Orblivion
by The Orb

Orblivion by The Orb
Year: 1997
Overall rank: 5,256th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
73/100 (from 44 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1997 (81st)
Award Top albums of the 1990s (862nd)
Award Best albums of all time (5,256th)

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The Orb bestography

Orblivion is ranked 3rd best out of 34 albums by The Orb on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by The Orb is The Orb's Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld which is ranked number 2342 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 683.

The Orb album bestography « Higher ranked (3,703rd)
U.F.Orb
This album (5,256th)
Orblivion
Lower ranked (6,327th) »
Orbus Terrarum

(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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Orblivion rankings

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Overall rank: 5,256th | 1990s rank: 862nd | 1997 rank: 81st

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Average Rating: 
73/100 (from 44 votes)
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10/04/2025 03:53 Proto  Ratings distribution  4,10933/100
 
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09/07/2024 01:46 Simon_bramhall  Ratings distribution  1,37977/100
 
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04/11/2023 12:48 MW19704U  Ratings distribution  6,99059/100
 
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03/12/2023 23:14 Lamplighter  Ratings distribution  1,02659/100
 
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03/11/2023 22:26 Igtonumama  Ratings distribution  10,79163/100

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This album is rated in the top 25% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.4/100, a mean average of 72.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 73.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 17.6.

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60/100
From 01/21/2020 19:45 | #247056
They start off so good with 'Delta MK II', but they then quickly fall back to the most common mistakes for semi-ambient artists, which is making a undynamic and irritatingly catchy-yet-not-catchy-enough whole.

Edit: Okay, it is very ironic that the comment right under mine talks about how dynamic it is, so my statement claiming the exact opposite is not so obvious apparently. I'd say listen to Orbital's Snivilization, The Chemical Brothers' Dig Your Own Hole and Aphex Twin's Richard D. James Album (okay the last two are clearly a different genre, but still), and then decide whether this is dynamic. Sure, it is not as bad as Pomme Fritz, but I wouldn't call this dynamic.
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85/100
From 07/07/2018 19:49 | #217885
What I'm most impressed with on this is that many electronic albums have a repetitive base upon which they build... I never felt that way with this - the dynamics and unique beats/samples, etc. were seemingly so effortlessly mixed together, yet were masterful.
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From 05/25/2016 10:03 | #166812
The Orb is back on form with this service sector symphony.
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65/100
From 09/17/2014 21:53 | #122138
So massively underrated. My favorite Orb album. Funky, psychedelic, trippy, ambient, catchy, humorous, intriguing... this deserves reconsideration.
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