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Limited “Tour Edition” No Pads, No Helmets…Just Balls 15th anniversary album by Simple Plan out now!

by Dominika | Apr 6th, 2018 | no comments

In less than two weeks, Simple Plan will be on their way to Australia, where they are taking their 15th anniversary No Pads, No Helmets… Just Balls tour next. And in order to get the local fans even more pumped up for Simple Plan’s return down under, the band just released a special limited “Tour Edition” of their debut album in Australia today.

As we’ve reported a month ago, besides all the No Pads tracks, this Tour Edition also includes a couple of bonus songs (One By One, Grow Up, Vacation and Happy Together) as well as an acoustic version of Perfect and also a few live tracks from the past No Pads shows (Addicted and Perfect – both Live in California.

This album has been released as a limited edition album and seems to be available on physical copies only in Australia and New Zealand. If those are not your countries, you can either have them shipped to you, buy the album on iTunes, or simply just listen to it on Spotify:

Simple Plan to release a special 15th anniversary edition of the No Pads album!

by Dominika | Mar 3rd, 2018 | 1 comment

In just a little over a month, Simple Plan will finally be heading back down under for the long-awaited 15th anniversary No Pads, No Helmets… Just Balls tour in Australia and New Zealand. And to make their grand return to the land of kangaroos and koalas even more celebratory, they decided to rerelease their debut album there just a few days before they hit the stage at the first show in Gold Coast.

Thanks to our colleagues from SPB, it was revealed that No Pads, No Helmets…Just Balls (15th Anniversary Tour Edition) will be released on April 6th and it will include a number of bonus tracks that you won’t find on the original album from 2002.

Besides all the songs from No Pads, the new edition will also include some popular b-sides by Simple Plan, such as One By One, Grow Up, Happy Together and Vacation, as well as an acoustic version of Perfect and two bonus live versions – Addicted and Perfect – recorded at the shows in California in 2017.

Warner Music Australia has already begun the album’s presale on their official website and you can now preorder the record for $18.

As of right now it is unknown whether the band plans to release this special edition only in Australia or whether fans will be able to buy it all over the world. As soon as we find more details about it, we will let you know here on SimplePlan.cz.

In the meantime, check out the full tracklist of this special limited edition of No Pads to celebrate its 15th anniversary:

1. I’d Do Anything
2. The Worst Day Ever
3. You Don’t Mean Anything
4. I’m Just A Kid
5. When I’m With You
6. Meet You There
7. Addicted
8. My Alien
9. God Must Hate Me
10. I Won’t Be There
11. One Day
12. Perfect
13. One By One (Intl B-side)
14. Grow Up (Intl B-side)
15. Happy Together
16. Addicted (Live From California 2017)
17. Vacation (non-album b-side)
18. Perfect (Live From California 2017)
19. Perfect (Acoustic Version)

Rolling Stone named Simple Plan’s debut album among 50 Greatest pop-punk albums!

by Dominika | Nov 15th, 2017 | 1 comment

One of the most respectable music magazines, Rolling Stone, released a new list on their website, which names 50 Greatest pop-punk albums of all time [see the original article here]. And while it could be debatable which of these bands are or are not pop-punk by someone’s standard, it’s safe to say that the list features 50 great albums that certainly had an undisputable impact on the pop-punk we know today – whether it’s because of Blink-182, Green Day, The Ramones, Jimmy Eat World or… Simple Plan.

For Simple Plan it is surely a great honor that their debut album, ‘No Pads, No Helmets… Just Balls’, which celebrates its 15th anniversary this year, is also included on this list – particularly in the 33rd place. Check out what Rolling Stone had to say about SP’s first studio effort below:

33. Simple Plan, ‘No Pads, No Helmets … Just Balls’ (2002)

The teen-comedy film boom of the late Nineties and early 2000s helped to push pop-punk to larger audiences, and Canadian crew Simple Plan excelled at making snappy, catchy, sweet tunes that feel like the big scenes they complemented in flicks like The New Guy, The Hot Chick and Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen. The dramatic dejectedness of “I’m Just a Kid,” sweeping romance of “I’d Do Anything” and brooding family drama of “Perfect” captured the genre’s signature edge-of-seventeen mindset. “Until the day I die, I promise I won’t change so you better give up/I don’t want to be told to grow up,” Pierre Bouvier sings on the aptly named “Grow Up,” a song that also name-checks Good Charlotte, Sum-41, Blink-182 and MxPx. Adding to the album’s classically pop-punk feel, Simple Plan even got vocal assists from Blink’s Mark Hoppus and Good Charlotte’s Joel Madden on a pair of songs.

– Rolling Stone –

And here’s the full list of 50 Greatest pop-punk albums by Rolling Stone. Are there any albums you would like to add to it?

50 – Discount – Half Fiction
49 – RVIVR – RVIVR
48 – 5 Seconds Of Summer – 5 Seconds Of Summer
47 – Joyce Manor – Never Hungover Again
46 – Good Charlotte – Good Charlotte
45 – All – Breaking Things
44 – The Distillers – Sing Sing Death House
43 – The Ataris – Blue Skies, Broken Hearts… Next 12 Exits
42 – Lagwagon – Let’s Talk About Feelings
41 – The Wonder Years – The Greatest Generation
40 – Bouncing Souls – Hopeless Romantic
39 – Screeching Weasel – My Brain Hurts
38 – Yellowcard – Ocean Avenue
37 – The Undertones – The Undertones
36 – Saves The Day – Through Being Cool
35 – Pennywise – Unknown Road
34 – The Ergs! – dorkrockcorkrod
33 – Simple Plan – No Pads, No Helmets… Just Balls
32 – Lifetime – Jersey’s Best Dancers
31 – Tsunami Bomb – The Ultimate Escape
30 – AFI – The Art Of Drowning
29 – Green Day – Kerplunk
28 – The Damned – Machine Gun Etiquette
27 – MxPx – Life In General
26 – The Jam – Snap!
25 – Jimmy Eat World – Bleed American
24 – Stiff Little Fingers – Inflammable Material
23 – Alkaline Trio – From Here To Infirmary
22 – The Rezillos – Can’t Stand the Rezillos
21 – Operation Ivy – Operation Ivy
20 – All Time Low – So Wrong, It’s Right
19 – Good Charlotte – The Young and the Hopeless
18 – Bad Religion – Stranger Than Fiction
17 – Rancid – …And Out Come The Wolves
16 – Green Day – American Idiot
15 – Sum 41 – All Killer No Filler
14 – New Found Glory – New Found Glory
13 – The Offspring – Smash
12 – Jawbreaker – 24 Hour Revenge Therapy
11 – NOFX – Punk in Drublic
10 – Misfits – Walk Among Us
9 – Paramore – Riot!
8 – Blink-182 – Dude Ranch
7 – Generation X – Generation X
6 – Buzzcocks – Singles Going Steady
5 – Fall Out Boy – Take This To Your Grave
4 – Descendants – Milo Goes To College
3 – The Ramones – Rocket To Russia
2 – Blink-182 – Enema Of The State
1 – Green Day – Dookie

VIDEO: Members of The Vamps purchase Simple Plan’s NPNHJB on vinyl

by Dominika | Oct 4th, 2017 | 1 comment

As we’ve informed you a couple weeks ago, UMusic took the members of the band The Vamps out for vinyl record shopping spree and one of vinyls that the members chose to buy was Simple Plan’s debut album ‘No Pads, No Helmets… Just Balls’, which coincidentally also celebrates its 15th anniversary this year.

This time around, UMusic also released a video from this shopping spree, which features SP’s record a number of times in the clip. The record was picked up by the band’s bassist, Connor Ball, who addmitted he’s been listening to Simple Plan ever since he was about 11 years old. Check out the full video below:

No Pads special #6: Long-lost vlogs from SimplePlan.com now recovered! (part 1)

by Dominika | Sep 11th, 2017 | 2 comments

In 2017, Simple Plan are celebrating 15 years since the release of their debut album No Pads, No Helmets… Just Balls with a special 15th anniversary NPNHJB worldwide tour [check out all the dates in our Tour section!].

To get you even more excited about the return of the No Pads tour (starting again in August), SimplePlan.cz prepared an exclusive series of “No Pads special” articles, giving you little possibly never-seen-or-heard-before interesting flashbacks to the No Pads era.

Previous No Pads special editions:
[#1] | [#2] | [#3] | [#4 | [#5]

Another No Pads special by SimplePlan.cz is here and this time around it’s a very very special one! For the longest time, Simple Plan have prided themselves to be the original founders of vlogging, since their website SimplePlan.com has always been updated with short “vlogs” (although SP first “coined” the term in a Chuck & Seb vlog in 2006), documenting the band’s activites.

Unfortunately most of the videos were published before the era of YouTube began in 2005 and Simple Plan’s official website has changed a number of times since then, deleting its archives in the process. But – as you know, nothing you put on the Internet is ever truly gone, so SimplePlan.cz managed to recover some (not all, but at least some) of these very very old vlogs, which I’m sure some of you may have never even seen before – since some they date even back to 2001!

Some of this footage has been used in the DVD, but these include some extended scenes, which you may have not seen before. I have a lot more coming for you in the upcoming weeks, so let me know if you’re interested in seeing more.

Check out part 1 of some old-school SP.com vlogs, in which you’ll see a short message from the studio, where SP recorded their debut album in 2001, Seb and Pat in Times Square in NYC in January 2002, Seb & Pat & David being first to arrive to LA and exploring the local beach (and David partially filming), the “San Francisco prank” and some footage from Atlantic City (all from 2002). Here it is – and please excuse the quality: