What Went Down (studio album)
by Foals
Foals bestography
What Went Down is ranked 4th best out of 8 albums by Foals on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Foals is Total Life Forever which is ranked number 1281 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,336.
(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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What Went Down 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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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 12/10/2025 19:58 | araidernomore | 411 | 76/100 |
| ! | 09/12/2025 15:05 | RemainInLight | 3,152 | 36/100 |
| ! | 08/11/2025 09:22 |  nextorgd | 1,127 | 84/100 |
| ! | 07/17/2025 02:43 | rfowler | 443 | 85/100 |
| ! | 07/01/2025 21:43 |  Igtonumama | 10,790 | 63/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 5% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 76.1/100, a mean average of 75.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.5.
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Brad1770 05/01/2022 09:48 | #284836
Fourth times a charm for Foals with their excellent breakthrough release ‘What Went Down’. Foals have forged one of the better discographies in recent times yet this album remains their best work which says plenty for the quality on offer here
Another top quality album from this awesome band. It continues on with the heavier sound of their previous release, Holy Fire, but still has some quieter more mellow tracks like its predecessors. My highlights are Snake Oil, Birch Tree and Night Swimmers. London Thunder, Give It All and Albatross are quite forgettable and drag the grade down but the rest of the tracks are excellent.
Definitely my least favorite Foals album. A lot of the songs on here are just completely forgettable which isn't the norm for them. Hopefully their next effort is not further along this path.
This is one of those albums, I really don't know much about despite listening to it. All I recall is that it is quite good. I think I better go and give this another listen.
Best Tracks: Mountain At My Gates, Birch Tree
The warm atmosphere is really lush. And just to add, the closing track is incredible
Davy 12/20/2015 10:53 | #154825
Year chart: 9
This is a really great album. The title track is the best starting to any album this year imo. Such a heavy start, but there are some real nice mellow tracks on here as well - a perfect balance. Foals keeps impressing
awesomness425 09/23/2015 22:01 | #150315
Never fully listened to a Foals album, but greatly surprised off this record..its a fun listen..i got to love it..its just exactly my type of music.
Totally immersed in this album at the moment. Beautiful!
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