that American close harmony singing thing)

[guitarfan19]

Tears in Heaven - Eric Clapton
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[Beachgirl]

Here's some easy pensive songs I like, but you prolly wont

Jewel- You were meant for me
Nelly Furtado - Try
Vanessa Carlton - Twilight
Norah Jones -carousel
John Mayer- Why Georgia and Midnight/quiet

[Beachgirl]

Here's some easy pensive songs I like, but you prolly wont

Jewel- You were meant for me
Nelly Furtado - Try
Vanessa Carlton - Twilight
Norah Jones -carousel
John Mayer- Why Georgia and Midnight/quiet

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those are some damn fine songs actually. i'd love to do a version of try with a girl who can play acoustic and me on electric.

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That would be so cool, you're on.... hehe.... do you like anything else by Nelly?