Louder Than Love
by Soundgarden
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Soundgarden bestography
Louder Than Love is ranked 4th 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 8,512.
(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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Louder Than Love track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 79 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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Louder Than Love rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 4 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  AAL2014 | Top 51 Music Albums of 1989 | 22/51 | 3 |
| 2026 | stevengnz | Top 100 Music Albums of 1989 | 37/100 | 3 |
| 2026 | Siromynian | Top 23 Music Albums of 1989 | 14/23 | 2 |
| 2026 | LittleM1971 | Top 89 Music Albums of 1989 | 81/89 | 1 |
| 2026 | Exist-en-ciel | Top 100 Music Albums of 1989 | 95/100 | 0 |
| 2026 |  ExTeaSea | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s | 81/100 | 4 |
| 2026 | ExTeaSea | Top 69 Music Albums of 1989 | 6/69 | 5 |
| 2026 | mrfloosak | Top 73 Music Albums of 1989 | 8/73 | 5 |
| 2026 | saltysurprise | Top 67 Music Albums of 1989 | 31/67 | 3 |
| 2026 |  serpico | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s | 89/100 | 2 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 119 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 431 | |||
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Louder Than Love ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 08/20/2026 23:19 | matterhornrider | 5,152 | 81/100 |
| ! | 08/16/2026 11:02 | markl73 | 631 | 78/100 |
| ! | 07/30/2026 00:11 | xhitmanx | 1,573 | 75/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 72.1/100, a mean average of 71.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 72.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.0.
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Forum mentions
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They might have refined their sound to greater appeal, but this is Soundgarden at it rawest and intense. Kims guitar is sludgey and gritty, like sabbath taken downers . I love Badmotorfinger but its here that the band are unleashed from a cage. The beginning of greatness
Top 3 Tracks
Hands All Over
Gun
No wrong No right (Edited)
Brandon8 03/11/2020 02:28 | #248643 | TOP COMMENT
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Powerful and influential album which led to their more well known material. Fav tracks are Hands All Over, Gun, Loud Love & Big Dumb Sex. This was at the forefront of the Seattle scene.
Fischman 12/08/2018 04:13 | #226486
Pretty much still a noisy mess possessing little of the compositional skill and musical expressiveness the group would develop later. (Edited)
I know I will be in the minority, but I feel like if you took off Big Dumb Sex, Gun, and the two versions of Full On Kevin's Mom, all the rest is pretty good.
Standout tracks: Ugly Truth, Hands all over, Power Trip, Get on the snake
It's more or less on the same level of Ultramega OK, a good album with a couple of great songs and many more ok songs. Highlights: Hands All Over, Gun and Big Dumb Sex
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