Down In The Weeds, Where The World Once Was
by Bright Eyes

Down In The Weeds, Where The World Once Was by Bright Eyes
Year: 2020
Release date: 2020-08-21
Overall rank: 5,949th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
73/100 (from 83 votes)
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Award Top albums of the 2020s (390th)
Award Best albums of all time (5,949th)

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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 411 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 4,062.

Bright Eyes album bestography « Higher ranked (4,757th)
Fevers And Mirrors
This album (5,949th)
Down In The Weeds, Where The World Once Was
Lower ranked (7,689th) »
The People's Key

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Down In The Weeds, Where The World Once Was track list

  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Overall rank: 5,949th | 2020s rank: 390th | 2020 rank: 80th
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2026 HelsinkiSnorkelTop 100 Music Albums of the 2020s2/10012
2026 PanheadWarriorTop 100 Music Albums of the 2020s70/1004
2026 imacgillTop 100 Music Albums of 202067/1002
2026 paladisiac2020s, 65rating (64), #001-100*50/77 -
2026LittleM1971Top 100 Music Albums of 202060/1002
2026Drbassexpert24Top 92 Music Albums of the 2020s83/921
2026mutantTop 49 Music Albums of the 2020s30/495
2026 dihansseTop 100 Music Albums of 202054/1002
2026 RhynerTop 18 Music Albums of the 2020s8/188
2026JohnnyoAlbums of the year 2020 by The Forty Five12/45 -
2026 ExTeaSeaTop 100 Music Albums of 202047/1003
2026 zags7000Top 100 Music Albums of 202080/1001
2025 MilhaudTop 22 Music Albums of 202018/221
2025TimooosterinkTop 80 Music Albums of the 2020s30/809
2025 paladisiactop 65r albums (64), #0301-0400*64/97 -
2025 sssvnnnTop 70 Music Albums of the 2020s52/704
2025BardiebartTop 69 Music Albums of 202057/691
2025 sssvnnnTop 60 Music Albums of 202010/604
2025ToffueyTop 75 Music Albums of the 2020s23/759
2025 DommeDamian2020 outliers22/100 -
Total Charts: Help The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. 85
Total Rank Score: Help The total rank score. 223
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Average Rating: 
73/100 (from 83 votes)
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02/26/2026 16:46 mattkwyatt  Ratings distribution  7285/100
 
70/100
 
02/20/2026 15:23 PanheadWarrior  Ratings distribution  1,63372/100
 
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07/20/2025 08:37 Milhaud  Ratings distribution  1,89970/100
 
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06/25/2025 01:29 imacgill  Ratings distribution  2,66879/100
 
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05/24/2025 18:20 DommeDamian  Ratings distribution  7,33349/100

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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 72.9/100, a mean average of 72.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 73.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 11.9.

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From 06/10/2022 19:12 | #286208
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.
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From 10/22/2020 09:56 | #259563
Nice weirdness to this. Elements of Dylan. Can't say I loved it but it held my attention.
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From 10/22/2020 04:50 | #259557
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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