Down In The Weeds, Where The World Once Was
by Bright Eyes
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Bright Eyes bestography
Down In The Weeds, Where The World Once Was is ranked 6th best out of 17 albums by Bright Eyes on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Bright Eyes is I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning which is ranked number 427 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 3,920.
(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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Down In The Weeds, Where The World Once Was track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 75 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Down In The Weeds, Where The World Once Was rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 35 minutes ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  Rhyner | Top 23 Music Albums of the 2020s | 9/23 | 13 |
| 2026 |  dihansse | Top 100 Music Albums of 2020 | 55/100 | 2 |
| 2026 |  PanheadWarrior | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2020s | 73/100 | 6 |
| 2026 | Rhyner | Top 9 Music Albums of 2020 | 4/9 | 3 |
| 2026 | PapaShiz86 | Top 100 Music Albums of 2020 | 11/100 | 5 |
| 2026 | Johnnyo | Albums of the year 2020 by The Forty Five | 12/45 | - |
| 2026 |  imacgill | Top 100 Music Albums of 2020 | 67/100 | 2 |
| 2026 |  zags7000 | Top 100 Music Albums of 2020 | 80/100 | 1 |
| 2026 | Timooosterink | Top 85 Music Albums of the 2020s | 30/85 | 13 |
| 2026 |  Purplepash | Ranked listening log 2020 101-200 | 9/100 | - |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 85 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 260 | |||
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Down In The Weeds, Where The World Once Was ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 07/18/2026 13:41 |  DommeDamian | 7,745 | 48/100 |
| ! | 07/16/2026 14:35 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,630 | 70/100 |
| ! | 05/12/2026 13:22 | TonySayers61 | 25,605 | 64/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 72.6/100, a mean average of 72.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 72.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.1.
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Forum mentions
Rhyner 12/12/2025 18:29 in What album are you listening to? (cont.) Purplepash 10/18/2020 06:04 in What album are you listening to right now?
BestEverAlbums 08/21/2020 12:00 in Latest Releases (w\c 2020-08-17) (week 34, 2020)Down In The Weeds, Where The World Once Was comments
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I’m struggling to understand why this album was so poorly received, sure it’s no “I’m Wide Awake” and there a couple of duds in the track list but it’s still a very strong work. Songs like Dance and Sing, Mariana Trench, Pan and Broom, Persona Non Grata, Tilt-a-Whirl, and To Death's Heart rank as some of my favorite songs Bright Eyes has ever released. I think this album should rank similarly to LIFTED.
Nice weirdness to this. Elements of Dylan. Can't say I loved it but it held my attention.
Brad1770 10/22/2020 04:50 | #259557 | TOP COMMENT
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An album featuring Conor Oberst that is good and Phoebe Bridges doesn’t appear is something of a rarity these days but here it is
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