Albums with weird choices for last song

[Wizard of Wailing]

    I realize with the advent of the internet, people (including myself) probably don't listen to albums start-to-finish as much as they used to.  Some people don't care what order the songs come in, but it's something I think about, especially the last song.  Imagine if The Beatles put "Lovely Rita" and the end of Sgt. Pepper instead of "A Day in the Life".  The whole album would seem a bit off.  There's two albums I think of right away that have weird choices for the last song. 
      The Pixies Trompe Le Monde ends with the short unremarkable song "The Navajo Know" after the 4:44 long (epic by Pixies' standards) "Motorway to Rosewell" which would've made a great closer. 
      The other one is Daydream Nation by Sonic Youth.  The second section of "Trilogy" is the dark and spooky "Hyperstation" .  Then comes "Eliminator Jr." which is kind of a strange song, even for Sonic Youth.  It doesn't sound like anything else on the album and just seems off.  Anybody else got any that come to mind ?
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[zebra]

Red Hot Chili Peppers: Blood Sugar Sex Magik ends with a goofy version of Robert Johnson's "They're Red Hot," when it could have ended with that beautiful outro from Sir Psycho Sexy. 

On the opposite end of the spectrum, I've always like the way Pearl Jam ends their albums.  They seem to do that well.

 

[bagman67]

Well, while they got it right with "A Day In The LIfe" on Sgt. Pepper, "Her Majesty" at the end of Abbey Road is a head scratcher.  But then, they were at each other's throats by then and were taking turns in the studio with George Martin and avoiding each other just to get the thing across the finish line.  Even so.  It's like a song from a different record entirely.

 

[Wizard of Wailing]

  I'm just about the world's biggest Beatles fan (inside of my vinyl copy of Abbey Road I've got a picture of my dad and I crossing that road), yet almost every time I listen to that album, I shut it off after the closing note of "The End".

 

[amigarobbo]

The Killing Joke/Pigface spin off Murder Inc album ending the album of 'Industrial goth rock'  :doh: with this 'cheery' sing-a-song,

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[fdesalvo]

Another awesome thread, Wiz.  I just went into flashback mode and put a heap of my old 80's rock/metal albums on my iPhone.  I've been listening from front-back as in the old days.  Only way to go!  Shuffle is from the Devil.

 

[Cagey]

Shuffle is from the Devil.

I've always thought so, too. At the same time, with rare exceptions such as The Who's "Tommy", Rush's "2112" or Pink Floyd's "The Wall", I've not generally noticed any rhyme or reason to song order on albums. I just learned what to expect next as albums and especially tapes have always lent themselves to serial playback. For example, if you were listening to Led Zeppelin's "Dancing Days" and it wasn't followed by "D'yer Mak'er", you were clearly listening to an unenlightened radio station.

 

[BigSteve22]

Aside from the Beatles, "Her Majesty", one of my favorites is the last cut on Bad Religion's album The Process of Belief: a good old gospel version of "I saw the Light".  :headbang: