The British magazine Rock Sound recently released a brand new video featuring Pierre Bouvier from Simple Plan, filmed at Slam Dunk back in May of this year. In this video, Pierre talked about the first time he attended a Simple Plan band practice, what their first show was like, how they got to get signed by a label and a lot more.
Check it out below:
For the past few days, the British magazine Rock Sound has been slowly revealing the results of their recently featured online poll, which asked music fans to vote for the best pop-punk album. Over 26 000 people voted in and decided the final positions on the list, which has now revealed to us that the public voted not just one, but two Simple Plan albums amongst the 100 Best Pop-Punk Albums!
The best-standing of their albums on this list is their debut album ‘No Pads, No Helmets… Just Balls’, which ranks at no. 31, surpassing other classics like Jimmy Eat World’s ‘Bleed American’, The All-American Rejects’ ‘Move Along’ or The Offspring’s ‘Americana’!
The second Simple Plan album featured on this list is their subsequent record ‘Still Not Getting Any..’ which ranked a little lower – at no. 67!
What a great result! It definitely serves as a reassurance that Simple Plan’s music is still very much deep-seated into the minds of music fans and has clearly made an impact on the industry.
Previously, Simple Plan’s No Pads album was featured on a list published by Kerrang back in 2015, where it placed as the 26th “Greatest Pop-Punk Album Ever”. Similarly in 2017, Rolling Stone called this album 33rd “Greatest Pop-Punk Album Of All Time”.
The popular British magazine Rock Sound revealed the first batch of their TOP 50 albums released in 2016 along with a short description/review of each of them.
Simple Plan’s ‘Taking One For The Team’ has obviously made it to the list – at #46, this is what Rock Sound had to say about the band’s fifth record:
“These pop-punk veterans proved they could still hang in 2016. Simple Plan’s first album in half a decade was full of youthful energy and naivety, and boasted guest vocalists ranging from New Found Glory to Nelly. A collection of high octane pop-rock anthems that weren’t big and were by no means clever, but damn, they were catchy.”
Have a look in the gallery where you can now find some great scans of recent issues of various magazines, which feature new photoshoots of Simple Plan. Credit for the My Rock scans goes to SPB and for the Rock Sound HQ scans to Nick:
The newest issue of the UK magazine Rock Sound (with Good Charlotte on the cover) features a big article on Simple Plan along with a brand new photoshoot of the band. You have the first look at this stunning shoot in the gallery:
