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“Heaven is a Halfpipe” by OPM
From the album Menace to Sobriety (2000)
“Heaven is a Halfpipe” by OPM appears on 10 radio countdowns from 10 stations in 2000. It was first released in 2000 on the album Menace to Sobriety. Its best result is #10 on the WBER Listener Countdown 2000. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #88 alternative song of 2000.
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"Heaven Is a Halfpipe", sometimes tagged with the parenthetical "(If I Die)", was the lead single from OPM's 2000 debut Menace to Sobriety, and with a title that pictures the afterlife as a skate ramp, it wears its slacker heart right on its sleeve. John Edney and Matthew Meschery share the vocals, Malcolm "Old Man" Michiles works the turntables, and Josh Deutsch and Craig Kallman produced, with Garry Hughes as co-producer, keeping the rap-rock bounce loose and sunny.
It climbed to 18 on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks, but the real love came from Britain, where it went to number four, finished as the 33rd-best-selling single of 2001 and went gold. The band re-cut it in 2012 for the Heaven Can Wait EP.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 101 | KROQ Los Angeles, CA | KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 2000 | 107 |
| 2000 | 94 | Live 105 San Francisco, CA | Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 2000 | 105 |
| 2000 | 63 | WHFS Washington, DC / Baltimore, MD | WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 2000 | 100 |
| 2000 | 79 | WFNX Boston, MA | WFNX Top 100 Songs of 2000 | 100 |
| 2000 | 87 | 107.7 The End Seattle, WA | The End Top 107 Songs of 2000 | 107 |
| 2000 | 73 | 89X Detroit, MI / Windsor, ON | 89X Top 89 Songs of 2000 | 89 |
| 2000 | 10 | WBER Rochester, NY | WBER Listener Countdown 2000 | 100 |
| 2000 | 103 | WBCN Boston, MA | WBCN Top 104 Songs of Y2K | 102 |
| 2000 | 68 | Triple J Australia (national) | Triple J Hottest 100 of 2000 | 100 |
| 2000 | 97 | Radio & Records United States (national airplay chart) | Radio & Records Top 100 Songs of 2000 | 100 |
Also listed as: Heaven Is A Halfpipe; Heaven Is A Half Pipe.
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