Saturday, December 6, 2025

"What Becomes of the Broken Hearted"

I recently listened to Colin Blunstone's Collected again.  I have many notes (some from previous times I listened to the album) that I'm going to wait to write about until I've become more familiar with those songs, but over the next few days, I'll have some posts about small features I noticed in the songs I already know fairly well.

Significantly, "What Becomes of the Broken Hearted" doesn't resolve.  The version on Collected just fades out, and even the live versions by the Zombies (on Odessey and Oracle {Revisited} and Live at Metropolis Studios) don't end on the tonic.  (I'm pretty sure the song is in Ab major but the live versions end with a C note.)  This lack of a definite musical conclusion matches the open-ended nature of the titular question.