Youth Is Only Fun In Retrospect
by Sundara Karma
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Youth Is Only Fun In Retrospect is ranked as the best album by Sundara Karma.
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Youth Is Only Fun In Retrospect track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 72 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Youth Is Only Fun In Retrospect rankings
(Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). (Last updated: 3 hours ago).
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | sunnydhamm | Top 46 Music Albums of 2017 | 8/46 | 4 |
| 2026 | sunnydhamm | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2010s | 94/100 | 1 |
| 2024 |  lleon79 | Top 49 Music Albums of 2017 | 48/49 | 0 |
| 2022 |  xMUSICSNOBx | Top 77 Music Albums of 2017 | 73/77 | 0 |
| 2020 | mlgprounicorn | 2017 101-200 | 59/100 | - |
| 2019 | liamorno | Top 10 Greatest Music Albums | 9/10 | 6 |
| 2017 | Dork | Favourite Fifty Albums of 2017 | 15/50 | 4 |
| 2017 | Redsus | Top 3 Greatest Music Albums | 3/3 | - |
| 2017 | sebastianpinzon | Top 22 Greatest Music Albums | 18/22 | - |
| 2017 | AranD | Top 23 Music Albums of 2017 | 18/23 | 1 |
| 2017 | camsh | Top 31 Music Albums of 2017 | 22/31 | 2 |
| 2017 | Gigwise | Gigwise's 51 Best Albums of 2017 | 37/51 | 1 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 12 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 20 | |||
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 04/25/2024 14:38 | sunnydhamm | 1,626 | 59/100 |
| ! | 02/27/2021 06:09 | MegoEvilBear | 2,145 | 75/100 |
| ! | 12/17/2018 20:21 |  fume0dm | 2,069 | 81/100 |
| ! | 11/04/2017 23:13 | xMUSICSNOBx | 810 | 60/100 |
| ! | 04/29/2017 18:27 | lleon79 | 1,145 | 81/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 67.1/100, a mean average of 64.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 64.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.7.
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Turned It off after the 5th song as I realised I was wasting my life...beige indie!!!
I've heard it all before. Not a single moment of uniqueness breaks through on this album. I can't even remember how any of the songs go because all of them blend together into this dull and safe debut. And yeah, normally debuts are taken off the hook cause it is a first attempt but when you've got indie rock debuts like Vampire Weekend and Parachutes hell even the Arctic Monkeys', there is no excuse.
Yet, is it as bad and unlistenable as other have said? Not particularly
But, is it a lacklustre, emotionless and forgetful album I would never listen to again? Probably
In the end, s'alright. Wouldn't recommend it though.
Kamens 01/10/2017 22:52 | #182196
So monotonous and boring. Watered down version of a million other bands.
xMUSICSNOBx 01/09/2017 16:04 | #182094
Bored. So bored.
It's just another band that's too influenced by the bands that they play beside. These guy's are just the least interesting of them. Nothing memorable on any front. Guitar work is dry. Drumming is emotionless. Lyricism is dime a dozen, he just spouts off cliches about his "the kids not wanting to go to church, because they all wanna do drugs."
30/100. Better luck next time.
lleon79 01/08/2017 19:55 | #182047
Nice moments here and there. Overall a good album but not an outstanding one. This band could either develop into something interesting or mediocre. It's worth a listen.
Best track: Loveblood
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