A Certain Smile, A Certain Sadness
by Rocketship
Listen & Collect
Complete your collection or upgrade your listening experience.
Rocketship bestography
A Certain Smile, A Certain Sadness is ranked as the best album by Rocketship.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
Listen to A Certain Smile, A Certain Sadness on YouTube
A Certain Smile, A Certain Sadness track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
A Certain Smile, A Certain Sadness rankings
(Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). (Last updated: 4 hours ago).
imacgill
Hayden
Repo
Glitterboiii
pa
CellarDoor
LadyGodiva
Jimmy Dread
SecondsoulA Certain Smile, A Certain Sadness collection
Showing all 6 members who have this album in their collection
A Certain Smile, A Certain Sadness ratings
Average Rating = (n ÷ (n + m)) × av + (m ÷ (n + m)) × AVwhere:
av = trimmed mean average rating an item has currently received.
n = number of ratings an item has currently received.
m = minimum number of ratings required for an item to appear in a 'top-rated' chart (currently 10).
AV = the site mean average rating.
Showing latest 5 ratings for this album. | Show all 24 ratings for this album.
| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ! | 05/26/2026 21:05 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,111 | 70/100 |
| ! | 05/26/2026 15:44 | RemainInLight | 3,573 | 35/100 |
| ! | 01/21/2026 19:47 |  LedZep | 5,076 | 79/100 |
| ! | 03/23/2025 12:59 |  cestuneblague | 8,242 | 80/100 |
| ! | 11/15/2022 06:16 |  Arthurknight | 9,591 | 72/100 |
Rating metrics:
Outliers can be removed when calculating a mean average to dampen the effects of ratings outside the normal distribution. This figure is provided as the trimmed mean. A high standard deviation can be legitimate, but can sometimes indicate 'gaming' is occurring. Consider a simplified example* of an item receiving ratings of 100, 50, & 0. The mean average rating would be 50. However, ratings of 55, 50 & 45 could also result in the same average. The second average might be more trusted because there is more consensus around a particular rating (a lower deviation).
(*In practice, some albums can have several thousand ratings)
This album is rated in the top 9% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.8/100, a mean average of 75.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.1.
A Certain Smile, A Certain Sadness favourites
Showing all 2 members who have added this album as a favourite
A Certain Smile, A Certain Sadness comments
Showing all 2 comments |
Most Helpful First | Newest First | Positive Sentiment First |
Longest Comments First
(Only showing comments with -2 votes or higher. You can alter this threshold from your profile page. Manage Profile)
SuedeSwede 06/05/2014 13:53 | #113813
I should really love this album - it has everything in theory that I'd love, yet I don't. It felt like it was lacking something magic, like, it felt very sloppy compared to some other indie pop records. Anyway, it was good either way. Just didn't quite click.
SingingPeasant96 12/06/2013 08:09 | #96488
What I love about Slumberland records-bands is how they sound like shoegaze(or just noise pop, dream pop) and still remain twee. This album is definitely twee in its theme(lyrics like "Hug-hug-hug and you kiss-kiss-kiss me"). but at the same time this album breaks the boundary of twee. Listen all those spacy codas! All those drones(of organ) creates atmosphere which can't be found on any other of the genre. They're sure one of best bands who sounds like their names.
Your feedback for A Certain Smile, A Certain Sadness
The top-voted comments get featured on our charts, Album of the Day, and the site newsletter.
