Menace to Sobriety (OPM album)
Menace to Sobriety is the debut studio album by American rap rock group OPM. It was released in September 2000 via Atlantic Records, and was re-released on September 8, 2015 as part of its 15-year anniversary. 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", "El Capitan" and "Stash Up".Track listing
B-sides
- "Space People" - 3:45
- "Group Therapy" - 2:20
- "El Capitan " - 3:37
- "Undercover Freak "
- "Stash Up "
- "Heaven Is A Halfpipe " - 4:21
Personnel
- OPM – producers, co-producers, art direction & design
- Matthew Meschery – vocals, keyboards, programming
- John Edney – vocals, cover, illustration
- Geoff "Casper" Turney – guitar
- Ronald Keys Jr. – scratches
;Additional musicians
- James Kevin Dotson – vocals, bass, guitar, keyboards
- Angelo Moore – vocals, saxophone
- Asdru Sierra – vocals & horns
- Ulises Bella – vocals & horns
- Miguel Ángel Huidobro Preciado – vocals
- Brady Willmon – vocals, beatboxing
- Garry Hughes – keyboards & drum programming, producer, co-producer
- Nat Gleason – piano, keyboards
- Eric Avery – guitar
- Josh Deutsch – guitar, bass, drum programming, producer
- Rusty Anderson – guitar
- David Rainger – guitar & bass
- David Mansfield – pedal steel guitar
- Sean E Demott – guitar, bass
- Melvin Gibbs – bass
- Leslie Van Trease – drums
- Michael Patterson – drum programming, programming, producer, co-producer, engineering, mixing, recording
- Alan Friedman – drum programming
- Ryan Boesch – programming
- Mike Pandos – percussion
- Jiro Yamaguchi – percussion
- Daniel Deutsch – harmonica
- Dylan Ramos – beatboxing
- Paige Taite – beatboxing
- Malcolm Michiles – scratches
- Craig Kallman – producer
- Samuel Vaughan Merrick IV – engineering
- Jeff Moleski – engineering, additional recording
- David Kahne – mixing
- 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
Chart history