Good For Your Soul (studio album)
by Oingo Boingo

Good For Your Soul by Oingo Boingo
Year: 1983
Overall rank: 8,567th   
Average Rating: 
76/100 (from 44 votes)
     
Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1983 (112th)
Award Top albums of the 1980s (1,242nd)
Award Best albums of all time (8,567th)

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Oingo Boingo bestography

Good For Your Soul is ranked 3rd best out of 14 albums by Oingo Boingo on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Oingo Boingo is Dead Man's Party which is ranked number 5570 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 241.

Oingo Boingo album bestography « Higher ranked (5,958th)
Only A Lad
This album (8,567th)
Good For Your Soul
Lower ranked (13,817th) »
Nothing To Fear

(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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Good For Your Soul track list

   The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Good For Your Soul rankings

Rankings summary
Overall rank: 8,567th | 1980s rank: 1,242nd | 1983 rank: 112th

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Good For Your Soul ratings

Average Rating: 
76/100 (from 44 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 5% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 76.1/100, a mean average of 75.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.1.

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85/100
From 10/17/2021 04:37 | #275108
Great compositions, funny & poignant lyrics. Underappreciated album by a band whose leader is clearly a genius.
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From 05/01/2019 19:01 | #235717
Very underrated album, and the best work of Oingo Boingo.
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From 03/09/2019 15:25 | #233299
Favourite track: "Good For Your Soul"
Least-liked track: "Little Guns"
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2. Violent Femmes by Violent Femmes
3. Power, Corruption & Lies by New Order
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