Down On The Upside (studio album)
by Soundgarden
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Down On The Upside is ranked 3rd best out of 13 albums by Soundgarden on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Soundgarden is Superunknown which is ranked number 177 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 8,553.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 80 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 10/18/2025 12:29 | BorderFreeAndrew | 14,382 | 74/100 |
| ! | 10/12/2025 20:39 |  Superunknown | 281 | 70/100 |
| ! | 09/01/2025 22:48 |  ExTeaSea | 5,069 | 82/100 |
| ! | 08/27/2025 17:09 |  SomethingSpecial | 1,729 | 82/100 |
| ! | 07/10/2025 11:36 |  Milhaud | 1,604 | 69/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 7% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.3/100, a mean average of 74.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.7.
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teague 12/19/2020 18:24 | #262941
A bit bloated, but still great. Lots of fantastic cuts on this one, Pretty Noose, Zero Chance, Blow Up the Outside World, Ty Cobb, Burden in My Hand, Applebite, Overfloater.
llibnanoon 09/17/2020 19:03 | #258330
More Up on the Downside for me. Rating (75.94)
Brandon8 03/11/2020 02:49 | #248645
This album had the difficult task of following up Superunknown and got a bad wrap for not being as good. Taken on its own merits this is great. Often dismissed as more of the same if anything the band continued to experiment with different sounds. With perspective on their career people should dust this one off.
For me, I listened to this albums 100s of times. I absolutely love it. Blow Up The Outside World was overplayed on the radio so it's really the only song I skip. Disclaimer, I was a huge Soundgarden fan. One of the biggest regrets in my life was not being able to see them live.
adnielsen 02/14/2019 00:28 | #231896
A lot of great songs on this album but it's a little long
Probably too long, but there are still brilliant songs like Pretty Noose, Ty Cobb and Blow Up the Outside World. A couple of less inspired tracks contribute to build the gap with Badmotorfinger and Superunknown.
AAL2014 02/28/2016 17:55 | #160965
Some very good songs on DotU is *far* too long. By the middle of this record I am normally put into a state of sadness because of the drab production and depressing songs. I enjoy tracks like Burden in my Hand, Blow Up the Outside World, Pretty Noose, and Ty Cobb on their own, but I can't sit through this album as a whole. It's honestly a daunting task.
This is the worst Soundgarden record.
choppychop532 05/10/2015 18:07 | #141254
The first seven songs, plus "Tighter & Tighter" and "Switch Opens" are overall amazing, while the rest are average.
The top 3 here are "Pretty Noose", "Blow Up The Outside World", and "Burden In My Hand".
poppmusic 01/21/2015 22:21 | #132157
What happened? The secon half of the album is just a WTF. The first half has its moments, but even those feel not only too polished, but creatively spent. Take "Burden in My Hand", for instance. It starts out well, but then just gets boring and repetitive- like, the bridge? Overall pretty disappointing.
Nevertheless, two standouts: "Rhinosaur" and "Ty Cobb"
there are some amazing tracks. the thing is, is that there are SIXTEEN of them. you can't have a perfect album like "superunknown" when you have a few mediocre tracks bringing down what could have been soundgarden's masterpiece
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