Ironic ending to the album...

It is ironic because the final listed track is The End but it wasn't.

 

On Long Road Out of Eden, the last studio album by the Eagles, the final track is “It’s Your World Now” co-written by Glenn Frey and Jack Tempchin.

The last verse goes like this:

It's your world now
Use well the time
Be part of something good
Leave something good behind
The curtain falls
I take my bow
That's how it's meant to be
It's your world now
It's your world now
It's your world now

 

The last word of Tomorrow Never Knows which is the last song on Revolver is, "Beginning."

 

And it was also played as the last song in Roxy Music - Live At The Apollo 2001, with the "ta-ra" going on and on as the band left the stage one by one.
That concert is utter perfection.

 

The Beach Boys end their vey chill, relaxed Friends album with this song:

 

The last B-52's song on their last album Funplex is called "Keep This Party Going". At the time this might have paved the way for more albums, but they stopped making albums due to the expense of Funplex and Keith's retirement. Of course they're still touring, though rarely play any Funplex songs anymore anyway.

 

The last song on the Beach Boys’ “Sunflower” album is “Cool, Cool Water”—an amazing ode to H2o, which contains the repeated phrase “Get yourself in some cool, cool water now.” That ending became retroactively ironic when they started their next album (“Surf’s Up”) with the song “Don’t Go Near the Water.” Ironic in the sense of being paradoxical anyway. Or maybe it’s just typical Mike Love, harshing Brian’s mellow.

 

Is it irony or just plain dumb that Rubber Soul, suffused with love songs, ends with Run For Your Life?

I think dumb.

 

Also ironic that they made such a cacophonous song about the inner peace seeking art of TM. Sticking with the Beach Boys theme, I submit the irony of ending “Wild Honey” with a gentle reminder to do what “Mama Says” after starting the album with a feisty song (“Wild Honey”) that admonishes “Mama” not to bug him about his wild new girlfriend. I guess Brian, like Walt Whitman, is large and contains multitudes.

 

You put the wrong side on first! ...actually I've Had Enough is end of side one and album ends with Moorse Moose and the Grey Goose (probably spelled it wrong sorry)

 

Not really ironic but it always bothered me that Exile On Main St. ended with Soul Survivor instead of the next to last track Shine A Light, which is would have been perfect closing theme.

 

I dig the discordant jazz

 

Ultra ironic finale to Annie Lennox's Diva:

 

This isn't exactly ironic, but I think it still fits the general idea of the thread: Black Sabbath's Sabotage ending with "Blow On a Jug." 43 minutes of musically and lyrically intense hard rock and heavy metal is ended by a stupid little snippet of a joke song.

 

I've always loved the "two-fer" CD of Sunflower and Surf's Up for this very reason...

 

The final song of Billy Joel's first solo album, Cold Spring Harbor, is "Got to Begin Again."

After the well-documented mess of that album, that's exactly what he did.

 

The last track on Weasels Ripped My Flesh

 

2 Years On - Bee Gees

 

Possibly the best folk-rock album of its decade, Michelle Shocked's SHORT SHARP SHOCKED ends with a jarring punk cut, "Black Widow."

 

Lou Reed's Transformer ending with the hilarious Goodnight Ladies

 

‘Hard Times Are Over’ being the last song on Double Fantasy strikes me as tragic irony.

 

"The Show Must Go On", is the last last song on the last proper studio album from Queen, Innuendo, with Freddie....

 

Badfinger's asking "Are we timeless?" on Ass as they left Apple and faded off the charts...