9 years since the release of Simple Plan’s self-titled album

Today, we commemorate 9 years since the release of Simple Plan’s third album, the self-titled one. The record that is now certified platinum in Canada, was produced by Dave Fortman, and which was released on February 12th 2008.

This album was one of the hardest ones to write for the two song-writers, Pierre and Chuck, as during their song-writing period, they were dealing with some very hard personal struggles (Chuck was just slowly getting over a hard breakup, while Pierre’s older brother Jay was suffering from cancer, which affected the whole family). After a lengthy song-writer’s block, the duo finally managed to get back on the track and use their personal experience and put them into their own songs. This is how songs such as ‘Your Love Is A Lie’ and ‘Save You’ came about.

DID YOU KNOW?
  • It is the first (and only) Simple Plan album to be marked for explicit content due to the use of the F word in the song ‘Your Love Is A Lie’.
  • Originally, the album cover was supposed to look very differently – on that version, the band members were depicted standing on the ruins of a burned out city. However, the fans did not like the artwork so much that after an online voting, the band has decided to go with a simpler, black & white album cover.
  • Chuck “rappped” on the song ‘Holding On’.
  • One of the incpirations behind the song ‘What If’ was the character of Peter Petrelli from the show Heroes.
  • Besides the music videos for the official singles ‘When I’m Gone’, ‘Your Love Is A Lie’ and ‘Save You’, there is also an animated music video for the song ‘I Can Wait Forever’.

Why don’t you reminisce about this album, by re-listening to all the tracks? Who knows, maybe for the 10th anniversary next year, we will finally convince Chuck to “sing” Holding On live :)