A Certain Trigger
by Maxïmo Park

Album
A Certain Trigger by Maxïmo Park
Year: 2005
Release date: 2005-05-16
Overall rank: 3,538th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
73/100 (from 84 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 2005 (68th)
Award Top albums of of the 2000s (600th)
Award Best albums of all time (3,538th)

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A Certain Trigger is ranked as the best album by Maxïmo Park.

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A Certain Trigger rankings summary
Overall rank: 3,538th | 2000s rank: 600th | 2005 rank: 68th  Overall chart history
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A Certain Trigger ratings

Average Rating: 
73/100 (from 84 votes)
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 !		06/07/2026 02:09 Exist-en-ciel  Ratings distribution  15,60070/100
 
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 !		03/26/2026 02:49 dhbarrett  Ratings distribution  8,74565/100
 
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 !		12/07/2025 15:53 Araldo  Ratings distribution  1,47280/100

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This album is rated in the top 25% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.4/100, a mean average of 72.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 73.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.2.


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From BestEverAlbums 08/03/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5393): By videoheadcleaner
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From 04/19/2023 10:14 | #296201 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Very good album. Many cute songs and also danceable stuff. Like the overall style of the band and I wish they would still make records that good.
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Fantastic debut album. Highlight for me is 'Acrobat' though this is full of great storming indie tracks.
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From 02/13/2012 16:45 | #36836 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
We all know where we were when Maxïmo Park entered our lives...
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