Simple Plan is
a pop punk band Montréal, Québec, Canada. Since forming they have never
experienced a change of personnel and they are Pierre Bouvier, Jeff Stinco,
Sébastien Lefebvre, Chuck Comeau and David Desrosiers. To date they have
released four studio albums: No Pads, No Helmets ... Just Balls (2002), Still
Not Getting Any ... (2004), Simple Plan (2008), and Get Your Heart On! (2011).1999: Establishment of Simple Plan
In 1996, the band Reset formed by Pierre Bouvier, Chuck Comeau, Philippe Jolicoeur, and Adrian White. [1] Reset toured in Canada with MxPx, Ten Foot Pole, and Face to Face, although they are not too managed to get popularity. [ 2] Their debut album, No Worries, was released in 1999. Soon, Chuck Comeau away from the band to go to college. [1] Two years later he met with his friends in high school, Jeff Stinco and Sébastien Lefebvre, who at that time were in their respective bands, and they intend to merge to form his own band. [1] Meanwhile, Reset released their second album, No Limits. One day, Comeau and Bouvier met again in the Sugar Ray concert [2] and Bouvier left Reset to join Comeau. David Desrosiers then replaced Bouvier in Reset, but he left the reset jga six months later and joined by Bouvier. [1] [2] This makes Bouvier can concentrate on vocals, having previously had concurrent fill positions at the same vocal bass.
The origin of the name of Simple Plan is not clear. When asked, the band often provide answers in the form of jokes, including one of them is because they formed the band as an "impromptu plan" to avoid working in fast food restaurants. But anyway, most likely, the name "Simple Plan" is taken from the title of the movie "A Simple Plan", [3] [4] or piebald work song titled "Just a Simple Plan".
2002: No Pads, No Helmets ... Just Balls
On March 2002, Simple Plan released their first studio album, No Pads, No Helmets ... Just Balls which continued with the release of the singles: "I'm Just a Kid", "I'd Do Anything," "Addicted", and "Perfect". Simple Plan is reported to have said that they wanted the album of pure pop-punk. [5] The album's title refers to a popular phrase from the sport of rugby, "No pads, no helmets, just balls."
The album was originally released in the United States with the contents of twelve tracks, with the last song "Perfect". But the bonus issue and the overseas edition subsequently appeared in various versions with two additional songs on the twelve original songs. For example, in the American edition contained a bonus song "Grow Up", and "My Christmas List", while the English edition contained the song "One By One" and "American Jesus" (live, song by Bad Religion), including two bonus video clips "I'd Do Anything" and "I'm Just a Kid".
The album also contained vocals from singers from two other pop-punk band, as in "I'd Do Anything" are vocal Mark Hoppus of Blink-182, and in "You Do not Mean Anything" are vocal Joel Madden of Good Charlotte.
In 2002, the year when Simple Plan released this album, Simple Plan performed in over 300 shows, topped the charts "Alternative New Artist", and appearing on a tour of Japan where tickets are sold out. [6] In 2003, they performed as one of the main bands on the Vans Warped Tour. Also a penampilam recorded in a comedy critic, Punk Rock Holocaust, which killed four of them recounted. They also appear in the Warped Tour in 2004 and 2005. Also in 2003, they became the opening act for the tour "Try To Shut Me Up" belongs to Avril Lavigne. [6] In addition to several tours, they also became the opening act for Green Day and Good Charlotte. [6] The album sold 1 million copies until early 2003, but the album has sold 4 million copies worldwide, making it their most successful album commercially.
2004: Still Not Getting Any ...
In October 2004, Simple Plan released their second album titled Still Not Getting Any ..., which will be followed by the single "Welcome to My Life", "Shut Up!", "Untitled (How Could This Happen to Me?)" and "Crazy".
As mentioned previously, when writing material album "No Pads, No Helmets ... Just Balls", the members of Simple Plan album wants pure pop-punk. But this time, in the process of writing the album "Still Not Getting Any ...", they say that they do not want to limit themselves to the punk genre, but rather allow themselves to write "good music". [5]
Based on a bonus DVD of "Still Not Getting Any ...", during the making of the album, the members of Simple Plan could think of a few names fatherly this album, such as "Get Rich or Die Trying" and "In The Zone". They chose the name "Still Not Getting Any ..." (meaning: Still Can not Get ... none) for several reasons. The reason the most famous and best represent roughly is because they think that they have not received a good assessment, Pierre Bouvier added that they had to get a good assessment, namely of Alternative Press. Another reason is that at that time they still do not get the respect that is good. There are many more reasons expressed by them, because any word can actually be placed on the ellipsis in the title. Chuck Comeau adds that the name of the album is "versatile".
Meanwhile, in terms of music "Still Not Getting Any ..." showed a dramatic change of style of play Simple Plan. They still can keep their style to keep using downbeat lyrics combined with upbeat music, but they managed to get out of the standard pop-punk genre. Although many of the songs on this album that still brings a feeling unstable teenager like the song "I'm Just a Kid" from their previous album, in general, tend to the theme of this album the lyrics are deeper and more mature, including the sound of music that sounds a little more out of pure pop-punk style. Some professional judgment emphasizes the inclusion of elements of rock "classic" and "mainstream", says that the album was "not emphasizing the pop-punk was very active in the purpose of forming a modern rock formed neatly and no-nonsense". [7]
2008: Simple Plan
After about one and a half years on tour "Still Not Getting Any ...", they ended most touring in February 2006, to then take a short break before starting work on their third album. Pierre Bouvier through his official MySpace blog site saying that he was going to Miami on March 21, 2007 to work with a producer who was not yet known who, later known is Dave Fortman. The band entered the studio for pre-production in Los Angeles on June 29. On July 15 they returned to Montreal to record at Studio Piccolo, the same studio where they recorded "Still Not Getting Any ...." When they finished recording, they headed back to Miami for mixing and mastering stage. Some finishing touches on the album performed in New York and their album officially completed on October 21, 2007, although later they returned to the studio to re-record the lyrics in the song "Generation".
"When I'm Gone", the first single from the album Simple Plan released on 29 October 2007. The album Simple Plan was produced by Dave Fortman, who is famous for his work with Avril Lavigne and Kelly Clarkson. On February 17, 2008, Simple Plan achieved their highest chart position in the UK, after two albums previously failed to enter the charts there. On 29 November 2007, Simple Plan announced it will postpone the release date of the album before January 29, 2008 be February 12, 2008. They also released an album with the label "Japan version", with an additional two songs, which was released a week earlier, on February 6 2008. This album is an album that most failed to reap success when compared with the rest of their albums. [8]
After completing their international promotional tour, Simple Plan performed at several holiday event in December 2007. On July 1, 2008, they made a free concert in Quebec City, Plains of Abraham, attract 150,000 spectators to the event Canada Day. [9] After kemabali of Asia central and east at the end of July, they are back on tour throughout Canada [10] together with Faber Drive and Cute is What We Aim For. [11] Metro Station and The All-American Rejects was originally scheduled to take part in the tour, but canceled for some reason. They are back in full their second European tour on 28 October to 29 November, with the Estonian and Polish for the first time. Simple Plan also performed in Tel Aviv and Dubai in early December, where the band played with four personnel following the absence of bassist David Desrosiers due to family problems and was replaced temporarily by Sébastien Lefebvre on bass.
2011: Get Your Heart On!
Simple Plan released their fourth album, entitled Get Your Heart On! on June 21, 2011. The album was produced by Brian Howes. [12] [13] Their album this time is the second time they collaborated with other artists from the album No Pads, No Helmets ... Just Balls with Mark Hoppus (Blink-182) and Joel Madden (Good Charlotte). On this album, they collaborated with Rivers Cuomo (Weezer), Natasha Bedingfield, K'naan and Alex Gaskarth (All Time Low). [14] On April 20, they announced that "Jet Lag" will be the first single from this album. The song was released in the UK and France where Simple Plan in collaboration with Natasha Bedingfield and Marie-Mai on each track. [15] To mempromosilan the song, a service called "jetlag Airlines" made on their website, containing news, lyrics , playlists, and videos related to their fourth album. "Jet Lag" premiered on April 25, while its music video was released on May 4, along with Natasha Bedingfield and 16 May along with Marie-Mai.
