Basic Trope: The last song in an album is also its longest.
- Straight: Alice records an album titled Big Bad. Each track ranges from three to six minutes, except the final track, Starscream (8:52).
- Exaggerated: Big Bad has tracks between two and three minutes, but the last track is over seventeen minutes long.
- Downplayed: Starscream is the longest track, but only by about thirty seconds.
- Justified: Big Bad is a concept album, ending on a long, climactic piece about a power struggle and its aftermath.
- Inverted:
- Longest Song Goes First.
- The shortest song goes last.
- Subverted: Starscream is the longest song on the album. However, it is followed by a short hidden track.
- Double Subverted: ...which itself is followed by a hidden track even longer than Starscream.
- Parodied:
- Big Bad has two songs: a two minute first track and a thirty-eight minute finale.
- Starscream has deliberately obvious Padding to squeak past the length of the next longest track.
- Zig Zagged: The last track is in a three way tie for longest on the album.
- Averted: The last song on the album is not the longest.
- Enforced:
- Alice's record label is worried the length of Starscream will alienate new fans, and puts it at the end to ensure the audience listens to everything else first.
- Alice loves Starscream in its full-length glory, and chooses to end the album on a high note.
- Lampshaded: Big Bad's final track is called The Long One.
- Invoked: A character in the album's story knows they die at the end of the album, so they stall as long as possible in the last song.
- Defied: Alice interludes before the last track, "that song was pretty long, let's end on a quick one."
- Discussed: In the album sleeve, Alice explains how she came up with an order for the already completed tracks.
- Conversed: Bob and Charlie try to remember which of Alice's albums end on their longest track.
What's this trope's last song, you may ask? The Main Page, of course!
