Get Your Heart On - The Second Coming! Simple Plan

• 1Ordinary Life03:25
• 2The Rest Of Us03:14
• 3Outta My System03:25
• 4Fire In My Heart03:26
• 5In03:42
• 6Lucky One03:50
• 7Try03:26
• Total Runtime24:28

Info for Get Your Heart On - The Second Coming!

The „Get Your Heart On – The Second Coming!“ is the first EP release from popular Canadian band, Simple Plan. They decided that because the period of time between their last album, ‘Get Your Heart On’, and the one that they are currently working on was so long due to extensive touring, the band would put together a seven song EP to essentially tide fans over until the new album is released.

With a career that spans more than a decade, multi-platinum Montreal-based Simple Plan has earned widespread acclaim and a global fan following for their genre-defying blend of classic punk energy and modern pop sonics.

Said the band: 'We're really excited to release our first EP and share some new music with our fans all over the world. 'Get Your Heart On - The Second Coming!' is a collection of songs we wrote during the songwriting sessions for our last album. We came up with over 75 songs for 'Get Your Heart On!' and it was a very tough process to narrow them down to the 11 that made the final cut for the album.'

„The crux of Simple Plan's lasting appeal is, perhaps, best summed up on the second track of their new EP Get Your Heart On - The Second Coming! (essentially a collection of reworked leftovers from their last album). On career standout 'The Rest of Us,' frontman Pierre Bouvier claims he doesn't 'hit the notes perfectly when he tries to sing.' Seconds later, he states - with a charmingly shaky confidence - 'we do it better than the rich and the fabulous.'

Over the course of their 15-year career, the Canadian five-piece have strictly maintained their identity as, above all else, a strikingly well-executed pop/rock band. The only 'punk' credentials to their name (aside from their ties to Reset) rest comfortably in the sheer resilience of their persona as young, approachable, wide-eyed pop craftsmen. As Bouvier states on 'The Rest of Us,' he certainly doesn't have the best voice in modern pop music, but what does that matter?

While their competition often seems to be merely pretending to have personal investment in the subject matter of their songs (angst, young love, melodramatic social isolation), the gentlemen of Simple Plan have built an unbreakable wall of authenticity around their work, making them somewhat 'critic-proof.' Some will continue to write these guys off as low-brow, but that's not fair. There's an art to making songs like this actually work, and Simple Plan have mastered that art by adding a healthy helping of realness - an element often missing from younger bands attempting the same formula perfected by Simple Plan.“ (Trace William Cowen, Alter The Press)

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One day last year, Simple Plan's Pierre Bouvier and Chuck Comeau were sitting in the recording studio trying to come up with lyrics for a track they planned to include on their new album, Get Your Heart On!. Not only did they want to write a song about the emotional power music can have in one's life, they also wanted to capture the sentiment behind the thousands of pieces of mail the band receive at their Montreal headquarters each month from fans all over the world who write to express what Simple Plan's music has meant to them. As Bouvier tells it: 'These letters are pretty overwhelming and humbling at the same time so we wanted to somehow pay homage to those fans. We were sitting there going, ‘I don't know, what do you think they would say?' and Chuck says, ‘Why don't we just ask them?'' The following message was posted on Comeau's Twitter feed: 'We decided to write a song about you guys…Can you tell me how our music has made you feel through the years?'

'Within seconds, the responses started coming in,' Comeau recalls, still marveling at the moment. 'It was a deluge, like a hurricane of answers.' Based on those Tweets, Bouvier and Comeau constructed what is perhaps the first song ever written entirely via Twitter: the poignant album closer 'This Song Saved My Life.' 'Every word is taken from the hundreds of messages we got from our fans,' Comeau says. It's a tribute to these loyal souls (25 of whom showed up from all over the world at a studio in Vancouver to sing on the track after the band tweeted an invite) who have faithfully followed the Canadian quintet since its inception in 1999, through three studio albums, two live albums, and tours to nearly every corner of the globe, including visits to Russia, Israel, Poland, Jakarta, Estonia, South Africa, and The Philippines, as well as extensive sold-out headlining tours of the U.S. and their native Canada.

Simple Plan's connection with its fans has translated into a string of hit singles, including 'I'd Do Anything,' 'Addicted,' and 'Perfect' from their 2002 double-platinum debut No Pads, No Helmets…Just Balls, 'Welcome To My Life' and 'Untitled (How Could This Happen To Me)?' from 2004's platinum Still Not Getting Any…, and 'When I'm Gone' and 'Your Love Is A Lie,' from 2008's Simple Plan, which debuted in the Top 3 in Mexico, Brazil, Japan, and Canada, Top 10 in Hong Kong, Sweden, Austria, Switzerland, Australia, and Germany, and Top 20 in Spain, Finland, and France. Overall, Simple Plan have sold nearly four million albums in the U.S. and Canada and more than 7.5 million albums worldwide.

Now the band are back with Get Your Heart On!, a gloriously fun, boundlessly melodic slice of poppy modern-rock that finds Simple Plan returning to the revved-up energy of No Pads and Still Not Getting Any after taking a slight detour with a darker, more beat-driven sound on their previous album.

'We love and are very proud of our third album and I feel like it was a record we had to make because we wanted to do something different,' bassist David Desrosiers says. 'But now it's time to get back to the high energy songs. We were really itching to have a batch of fast-up tempo songs, because they are really fun to play live.'

One of the first songs written for Get Your Heart On! was album opener 'You Suck At Love.' The chorus' instantly catchy melody and tongue-in-cheek punchline resonated with fans immediately when the band unveiled the song during a string of memorable performances at last year's Bamboozle Roadshow and was a key moment for the new album.

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