Simple Plan
by Simple Plan
  • Record Label: Atlantic
  • Release Date: Feb 12, 2008
Metascore
51

Mixed or average reviews - based on 12 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 12
  3. Negative: 2 out of 12
  1. Alternative Press
    80
    The release does establish Simple Plan as on e of the most consistent acts making music today. [Feb 2008, p.109]
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  2. Amazon.com
    80
    Simple Plan's plan--to get you bouncing, bobbing, and otherwise grooving--is still simple. And like all uncomplicated strategies, it's still remarkably effective.
  3. Billboard
    80
    Simple Plan is a shameless little heatseeker, which isn't much of a musical problem. Provided you're after a good time, several cuts make excellent use of keyboard bleeps and drum-machine beats.
  5. AllMusic
    70
    The whining hasn't let up (see 'No Love' and 'Generation'), but the fun hasn't either. Credit the producers.
  6. Boston Globe
    60
    The group's third full-length album, the simply titled Simple Plan, offers glimpses of something more, but invariably falls into to the same old pattern.
  7. Entertainment Weekly
    42
    All things considered, this Plan to update their sound winds up being too Simple.
  8. Blender
    40
    Album three aims for maturity, but the results are stunted.
  9. Rolling Stone
    40
    There are some decent pop moments: 'When I'm Gone' is a seize-the-day anthem with a cathartic refrain. But most songs, like the angry barnburner 'The End,' are barely distinguishable from a dozen or so other Warped Tour bands.
  10. Spin
    40
    Like Good Charlotte and Fall Out Boy before them, these multiplantinum Canadian heartthrobs have finally covered up their pop-punk roots completely, on their fourth album. [Feb 2008, p.99]
  11. Q Magazine
    40
    Simple Plan continue to plough forwards wuth a punk template of such box-ticking efficiency that they at times resemble automatons. [Mar 2008, p.111]
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  12. The A.V. Club
    25
    Think Lavigne's "Girlfriend" without the hooks, but with a discernable degree of emo introspection.
  13. NOW Magazine
    20
    This isn’t music so much as it is economic exploitation of a demographic.

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#74 Most Discussed Album of 2008
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#37 Most Shared Album of 2008

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User Score
6.9

Generally favorable reviews- based on 61 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 42 out of 61
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 61
  3. Negative: 13 out of 61
  1. SimonB
    May 13, 2008
    4
    I got to listen to the album personally. I expected to be blown away from how much it'd suck and be the repetitive drenching pop the I got to listen to the album personally. I expected to be blown away from how much it'd suck and be the repetitive drenching pop the latter ones were. Instead, I actually saw some form of change in the band. A few songs were good, the others took the whole basis of the singer's self-worth over anyone else. "Why is everybody complaining?" cries Pierre in just about every single song, like he's not part of the problems surrounding him. And please don't tell me the album's good because "they made it to be this way", because I'll just tell you you've become a fanboy or fangirl of a generic pop culture. Good SOUND doesn't make good music. Simple Plan's still a teen girl band for girls who need attention their parents clearly don't.… Full Review »
  2. FEROZ
    May 3, 2008
    9
    its a gr8 album. They rock as usual. I don't understand what makes them give it a score of 51. it deserves above 89.
  3. BarryC.
    Apr 9, 2008
    3
    An album for the sake of an album. A new attempt at some strange shell of a once great genre called punk. The album is completely An album for the sake of an album. A new attempt at some strange shell of a once great genre called punk. The album is completely uninteresting, and downright mind-numbing at times.… Full Review »
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