The Punishment Of Luxury (studio album)
by OMD
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OMD bestography
The Punishment Of Luxury is ranked 10th best out of 19 albums by Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark is Architecture & Morality which is ranked number 1575 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,078.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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The Punishment Of Luxury track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
The Punishment Of Luxury rankings
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Missing Albums at BEA | 52/82 | - | |
| 2024 | Top 100 Music Albums of 2017 | 85/100 | 1 | |
| 2024 | Top 45 Music Albums of 2017 | 10/45 | 4 | |
| 2023 | cicadelic | Revista La Dosis: 150 discos favoritos de 2017 | 94/100 | - |
| 2022 | arnellarsen | Top 100 Music Albums of 2017 | 69/100 | 2 |
| 2022 | zowie | Top 20 Music Albums of 2017 | 9/20 | 3 |
| 2020 | asturias | Top 100 Music Albums of 2017 | 92/100 | 0 |
| 2019 | zowie | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2010s | 43/100 | 12 |
| 2019 | WayneMC | Rough Trade Albums of the Year 2017 | 51/100 | - |
| 2019 | Top 80 Music Albums of 2017 | 14/80 | 4 | |
| 2017 | Natnar | Top 7 Music Albums of 2017 | 7/7 | 1 |
| 2017 | Classic Pop | Best Albums 2017 | 6/10 | 3 |
| 2017 | Fopp | The Best Albums of 2017 | 49/100 | 3 |
| 2017 | God is in the TV | GIITTV's Top 50 Albums of 2017 | 16/50 | 4 |
| 2017 | Rough Trade | Albums Of The Year 2017 | 51/100 | 3 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 15 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 37 | |||
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The Punishment Of Luxury ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 04/23/2025 02:24 | 2,535 | 79/100 | |
| ! | 12/29/2023 17:41 | LosWochos | 46,624 | 75/100 |
| ! | 04/14/2022 20:16 | NebrotObarb | 267 | 81/100 |
| ! | 10/14/2019 09:58 | zowie | 945 | 82/100 |
| ! | 03/03/2019 16:29 | 227 | 61/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 71.1/100, a mean average of 70.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 70.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.1.
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Never a big OMD fan..have been listening to this over and over for days. Love it.
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