Menace to Sobriety by OPM

Menace to Sobriety, OPM's debut album, rolled out on Atlantic in August 2000, a sun-baked mash of rap rock, hip-hop and ska punk that reeks of lazy summer afternoons. "Heaven Is a Halfpipe" was the calling card, its title alone a statement of priorities, and it traveled far enough to land at number 68 in Triple J's Hottest 100 for 2000 in Australia. "El Capitan" and "Stash Up" followed it onto the charts, each with its own video.

Atlantic also issued a clean version that strips out most of the swearing and all the drug talk, which tells you plenty about the original. It got a 15th-anniversary reissue on September 8, 2015.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.