Longest Song Goes Last

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"Long songs can be tricky for an artist to deal with. They can't really be released as singles, but they also run the risk of ruining the flow of an otherwise great album. These artists got around this problem by placing their extremely long songs at the end of their album."

— Music Times, "14 Albums That End with Their Longest Song"

When crafting an album, most bands and artists often spend part of the time thinking on the right order for the songs, depending on the message they want to convey. One of these decisions involves the longest songs, if they are present. The usual place for these often varies: they may go at the beginning, at the middle, or at the end of a side (in the case of multi-sided albums). However, creating a long song isn't an easy task, and your band may risk boring the listener before the album ends unless you adapt the piece to its place on the list. So bands often place the longest songs at the end of the album, often as a way to close the album on a high note.

This trope comes in two variations: the longest song being placed as the last track of the album, barring hidden tracks, or preceding a musical outro, a variant usually used in concept albums. For the purposes of the trope, we're defining "outro" as a musical piece that isn't structured like a song, but serves as a wrap-up or summary of the album's content^note It can either be a musical piece composed of musical excerpts of other songs, or just a piece that isn't structured like a song.

Though there's definitively an overlap, this trope isn't equivalent to Epic Rocking. It's possible for the longest song to be an average-length song (say, 4 or 5 minutes long, and cases of 3 minute songs aren't exactly unheard of) while the rest of the songs are still shorter than the album closer.

Some considerations for this trope:

• We're only counting full-length studio albums. Live albums, singles, splits, compilations and cover albums fall outside of the scope of this trope, even if they may feature a possible example of the trope, due to padding, the usual live cutting, and because in compilations and splits the song order is either chronologically-based or isn't given much attention at all.
• As for the songs themselves, the length of the track itself doesn't matter, the only thing that matters is that the song is the longest in the album and closes it.
• This trope is exclusively for albums featuring a single long song in a single track. Some albums feature a long track at the end, but the track itself is composed of two short songs separated by a long silence between them giving the sensation of a long song, which doesn't make said track an example.
• Also, such a long song must NOT be divided in the tracklisting. A song of 24 minutes, undivided, is an example, but a song of 41 minutes, divided in 8 tracks of shorter duration than the longest non-closing track on the album, is NOT, unless the closing track of the suite is the overall longest song, in which case, it qualifies.
• The track listing being considered is the original tracklisting (bonus tracks added in special editions or reissues don't count for the purpose of the trope). For the record, for the tracklisting itself we take all sides as a single tracklisting, so only the last song of the last side qualifies for the trope^note i.e., in an album spanning four sides A-B-C-D, only the last or next-to-last song of side D qualifies for the trope if it's the longest.

A Sub-Trope of Album Closure. Contrast Longest Song Goes First, where the album's opening track is instead its longest one.

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Examples:

Longest song as the closer

• 100 gecs: 1000 gecs closes with "gec 2 Ü" (3:17).
• 256pi
  • Marble Jar closes with "Cotangent" (16:01, or 15:23 on the remastered version).
  • If Tommorrow Is A Ball, Can I Bounce It On The Driveway? closes with "The Escalation" (11:40).
• 2814
  • 新しい日の誕生 closes with "新しい日の誕生" (13:04).
  • Pillar / New Sun closes with "New Sun" (10:01).
• Accept:
  • Restless and Wild closes with "Princess of the Dawn" (6:15).
  • Eat the Heat closes with "Mistreated" (8:52).
  • Stalingrad closes with "The Galley" (7:21).
  • The Rise of Chaos closes with "Race to Extinction" (5:24).
• Anaal Nathrakh
  • The Codex Necro closes with the title track (6:07).
  • Hell is Empty and All the Devils Are Here closes with "Castigation and Betrayal" (4:02).
  • A New Kind of Horror closes with "Are We Fit for Glory Yet? (The War to End Nothing)" (4:10).
• Alabama:
  • 40-Hour Week (1985) ends with "If It Ain't Dixie (It Won't Do)" (7:34).
  • The Touch (1987) "Pony Express" (7:53).
  • Just Us (1987) The CD version ends with Fallin Again (7:41).
• Aleph-7
  • Apologies about the noise closes with "The Least Random Number" (17:00).
  • no reason to exist closes with "Aleph-7 rings" (22:45).
• Alestorm:
  • Back Through Time ends with "Death Throes of the Terrorsquid". (7:45).
  • Sunset on the Golden Age ends with "Sunset on the Golden Age". (11:26).
  • No Grave But The Sea ends with "Treasure Island". (7:48).
• Alter Bridge:
  • Fortress closes with the title track (7:36).
  • Walk The Sky closes with "Dying Light" (5:46).
• Animal Collective:
  • Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished closes with "Alvin Row" (12:39).
  • Campfire Songs closes with "De Soto de Son" (11:34).
  • Merriweather Post Pavilion closes with "Brother Sport" (6:00).
• André 3000:
  • New Blue Sun closes with "Dreams Once Buried Beneath the Dungeon Floor Slowly Sprout Into Undying Gardens" (17:11).
• Arcade Fire:
  • Funeral closes with "In The Backseat" (6:19).
  • Reflektor closes with "Supersymmetry" (11:16).
• Ash Borer
  • The self-titled closes with "My Curse Was Raised in the Darkness Against a Doomsday Silence" (19:48).
  • Bloodlands closes with "Dirge / Purgation" (19:38).
• Augie March:
  • The Thanks for the Memes EP closes with "Future Seal" (8:12)
  • The Waltz EP closes with "The Moth Ball" (5:46)
  • Sunset Studies closes with "Owen's Lament" (8:46)
  • Bootikins closes with "Bitter Clingerzz" (5:13)
• Autechre
  • Anti closes with "Flutter" (9:57).
  • Anvil Vapre closes with "Second Peng" (10:53) (on the CD version, anyway).
  • Tri Repetae closes with "Rsdio" (10:08).
  • Envane closes with "Draun Quarter" (10:50).
  • Chiastic Slide closes with "Nuane" (13:13).
  • LP5 closes with "Drane2" (9:38) (this has a hidden track after a further 11 minutes of silence. On US pressings, the hidden track is moved to its own 12th track, making the album no longer an example of this [though the final track could be considered an outro].)
  • Peel Session closes with "Drane" (10:49).
  • Gantz Graf closes with "Cap.IV" (9:02).
  • Untilted closes with "Sublimit" (15:52).
  • Quaristice closes with "Outh9X" (7:14).
  • Quaristice.Quadrange.ep.ae closes with "Perlence subrange 6-36" (58:35).
  • NTS Sessions closes with "all end" (58:21).
• Avantasia: The Metal Opera ends with "The Tower" (9:45).
• Avenged Sevenfold:
  • Sounding the Seventh Trumpet ends with "Shattered by Broken Dreams" (7:06).
  • Waking the Fallen ends with "And All Things Will End" (7:36), which is concluded by a long, deliberately drawn-out solo that devolves into a dissonant mess and then peters out until it stops.
  • Nightmare ends with "Save Me" (10:54).
  • Hail to the King's closer "Acid Rain" clocks at 6:34, although the last minute is just the sound of rain and faraway thunder; if you remove that the song itself is actually shorter than "Coming Home" (6:23).
  • The Stage ends with "Exist" (15:41); the second-longest track is the opener, "The Stage" (8:30).
• Babymetal:
  • BABYMETAL in its original release ends with "Ijime, Damè, Zettai" (6:08)
  • Metal Resistance closes with "THE ONE" (6:29)^* It is immediately preceded and led into by "Tales of the Destinies", the album's second-longest song (5:36)
• Band-Maid: In its original release, their debut album, Maid in Japan, ends with "Forward," at 4:49; the second longest track, "Be OK," is only 4:13. ^note Later reissues added "Summer Drive" (4:24) as a new final track.
• Beastie Boys: Paul's Boutique closes with "B-Boy Bouillabaisse" (12:33). ^note  Later pressings of the album separate the individual segments of the suite into separate tracks.
• The Beatles:
  • With The Beatles closes with "Money (That's What I Want)" (2:49).
  • Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band closes with "A Day In The Life" (5:39).
• Behemoth:
  • "The Reign ov Shemsu-Hor" (8:27) closes Demigod.
  • "Lucifer" (8:06) closes Evangelion.
  • "O Father O Satan O Sun!" (7:13) closes The Satanist.
• Being: Anthropocene closes with "The Singularity - Cosmists II" (12:27).
• Between the Buried and Me:
  • Between the Buried and Me closes with "Shevenal Cut a Flip" (9:27).
  • The Silent Circus closes with "The Need for Repetition" (13:41).
  • Colors closes with "White Walls" (14:13).
  • The Great Misdirect closes with "Swim to the Moon" (17:54).
  • Automata I closes with "Blot" (10:27).
• Biffy Clyro: A Celebration of Endings closes with "Cop Syrup" (6.17).
• Black Country, New Road's Ants From Up There closes with "Basketball Shoes" (12:37).
• Black Flag:
  • Damaged closes with "Damaged I" (3:50).
  • My War closes with "Scream" (6:52).
  • Slip It In closes with "You're Not Evil" (7:00).
  • Loose Nut closes with "Now She's Black" (4:51).
• BLACKPINK: The Album ends with "You Never Know" (3:49)
• Black Sabbath:
  • Black Sabbath closes with "Warning" (10:32).
  • Master of Reality closes with "Into the Void" (6:12).
  • Technical Ecstasy closes with "Dirty Women" (7:15).
  • The Eternal Idol closes with "Eternal Idol" (6:35).
  • Forbidden closes with "Kiss of Death" (6:09).
• Blind Guardian: A Night at the Opera closes with "And Then There Was Silence" (14:06), their longest song to date.
• Blue October
  • The Answers closes with "Black Orchid" (6:09).
  • Consent to Treatment closes with "The Answer" (6:11).
  • Approaching Normal closes with "The End" (5:00).
  • I Hope You're Happy closes with "Further Dive (The House That Dylan Built)" (9:08).
• Blur:
  • The Great Escape closes with "Yuko & Hiro" (5:24).
  • Blur ends with "Essex Dogs" (8:08).
• Blue Öyster Cult:
  • Secret Treaties closes with "Astronomy" (6:28).
  • Club Ninja closes with "Madness to the Method" (7:25).
• Bob Dylan:
  • Highway 61 Revisited closes with "Desolation Row" (11:21).
  • Blonde on Blonde closes with "Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands" (11:23), which took up the entire fourth side of the double album.
  • Shot of Love closes with "Every Grain of Sand" (6:12).
  • Time Out of Mind closes with "Highlands" (16:31).
  • Love and Theft closes with "Sugar Baby" (6:40).
  • Modern Times closes with "Ain't Talkin' " (8:48).
  • Rough and Rowdy Ways closes with "Murder Most Foul" (16:54), the longest song of his career, which takes up the entire second disc on the CD release and the entire fourth side on the LP release.
• Boards of Canada:
  • Hi Scores closes with "Everything You Do Is A Balloon" (7:03).
  • The Campfire Headphase closes with "Farewell Fire" (8:36).
• The Body:
  • All the Waters of the Earth Turn to Blood closes with "Lathspell I Name You" (13:50).
  • I Shall Die Here ends with "Darkness Surrounds Us" (9:11).
  • I Have Fought Against It, But I Can't Any Longer ends with "Ten Times a Day, Every Day a Stranger" (8:32).
• Bonobo:
  • Animal Magic ends with "Silver" (6:36).
  • Black Sands ends with the Title Track (6:49).
• The Bonzo Dog Band: Keynsham ends with "Busted" (5:48).
• Boris: Pink ends with "Just Abandoned Myself" (18:12).
• Botch:
  • American Nervoso ends with "Hives" (5:33).
  • We Are the Romans "ends" with "Man the Ramparts" (10:50), although the actual final track is an unlisted remix of "Thank God for Worker Bees" from American Nervoso.
• Bruce Springsteen:
  • The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle closes with "New York City Serenade" (9:55).
  • Born To Run closes with "Jungleland" (9:34).
• Built to Spill:
  • Ultimate Alternative Wavers closes with "Built Too Long Parts 1, 2 & 3" (9:24).
  • Perfect from Now On closes with "Untrustable/Part 2 (About Someone Else)" (8:54).
  • Keep It Like a Secret closes with "Broken Chairs" (8:42).
  • There is No Enemy closes with "Tomorrow" (7:41).
  • Untethered Moon closes with "When I'm Blind" (8:24).
• The Byrds: The Notorious Byrd Brothers—"Space Odyssey" (3:52).
• Cacola:
  • Island.1 ends with the 9:47 "Death", which alongside the 6:14 "Found Footage" immediately before it is only one of two songs on the album to reach Epic Rocking status.
  • The Angel, the Demon closes with "The Angel", which clocks in at nearly an hour.
• Camel:
  • Camel closes with "Arubaluba" (6:28, only barely surpassing "Never Let Go").
  • Mirage closes with "Lady Fantasy" (12:45).
  • Moonmadness closes with "Lunar Sea" (9:11).
  • I Can See Your House from Here closes with "Ice" (10:17).
  • Harbour of Tears closes with "The Hour Candle (A Song for My Father)" (8:03, followed by 15 minutes of ocean sounds).
  • Rajaz closes with "Lawrence" (10:46).
  • A Nod and a Wink closes with "For Today" (10:40).
• Can:
  • Monster Movie closes with "Yoo Doo Right" (20:27).
  • Future Days closes with "Bel Air" (19:53).
  • Landed closes with "Unfinished" (13:21).
  • Flow Motion closes with "Flow Motion" (10:23).
• Caravan Palace has their Self-Titled Album end with "La caravane" (5:05), though it's worth noting it's only five seconds longer than the second-longest song, "Ended with the night" (5:00).
• The Cardigans: The original version of Life ends with "Closing Time" (either 6:35 or 10:22 depending on whether you count the studio noise and reprise as a hidden track or part of the song itself).
• Ugly But Honest by Carissa's Wierd ends with "Alphabet on the Manhole" (14:19).
• Carnivore's self-titled record ends with "World Wars III & IV" (10:17).
• Chase's self-titled debut album ends with "Invitation to a River" (14:12).
• The Chemical Brothers
  • Dig Your Own Hole closes with "The Private Psychedelic Reel" (9:22).
  • Come with Us closes with "The Test" (7:47).
  • Push the Button closes with "Surface to Air" (7:23).
• Chicago: "Liberation", the final track on their first album, clocks in at 17:38.
• Chumbawamba:
  • A third of Never Mind the Ballots is taken up by "Here's the Res of Your Life" (13:22).
  • WYSIWYG ends with "Dumbing Down" (4:28).
• clipping.:
  • midcity closes with "outro" (10:46).
  • There Existed an Addiction to Blood closes with "Piano Burning" (18:00).
• Cobalt:
  • Eater of Birds ends with "Eater of Birds" (10:27).
  • Landfill Breastmilk Beast ends with the uncut version of "Ritual Use of Fire" (29:16).
• Coheed and Cambria:
  • The Second Stage Turbine Blade closes with "God Send Conspirator" (6:32).
  • In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 closes with "The Light and the Glass" (9:38).
  • Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV, Volume I: From Fear Through The Eyes Of Madness closes with "The Willing Well IV: The Final Cut" (7:39).
  • The Color Before The Sun closes with "Peace To The Mountain" (6:32).
  • Vaxis II: A Window of the Waking Mind ends with the eponymous "Window of the Waking Mind" (8:37)
• Coldplay:
  • The Safety EP ends with "Such a Rush" (4:57); the next longest song, "Bigger Stronger," is 4:49.
  • Their debut album Parachutes closes with "Everything's Not Lost" (7:17); however, the actual song ends at 5:28, and is followed by the hidden song "Life Is for Living." Even then, the song is still the longest on the album.
  • Ghost Stories closes with "O" (7:47), although it includes a hidden song "Fly On."
  • A Head Full of Dreams closes with "Up&Up" (6:45)
  • The Kaleidoscope EP ends on "Hypnotised" (6:31).
  • Music of the Spheres ends with "Coloratura" (10:17), Coldplay's longest song to date.
• Color Theory's The Majesty of Our Broken Past closes with "The Past Yet To Come"(10:00), the album's only Epic Rocking song.
• Converge:
  • Jane Doe ends with "Jane Doe" (11:34).
  • Axe to Fall ends with "Wretched World" (7:11).
• Cornershop:
  • Hold On, It Hurts ends with "You Always Said My Language Would Get Me In Trouble" (7:04).
  • Woman's Gotta Have It ends with "7:20a.m. Jullander Shere" (9:45).
  • Judy Sucks a Lemon for Breakfast ends with "The Turned On Truth" (16:43).
  • And the Double 'O' Groove Of ends with "Don't Shake It" (5:42).
  • Hold On, It's Easy ends with a reworking of "You Always Said My Language Would Get Me In Trouble" (5:56).
  • England is a Garden ends with "The Holy Name" (8:50).
• Covenant:
  • Dreams of a Cryotank closes with "Cryotank Expansion"(26:44).
  • Sequencer closes with "Flux"(10:41).
  • Europa closes with "Wall of Sound"(7:33).
  • Modern Ruin closes with "Modern Ruin II"(9:10).
  • Leaving Babylon closes with "Leaving Babylon II"(9:43). The 2 CD deluxe edition ends with "Jag Är Fullständigt Tung"(76:39), which occupies the entire second disc.
• Creedence Clearwater Revival:
  • Willy and the Poor Boys ends with "Effigy" (6:26).
• The Cure:
  • Faith closes with the Title Track (6:43).
  • The Top also closes with the title track (6:50).
  • The Head on the Door closes with "Sinking" (4:57).
  • Wild Mood Swings closes with "Bare" (7:57).
• Cult of Luna
  • Somewhere Along the Highway closes with "Dark City, Dead Man" (15:49)
  • Mariner closes with "Cygnus" (14:50).
• Daft Punk:
  • Discovery closes with the aptly titled "Too Long" (10:00).
  • Human After All ends on “Emotion” (6:57).
• Danielson: Tell Another Joke at the Ol' Choppin' Block ends with "Jokin' at the Block" (12:31).
• Daughters' debut Canada Songs ends with "The Ghost With the Most" (1:53)
• Datavis
  • Fading closes with the title track (6:00).
  • Ethics closes with "In Waiting" (10:20).
  • sixtytwo closes with "warrrp" (12:04).
• David Bowie:
  • Hunky Dory closes with "The Bewlay Brothers" (5:22). The similarly word salad-tastic "Quicksand" cuts a close second at 5:08, and it's the final track on the first side if you're listening to the album on vinyl or cassette.
  • Lodger closes with "Red Money" (4:18).
  • Reality closes with "Bring Me the Disco King" (7:45).
• David Byrne:
  • Music for The Knee Plays ends with "In the Future" (6:35).
  • Grown Backwards ends with "Lazy" (9:35).
• David Sylvian:
  • Brilliant Trees ends with the 8:39 Title Track, the only Epic Rocking song on the entire album.
  • Alchemy: An Index of Possibilities closes out with the nearly nineteen-minute "Steel Cathedrals"; no other song on the album spans long enough to reach Epic Rocking status.
• Death Grips
  • The Money Store closes with "Hacker" (4:36).
  • No Love Deep Web closes with "Artifical Death in the West" (5:58.)
  • Government Plates closes with "Whatever I Want (Fuck Who's Watching)" (6:38).
  • The Powers that B as a whole is not an example, but the first disc Niggas on the Moon closes with "Big Dipper" (5:28).
• Deaths Dynamic Shroud
  • ティーンファンタジー：MYSTIC QUEST closes with "❤︎BL◎◎D GENE§I§❤︎" (9:24).
  • I'll Try Living Like This closes with "난 괜찮다고 또 웃으며 Good Bye" (7:00).
• Deathspell Omega's Inquisitors of Satan closes with "Decadence" (6:35).
• Decoded Feedback's Combustion closes with "Reflection of Sine"(7:15), which may be a cross-reference to Mechanical Horizon's Longest Song Goes First track "Reflect in Silence".
• Def Leppard:
  • On Through The Night closes with "Overture" (7:44).
  • Slang closes with "Pearls of Euphoria" (6:21).
  • X closes with "Scar" (4:59).
  • Def Leppard closes with "Blind Faith" (5:33).
  • Diamond Star Halos ends with "From Here To Eternity" (5:37)
• Deftones' White Pony closes with "Pink Maggit'' (7:32).
• Depeche Mode:
  • A Broken Frame closes with "The Sun & the Rainfall" (5:02).
  • Some Great Reward closes with "Blasphemous Rumours" (6:21).
  • Playing the Angel closes with "The Darkest Star" (6:55).
• Devin Townsend
  • Most versions of City close with with "Spirituality" (6:34), while the Japanese version closes with "Centipede" (7:55).
  • Physicist closes with "Planet Rain" (11:08).
  • Alien closes with "Info Dump" (11:56).
  • The New Black closes with "The New Black" (6:15).
  • Addicted closes with "Awake!!" (9:44).
  • Empath closes with "Singularity" (23:33).
  • Lightwork closes with "Children of God" (10:06).
• The Dillinger Escape Plan
  • Under the Running Board closes with "Abe the Cop" (3:12).
  • Calculating Infinity closes with "Variations on a Cocktail Dress'' (7:55).
  • Ire Works closes with "Mouth of Ghosts" (6:50).
  • Dissocation closes with the title track (6:14).
• Dinosaur Jr.:
  • You're Living All Over Me closes with "Poledo" (5:43).
  • Bug closes with "Don't" (5:41).
  • I Bet On Sky closes with "See It On Your Side" (6:40).
• The Doors:
  • The Doors (Album) closes with "The End" (11:41).
  • Strange Days closes with "When the Music's Over" (10:58).
  • Waiting For the Sun closes with "Five to One" (4:24).
  • The Soft Parade closes with "The Soft Parade" (8:36).
  • Morrison Hotel closes with "Maggie M'Gill" (4:24).
  • Full Circle closes with "The Peking King and the New York Queen" (6:25).
• Dream Theater:
  • Images and Words closes with "Learning to Live" (11:30).
  • Falling into Infinity closes with "Trial of Tears" (13:07).
  • Train of Thought closes with "In the Name of God" (14:15).
  • Octavarium closes with the eponymous song (24:00).
  • Systematic Chaos closes with "In The Presence of Enemies (Part II)" (16:38).
  • Black Clouds & Silver Linings closes with "The Count of Tuscany" (19:16).
  • Dream Theater closes with "Illumination Theory" (22:17).
  • A View From the Top of the World closes with the eponymous song (20:23).
• Dredg: El Cielo closes with "The Canyon Behind Her" (6:40).
• The Drones:
  • Gala Mill closes with "Sixteen Straws" (9:35).
  • I See Seaweed closes with "Why Write a Letter You'll Never Send" (9:17).
• Duke Ellington: The Far East Suite ends with "Ad Lib on Nippon" (11:27).
• Edguy:
  • Kingdom of Madness ends with "The Kingdom" (18:23).
  • Theater of Salvation ends with "Theater of Salvation" (12:25).
  • Space Police: Defenders of the Crown ends with "The Eternal Wayfarer" (8:50).
• Electric Light Orchestra:
  • ELO 2 ends with "Kuiama" (11:19), making it their longest track.
  • On the Third Day finishes with "In the Hall of the Mountain King" (6:35)
  • Face the Music concludes with "One Summer Dream" (5:37)
  • A New World Record ends with "Shangri-La" (5:34)
  • While Secret Messages originally averted this trope, with "Rock ‘n’ Roll is King" (3:49) ending the album, the reissue restores the record to its originally intended double album tracklist, with "Hello My Old Friend" (8:37) closing the record instead
• Emancipator:
  • Safe In the Steep Cliffs closes with the Title Track (4:48).
  • Seven Seas ends with "Barnacles" (6:08).
• Elvis Costello:
  • Get Happy!! ends with "Riot Act" (3:35).
• Emerson, Lake & Palmer: Brain Salad Surgery closes with the epic "Karn Evil 9" (so long that on the vinyl album, it actually starts halfway through side one), although it could be argued that it's actually a suite of three (or even four) songs. When the three impressions of the suite are broken into individual tracks, the third and last impression is the longest in both the suite and the album as a result of the first impression having been split into two parts over the vinyl constraints.
• Equilibrium closes three consecutive albums with extra-long Instrumentals:
  • Sagas closes with "Mana" (16:23).
  • Rekreatur closes with "Kurzes Epos" (13:02).
• Esoteric has done this from time to time.
  • Epistemological Despondency closes with "Awaiting My Death" (26:43).
  • The Pernicious Engima closes with "Passing Through Matter" (19:18).
  • The Maniacal Vale closes with "Ignotum per Ignotius" (22:43).
• Fall of Efrafa:
  • Owsla ends with "The Fall of Efrafa" (14:51).
  • Elil ends with "For El Ahrairah to Cry" (22:06).
  • Inle ends with "The Warren of Snares" (17:26).
• Five Iron Frenzy: The End Is Near closes with "On Distant Shores" (5:18).
• Five Star Hotel
  • The Disconnect closes with the title track (15:45).
  • Nazca Lines closes with "Ident" (11:19).
  • Gray Data closes with "Full Circle" (6:52).
• The Flaming Lips:
  • Hit to Death in the Future Head closes with the Hidden Track "Noise Loop" (29:16).
  • Transmissions from the Satellite Heart closes with "Slow*Nerve*Action" (5:55).
  • Clouds Taste Metallic closes with "Bad Days (Aurally Excited Version)" (4:38).
• Foo Fighters:
  • Foo Fighters ends with "Exhausted" (5:45).
  • The Colour and the Shape ends with "New Way Home" (5:40).
• Foster the People: Torches closes with "Warrant" (5:23).
• Franco De Vita: Simplemente la verdad closes with Diez años y un día (8:15).
• Frank Zappa:
  • Freak Out closes with "The Return of the Son of Monster Magnet" (12:22).
  • Cruising with Ruben & the Jets ends with "Stuff Up the Cracks," at 4:35; the next longest song is "I'm Not Satisfied," at 4:03.
  • The double album Film/{{200Motels}} closes with "Strictly Genteel (The Finale)" (11:08).
  • Over-Nite Sensation closes with "Montana" (6:37).
  • Apostrophe (') closes with "Stink-Foot" (6:33).
  • Sleep Dirt finishes off with "The Ocean Is the Ultimate Solution" (13:20).
  • The double album Sheik Yerbouti ends on the 12:36 "Yo' Mama."
  • The original Joe's Garage, Act I ended with its longest track, "Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up" (7:17). ^note Averted when the album was later re-released as a single album with Joe's Garage, Acts II & III.
  • London Symphony Orchestra, Vol. I closed with the 27:11 "Mo 'n Herb's Vacation."
• Front Line Assembly:
  • Millennium closes with "Sex Offender"(8:12).
  • Hard Wired closes with "Infra Red Combat"(8:49).
  • Epitaph closes with "Existance"(7:58).
  • Civilization closes with "Schicksal"(7:23)
  • Artificial Soldier closes with the Hidden Track "Fawnchopper", which even if separated from "Humanity (World War Three)"(13:40 including 40 seconds of silence and said hidden track), is still the album's longest song at 7:35.
  • Improvised Electronic Device(original CD edition) closes with "Downfall"(8:06).
• Gamma Ray:
  • Heading for Tomorrow ends with "Heading for Tomorrow" (14:30)
  • Power Plant closes with "Armageddon" (8:48)
  • No World Order! ends with "Lake of Tears" (6:48)
  • Majestic ends with "Revelation" (8:30)
  • Land of the Free II ends with "Insurrection" (11:33)
  • ...To The Metal! ends with "No Need To Cry" (5:56)
• Garbage (the last song is also usually really depressing)
  • Version 2.0 ends with "You Look So Fine" (5:25)
  • Beautiful Garbage ends with "So Like a Rose" (6:17)
  • Bleed Like Me ends with "Happy Home" (6:00)
  • The deluxe edition of Not Your Kind of People ends with "Show Me" (5:14), which also subverts the aforementioned usual sad ending.
• Gas
  • Oktember closes with "Oktember B" (15:14).
  • Pop closes with an untitled track (14:37).
  • Narkopop closes with an untitled track (17:09).^note CD only; the vinyl version has a bonus track after it that's a little shorter.
• Genesis:
  • Foxtrot closes with "Supper's Ready" (22:57).
  • We Can't Dance closes with "Fading Lights" (10:16). Although it should be noted this is barely longer than "Driving the Last Spike" (10:08), track 3.
• Glitched Hero Y
  • Headphone Hunters closes with "Noise is dead" (6:10).
  • Drowing closes with "Monochrom Noiz" (6:04).
  • Self Remixes closes with "変わってゆくもの" (10:03).
  • Where is Grantie Records? closes with "今日も明日も明日も明日も明日も今日ももももも。" (7:31).
  • GK on LK closes with "F" (9:24).
  • Somewhere.EP closes with "わたげのたんぽぽ その２" (4:57).
  • 青春ドリルンベースガール​.​EP closes with "煙草をくゆらせて" (5:34).
  • Reach Where I Wanted To Go To closes with "Mod2" (5:18).
  • One Two,One Two... closes with "8月の旅人(Monotone Mix)" (4:19).
• George Clinton has done this with several of his bands.
  • With Funkadelic:
    • Standing on the Verge of Getting It On ends with “Good Thoughts, Bad Thoughts” (12:30).
    • Let's Take It to the Stage closes with "Atmosphere" (7:05).
  • With Parliament:
    • Motor Booty Affair ends on "Deep" (9:09).
    • Trombipulation closest with "Peek-a-Groove" (7:48).
  • Solo:
    • You Shouldn't-Nuf Bit Fish ends on the 8:47 Title Track.
• Godspeed You! Black Emperor
  • F♯ A♯ ∞ closes with "Providence" (29:02) (this length includes the period of silence and the hidden track that forms the song's outro, however even if you took it out it would still be the longest song on the album. Also, on the original vinyl, this track does not exist, and "The Dead Flag Blues" is extended, making that version not an example of this trope).
  • Slow Riot for New Zerø Kanada closes with "BBF3 (Blaise Bailey Finnegan III)" (17:45).
  • Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress closes with "Piss Crowns Are Trebled" (13:50).
  • Luciferian Towers closes with "Anthem for No State" (14:48). On the digital release, "Anthem for No State" (as well as "Bosses Hang") is divided into three parts. This still makes "Anthem for No State, Pt. III" the longest song on the album (8:36).
• goreshit
  • watashi wa baka yaro desu closes with "Goretrance 1" (16:57).
  • end. closes with "another in a long line of failings" (7:41).
  • wake up, painful sister! closes with "when i die" (7:44).
  • gnb closes with "unnatural" (6:22).
  • ministry of shit closes with the title track (6:20).
  • semantics:the benzo chronicles closes with "one way to hannover" (8:04).
  • goretrance x closes with "goretrance x - serbian fuckboy edition" (16:13).
• The Grateful Dead:
  • Their debut, The Grateful Dead, ends with the 10-minute "Viola Lee Blues."
  • Anthem of the Sun closes with "Caution (Do Not Stop on Tracks)" (9:37).
  • Wake of the Flood ends with "Weather Report Suite" (12:41).
  • Blues for Allah closes with the titular suite, at 12:33.^note Although the album credits list the suite as three different tracks, on streaming services it is one singular song.
  • The entire second side of Terrapin Station is taken by the final track, "Terrapin Part 1" (16:23).
• Haken:
  • Aquarius closes with "Celestial Elixir" (17:00).
  • Visions closes with the eponymous song (22:25)
  • The Restoration EP ends with "Crystalised" (19:23)
• HammerFall:
  • Chapter V: Unbent, Unbowed, Unbroken ends with "Knights of the 21st Century" (10:25).
  • Infected ends with "Redemption" (7:02).
  • Built to Last ends with "Second to None" (5:30).
• Hana:
  • Hana ends with "Chimera" (5:56).
• Hana Sumai
  • shattered bone orchestra​/​liminal space closes with "liminal space" (20:31).
  • death is beautiful​/​withering coils closes with "withering coils" (17:23).
  • depressed rock guitar in d closes with "fourth phase" (32:31, 35:08 on the uncut version).
• Havalina Rail Co.:
  • Russian Lullabies ends with "Rivers of Russia" (7:08).
  • Space, Love & Bullfighting ends with ''Space, Love and Bullfighting Suite" (6:05).
• Have a Nice Life:
  • Deathconsciousness ends with "Earthmover" (11:28).
  • The Unnatural World ends with "Emptiness Will Eat the Witch" (8:49).
  • Sea of Worry ends with "Destinos" (13:12).
• H.E.A.T's 2017 album Into the Great Unknown ends with the Title Track, at 7:24.
• Helloween:
  • Walls of Jericho ends with "How Many Tears" (7:16).
  • Keeper of the Seven Keys Pt. 2 ends with "Keeper of the Seven Keys" (13:38).
  • The Dark Ride ends with "The Dark Ride" (8:48).
  • Rabbit Don't Come Easy ends with "Nothing To Say" (8:35).
  • 7 Sinners ends with "Far in the Future" (7:42).
  • My God-Given Right ends with "You, Still of War" (7:21).
  • Helloween ends with "Skyfall" (12:11).
• His Name Is Alive:
  • The original 4AD version of Mouth by Mouth ends with "The Dirt Eaters" (4:00 to 4:50 depending on the reissue), but reissues of the album add on "The Homesick Waltz" (4:01) after it, thus averting this.
  • Detrola closes with "I'll Send My Face to Your Funeral" (4:59).
  • "The Eclipse" (11:00) closes out The Eclipse.
  • "Silver Arc Curving in the Magnetic Field" (8:11) closes out Patterns of Light.
• Homestuck: The soundtrack album The Felt just barely qualifies, with the final song "Variations" (6:03) being five seconds longer than the next longest song.
• The Hu: The Gereg closes with "Song of Women" (7:16), but the Deluxe Edition inverts this and closes with the shortest song, an acoustic version of "Shoog Shoog" (3:51).
• Hugo Kant:
  • Out of Time ends with "This Is Just The Beginning" (6:03).
  • Far from Home finishes with "Come with Me" (7:46).
• Japanese Breakfast
  • Jubilee ends with "Posing for Cars" (6:38).
• Julia Holter:
  • Ekstasis closes with "This is Ekstasis" (8:55).
  • Loud City Song closes with "City Appearing" (7:16).
• Iggy Pop: The Idiot ends with "Mass Production" (8:25).
• Imagine Dragons: Night Visions ends with "Nothing Left To Say/Rocks" (9:01).
• Information Society:
  • Don't Be Afraid closes with "The Ridge"(9:41).
  • Oddfellows closes with "The Mymble's Daughter"(4:43).
• Inkubus Sukkubus:
  • Wytches ends with "Devils". (5:25)
  • Science and Nature ends with "Sympathy for the Devil" (9:38).
  • The Dark Goddess ends with "Karnayna". (6:02).
  • The Goat ends with "Melancholy Blue". (5:52).
• Insight Netproject's Emulators Plus closes with "ICQ enter -Perfect Edition-" (7:48).
• Internet Club:
  • VANISHING VISION closes with "KADODE NO HANA" (6:39).
  • Unregistered HyperCam 420 (August 2012 Loops Etc​.​) closes with "SEVEN" (6:01).
  • honestly^note As "monument XIII". closes with "snow" (4:34).
  • galleria^note As "memorex dawn". closes with "outlet" (1:51).
  • Digital Water -Perfect Edition-^note As "SunCoast Web Series" closes with "new world" (8:24).
• Iron Butterfly:
  • In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida ends with the title track (17:05).
• Iron Maiden:
  • The Number of the Beast closes with "Hallowed Be Thy Name" (7:13).
  • Piece of Mind closes with "To Tame a Land" (7:25).
  • Powerslave finishes with "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" (13:36).
  • Somewhere in Time closes with "Alexander the Great" (8:35).
  • "Mother Russia" (5:32) closes No Prayer for the Dying.
  • "Fear of the Dark" (7:17) closes Fear of the Dark.
  • The Final Frontier closes with "When the Wild Wind Blows" (10:59).
  • The Book of Souls closes with "Empire of the Clouds" (18:05).
• Isis
  • Mosquito Control closes with "Relocation Swarm" (11:43).
  • The Red Sea closes with "Red Sea" (7:20).
  • Sawblade closes with "House of Low Culture" (11:09.)
  • SGNL>05 closes with "Celestial (Signal Fills the Void) (10:22).
  • In the Absence of Truth closes with "Garden of Light" (9:17).
• Jackson Browne:
  • While the final two tracks on his 1977 album Running On Empty are officially separate tracks, "The Load Out" and "Stay" – the final two tracks on the B side of the original album – are often played together (on the radio), for a combined playing time of 9:06. ^note Separately, "The Load Out" clocks at 5:38 and "Stay" times out at 3:28.
• Jean-Michel Jarre: Waiting For Cousteau closes with the title track (22:00 on vinyl and cassette, 46:53 on CD, which is twice the length of the rest of the album combined).
• Jellyfish: Spilt Milk closes with "Brighter Day" (6:12).
• j-hope: Hope on the Street Vol. 1 ends with "Neuron" (4:33)
• Joy Division:
  • Unknown Pleasures closes with "I Remember Nothing" (5:53).
• Progressive jazz-rock JT Curtis's 2015 album, One Last Stand, ends with the 7:55 "Home (Last Stand)." None of the other songs pass the 7-minute mark.
  • Closer closes with "Decades" (6:10).
• Judas Priest:
  • Painkiller closes with "One Shot At Glory" (6:49).
  • Jugulator closes with "Cathedral Spires" (9:17).
  • Angel of Retribution closes with "Lochness" (13:30).
  • Nostradamus closes with "Future of Mankind" (8:29).
  • Firepower closes with "Sea of Red" (5:51).
• Kanye West's The College Dropout closes with "Last Call" (12:40).
• Kate Bush:
  • Lionheart ends with the 4:39 "Hammer Horror", the only song on the album to crack the four-minute mark.
  • Never for Ever ends with the five-and-a-half-minute "Breathing"; no other song on the album comes close to reaching five minutes.
  • The Red Shoes ends with the nearly six-minute "You're the One", the closest it ever gets to Epic Rocking; the next-longest track, "Moments of Pleasure", doesn't even crack five and a half.
• Kayo Dot:
  • Choirs of the Eye ends with "The Antique" (14:41).
  • Blue Lambency Downward ends with "Symmetrical Arizona" (10:50).
  • Gamma Knife ends with its Title Track (6:47, though this is barely longer than the other tracks).
  • Hubardo ends with "The Wait of the World" (14:23).
• King Crimson:
  • Lizard ends with the Title Track (23:13).
  • Starless and Bible Black ends with "Fracture" (11:14).
  • Red ends with "Starless" (12:15).
  • Beat ends with "Requiem" (6:48).
• Klaatu:
  • 3:47 EST ends with "Little Neutrino" (8:07).
  • Sir Army Suit ends with "Silly Boys" (4:59); the second longest song, "Mister Manson," runs at 4:16.
• Korn:
  • The untitled album ends with "I Will Protect You" (5:29).
  • The Path of Totality ends with "Bleeding Out" (4:49).
  • A special mention to how much the band screws with this trope must be mentioned: several albums feature long songs at the end, but there are hidden tracks containing even more songs embedded within the finishing track, which don't qualify for the trope^note "Daddy" from Korn lasts 9:32, but there's 4:32 minutes of silence before the hidden track, "Michael and Geri" (3:26); "My Gift To You" from Follow The Leader lasts 9:12, but the hidden track "Earache My Eye" lasts 6:28.
• Kyuss:
  • Sky Valley closes with "Whitewater" (7:53), with a hidden track ("Lick Doo") extending the song to 8:58.
  • ...And the Circus Leaves Town closes with "Spaceship Landing" (11:15), with two hidden tracks (a short outtake and "Day One", a previously-released B-side) extending the song to 34:04.
• La Düsseldorf:
  • Viva ends with "Cha Cha 2000" (19:58)
  • Los Individuellos, which ends with "Das Yvonnchen" (6:03)
• Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly closes with "Mortal Man" (12:07).
• LCD Soundsystem:
  • LCD Soundsystem closes with "Yr City's a Sucker" (9:20)
  • American Dream closes with "Black Screen" (12:06).
• Led Zeppelin
  • Led Zeppelin (1969) closes with "How Many More Times" (8:28).
  • Coda closes with "Wearing and Tearing" (5:27).
• Lemon Demon:
  • "Clown Circus" closes with "Elsewhere" (7:01)
  • "Hip To The Java Bean" closes with "Sick Puppy" (9:43)
• Leonard Cohen: Death of a Ladies' Man closes with the title track (9:19).
• Limp Bizkit: Three Dollar Bill, Y'all$ closes with "Everything" (16:26).
• Linkin Park:
  • Minutes to Midnight ends with "The Little Things Give You Away" (6:23)
  • The Hunting Party ends with "A Line in the Sand" (6:35)
• Love: Forever Changes—"You Set the Scene" (6:56).
• Lynyrd Skynyrd: (Pronounced_'Lĕh-'nérd_'Skin-'nérd) closes with "Free Bird" (9:09).
• Madness: The Liberty of Norton Folgate ends with the title track (10:11).
• Madonna:
  • Bedtime Stories closes with "Take a Bow", which is tied with "Love Tried to Welcome Me" (5:21).
  • ''American Life" closes with "Easy Ride" (5:05).
• Mägo de Oz:
  • Mägo de Oz ends with "Mägo de Oz". (9:16).
  • Jesús de Chamberi ends with "El fin del camino" (8:53).
  • Finisterra ends with "Finisterra" (15:16).
  • Gaia ends with "La Venganza de Gaia" (11:04).
  • Gaia II: La Voz Dormida ends with "La Cantata del Diablo - Missit me Dominus" (21:11).
  • Gaia III: Atlantia ends with "Atlantia" (19:16)
  • Hechizos, pócimas y brujeria ends with "Hechizos, pócimas y brujeria" (8:22).
• Marianas Trench:
  • Masterpiece Theatre ends with "Masterpiece Theatre III" (6:40), a medley of all the other songs on the album.
  • Ever After ends with "No Place Like Home" (6:41).
  • Astoria ends with "End of an Era" (7:40).
• The Mars Volta:
  • Frances the Mute ends with "Cassandra Gemini" (32:32).
  • Octahedron ends with "Luciforms" (8:22).
  • Their self-titled album ends with "The Requisition" (4:12). Due to the songs on the album being shorter, this is the longest song there.
• Massacration: "Metal Bucetation" (6:21) closes Gates of Metal Fried Chicken of Death.
• Matthew Sweet's In Reverse closes with "Thunderstorm" (9:37).
• Mazzy Star: So Tonight That I Might See ends with its title track (7:19).
• Melvins
  • Eggnog (EP): "Charmicarmicat" (12:50)
  • Dale Crover (EP): "Hurter" (4:22), beating out preceding track "Respite" by about six seconds.
  • Joe Preston (EP): "Hands First Flower" (22:58); the longest Melvins track to date.
  • Houdini: "Spread Eagle Beagle" (10:13)
  • Stoner Witch: "Lividity" (9:15)
  • The Maggot^note Every song on this album is split into two tracks, apparently as a way to combat piracy; for convenience, both parts are combined: "See How Pretty, See How Smart" (8:59^note a hidden preview of "Toy" from The Bootlicker brings the total length up to 10:32)
  • Electroretard: "Interstellar Overdrive" (9:49)
  • Hostile Ambient Takeover: "The Anti-Vermin Seed" (15:51)
  • (a) Senile Animal: "A Vast Filthy Prison" (6:44), just barely beating out "A History of Bad Men" by about one second.
  • Freak Puke: "Tommy Goes Berserk" (9:40)
  • Hold It In: "House of Gasoline" (12:11)
• Mercury Rev:
  • Yerself is Steam closes with "Very Sleepy Rivers" (13:15) (on CD, about 40 percent of that is divided into chunks of 4 seconds occupying tracks 9-98).
  • All is Dream ends with "Hercules" (8:52)
• Merzbow
  • 1930 closes with "Iron, Glass, Blocks and White Lights" (21:50).
  • Dharma closes with "Frozen Guitars and Sunloop / 7E 802" (31:51).
  • Amlux closes with "Luxurious Automobile (Krokodil Texas mix)" (22:23).
  • Multiplication closes with the title track (27:10).
  • Atsusaku closes with "Kyonhan" (20:12).
  • Dead Lotus closes with "Spirulina Blue" (14:42).
  • Pulse Demon (remastered) closes with "Worms Plastic Earthbound" (24:52)^note The original has a different tracklisting.
  • Broken Landscapes closes with "Inland Empire" (16:17).
  • Probably numerous other examples in his Archive Panic of a discography.
• Meshuggah:
  • Chaossphere closes with "Elastic" (15:30).
  • The re-released version of Nothing closes with "Obsidian" (8:35).^note  The original version closes with a much shorter version of the track.
  • ObZen closes with "Dancers to a Discordant System" (9:36).
• Metallica:
  • Ride the Lightning ends with "The Call of Ktulu" (8:55).
  • Load ends with "The Outlaw Torn" (9:49).
  • ReLoad ends with "Fixxxer" (8:15).
  • St. Anger ends with "All Within My Hands" (8:48).
  • Happens twice on Lulu: disc 1 ends with "Cheat on Me" (11:25) and disc 2 ends with "Junior Dad" (19:30)
  • Downplayed in Hardwired to Self Destruct, where the last track of the first disk is the longest, "Halo On Fire" (8:16).
  • 72 Seasons ends with "Inamorata" (11:10).
• Midnight Oil:
  • Midnight Oil closes with the band's longest song "Nothing Lost - Nothing Gained" (8:28).
  • Place Without a Postcard closes with "Lucky Country" (4:49).
  • Capricornia closes with "Poets & Slaves" (5:58).
• Mike Krol: I Hate Jazz closes with "A Million Times" (4:11).
• MISAMO: Masterpiece ends with "Bouquet" (4:24)
• Moetannn
  • https​:​/​/​noise​.​loli​/​3fast5u closes with "untitled2" (3:22).
  • 456 closes with "]]]][[[[3]]]][[[[" (6:25).
• Mogwai
  • Mogwai Young Team closes with "Mogwai Fear Satan'' (16:19).
  • Mr Beast closes with "We're No Here'' (5:39).
  • Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will closes with "You're Lionel Richie" (8:29).
  • As the Love Continues closes with "It's What I Want to Do, Mum" (7:23).
• The Monkees:
  • One of the shorter examples — More of The Monkees closes with "I'm a Believer" (2:42).
  • Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd. closes with "Star Collector" (4:28), which was mislabeled as "3:30" on the original back cover (but still would've been the longest anyway).
  • Instant Replay closes with "Shorty Blackwell" (5:42).
  • Justus closes with "It's Not Too Late" (4:03).
• The Moody Blues:
  • Every Good Boy Deserves Favour closes with "My Song" (6:20).
  • Octave ends with "The Day We Meet Again" (6:19).
  • Sur la Mer ends with "Deep" at 6:50, barely edging out the opening track, "I Know You're Out There Somewhere," which runs at 6:37 and is the second longest song on the album.
• Moron Police's 2019 album, A Boat on the Sea, ends with "Isn't It Easy!" at 6:57. The second longest song, "Captain Awkward" (track 6) runs at 5:12.
• Muse's Black Holes and Revelations closes with "Knights of Cydonia" (6:06).
• My Chemical Romance:
  • I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love ends with "Demolition Lovers" (6:06)
  • Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge ends with "I Never Told You What I Do for a Living" (3:51, though it’s only the longest track by 10 seconds)
• My Life Story:
  • The original release of Mornington Crescent ends with "Angel" (7:02) (it was later reissued with a different running order).
  • Joined Up Talking ends with "Two Stars" (6:44).
• Nails
  • Unsilent Death closes with "Depths" (3:47).
  • Abandon All Life closes with "Suum Cuique" (5:21).
  • You Will Never Be One of Us closes with "They Come Crawling Back" (8:14).
• Neil Young:
  • Neil Young: "Last Trip To Tulsa" (9:25)
  • Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere: "Cowgirl in the Sand" (10:06).
  • Harvest: "Words (Between The Lines of Age)" (6:40).
  • Time Fades Away: "Last Dance" (8:47)
  • On the Beach: "Ambulance Blues" (8:56)
  • Harvest Moon: "Natural Beauty" (10:22)
  • Are You Passionate?: "She's A Healer" (9:08)
  • Earth: "Love And Only Love" (28:04)
• Newsboys: Going Public closes with "Elle G." (5:12).
• Nightwish:
  • Wishmaster closes with "FantasMic" (8:18).
  • Century Child closes with "Beauty of the Beast" (10:22).
  • Dark Passion Play inverts this: the longest song, "The Poet and the Pendulum" (13:54), is the album's first song.
  • Endless Forms Most Beautiful closes with "The Greatest Show on Earth" (24:00).
  • HVMAN:||:NATVRE needs a separate disc for "All the Works of Nature which Adorn the World", which is split into eight tracks although it's listed as one song. It lasts 30 minutes and 58 seconds
• NINA's Scala Hearts(with Ricky Wilde) closes with "Lovers On The Beach"(6:38).
• Nine Inch Nails:
  • Year Zero ends with "Zero-Sum" (6:14).
  • Bad Witch closes with "Over and Out" (7:49).
  • Add Violence ends with "The Background World" (11:44)
• Nirvana:
  • The original 1989 LP release of Bleach ends with "Sifting" (5:22). Later editions invert this by ending with the album's shortest song, "Downer" (1:42).
  • Nevermind (at least on CD) ends with "Endless, Nameless" (6:44).
  • Original foreign pressings of In Utero end with "Gallons of Rubbing Alcohol Flow Through the Strip" (7:34), as does the 20th Anniversary Edition, the CD version of which gives it its own track.
• Nordra's Pylon II closes with "Human"(11:31).
• Oasis: (What's the Story) Morning Glory? closes with "Champagne Supernova" (7:27).
• Obscura:
  • Cosmogenesis closes with "Centric Flow" (7:25).
  • Omnivium closes with "Aevum" (7:51).
• Opeth
  • Blackwater Park ends with the title track (12:08).
  • Deliverance ends with "By the Pain I See in Others" (13:50).
  • In Cauda Venenum closes with "All Things Will Pass" (8:33).
• Orbital:
  • In Sides ends with "Out There Somewhere?" (24:08). On CD, the song is indexed as two parts, but "Out There Somewhere? Part 2" is still the longest track on the album (13:27).
  • The Altogether ends with "Meltdown" (10:17).
  • Blue Album ends with "One Perfect Sunrise" (8:44).
• Origami Angel:
  • Somewhere City ends with "The Air Up Here" (4:45).
  • GAMI GANG ends with "gg" (4:54).
• Panchiko's D>E>A>T>H>M>E>T>A>L ends with "The Eyes of Ibad" (7:12).
• Panopticon
  • Social Disservices closes with "Patient" (20:10).
  • If considered as its own album^note the two halves of the Distinct Double Album can be bought separately, The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness, Part I closes with "Snow Burdened Branches" (11:43).
• Pan Sonic
  • Vakio closes with "Sahkotin" (8:09).
  • Kulma closes with "Moottori" (9:47).
  • Kesto(234.48:4) closes with "Sateily" (61:14).
  • A closes with "Voima" (9:13).
  • The Hymmn of the 7th Illusion closes with "The Hymmn of the 7th Illusion - Hafler Trio Re-Arrangement" (23:02).
• Parachute's 2011 album The Way It Was closes with "Philadelphia" (7:09).
• Patricia Taxxon
  • Inhumane closes with "It's Okay" (23:14).
  • Paul closes with "Real Boy" (6:08).
  • The Killer closes with "Sonic" (4:44).
  • Nostalgia closes with "Home" (6:08).
  • Beauty closes with "Color" (5:24).
  • Jyväskylä closes with "Jyväskylä" (5:45).
• Pavement:
  • Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain closes with "Fillmore Jive" (6:40).
  • Brighten the Corners closes with "Fin" (5:25).
• Pearl Jam:
  • Vitalogy closes with "Hey Foxymophandlemama, That's Me" (7:44).
  • Yield closes with "All Those Yesterdays" (7:47).
  • Binaural ends with "Parting Ways" (7:17) - though it owes to much silence before a Hidden Track in the last 30 seconds.
  • Riot Act closes with "All or None" (4:37), just barely beating "Love Boat Captain" (4:36).
  • Pearl Jam closes with "Inside Job" (7:08).
• Pepe Deluxé: Queen of the Wave ends with "Riders on the First Ark" (7:18).
• Periphery
  • Periphery closes with "Racecar" (15:23).
  • Juggernaut:Alpha closes with "Psychosphere" (6:16).
  • Periphery III: Select Difficulty closes with "Lune" (7:47).^note Though this is very closely followed by "Absolomb" at 7:44.
• Pet Shop Boys: Introspective ends with "It's Alright" (9:24).
• Phoebe Bridgers:
  • Stranger in the Alps ends with "You Missed My Heart" (6:57)
  • Punisher ends with "I Know the End" (5:45)
• Pig Destroyer: Prowler in the Yard ends with "Piss Angel" (7:58).
• Pink Floyd:
  • Meddle ends with "Echoes" (23:31).
  • Obscured by Clouds ends with "Absolutely Curtains" (5:52).
  • The Final Cut ends with "Two Suns in the Sunset" (5:14).
  • A Momentary Lapse of Reason ends with "Sorrow" (8:46).
  • The Division Bell ends with "High Hopes" (8:32).
  • The Endless River ends with "Louder Than Words" (6:36).
• Poppy: I Disagree closes with "Don't Go Outside" (6:06).
• Prefab Sprout: Protest Songs ends with "Pearly Gates" (5:28).
• Prince:
  • The Title Track from the Purple Rain soundtrack (8:41) closes the album.
  • Around the World in a Day closes with "Temptation" (8:18).
  • Parade closes with "Sometimes It Snows In April" (6:48).
  • Lovesexy closes with "Positivity" (7:15).
  • Diamonds and Pearls closes with "Live 4 Love (Last Words From the Cockpit)" (6:59).
  • The Gold Experience closes with "Gold" (7:23).
  • Xpectation closes with "Xpedition" (8:24).
  • 3121 closes with "Get on the Boat" (6:18).
• Pyrrhon:
  • An Excellent Servant But a Terrible Master ends with "A Terrible Master" (8:05).
  • The Mother of Virtues ends with its Title Track (10:35).
  • What Passes for Survival ends with "Empty Tenement Spirit" (12:04).
• Queen: The CD version of Made in Heaven closes with "'13'", which at 22:33 holds the distinction of being the single longest song that Queen ever put out.^note The cassette and LP versions instead closed with "It's a Beautiful Day (Reprise)" (or "Yeah" if you count it as a separate track), which does not fall under this trope; the 2015 LP reissue would package the album on two discs specifically to include "'13'" on the entire fourth side.
• Queens of the Stone Age: Rated R closes with "I Think I Lost My Headache" (8:40).
• Queensrÿche:
  • Their 1983 self-titled debut EP closes with "The Lady Wore Black" (6:13).
  • The Warning closes with "Roads to Madness" (9:54).
  • Empire closes with "Anybody Listening?" (7:41).
  • Q2K closes with "The Right Side of My Mind" (5:52).
  • Operation: Mindcrime II closes with "All The Promises" (5:10).
  • Dedicated to Chaos ends with "Big Noize" (6:35).
  • Condition Hüman ends with the Title Track (7:52).
• R.E.M.:
  • Chronic Town closes with "Stumble" (5:41).
  • Document closes with "Oddfellows Local 151" (5:21).
  • Collapse into Now closes with "Blue" (5:46).
• Radiohead:
  • Kid A ends with "Motion Picture Soundtrack" (7:00).^note Includes the hidden untitled track and 2:51 of silence. The digital version separates the two and removes the silence, averting this trope.
  • The King of Limbs closes with "Separator" (5:21).
• Relient K
  • Mmhmm ends with "When I Go Down" (6:42).
  • Five Score and Seven Years Ago closes with "Deathbed" (11:05).
• The Replacements: Tim closes with "Here Comes a Regular" (4:46).
• The Residents
  • Meet the Residents closes with "N-ER-GEE (Crisis Blues)" (9:32).
  • Fingerprince closes with "Six Things To a Cycle" (17:46).
  • Eskimo closes with "The Festival of Death" (10:30).
  • Mark of the Mole closes with "Final Confrontation (9:45).
• The Rolling Stones: Let It Bleed closes with "You Can't Always Get What You Want" (7:28).
• Running Wild:
  • Gates to Purgatory closes with "Prisoner of Our Time" (5:26).
  • Branded and Exiled closes with "Chains and Leather" (5:45).
  • Port Royal closes with "Calico Jack" (8:15).
  • Pile of Skulls closes with "Treasure Island" (11:14).
  • Masquerade closes with "Underworld" (6:15).
  • The Brotherhood closes with "The Ghost" (10:23).
  • Rogues En Vogue closes with "The War" (10:38).
  • Shadowmaker closes with "Dracula" (7:29).
  • Resilient closes with "Bloody Island" (9:56).
  • Rapid Foray closes with "Last of the Mohicans" (11:11).
• Every Run the Jewels album (as of RTJ 4):
  • Run The Jewels closes with "A Christmas Fucking Miracle" (4:21).
  • Run The Jewels 2 closes with "Angel Duster" (5:09).
  • Run The Jewels 3 closes with "A Report to the Shareholders/Kill Your Masters" (6:15).
  • RTJ4 closes with "A Few Words for the Firing Squad (Radiation)" (6:42).
• Rush
  • Caress of Steel closes with "The Fountain of Lamneth" (19:58; the entire second side of the album).
  • Permanent Waves closes with "Natural Science" (9:20).
  • Grace Under Pressure closes with "Between the Wheels" (5:44).
• Sasha:
  • The Qat Collection closes with "(As If By) Magic(Dub)"(13:48).
  • Xpander EP closes with "Baja"(12:30).
• Scorpions (Band):
  • Lonesome Crow ends with the 13:31 Title Track.
  • Fly to the Rainbow ends with its own Title Track, at 9:40.
  • Taken by Force closes with "Born to Touch Your Feelings" (7:40).
  • Lovedrive closes with the 6:32 "Holiday."
  • Love at First Sting closes with "Still Loving You" (6:26).
  • Savage Amusement closes with "Believe in Love" (5:20); the next longest track on the album, "Walking on the Edge," is 5:05.
  • Humanity: Hour I closes with "Humanity" (5:26).
• Silver Mt. Zion's Horses in the Sky closes with "Ring Them Bells (Freedom Has Come and Gone)" (13:58).
• Silversun Pickups:
  • Carnavas closes with "Common Reactor" (6:01), which barely edges out the second longest track, the 6:00 "Rusted Wheel."
  • Better Nature ends with "The Wild Kind" (6:36).
• Six Organsof Admittance:
  • Compathia closes with "Only the Sun Knows" (11:25).
  • The Sun Awakens closes with "River of Transfiguration" (23:50).
• Skid Row:
  • Slave to the Grind closes with "Wasted Time," at 5:50.
  • Subhuman Race closes with "Iron Will" (7:43), although the song itself ends at 4:45 and is followed by two minutes of silence before a hidden track plays.
• Skinny Puppy:
  • The CD and certain cassette editions of Bites, excluding the Hidden Tracks "One Day" or "Cage", close with "The Centre Bullet"(9:42)
  • Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse(vinyl and cassette) closes with "Burnt With Water"(7:40).
  • Rabies(CD) closes with "Spahn Dirge"(16:22)
  • Last Rights closes with "Download"(11:01).
  • Mythmaker closes with "Ugli"(6:33).
  • hanDover closes with "Noisex"(7:15).
• Slipknot:
  • Iowa ends with the title track (15:03).
  • .5: The Gray Chapter closes with "If Rain Is What You Want" (6:20).
• Slowdive: Slowdive closes with "Falling Ashes" (8:01).
• Snog's Buy Me... I'll Change Your Life closes with "The End" (11:47).
• Sonata Arctica:
  • Ecliptica ends with "Destruction Preventer" (7:40).
  • Silence ends with "The Power of One" (10:43).
  • Stones Grow Her Name ends with "Wildfire, Part: III - Wildfire Town, Population; 0" (8:00).
  • Pariah's Child ends with "Larger than Life" (9:57).
• Sonic Youth:
  • Daydream Nation closes with "Trilogy" (14:02).
  • Washing Machine ends with "The Diamond Sea" (19:35).
• Soundgarden:
  • Superunknown closes with "Like Suicide" (7:01).
  • King Animal closes with "Rowing" (5:08).
• Space:
  • Spiders ends with "Growler" (4:48).
  • Tin Planet ends with "Fran in Japan" (7:13).
• Spirit:
  • Their self-titled debut ends with "Elijah" (10:42).
  • The Family That Plays Together ends with "Aren't You Glad" (5:25); no other song exceeds five minutes.
  • Feedback closes with "Witch" (5:25).
  • Spirit of '76 ends with their cover of "Like a Rolling Stone" by Bob Dylan, which lasts 8:54.
  • The Thirteenth Dream/Spirit of '84 ends with their 7:34 reimagining of "I Got a Line on You."
• Spiritualized: Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space closes with "Cop Shoot Cop..." (17:00).
• SpongeBob SquarePants: The Best Day Ever album closes with "Bikini Bottom/Rock Bottom" (4:40). For comparison, none of the other tracks go longer than four minutes.
• Status Quo:
  • Piledriver closes with a cover of "Roadhouse Blues" (7:26).
  • Hello! closes with "Forty Five Hundred Times" (9:50).
  • Quo closes with "Slow Train" (7:55).
  • Blue for You closes with the full version of "Mystery Song" (6:44).
  • Whatever You Want closes with "Breaking Away" (6:44).
  • In the Army Now closes with "Overdose" (5:25).
  • The full-length version of Rock 'Til You Drop ends with an even longer re-recorded version of "Forty Five Hundred Times" (12:56).
  • Heavy Traffic closes with "Rhythm of Life" (5:05).
  • The Party Ain't Over Yet closes with "This Is Me" (4:47)
• Steely Dan:
  • The Royal Scam closes with its title track (6:28).
  • Two Against Nature has "West of Hollywood" as its closer (8:21).
  • Everything Must Go also closes with its title track (6:45).
• Stereolab:
  • Peng! closes with "Surrealchemist" (7:13).
  • Margerine Eclipse ends with "Dear Marge" (6:56).
• Styx:
  • Equinox closes with "Suite Madame Blue," at 6:30.
  • Crystal Ball closes with the 7:09 medley "Clair de Lune/Ballerina."
  • Cornerstone ends with "Love in the Midnight" (5:25); no other tracks on the album cross the five-minute mark.
  • Big Bang Theory closes on "Blue Collar Man @ 2120" (6:30).
• Sufjan Stevens: The Age of Adz ends with "Impossible Soul" (25:34).
• The Stone Roses: The original UK version of The Stone Roses closes with "I Am The Resurrection" (8:12), while the original US version closes with "Fool's Gold" (9:53).
• Stone Temple Pilots:
  • Core closes with "Where the River Goes" (8:25).
  • Purple closes with "Kitchenware & Candybars" (8:06).
  • No. 4 closes with "Atlanta" (5:19).
  • Stone Temple Pilots (2010) closes with "Maver" (4:52).
  • Perdida closes with "Sunburst" (6:28).
• The Stooges: Raw Power ends with "Death Trip" (5:53 on the original album, 6:07 on the 1997 remix).
• Stratovarius:
  • Elysium ends with "Elysium" (18:07).
  • Eternal closes with "The Lost Saga" (11:39).
  • Survive closes with "Voice of Thunder" (11:10).
• Sunn O))):
  • The Grimrobe Demos closes with "Dylan Carlson" (21:32).
  • White2 closes with "Decay1 [The Symptoms of Kali Yuga]" (26:00).
  • Black One closes with "Báthory Erzébet" (15:59).
  • Altar (featuring Boris) closes with "Her Lips Were Wet With Venom (SatanOscillateMyMetallicSonatas)" (28:14). The CD and digital versions close with "Blood Swamp" (14:46).
  • Oracle closes with "Helio)))Sophist" (46:17).
  • Terrestials (featuring Ulver) closes with "Eternal return" (14:08).
  • Life Metal ends with "Novae" (25:24).
• Super Furry Animals:
  • Radiator closes with "Mountain People" (6:14).
  • Mwng closes with "Gweriddiau Dwfn / Mawrth Oer a y Blaned Neifion" (7:56).
  • Phantom Power closes with "Slow Life" (7:00).
  • Hey Venus! closes with "Let The Wolve shOwl at the Moon (4:41).
  • Dark Days / Light Years closes with "Pric (9:53).
• Sweet: Their 1976 album Give Us a Wink closes with "Healer", at 7:17.
• Symphony X:
  • Symphony X closes with "A Lesson Before Dying" (12:07)
  • V: The New Mythology Suite closes with "Rediscovery Pt.2: The New Mythology'' (12:01)
  • The Odyssey closes with The Odyssey (24:07)
  • Paradise Lost closes with Revelation (Divus Pennae ex Tragoedia) (9:17)
• System of a Down's Mezmerize closes with "Lost in Hollywood" (5:20).
• Talk Talk: The Colour of Spring ends with "Time It's Time" (8:14).
• Tame Impala: The Slow Rush ends with "One More Hour" (7:12).
• Steve Taylor:
  • Squint ends with "Cash Cow (A Rock Opera in Three Small Acts)" (5:38).
  • Goliath ends with "Comedian" (6:27).
• 天気予報
  • 雰囲気 closes with "差し迫った破滅「Termination」" (3:26).
  • 今日の気温 closes with "Final Broadcast of 1989年 (3:54).
  • 青空 closes with "Ōumi - (Extended Mix)" (7:12).
  • 地球 closes with "1997" (2:39).
  • ひまわり画像 closes with "Into The Abyss..." (10:42).
  • 天気ガイド closes with "Unknown Fate" (4:19).
• that dog.
  • that dog. closes with "This Boy" (5:13)
  • Totally Crushed Out! closes with "Rockstar" (7:37), which is also their longest song in general.
• They Might Be Giants:
  • I Like Fun closes with "Last Wave" (3:24).
  • The Escape Team closes with "The Poisonousness" (2:55).
• tool:
  • Undertow ends with "Disgustipated" (15:47).
  • Ænima closes with "Third Eye" (13:47).
  • The CD version of Fear Inoculum closes with "7empest" (15:43).
• Tocotronic
  • Schall und Wahn ends with "Gift" (8:29). (It's a close shave since the first song "Eure Liebe tötet mich" takes 8:05.)
• Tori Amos:
  • Under the Pink ends with "Yes, Anastasia" (9:33).
• Traffic's 1970 album John Barleycorn Must Die ends with "Every Mother's Son," which runs at 7:05. None of the other tracks on the album pass the six-minute mark.
• Tropical Fuck Storm:
  • A Laughing Death in Meatspace closes with "Rubber Bullies" (6:01).
  • Braindrops closes with "Maria 63" (7:50).
• The Tubes:
  • Their debut Self-Titled Album ends with the 6:49 "White Punks on Dope."
  • Now ends with "You're No Fun," which runs at 4:51; the second longest track is the opener, "Smoke (La Vie en Fumér)," which is only a second shorter at 4:50.
  • Remote Control closes with the 5:41 "Telecide."
• The Turtles:
  • It Ain't Me Babe ends with "Like a Rolling Stone" (3:10).
  • Happy Together ends with "Rugs of Woods and Flowers" (3:00). (Only just; the second-longest song is 2:59.)
  • The Turtles Present the Battle of the Bands ends with "Earth Anthem" (3:53)
• Tarja Turunen:
  • What Lies Beneath ends with "Crimson Deep" (7:35).
  • Colours In The Dark ends with "Medusa" (8:12).
• TWICE:
  • Twicetagram ends with "Jaljayo Good Night" (4:23)
  • Perfect World ends with "Promise" (4:19)
  • Celebrate ends with "Doughnut" (4:23)
• Underworld: "Oblivion With Bells" ends with "Best Mamgu Ever" (8:45).
• Van Morrison
  • His Band and the Street Choir closes with "Street Choir" (4:43).
  • A Period of Transition closes with "Cold Wind in August" (5:48).
  • Wavelength closes with "Take It Where You Find It" (8:40).
  • Beautiful Vision closes with "Scandinavia" (6:41), an Instrumental.
  • Back on Top closes with "Golden Autumn Day" (6:31).
  • You Win Again closes with "Boogie Chillen" (4:00).
  • Pay the Devil closes with "'Til I Gain Control Again" (5:59).
  • Keep it Simple closes with "Behind the Ritual" (5:59).
  • Three Chords & the Truth closes with "Days Gone By" (7:43).
  • Moving On Skiffle closes with "Green Rocky Road" (9:02).
• Vektor
  • Black Future closes with "Accelerating Universe" (13:31).
  • Terminal Redux closes with "Recharging the Void" (13:37).
• Velvet Underground:
  • The Velvet Underground & Nico closes with "European Son to Delmore Schwartz" (7:40).
  • White Light/White Heat closes with "Sister Ray" (17:28).
  • Loaded closes with "Oh! Sweet Nuthin'" (7:29).
  • Squeeze (often contested to be a Velvet Underground album) closes with "Louise" (5:43).
• Wakesleep
  • Automne-hiver closes with "exit level" (14:28).
  • Wakesleep + Datavis present BassTechCustom™ CORE GENESIS^note As "BassTechCustom™" closes with "Report from BassTechCustom™ NEXT GENESIS" (25:40).
  • jazz prisms and trance documents: Two long things from 2013 closes with "#SPF420 set" (32:50).
  • four year span closes with "To Anyone" (12:37).
• W.A.S.P. (Band):
  • Their rock opera The Crimson Idol ends with the 9:44 "The Great Misconceptions of Me."
  • Kill Fuck Die ends with "The Horror," at 8:26.
  • Unholy Terror closes with "Wasted White Boys," at 6:49.
  • Dying for the World closes with an acoustic version of "Hallowed Ground," running at 6:08.
  • The Neon God: Part 2 – The Demise ends with "The Last Redemption" at 13:39.
• Weezer:
  • The Blue Album closes with "Only In Dreams" (8:03).
  • The Green Album ends with "O Girlfriend" (3:49)
  • Make Believe concludes with "Haunt You Every Day" (4:39)
  • The Red Album finishes with "The Angel and the One" (6:46)
  • Everything Will Be Alright In the End closes with The Futurescope Trilogy which, while technically three distinct pieces, when counted as one runs at 7:32.
• The Who:
  • A Quick One concludes with the 9:10 "A Quick One, While He's Away."
  • The Who Sell Out closes with "Rael (1 and 2)" (5:44)
  • Who's Next closes with "Won't Get Fooled Again" (8:32).
  • Who Are You finishes off with the 6:21 Title Track.
• Wilco:
  • Yankee Hotel Foxtrot closes with "Reservations" (7:23).
  • The Whole Love closes with "One Sunday Morning (Song For Jane Smiley's Boyfriend)" (12:03).
• Calvin Wilkerson likes doing this:
  • 13 closes with "Marceline the Vampire Queen" (17:04), which occupies the entirety of Side B on the vinyl edition.
  • Together At Last ends with "The Recollection" (11:13).
  • It Spills Over ends with "Princess Bubblegum" (11:28).
• Xiu Xiu really seem to like this.
  • Knife Play ends with "Tonite and Today (What 'chu talkin' bout)" (5:23).
  • Fabulous Muscles ends with "Mike" (5:14).
  • The Green Corridor Series #02 ends with "Fortune Teller" (20:55).
  • Nina ends with "Flo Me La" (6:51).
  • Unclouded Sky ends with "Just As I Am" (8:19).
  • Xiu Xiu Plays the Music of Twin Peaks ends with "Josie's Theme" (7:50).
  • FORGET ends with "Faith, Torn Apart" (7:56).
• XTC:
  • Black Sea closes with "Travels in Nihilon" (6:56).
  • Apple Venus Volume 1 closes with "The Last Balloon" (6:40).
  • Wasp Star (Apple Venus Volume 2) closes with "The Wheel and the Maypole" (5:55).
  • Additionally, both of their Dukes of Stratosphear albums close with their longest tracks. 25 O'Clock closes with "The Mole From the Ministry" (5:50), while Psonic Psunspot closes with "Pale and Precious" (4:24).
• "Weird Al" Yankovic:
  • In 3-D ends with "Nature Trail To Hell" (5:50)
  • UHF ends with "The Biggest Ball Of Twine In Minnesota" (6:50)
  • Running With Scissors ends with "Albuquerque" (11:23)
  • Poodle Hat ends with "Genius In France" (8:58)
  • Alpocalypse ends with "Stop Forwarding That Crap To Me" (5:42)
  • Mandatory Fun ends with "Jackson Park Express" (9:05)
• Yes does this when they're not doing Longest Song Goes First:
  • Fragile ends with "Heart of the Sunrise" (10:34), which counts even before the Hidden Track is taken into account (which would push the track length to 11:16).
  • Going for the One ends with "Awaken" (15:38)
  • Tormato ends with "On The Silent Wings of Freedom" (7:45)
  • 90125 ends with "Hearts" (7:36)
  • Open Your Eyes ends with "The Source" (16:21)
  • Heaven & Earth ends with "Subway Walls" (9:02)
• Yo La Tengo:
  • And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out closes with "Night Falls Over Hoboken" (17:42).
  • I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass closes with "The Story Of Yo La Tango" (11:49).
• Thomas Zwijsen: Nylon Maiden ends with "The Talisman" (9:01).
• Machine Girl's "It Takes a Nation of Millennials to Destroy a Nation of Millions" barely qualifies at 5:29. "A Decent Man" from The Ugly Art blows it out of the water, clocking in at 10:25, more than twice as long as any other song on the album.

Longest song, then outro

• ABC: The Lexicon of Love ends with "4 Ever 2 Gether" (5:30) followed by instrumental outro "The Look of Love (Part Four)" (1:02)
• Acid Bath: Paegan Terrorism Tactics has "Dead Girl" (7:24) followed by the Hidden Track "The Beautiful Downgrade" (1:40).
• Arcade Fire:
  • ''The Suburbs" closes with "Sprawl II: Mountains Beyond Mountains" (5:25), preceding "The Suburbs (Continued)".
  • Everything Now closes with "We Don't Deserve Love" (6:28), preceding outro "Everything Now (Continued)", which loops back into the intro "Everything_Now (Continued)".
• The Avalanches' Since I Left You closes with "Live at Dominoes" (5:38), followed by "Extra Kings" (3:42).
• Between the Buried and Me's The Parallax II: Future Sequence closes with "Silent Flight Parliament" (15:09) followed by "Goodbye to Everything Reprise" (2:29).
• Blue October's Home has the penultimate track "Time Changes Everything" (7:54), followed by "The Still" (3:54).
• Blur: Parklife has "This Is A Low" (5:16) before outro "Lot 105" (1:19).
• BTS: Downplayed on the CD version of MAP OF THE SOUL : 7. "We Are Bulletproof: The Eternal" (4:22) is only very slightly longer than the second longest song ("Interlude: Shadow"), and "Outro: Ego" (3:16) is long enough to also be considered a full song.
• Gomez's debut Bring It On ends with "Rie's Wagon" (9:07), followed by "The Comeback" (0:44).
• Green Day:
  • American Idiot has its second nine-minute track "Homecoming" (9:18) precede "Whatsername" (4:17).
  • Revolution Radio's "Forever Now" (6:52) is followed by contrasting acoustic track "Ordinary World" (3:02).
• Helloween: Keeper of the Seven Keys pt. 1 ends with "Halloween" (13:18) preceding the closer outro "Follow The Sign".
• Information Society's Self-Titled Album ends with "Running"(7:41) followed by "Make It Funky"(1:11).
• Mae: The Everglow has "The Sun and the Moon" (7:16) before the "Epilogue".
• Jean-Michel Jarre's Équinoxe ends with the 7:18 "Equinoxe Part 7" followed by the 5-minute album outro track "Equinoxe Part 8".
• Jethro Tull: Minstrel In The Gallery closes with "Baker Street Muse" (16:39), followed by "Grace" (0:37).
• King Crimson: In the Wake of Poseidon closes with "The Devil's Triangle" (11:30), followed by "Peace — An End" (1:54).
• Klaatu: Magentalane ends with "Maybe I'll Move to Mars" (5:15), followed by the outro "Magentalane (...it feels so good)," which runs at 0:56.
• Macross Frontier's second album has this trope in play, having the "Nyan Nyan Service Medley" (7:29) (played during the climactic final battle) as the second to last song with a relatively brief instrumental piece serving as the outro.
• Mogwai's Come On Die Young closes with "Christmas Steps" (10:39), followed by "Punk Rock/Puff Daddy/ANʇICHRISʇ" (2:14).
• Muse's Drones closes with "The Globalist" (10:07), followed by the eponymous closing track (2:51).
• Nightwish: "Song of Myself" (13:37) precedes the closer outro, "Imaginaerum", on Imaginaerum.
• Ninja Sex Party:
  • NSFW has "Accept My Shaft" (4:15) before the "Outroduction".
  • Attitude City has "6969" (8:29) before "Outro (City)".
• Obscura:
  • Akróasis has "Weltseele" (15:12) preceding the outro "The Origin of Primal Expression".
  • Diluvium closes with "An Epilogue To Infinity" (6:16) and the outro "A Last Farewell".
• Soundgarden: Ultramega OK has "Incessant Mace" (6:27), followed by "One Minute of Silence", which is credited to John Lennon for being inspired by his and Yoko's "Two Minutes of Silence".
• Solar Fields' Random Friday, in its unmixed digital edition, closes with "Perception"(12:15) followed by the outro track "Polarity"(3:47). Averted on the gapless physical editions, where "Daydreaming"(10:42) is longer than "Perception"(10:35).
• Super Furry Animals: Rings Around The World has "Run, Christian, Run!" (7:20), followed by closer "Fragile Happiness" (2:35).
• Starbomb
  • Starbomb has "The Simple Plot of Final Fantasy 7" before the "Outro".
  • Player Select has "The Simple Plot of Metal Gear Solid" before the Outro too.
  • Averted with The Tryforce, where there are two songs left after "The Simple Plot of Kingdom Hearts".
• Unwound's Leaves Turn Inside You closes with "Below the Salt" (10:39), followed by "Who Cares" (2:41).
• Calvin Wilkerson:
  • The Album ends with "When I Go Up, I Come Down In Slow Motion" (15:15) followed by "Outro" (0:04).
  • While the normal CD/digital editions of The Day Is Done is not an example, the vinyl edition is: the 18:52 "Gumball Watterson" is followed by the skit "We Interrupt This Program" (0:15).
• TISM's Great Truckin' Songs Of The Renaissance has "Morrison Hostel" (7:48), followed by "Untitled" (1:08).
• Type O Negative's October Rust ends with "Haunted"(10:07)", followed by an untitled spoken-word outtro track(0:08).

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