To celebrate the 21st anniversary of the release of their debut album No Pads, No Helmets… Just Balls (which will happen on March 19th) as well as the 75th anniversary of their former record label Atlantic Records, Simple Plan will be releasing a brand new limited edition crystal clear vinyl. A definite must-have for any Simple Plan collector!
The tracklist of the vinyl includes all 12 songs from the No Pads record with no bonus songs.
The vinyl is available for pre-order on the Atlantic website. Note: As of right now, the item is unavailable and it is unclear whether it’s sold out yet or more will be printed.
This is not the first time No Pads has been released on a vinyl: the record has been available on a regular black vinyl for a few years now. Besides no Pads, all of their other records have previously been released on vinyl with the exception of Still Not Getting Any.
The release date of Simple Plan’s long awaited 6th studio album ‘Harder Than It Looks’ (May 6th) is nearly here and with it, the band decided to finally reveal all the different kind of ways you can purchase the album on an actualy physical copy.
Despite streaming music being still the most popular way how to consume music, the band knows that their fans also like something to literally hold on to and many fans still prefer some sort of physical copy of their favorite band’s album.
‘Harder Than It Looks’ will be released on compact discs (CDs), casettes and also vinyl records.
Let’s have a look at all the options you have to order the new album! Which one will you chose?
Simple Plan’s 6th studio album, which is set to be released on May 6th, will not only be released digitally and on physical CDs, but fans will also be able to purchase special limited editions of the record on vinyl!
On multiple online music websites, you can already pre-order the Harder Than It Looks vinyl – in 2 beautiful variations: a blue or pink marble vinyl.
We are currently unsure of the actual look of the vinyl as multiple websites keep using different images for the actual marble disc. Besides the ones in the header above (which can be found on the Impericon website – blue & pink for about 31 €), we also found a different pink design on the Rough Trade website (for $24.99 – however already sold-out):
The tracklist will be split in half on each side of the vinyl, each containing 5 songs. It seems there won’t be any bonus tracks on these vinyls.
While the band hasn’t announced the release of these vinyls yet, all of the music websites we’ve found that offer the pre-order of these vinyls seem to be stating October 28th 2022 as the release date.
Our favorite song-writing duo, Pierre Bouvier and Chuck Comeau got together via Instagram live chat on Thursday, where they not only answered a bunch of fans’ questions but also spilled some amazing beans while doing so.
The main information we got from the livechat was that there is a brand new Simple Plan song coming out next month – in February. According to Pierre, “it’s a special one”.
“We’re gonna put out some new music soon. It’s coming soon. For real.. […] One way we’re adaption to this and also to the new reality on the music world and how things are going is that we’re releasing music in a different way. It’s gonna be more like song by song, maybe a little bit […] than we’ve done in the past. But I think that’s kind of cool. We’re just trying to make this work. Cause we’re not able to go out there and tour and do interviews as much and do everything. We’re trying to find new ways for people to pay attention to the songs and the album, so we’re experimenting with different ways of doing that. But the next step is a new song and that’s coming next month.”
– Chuck Comeau [on Instagram] –
The boys also mentioned that the new album will definitely be released on vinyl and the band is also currently looking at some other vinyl related things – according to Chuck, there should be some sort of vinyl coming up related to the 20th anniversary of Simple Plan’s first album ‘No Pads, No Helmets… Just Balls’, which is coming up in March.
Check out a clip of Chuck and Pierre discussing the new song and the vinyls in the livestream below:
Chuck also revealed in the chat that the band has also already shot their album cover photoshoot and just finalized the final look of the album cover in the past few days (again by Simple Plan’s head graphic designer – Fred Jerome). The album cover concept was once again put together by Chuck and the photos were taken by their favorite band photographer Chapman Baehler (who also did the photoshoots for Still Not Getting Any or Taking One For The Team).
Another thing discussed was the upcoming Canadian tour with The Offspring, which a lot of fans have been asking about, due to all the covid restrictions that are currently being put in place in the country. It is currentl unclear whether the tour will be able to be held in a couple weeks, but the band is still looking at their options and will be publishing an update either this week or early next week.
And finally, during the livechat, Pierre also surprised Chuck by telling everyone him and his family are actually currently recovering from COVID-19. All of them are doing well. You can listen to him talking about it here:
We’re kicking off the 2021 related news with some good news for a change – I’m sure many will appreciate that. Especially the hardcore Simple Plan fans and avid SP memorabilia collectors.
Reset’s (band where Pierre and Chuck started before forming Simple Plan) demo tape from 1995 ‘Concerned’, which after years of having only been available on a cassette, got finally remastered and released on a CD in 2019, will finally get the vinyl treatment, just like the rest of the Reset albums previously have (‘No Limits’ and ‘No Worries’). The vinyl will be released on March 21st 2021 in three different color versions: clear, milky clear and light blue.
The vinyl will include these 5 tracks:
1. Concern 2. Wagon 3. T.K.O. 4. Go Away 5. American Way
Here’s what Simple Plan’s official biography says about the original 1995 recording and release of this Reset ‘Concerned’ demo tape, which Chuck and Pierre were a part of:
Sound engineer Rod Shearer produced the boys’ first truly professional recording session, which took place over two days, April 22 and 23 (1995). Nick Farkas recalls: “They did almost all of it in one or two takes, that’s how well-prepared they were! Pierre’s voice was right on key.” The cassette was astonishingly popular: more than 5 000 copies were sold, adding to Reset’s notoriety. “It was a ridiculously high number of sales for a four-song demo recorded with $400! But for what it was, it sounded pretty good!” says Nick.
– Simple Plan: The Official Story (page 29) –
If you want to complete your Simple Plan/Reset collection, make sure to not wait too long – there are only 100 copies of each color of the vinyl available, making this total of 300 Concerned vinyl a very limited edition. You can pre-order each of the vinyls separately or get a bundle of all three colors at People of Punk Rock Records.
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