Odyssey Number Five
by Powderfinger
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Odyssey Number Five is ranked as the best album by Powderfinger.
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Odyssey Number Five track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 06/28/2026 08:11 | Timooosterink | 885 | 71/100 |
| ! | 06/22/2026 16:48 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,101 | 70/100 |
| ! | 06/13/2026 21:28 |  sssvnnn | 8,415 | 67/100 |
| ! | 02/28/2026 01:28 | DaveH68 | 1,363 | 76/100 |
| ! | 07/23/2025 02:09 | mrmcrook | 1,104 | 77/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 3% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 77.5/100, a mean average of 75.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 78.2/100. The standard deviation for this album is 17.2.
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I would deem this their magnum opus. So many of their best songs on this. No weak spots. Truly great record. Fucking gold
Found Powderfinger bit boring their first few albums. Odyssey 5 Is certainly one of the best albums I’ve ever heard . Classic in Australian culture
indieshins 07/23/2022 00:12 | #287743 | TOP COMMENT
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This is highly un-Australian of me, but I listened to this album yesterday and was pretty unimpressed. It's fine, I guess, but nothing I haven't heard before from countless alt-rock bands. The songs are well-written, but again, there's nothing much that's unique about them either in composition, arrangement or production. My Happiness is a great pop song, though, I'll give them that much.
TerryTezza 06/20/2019 00:52 | #237908 | TOP COMMENT
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This is the perfect album from start to finish and the connection of the first and last song is very clever and brilliant musically. Every song is great but My Happiness is their gem along with Like A Dog, My Kind Of Scene and These Days. The album was voted best Australian album of all time on the Australian alternative channel Triple J and is thoroughly deserved. Do yourself a favour and listen to this great album of clever rock n roll
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