Down On The Upside
by Soundgarden
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Down On The Upside is ranked 3rd best out of 14 albums by Soundgarden on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Soundgarden is Superunknown which is ranked number 166 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 8,488.
(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 On The Upside track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 80 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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Down On The Upside rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 1 hour ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | xhitmanx | Top 43 Music Albums of 1996 | 28/43 | 2 |
| 2026 |  paladisiac | top 65r albums (64), #0501-0600 | 72/100 | - |
| 2026 | bonnequestion | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s | 63/100 | 8 |
| 2026 | juanr1096 | Top 66 Music Albums of 1996 | 55/66 | 1 |
| 2026 | adbrack1988 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s | 72/100 | 6 |
| 2026 |  junodog4 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s | 84/100 | 3 |
| 2026 |  pedro1976 | Top 25 Music Albums of 1996 | 13/25 | 3 |
| 2026 |  videoheadcleaner | Top 80 Music Albums of 1996 | 18/80 | 4 |
| 2026 | JoshN125 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s | 46/100 | 11 |
| 2026 | Johnnyo | Top 100 Music Albums of 1996 | 51/100 | 3 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 186 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 859 | |||
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Down On The Upside ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 05/27/2026 03:27 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,654 | 70/100 |
| ! | 05/10/2026 12:08 | Adhura | 1,727 | 77/100 |
| ! | 04/04/2026 13:10 |  AAL2014 | 4,281 | 75/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 6% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.5/100, a mean average of 74.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.6.
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Forum mentions
pedro1976 08/04/2026 13:21 in What album are you listening to? (cont.) pedro1976 08/02/2026 17:32 in What album are you listening to? (cont.)
BestEverAlbums 07/09/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5368): By pago82Down On The Upside comments
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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) (Edited)
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
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