Side C has a similar sort of end to it with the track "July", though the ending of that song has no vocals, instead being purely instrumental, with the instrumental switching up and being a hell of a lot faster at the end until the guitars start to get more and more mistimed and fucked up with more and more feedback until it's hardly doing shit by the end, making for one of the coolest sounding moments on the album.
Anyways, the last song of side B here is "Dolorosa", which is for the most part one of the slower tracks until an explosive finish where the singer is just screaming his heart out in probably one of the most passionate and memorable moments on the album. I'm gonna count this because the last song of side B or C on a double LP fits what you're talking about just as much as side A. Mineral - Dolorosa - actually not a side A song, it's side B, but this record is a double LP (even 45 RPM, incredibly weird choice but gave them better options for track order). With later CD releases, this restriction was removed and the track was placed at the end of the album. He wanted to have "In Your Eyes" as the final track, but its prominent bassline meant it had to be placed earlier on the vinyl edition as there is more room for the stylus to vibrate. This was a problem for Peter Gabriel’s album So and he was unhappy with the vinyl track order due to this engineering problem until the last track was put in his preferred order on the CD releases. Many digital releases do not have to deal with this limitation. Softer quieter tracks are put on the inner grooves. Generally loud, dynamic, bass-heavy tracks are arranged on the outer grooves where they have room to spread out. The last track of side A will always sound worse than the first track of side B or A due to inner groove distortion and decreasing linear velocity trying to cram more music into tighter and tighter grooves. It’s a consequence of the limitations of vinyl.
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