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Simple Plan to release a special Japanese “tour edition” of No Pads with bonus tracks!

by Dominika | Aug 2nd, 2017 | no comments
To celebrate the 15th anniversary of their first record (released in 2002), Simple Plan will be releasing a special Japanese limited edition of No Pads, No Helmets… Just Balls this year.

Right ahead of their October return to this country, which was the first foreign country where Simple Plan experienced a big break, a rerelease of No Pads, entitled No Pads, No Helmets… Just Balls [Tour edition] will hit the Japanese stores on September 27th. Japanese limited editions are known for their exlusivity and for often including some never-seen-before (or never-heard-before in this case) content. So what special features can we expect from this Tour edition of No Pads?

According to the press release, it seems that the album will contain all songs from the No Pads record and possibly also a selection of “best of” songs – which may be those that are commonly features on the encore of the No Pads’ tour set (most probably: Shut Up!, Jump, Boom, Your Love Is A Lie, Jet Lag, Summer Paradise, Crazy and Welcome To My Life). Besides that, three bonus songs are promised to appear on this reissue. These bonus songs are supposed to be live recordings of three songs from this year’s 15th anniversary tour – it is however currently unknown which songs these will include.

As to the origin of the live recordings, it is quite possible they will be coming from the show in Anaheim, CA, where Simple Plan filmed their entire set for possible future project (with both audio and video recorded from that show – from our interview with the band you already know that the guys plan on releasing the video footage from that show as well at some point).

This commemorative Tour edition of No Pads is already available for pre-order on CD Japan for $17.91.

Helpful guide: Where to buy Simple Plan’s limited edition red No Pads vinyl?

by Dominika | Aug 1st, 2017 | 1 comment

Thanks to SimplePlan.cz, you’ve already known for a few weeks that Simple Plan are releasing their debut album No Pads, No Helmets… Just Balls on vinyl, but it is only now that the band itself has confirmed this release and linked the fans to SRCvinyl for pre-orders of this limited edition. The vinyl will be officially available in the U.S. on August 18th.

However, since the shipping costs are quite high for non-American fans, below, you can now check out a list of websites from other countries, where you can get the vinyl already, since in Europe and Japan, the vinyl was officially released in June. If you find any other sources where fans can buy this vinyl, please let us know!

Europe

Croatia: Cedeteria
Czech Republic: Vltava | Bontonland | Musicrecords | Film na DVD
Denmark: iMusic
Germany: Amazon
Norway: Planetekompaniet | The Garden | BigDipper
Russia: SoulSound
Slovenia: Nika
Sweden: Bengans
United Kingdom: Amazon

Asia

Japan: Amazon
Turkey: Ozzyturk

North America

USA: Amazon

New red No Pads vinyl U.S. release date revealed!

by Dominika | Jul 28th, 2017 | 1 comment

If you’ve been following SimplePlan.cz lately, then you already know that Simple Plan are coming up with a special 15th anniversary red vinyl edition of their debut album ‘No Pads, No Helmets… Just Balls’!

We already got our hands on the vinyl a couple weeks ago since it’s been available in Europe since the beginning of June, so you can already check out what the packaging and the nice red-colored disc look like.

However, until now, it wasn’t clear when the vinyl would finally be available for people in North America. But the long wait is over – at least for the U.S.! SRCvinyl has now revealed that the new No Pads vinyl will be available for sale starting August 18th for $19.99 [big thanks to Cassandra for the info!]! That means right in the midst of Simple Plan’s No Pads tour in the United States.

Simple Plan are still yet to officially announce the release of this red vinyl themselves.

No Pads special #3: How did the album title come about?

by Dominika | Jul 20th, 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.

[No Pads special #1] | [No Pads special #2]

The third installment of the SimplePlan.cz No Pads special leads us to the album itself – particularly to its title: “No Pads, No Helmets… Just Balls”. The title started the trend of practically every follow-up Simple Plan album having a double entendre (all besides the self-titled one). But how did the guys even come up with this classic title? Since social media wasn’t really big back in the beginning of the 00s, there isn’t that many interviews available online that we could rely on when it comes to digging up old information. But we still did manage to find a couple of them, in which the band discussed the meaning behind this funny title.

In the first interview for Kidzworld, Sebastien and Chuck were directly asked about the title, and having never taken themselves too seriously – their answer was precisely that: they just needed a name and this one was goofy enough to represent their “love for balls”. As simple as that:

Chuck: “The name for the CD… you know what, we don’t remember… we were just messing around and we needed a name.”

Seb: “Well… we just like balls! Basketballs, you know we just like to play with them – any kind of balls.”

Chuck: “Footballs, meatballs… we might as well be honest and just say it.”

– Interview for Kidzworld (2002) [link] –

While the previous answers didn’t really give us any actual meaning behind the title, one side-meaning of it was revealed by Jeff in the 2003 interview for Idobi radio:

Pierre: “We pulled it out of our asses. I don’t know how that happened. It’s just.. We wanted something that would be funny and sort of memorable. And I think we’ve achieved that in a certain way.”

Jeff: “I mean, we found a second meaning to it too afterwards! You know, it takes a lot of balls for five Canadian boys from Montreal to get out there and wanna conquer the world..”

Pierre: “It takes ten.”

Jeff: *laughs* “It takes ten balls.”

Chuck: “Five pairs.”

– Interview for Idobi radio (2003) [link] –

I think we could agree that since the title was mostly created as a fun play on words to best introduce the new band as a fun-loving, not-taking-themselves-too-seriously band, the best part about this title is that it’s up for interpretation and any fan can find a different meaning behind it. What would YOUR interpretation of the title be? Let us know in the comments below!

Exclusively on SimplePlan.cz: first look at the red 15th anniversary No Pads vinyl!

by Dominika | Jul 10th, 2017 | 1 comment

Jak již nějakou dobu víte díky SimplePlan.cz, v některých zemích je již více jak měsíc dostupné první album Simple Plan No Pads, No Helmets…Just Balls na vinylu! Even thought so far the band has still not officially commented on this special release, SimplePlan.cz already has some on hand (thanks to Warner Music Czech Republic), so you can now exclusively check out what’s in store for you, if you decide to go old school all the way and purchase this limited edition beauty!

As you will be able to notice from the pictures in our gallery, the No Pads vinyl is available in red. And that is not the first time Simple Plan have used a color (other than the traditional black) on the disc of the vinyl. You may recall that the single for Crazy was available in green, the self-titled record in orange and Taking One For The Team can be found in both a regular black and also a special white version.

Check back to our previous article to see which stores seem to carry the No Pads vinyl already and make sure to get it while the supplies last! SimplePlan.cz will be giving one of these special vinyls away on its upcoming f (also the website’s 10th anniversary!).

And now, make sure to check out pictures of the vinyl’s packaging in the gallery: