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Simple Plan – one of the foremost bands of the new millennium pop-punk explosion – will celebrate their more than two decades of music with a vinyl box set from Rhino.

Simple Plan Collection features all six of the band’s studio albums on marbled color vinyl, along with a clear vinyl pressing of a new collection of rare tracks and even a double-sided single of two Christmas tunes (on seasonally appropriate green and red splatter vinyl). The box is strictly limited to 1500 copies, all signed by the band; they’ll be available to order on the group’s official site today (July 25) starting at 9 a.m. EST/6 a.m. PST. Individual pressings of the studio albums in different colorways will also be available at the same time, with even more alternate available through Alternative Press magazine, who will be releasing a commemorative issue in celebration of the band. All new vinyl is slated to ship in mid-September.

Hailing from Montreal, the Canadian rockers formed back in 1999: frontman Pierre Bouvier and drummer Chuck Corneau had formed the group Reset as teens; when the pair fell out, Corneau attended college before forming Simple Plan with high school friends Jeff Stinco and Sébastien Lefebvre (lead and rhythm guitar, respectively). A reconciliation with Bouvier led him to leave Reset for the new group, and his replacement, bassist David Desrosiers, only lasted with Reset six months before he rounded out the Simple Plan lineup. (He departed the band in 2020, leaving Bouvier to play bass on subsequent studio releases.)

Their combination of sophomoric humor and catchy hooks and riffs on early albums No Pads, No Helmets…Just Balls (2002) and Still Not Getting Any (2004) – the latter of which was a Top 5 album in America – and they quickly earned the attention of their peers: early single “I’d Do Anything” features harmony vocals from Blink-182 singer/bassist Mark Hoppus, while No Pads album cut “You Don’t Mean Anything” featured backing vocals from Good Charlotte’s Joel Madden. “I’m Just a Kid,” “Addicted,” “Perfect,” “Welcome to My Life” and the maudlin “Untitled (How Could This Happen to Me?)” were all popular with early ’00s scene kids, and they earned chart success in their homeland around the turn of the 2010s with singles “When I’m Gone,” “Jet Lag” and “Summer Paradise” and collaborations with Rivers Cuomo of Weezer, British pop singer Natasha Bedingfield and others. They’ve earned a dedicated fan base around the globe (particularly South America and Australia), have been a fixture of 11 Warped Tour line-ups, wrote and performed the theme song to the popular animated reboot What’s New, Scooby-Doo? and have raised money for most of their existence with an eponymous charitable foundation. Simple Plan Collection is the chronicle of a pop-punk band made good.

Simple Plan Collection (Atlantic/Rhino, 2024)

LP 1: No Pads, No Helmets…Just Balls (originally released as Lava 83617, 2002 – pressed on red marble vinyl)

Side A

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

Side B

1. Addicted
2. My Alien
3. God Must Hate Me
4. I Won’t Be There
5. One Day
6. Perfect

LP 2: Still Not Getting Any (originally released as Lava 93407, 2004 – pressed on dark blue marble vinyl)

Side A

1. Shut Up!
2. Welcome to My Life
3. Perfect World
4. Thank You
5. Me Against the World
6. Crazy

Side B

1. Jump
2. Everytime
3. Promise
4. One
5. Untitled (How Could This Happen to Me?)

LP 3: Simple Plan (originally released as Lava/Atlantic 384956, 2008 – pressed on pink marble vinyl)

Side A

1. When I’m Gone
2. Take My Hand
3. The End
4. Your Love is a Lie
5. Save You
6. Generation

Side B

1. Time to Say Goodbye
2. I Can Wait Forever
3. Holding On
4. No Love
5. What If

LP 4: Get Your Heart On! (originally released as Atlantic 527646, 2011 – pressed on light blue marble vinyl)

Side A

1. You Suck at Love
2. Can’t Keep My Hands off You (feat. Rivers Cuomo)
3. Jet Lag (feat. Natasha Bedingfield)
4. Astronaut
5. Loser of the Year
6. Anywhere Else But Here

Side B

1. Freaking Me Out (feat. Alex Gaskarth)
2. Summer Paradise (feat. K’naan)
3. Gone Too Soon
4. Last One Standing
5. This Song Saved My Life

LP 5: Taking One for the Team (originally released as Atlantic 554289, 2016 – pressed on orange marble vinyl)

Side A

1. Opinion Overload
2. Boom!
3. Kiss Me Like Nobody’s Watching
4. Farewell (feat. Jordan Putnick)
5. Singing in the Rain
6. Everything Sucks
7. I Refuse

Side B

1. I Don’t Wanna Go to Bed (feat. Nelly)
2. Nostalgic
3. Perfectly Perfect
4. I Don’t Wanna Be Sad
5. P.S. I Hate You
6. Problem Child
7. I Dream About You (feat. Juliet Simms)

LP 6: Harder Than It Looks (originally released as Simple Plan, Inc. SP211206, 2022 – pressed on grey marble vinyl)

Side A

1. Wake Me Up (When This Nightmare’s Over)
2. Ruin My Life
3. The Antidote
4. Million Pictures of You
5. Anxiety

Side B

1. Congratulations
2. Iconic
3. Best Day of My Life
4. Slow Motion
5. Two

LP 7: B-Sides (pressed on clear vinyl)

Side A

1. Where I Belong – Simple Plan & State Champs feat. We the Kings
2. Grow Up
3. Vacation
4. What’s New Scooby-Doo?
5. The Rest of Us
6. Ordinary Life
7. Don’t Wanna Think About You

Side B

1. Happy Together
2. Never Should Have Let You Go
3. Running Out of Time
4. Crash and Burn
5. Lucky One
6. Jet Lag (feat. Marie-Mai)

Side A, Track 1 from Coalition Music (Records) Inc. digital single, 2019
Side A, Track 2 from Scooby-Doo (Music from and Inspired by the Motion Picture) – Lava/Atlantic 83543, 2002
Side A, Track 3 from New York Minute (Music from the Motion Picture) – Elektra/Warner Sunset 62968, 2004
Side A, Track 4 from What’s New, Scooby-Doo? (2002-2008) – released as Lava digital single, 2021
Side A, Tracks 5-6 and Side B, Track 5 from Get Your Heart On – The Second Coming! – Atlantic 541147, 2013
Side A, Track 7 from Scooby-Doo: Monsters Unleashed (The Album) – Warner Bros. 48684, 2004
Side B, Track 1 from Freaky Friday (Original Soundtrack) – Hollywood HR-62404-2, 2003
Side B, Tracks 2 and 6 from Japanese pressings of Get Your Heart On! – Lava/Atlantic WPCR-14122, 2011
Side B, Track 3 from deluxe edition of Simple Plan – Lava/Atlantic 428028, 2008
Side B, Track 4 from A Small Package for You – Lava 301350, 2004

7″: Christmas Every Day b/w My Christmas List (green and red splatter vinyl)

Side A from Atlantic digital single, 2016
Side B from U.S. pressings of No Pads, No Helmets…Just Balls