OPM – Heaven Is A Half-Pipe (2001)

July 30, 2023

Expanding on my recent comment, I figured I’d do a review as I owned the CD – This gets a 3 star because it was one of the first CD singles I ever bought. I wanted the album, because I knew a lot of OPM stuff had swears in it, and as an 11 year old, that was just the coolest shit ever. However, there was something about the absolute dogshit artwork on the album that stopped me from buying it, and I’ve never heard it, even to this day.

Heaven Is A Half Pipe was EVERYWHERE in the UK. Realistically, its not that great of a song, but damn was it catchy. I remember buying this CD, putting it into my Walkman, and having my mind blown by the skating sounds going from left to right, right to left, like there was someone skating a pipe inside my head. That shit was cash.

I listened to this track for the first time this month in 22 years. It really hasn’t aged well. For some reason the band re-recorded it in 2011, and this is much, much worse than the original. Weird.