[dvh]

Alphaville's second album Afternoons in Utopia starts with quiet muffled word "night", then followed by few seconds of silence and then first song called IAO starts. The last song on that album is about Lady Bright:

    There was a young lady named Bright
    Who's speed was much faster, much faster than light
    She departed one day
    In a relative way
    And returned on the previous...

[criddell]

The first words on Pink Floyd’s The Wall are “… we came in?”. The last words on the album are “Isn’t this where …”.

[elpocko]

Dream Theater has a string of 4 albums (over 6 years) in which each album starts with the soundscape from the end of the previous album. The last album in the cycle, Octavarium, musically and thematically finishes in a loop, connecting the end of the last song to the beginning of the first.

[hinkley]

If memory serves, I believe record players that could flip the records were contemporary to the release of The Wall. My parents didn’t have a flipper but they had a player that could play a stack of records and The Wall was the first or second LP try bought to play on it.

That definitely works on an auto reversing tape deck, which it looks like existed for fifteen years prior.

[mikestew]

Sharp made an auto-reversing turntable, it played both sides, front-loaded like a CD player. I have never seen one, despite being an old guy who is of that era. There were but a handful of turntables that could do this, so that’s a lot of production effort for a joke but a few were equipped to get.

There were a lot of eight tracks during that time, though, so sibling comment is more likely correct.

[kevin_thibedeau]

It is more likely a gimmick for the 8-track release.

[bongodongobob]

The Wall is a double album though.