Simple Plan surely like to surprise us! Who would have thought that during all these past few months, when the band members were supposedly on “vacation”, they have been in fact all locked in the studio recording a very special surprise album!
In order to make the wait for the upcoming sixth SP album more bearable for their hardcore fans, Simple Plan decided to release a special Blink-182 cover album entitled “My Aliens Exist: A Blink-182 Cover Compilation” (which fans of both bands may see as a clever play on words from the titles of two certain Simple Plan and Blink-182 songs). The cover album is due to come out on June 31st 2018 and you can already pre-order it here [and make sure to also check out the album art on the right].
In a press release, Simple Plan’s drummer Chuck Comeau noted how important Blink-182 has been in the formation of Simple Plan and how 16 years since its inception they decided to pay homage to them, and especially to Mark Hoppus, who’s faith in the band and in their song ‘I’d Do Anything’ which he is also featured on, was crucial in Simple Plan’s subsequent career.
16 years since our debut album was released, we still love Blink and because we know that our 6th album is going to take some time to make, we wanted to give our fans something to listen to in the meantime – that’s why we decided to create this special limited edition cover album by recording some very special covers of some of our favorite Blink songs. Our fans may have heard us perform some of these on our soundchecks over the past few years but this is the first time we’re releasing them as a compilation. And once again, Mark was so generous he agreed to lay his vocals on our cover of my favorite Blink song: ‘Going Away To College’!!! Thx, Mark!
I am so stoked for you all to hear all our renditions of these legendary tracks!”
Simple Plan also updated their website with a tracklist of all songs featured on this record. The cover album features 8 cover songs of some of the most popular Blink-182 songs from many of their past records and also 5 special bonus tracks. These bonus tracks are all mashups of Simple Plan and Blink-182 songs, which coincidentally have very similar (sometimes even identical) titles. Check out the full tracklist of “My Aliens Exist: A Blink-182 Cover Compilation” below:
2. Going Away To College (feat. Mark Hoppus)
3. What’s My Age Again
4. California
5. The Rock Show
6. Not Now
7. Dammit
8. Always
1. Shut Up/Shut Up (mashup)
2. First Date/First Date (mashup)
3. Untitled/Untitled (mashup)
4. Aliens Exist/My Alien (mashup)
5. Don’t Mean Anything/You Don’t Mean Anything (mashup)
And finally – check out the first official lyric video that Simple Plan just dropped for one of the remixes that can be found on the cover album, which features a mashup of Simple Plan’s ‘Shut Up’ and Blink-182’s ‘Shut Up’:
Are you excited to hear more? Make sure to keep an eye on SimplePlan.cz for more exclusives on this cover album very SOON!
