Childish Prodigy
by Kurt Vile

Childish Prodigy by Kurt Vile
Year: 2009
Release date: 2009-10-06
Overall rank: 13,427th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 37 votes)
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Award Top albums of 2009 (234th)
Award Top albums of the 2000s (2,411th)
Award Best albums of all time (13,427th)

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Kurt Vile bestography

Childish Prodigy is ranked 6th best out of 11 albums by Kurt Vile on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Kurt Vile is Wakin On A Pretty Daze which is ranked number 1194 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,452.

Kurt Vile album bestography « Higher ranked (13,427th)
Childish Prodigy
This album (13,427th)
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Overall rank: 13,427th | 2000s rank: 2,411th | 2009 rank: 234th

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Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 37 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 14% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.3/100, a mean average of 74.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.9/100. The standard deviation for this album is 11.2.

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From 07/11/2013 23:54 | #81145
Great album... it's not easy to get Kurt's music. But when it happens, you realize how good his music is.
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From 05/17/2013 18:55 | #76391
Pretty good one. You have to find what makes you unique and stick to it, and Kurt Vile is superb at that. Inside Looking Out is a good example of that.
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From 05/07/2012 07:38 | #41703
Thank you Marc Riley for introducing me to this album.
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