Top 5 Albums Where the Last Track Is the Best One

For records that save their knockout punch for the very end, and reward everyone who didn't hit shuffle.

1. 1

   A Day in the Life — The Beatles

   Sgt. Pepper's is a party for 38 minutes, then this orchestral freefall and that endless final piano chord make the rest of the album feel like an opening act.

2. 2

   Purple Rain — Prince and the Revolution

   Nearly nine minutes of guitar solo and falsetto that turns a great pop album into a church service you never want to end.

3. 3

   Desolation Row — Bob Dylan

   Highway 61 Revisited goes electric, then closes with eleven acoustic minutes so packed with strange characters you'd swear it was a novel.

4. 4

   Rock 'n' Roll Suicide — David Bowie

   Ziggy Stardust ends on a slow-building collapse, and when Bowie yells 'you're not alone' it feels aimed right at you in the back row.

5. 5

   Videotape — Radiohead

   In Rainbows closes with a piano line and an off-kilter beat that sounds like someone saying goodbye very calmly, which is somehow worse.