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No Pads No Helmet Just Balls

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This CD is awesome. The bonus track 'Grow Up' and the songs 'Worst Day Ever', 'I'm Just A Kid', and 'One Day' are songs that almost every teen can relate to. The CD is also very low on profanity (one swear word- "what the ? is wrong w/ me"). Simple Plan may be new, but they are surely destined to be as great as blink 182, Sum 41, and New Found Glory.

usually i dont care about the whole punk rock thing i used to think it was too poppy. at heart i love linkin park and red hot chili peppers, they're great to express feelings, but simple plan has this laid back crazy jump as high as you want thing about them. after school(which can drive a person crazy) i turn up simple plan and it totally takes away every worry and gives you an stellar crazy feeling. i would recommend this cd for anyone who has stress pounding on them.

I never liked punk that much, but after listening to this cd i luv it. This cd is awesome and i listened to it 2 months straight. It is really catchy and have great songs that many people can relate to. I recomend this cd to everyone. Its amazing

This is a really awesome album and i can't understend why so many people don't like it.I know that this a space for reviews, but some people that write here, are just showing how much they hate a band or other.Who doesnt know the cd and read the reviews is looking for something helpfull. So my review is: this is an awesome cd, the lyrics are amazing and pierre's voice is wonderful. There are some things that i don't like, as an example in the song "You don't mean anything", when they repeat many times "you don't,you don't,you don't,you don't"that's a bit boring, but i still love this cd.I hope that in their new album this kind of stuff doesnt happend anymore.

I think that this CD is amazing. It's depressing lyrics (nobody cares 'cause I'm alone and the world is having more fun than me) are paired with catchy melodies and harmonies. Some songs are fun and others send out a profound message (Perfect). If I had more money, I would get this CD again.

This CD is probably my very favorite CD of anything else! It's so pumped up, and any Teenager could relate to it. The Music really goes along well with the singing. Very catchy lyrics.
This is the first CD where I didn't skip any songs. Some of my favs were, "I'd do anything", "I'm just a kid", "Addicted", "God must hate me","One day" BEST CD EVER!!!!

i really enjoyed this cd when i first heard the sond i'd do anything i just fell in love with it and i knew i had to buy the cd and it has become one of my favorite cds. the cd is great to listen to from number 1 to number 12 it is a great and enjoyable cd. since i have bought the cd they have become my favorite band i would really like to see them in concert. i seen them on trl and they are hillarious trying to say about. they are a great band and they were the ones that helped avril lavigne get discovered and they are a great band. if i were you i would go out and buy this cd. if you like them get the new found glory sticks and stones.

I've got the new CD "Still not geting any" and "No pads no helmets just balls" they are SOOOOO good. But I have to say that....the new CD is better. From the second album I put the songs I like are "Addicted" and "Perfect". The first one I like is "Welcome to My Life" and "Perfect World" It really touches me. Oh yeah Pierre is hott!

Okay, my fav. bands consist of Linkin Park, Blink-182, and WHO ELSE!!! SIMPLE PLAN!! Okay, like some of the other people said, you have to listen to samples of these songs and then buy the c.d.! My friend got one when it first came out because she heard a song on the radio she liked. Well, she let me listen to it and I loved it naturally! I went out and bought it immediately! That was like when it first came out but I just stumbled across this and decided to write the review.

-music geek

Simple Plan captures nicely--and perhaps takes to extremes--the emotion felt by adolescents on the edge of adulthood, when it seems to them that the world is falling on them, that their lives are the worst ever lived, and that they are alone and stand little chance of establishing any emotional connection with anyone. Combine that with catchy melodies, good vocals, and a nice beat, and Simple Plan has come up with a, um, simple plan for talking to the darkness and insecurity that lurks in the heart of everyone from junior high through college age, and even older.

Each of the songs takes the point of view of a lonely kid who has reached the edge of adulthood, only to find that things aren't all they were cracked up to be. It may be a kid who can't find or who has lost a girlfriend ("Addicted" or "Meet You There"), or who has entered the working world and feels the loss of childhood ("The Worst Day Ever")or whose parental relationships have frayed in bitterness ("Perfect" or "One Day"). But each kid is alone, without anyone to share his hurt, and without much ability to put his hurt into perspective, therefore such titles as "The Worst Day Ever" and "God Must Hate Me" (decried in some reviews) do sum up what the person is feeling--and what we sometimes feel in our hearts, however grown up we may happen to be.

Contains two bonus tracks from the earlier version of the CD, "Grow Up" (the character doesn't wanna)--a rather juvenile song with a younger point of view than most of the other songs, and "One By One", an interesting song about breaking away and preserving one's dreams.

Each song uses simple, often powerful language, to express the depression and angst. Yet, on balance, we feel that the characters are going to get past this. There is no sense that the kids are going to spiral downwards with drugs, crime, or other self-destructive behavior. The lonely kid will eventually find his girl, the kid bitter at his relationship with his parents will eventually find an adult relationship with them.

Perhaps the most powerful song, though, interestingly, the fourth released as a single, is "Perfect", the song of a kid addressing his dad (most likely in his mind), and grieving over the formerly good relationship they had which has turned sour. The words are alternately bitter, sad, and hurtful, until at last the kid comes to terms with the fact that the relationship is gone, and all he can do is go on with his life despite his dad's disapproval of the way he's living it. It is powerful stuff, and perhaps a broader age range can relate to this particular song.

Simple Plan has struck a chord with this CD. I suspect, though, that there is a limit to how far they can delve into teen angst with any degree of success. I await their second album (Spring 2004) with interest.