Menace to Sobriety (OPM album) explained

Menace to Sobriety
Type:	studio
Artist:	OPM
Cover:	OPM - Menace To Sobriety.jpg
Released:	August 15, 2000
Recorded:	2000
Length:	47:53
Label:	Atlantic
Next Title:	ForThemAsses
Next Year:	2004

Menace to Sobriety is the debut studio album by American rock group OPM. It was released in August 2000 via Atlantic Records, and was re-released on September 8, 2015 as part of its 15-year anniversary.^[1] There is also a clean version of the album, which removes most of the profanities used on the explicit version and any drug references.

The album spawned three charted singles and music videos for: "Heaven Is a Halfpipe" (which also reached #68 in Triple J's Hottest 100 for the year 2000 in Australia), "El Capitan" and "Stash Up".

Track listing

B-sides

1. "Space People" - 3:45 (from Heaven Is a Halfpipe CD single)
2. "Group Therapy" - 2:20 (from Heaven Is a Halfpipe CD single)
3. "El Capitan (SoulChild Remix)" - 3:37 (from El Capitan CD single)
4. "Undercover Freak (007 Version)" (from El Capitan CD single)
5. "Stash Up (Funk Food Remix)" (from Stash Up Maxi single)
6. "Heaven Is A Halfpipe (Original Demo)" - 4:21 (from Stash Up Maxi single)

Personnel

• OPM – producers (tracks: 1, 4, 6–8, 10, 12, 14), co-producers (track 9), art direction & design
• Matthew Meschery – vocals (tracks: 1, 3-10, 12, 14), keyboards (tracks: 7, 8, 10), programming (tracks: 1, 8)
• John Edney – vocals (tracks: 1, 3-10, 12, 14), cover, illustration
• Geoff "Casper" Turney – guitar (tracks: 1, 3-10, 12, 14)
• Ronald Keys Jr. – scratches (tracks: 4, 8, 14)

Additional musicians

• James Kevin Dotson – vocals (tracks: 5–7, 12), bass (tracks: 1, 4, 6, 7, 12, 14), guitar (tracks: 1, 3, 5–7, 9, 12, 14), keyboards (track 14)
• Angelo Moore – vocals (tracks: 7, 12), saxophone (track 12)
• Asdru Sierra – vocals & horns (track 8)
• Ulises Bella – vocals & horns (track 8)
• Miguel Ángel Huidobro Preciado – vocals (track 8)
• Brady Willmon – vocals (track 10), beatboxing (track 14)
• Garry Hughes – keyboards & drum programming (tracks: 3, 5, 9), producer (track 15), co-producer (tracks: 3. 5. 9)
  • Nat Gleason – piano (track 3), keyboards (tracks: 4, 12)
• Eric Avery – guitar (track 1)
• Josh Deutsch – guitar (tracks: 3, 5), bass (track 3), drum programming (tracks: 3, 5, 9), producer (tracks: 3, 5, 9, 15)
• Rusty Anderson – guitar (track 3)
• David Rainger – guitar & bass (track 5)
• David Mansfield – pedal steel guitar (track 9)
• Sean E Demott – guitar (track 10), bass (tracks: 8, 10)
• Melvin Gibbs – bass (tracks: 3, 9)
• Leslie Van Trease – drums (tracks: 6, 7, 9, 12, 14)
• Michael Patterson – drum programming (tracks: 3, 5), programming (tracks: 1, 4, 6, 10, 12), producer (tracks: 1, 2, 4, 6–8, 10-14), co-producer (track 5), engineering (tracks: 3, 5, 8, 9), mixing (tracks: 3, 4, 8, 9, 12), recording (tracks: 1, 4, 6–8, 12, 14)
• Alan Friedman – drum programming (track 3)
• Ryan Boesch – programming (tracks: 8, 10)
• Mike Pandos – percussion (track 7)
• Jiro Yamaguchi – percussion (track 8)
• Daniel Deutsch – harmonica (track 5)
• Dylan Ramos – beatboxing (track 14)
• Paige Taite – beatboxing (track 14)
• Malcolm Michiles – scratches (tracks: 3, 5, 15)
• Craig Kallman – producer (tracks: 3, 5, 9)
• Samuel Vaughan Merrick IV – engineering (tracks: 3, 5, 9)
• Jeff Moleski – engineering (track 5), additional recording (tracks: 7, 12)
• David Kahne – mixing (track 5)
• Stephen Marcussen – mastering
• Stewart Whitmore – digital editor
• Thomas Bricker – art direction & design
• Kristin J. Klosterman – photography
• Sean Murphy – photography
• Cindy Hartman – A&R coordinator
• Kevin Williams – A&R

Notes and References

1. Web site: OPM The Borderline London. Borderline London. 2015-12-20. https://web.archive.org/web/20151023064222/http://theborderlinelondon.com/listings/upcoming-events/28301/opm-special-guests/. 2015-10-23. dead.