Down To Earth
by Rainbow

Album
Down To Earth by Rainbow
Year: 1979
Release date: 1979-08-03
Overall rank: 7,027th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 86 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1979 (107th)
Award Top albums of of the 1970s (1,053rd)
Award Best albums of all time (7,027th)

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Rainbow bestography

Down To Earth is ranked 5th best out of 18 albums by Rainbow on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Rainbow is Rising which is ranked number 677 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 2,531.

Rainbow album bestography « Higher ranked (7,005th)
On Stage This album (7,027th)
Down To Earth Lower ranked (9,554th) »
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Down To Earth rankings

Down To Earth rankings summary
Overall rank: 7,027th | 1970s rank: 1,053rd | 1979 rank: 107th  Overall chart history
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Down To Earth ratings

Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 86 votes)
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 !		01/20/2026 19:04 Exist-en-ciel  Ratings distribution  15,71370/100
 
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 !		01/13/2026 19:54 iann97  Ratings distribution  2,20674/100
 
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 !		12/29/2025 15:00 cicadelic  Ratings distribution  14,04673/100

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This album is rated in the top 22% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.6/100, a mean average of 71.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 73.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.3.


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Down To Earth forum mentions

This album has been referenced 7 times on the forums, Explore the wider forum discussion to see what members have said about it.
From Repo 05/01/2023 21:01 in What album are you listening to right now?
“What album are you listening to right now?”
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From dihansse 04/14/2021 19:55 in My discoveries per year
“1979: An album I already own: It's time to promote this classic to a higher rank as it's now only at the 25th rank of the year: I'm ashamed. The first three tracks here are absolute killers with Frederick, Dancing Barefoot and the great cover of (So You Want To Be) A Rock'n Roll Star and these are…”
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From Repo 03/26/2021 15:24 in Rank 'Em: The Beach Boys
“Right on for UFO and I should maybe check out some of the stuff Ian Gillan did with his band because I'm not really familiar with it; but I would be surprised if it would beat the best work of Rainbow which I really like as you might know :lol: It doesn't! Not the Dio years! Rainbow's Rising and…”
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From 07/04/2016 21:03 | #170549 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
'Eyes of the World' the best track here, other than the hits the rest being fairly average. (Edited)
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80/100
From 11/28/2023 15:17 | #300182 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Quite underrated here and in general. Solid album with some good bangers (Edited)
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95/100
From 04/20/2023 15:02 | #296240 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
1st and this album are best of Rainbow career???
All this album is very good thing.
One of the best albums of 79’ with Pink Floyd, Joy Division, The Cure ??
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From 07/10/2020 15:08 | #255365 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Pretty good! Rating (73.75)
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