I mentioned something about songs resolving and tried to think of tunes that don’t resolve on the one chord but drew a complete blank. I’ve played a few but can’t remember any off hand. Do you have any that may be obvious, maybe something she has heard? I was trying to think of a Beatles tune, I think they may have one (revolution #9 doesn’t count) that doesn’t resolve. Can you help a brother out?
Thanks!
A Hard Day’s Night?
Are you excluding those songs that fade out while repeating a harmonic progression?
It’s got that weird in the intro and fade but it’s in G and basically ends on a G. That one came to mind last night but I think it resolves.
http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/tabs/b/beatles/a_hard_days_night_album_tab.htm
Yea, when I was explaining it to her, I said that your brain wants it to resolve and when it doesn’t, if you are actively listening, you will hear the chord in your head, 
along with all the voices
I will go to my grave being endlessly bothered by the Eagles’ “Take It Easy”. It’s a major-key song which no good reason ends on a minor 6, one that is heard only for one measure elsewhere in the song.
The first song I thought of was Pool Shark by Sublime. It’s not much of a song, but its more or less popular and it ends at a weird place. Probably because it was more of a sketch of an idea than a whole song.
hmmm
New Song also doesn’t totally resolve (though I’m not sure what is going on exactly–and I might be ruining my music cred if the chord turns out to be just an inversion or something but I’m too lazy to check on the guitar)
5446/Ball and Chain does this for sure.
Had a Dat, Wrong Way, Bad Fish, DJs all do this as well, they all sound unresolved and trick you into hearing stuff.
Actually, Sublime did alot of interesting stuff with chords/basslines–they were so much more than the “just another rock band” they’re remembered as.
for some reason I have a strange feeling I will be wrong about all of these
The Pink Panther Theme -Mancini of course- ends on a funky variation on an E-minor chord.
On the piano, I play it with left hand on an E octave and right hand playing G B E-flat F-sharp.
Bet that final horn glissando is a bitch.
How about “And Your Bird Can Sing”? It’s firmly in E major, but it ends on an A chord (IV).
You nailed it, thanks! I knew I had played one that didn’t resolve, thanks. At one time I could have told you a couple of others that are obvious but they aren’t coming to me. thanks again!
Pink Floyd’s “Nobody Home.” It’s in the key of C and ends on an E major.
You might also be thinking of “Because”, which ends on an F-natural in the key of C# minor.
We have to throw out songs that start in a particular key, then do the last verse half a step or a full step up, right?
There songs that go along happily in a minor but end on the major. The one that leaps to mind is “And I Love Her” by the Beatles.
And, oddly enough, the next song on the album (Revolver) is “For No One” and it ends on the V chord.
Didja ever notice that the “Gilligan’s Island” theme song goes up a half step on every verse?
That’s called a Picardy Third. My favorite example in rock music is “Roundabout” by Yes–that lovely final E major chord.
Another good example of that is Elton John’s “I Need You to Turn To”.
“Rockin’ Chair” by The Band is in F major but ends on an A minor (I think … some minor, anyway).
Van Morrison does thing quite a bit. “Slim Slow Slider” on Astral Weeks and “Who Was That Masked Man” on Veedon Fleece come to mind.
No I don’t think so, if the tune changed keys in the middle of the tune it can still resolve on the one of the key that it changed too and still be resolved That’s in IMO and from what I know about theory.
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Well f’rinstance:
These chords start in E. At verse 4 they go to the key of F (and stay there). The last chord indicated is a Dm, the relative minor of F, DFA instead of FAC, but that’s the poster’s opinion. AAR, it sure doesn’t go back to the original key of E so it almost certainly wouldn’t end with anything in that key, let alone the I/tonic.