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

by Dominika | Feb 12th, 2019 | no comments

Today marks exactly 11 years since Simple Plan released their third, eponymous record ‘Simple Plan’, on which the band brought us a number of deeply personal songs as well as many international chart-toppers.

While initially struggling with a writer’s block during the process of creating this 2008 classic, Pierre and Chuck eventually managed to dig deep inside their own personal experience and came up with the 11 songs that became the record we now know as ‘Simple Plan’. These personal experience can be heard in the lyrics of songs such as ‘Your Love Is A Lie’ (Chuck’s story about how he got cheated on by his former girlfriend), ‘Save You’ (Pierre’s recollection of his feelings of desperation when his younger brother went through cancer) or ‘I Can Wait Forever’ (song about Pierre’s love for his then girlfriend now wife Lachelle).

Interestingly enough, alongside ‘Still Not Getting Any’, ‘Simple Plan’ is the only other album by Simple Plan that does not feature any special guests on any of the songs – that is if we don’t count Chuck Comeau, who made his rap/spoken word debut on the song ‘Holding On’.

From the start even until now, this Simple Plan album has sparked many debates amongst the fans, some seeing a major departure from the band’s previous music efforts with the album’s more electronic and alternative style and lack of pop-punk songs, while others saw this as an interesting and mature creative choice from Simple Plan, while still keeping the core Simple Plan style present.

But the music style wasn’t the only thing that made the fans argue. Prior to its release, the band revealed the album art, which featured the band members emerging from the ruins of a city destroyed by fire. This interesting choice of an album cover made many fans on MySpace (the social network the band primarily used in that time to communicate with their fans) express their (often) negative opinions, which eventually made the band second-guess this choice and decided to let the fans choose the album art on their own by offering a second, less controversial, black&white option, which the fans eventually went with.

Tell us, 11 years on, how do you find the self-titled album in the context of all of Simple Plan’s discography? Do some of your favorite songs appear on this album? What does this album mean to you? Let us know in the comments below!

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

by Dominika | Feb 12th, 2018 | no comments

It was exactly on February 12th 2008 when Simple Plan’s third studio album officially hit the record stores all over the world. The band’s fans have been extremely patient for this album – after all, it was released 4 whole years after the band’s previous, very successful ‘Still Not Getting Any’. But today, we are already celebrating 10 years since its release.

For this album, simply called ‘Simple Plan’ but more commonly referred to as their ‘self-titled album’, Pierre and Chuck began writing songs over two years prior to its release however due to their writer’s block, it was a very long and strenuous process. One of the main reasons why the guys were having so much troubles writing songs for this album was Pierre’s personal struggles concerning his brother, who has been going through cancer at that time. Pierre eventually opened up about his feelings regarding this situation in the song ‘Save You’ that has since struck a chord with many fans.

As far as the singles concerns, Simple Plan chose to have three major singles from this album: ‘When I’m Gone’, ‘Your Love Is A Lie’ and ‘Save You’.

Now, it isn’t very likely that we would be getting a 10th anniversary tour of this album, but it’s surely important to celebrate the anniversary of this important album in Simple Plan’s career somehow anyways. Remind yourselves of the “making of” this album, which was featured on the deluxe version of this record, below:

Tell us, 10 years later – how do you find the self-titled album in the context of all of Simple Plan’s discography? Do some of your favorite songs appear on this album? What does this album mean to you? Let us know in the comments below!

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

by Dominika | Feb 12th, 2017 | no comments

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 :)

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

by Dominika | Feb 12th, 2016 | no comments

Today we commemorate the 8th anniversary of the release of Simple Plan’s third – self-titled album, produced by Dave Fortman, that officialy came out on February 12th 2008.

This album, simply just titled “Simple Plan” featured 11 songs, including a number of hit singles, such as “When I’m Gone”, “Your Love Is A Lie” or “Save You”, touching various heavy topics from cheating to cancer. In Canada, the album has been certified platinum.

Remind yourselves of the recording process of this album by watching the video below:

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

by Dominika | Feb 12th, 2015 | no comments

Today we commemorate the 7th anniversary of the release of Simple Plan’s self-titled album, produced by Dave Fortman, that officialy came out on February 12th 2008.

The album, which showed a slight departure of the band’s previous records, included a number of hit singles, such as “When I’m Gone”, “Your Love Is A Lie” or “Save You”. It was also the first Simple Plan record ever to include Chuck’s vocals – on the song “Holding On”.

Remind yourselves of the recording process of this album by watching the video below: