And when I saw people in the front row singing every word even to the more obscure tracks on the album, it kind of made me feel like, "We created something that at that moment meant a lot to all these people." They were in a specific time in their lives where the music could resonate with them, and there's something special about being able to revisit that time in your life and bring all these memories. And when we did the fifteenth anniversary tour, what I was really surprised by was how natural and great it felt to play the whole record. But we're also gonna be excited about the future." I think we can have it both ways, and that's really been the stance of the band. We're gonna be proud of our past and we're gonna be proud to celebrate that because it's part of the career, it's part of the art, it's part of what we've achieved, and we're proud of it. But we actually said, "Here's how we're gonna approach the whole thing. It's not what the spirit of this band is all about. I think it was a little scary because then you start to think your band is just gonna be that kind of act, right? That like your best days are behind you and all that people care about is your old stuff, which we absolutely wanted to avoid at all costs. We actually did a big fifteenth anniversary tour and we were not really sure at first if we wanted to dive into this whole nostalgia aspect. For the rest of us, the powerful melodies are strong enough to carry the disc.Chuck Comeau: Yeah, it's been so interesting. Yet among the fast tracks that speed down desolate lovers’ lanes, Simple Plan yields for a few alienation anthems like “Welcome to My Life,” “Me Against the World” and the album’s standout song, “Jump.”īetween being losers at love and not fitting in, there’s a poor, poor pitiful me emo undercurrent in the bellyaching that will strike a sympathetic chord with teens. On this engaging 11-song disc, singer Pierre Bouvier rages heman women-hater lyrics about how love stinks and the need to rescue your individuality from the wreckage of a crashed romance. Just Balls” with a testosterone-charged collection. SIMPLE Plan, the Montreal outfit who’ve defined punk pop for the past two years, follow up their multi-platinum disc “No Pads, No Helmets. “Yeah, we only have two records, but that’s still good, right?” “Personally, I think this is the best thing we’ve ever done” he says. With an eagerness to explore new areas rather than give their fans the same old stuff, Simple Plan may not be lacking in respect for long. we are getting a bit more good stuff than when we started. The title was kind of a joke ‘Still not getting any respect,’ ‘Still not getting any funnier’ – there are a million things.
“We write serious and heartfelt songs, but we don’t take ourselves seriously,” says Comeau. But this doesn’t mean the band has abandoned its light-hearted past. It’s also about broken families and the growing gap between rich people and those that have nothing,” he explains. “It’s about girls and how tough it is to be confronted with unrealistic images of who they should be. As an example he cites “Crazy,” a track packed to the breaking point with social commentary. There’s stuff on this album we wouldn’t have been ready to talk about on the first album,” says Comeau.
“On this album, we didn’t have to write the typical Simple Plan song we wrote about what was on our minds, what we saw around us. Simple Plan shows its growing maturity on their sophomore release. “We love giving fans videos on our Web site and this gives us a chance to have music and video for the whole life of the record, not just for the first 50,000 or 200,000 copies,” says Comeau.
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The Canadian band is one of the first major acts to release an album on DualDisc – the industry’s latest format, featuring a conventional album on one side and a DVD chock full of videos, extras and a digitally enhanced version of the album. What better way to do that than to look like a 95-year-old – nothing can be further from ‘cool’ and ‘hip,'” says 25-year old drummer Chuck Comeau.įortunately, Simple Plan won’t be flashing their all-access passes to Shady Acres just yet instead they’re actually helping to pioneer a groundbreaking new music technology. “It was a way to show the world that we’re not caught up in the whole image thing. The Montreal pop-punk band is following up its 2002 debut album with Tuesday’s rock-heavy “Still Not Getting Any … ,” which features alternate covers showing the band now (in their 20s), at 45 and at 95 years old. Simple Plan, the band that gave us lyrics like “I’m just a kid and life is a nightmare” and “I don’t want to be told to grow up,” are actually looking forward to their 90s … sort of.