'Heaven Is A Halfpipe' - Classic Or Dud

Who's it by, again?

GOD FUCK YOU FOR BRINGING UP THIS SONG

Having said this, that mixtape sounds like the worst thing ever. Did it also have "Because I got high" and "Block rockin beats" on it?

Although I'll be the first to admit that this song is nothing compared to "Steal Me Sunshine," but that's not exactly a fair comparison.

I think this is a pretty song as far as failed would-be late alt-rock anthems go. It's great when the second chorus comes in with the loud drums and everything, and the bridge is pretty much unassailable:

Like Christian Hosoi way back in '87
we'll be bustin' Christ Airs until we get to heaven
Think I really care that I missed biology
Got my education in Stalefishology
With all your rules, you gots to chill
I'm gonna twist out like Mike McGill

I don't think this song recieved airplay on the east coast. Not in my area anyway... therefore I consider this song way west coast.

I was living in Georgia but I think I only ever saw it on MTV2.

xp: It was played every hour on the hour in DC/Maryland.

this shit still sound good they need to play this on the radio word

I enjoyed that post so much Hoos

I have never heard this song and still don't know who it's by

I saw this single in a charity shop a couple of days ago and was like "did I like this? I can't remember". I didn't buy it. Still can't remember if I liked it or not.

You did.

classic classic classic

of all the 'i can't believe this wasn't a us hit' non-us hits this is the main one

suburban brits couldn't get enough of that socal bullshit at the time, idk if americans were more burnt out on it by that point

teenage dirtbag (not socal, not that we would have known) is also a big one in the US non-US hit category at the time (pretty fly to a lesser extent a bit before). these songs are broad and catchy and obvious and embarrassing with clever combinations of specificity and generalizability in their details

I prefer this one for the ACAB factor and the relative subtlety of its critique of the US white christian ideal of heaven as basically a segregated gated community. which was lost on me at the time

it's more allstarish than I remember it being and I would probably have hated this whole "thing" (which I assume sublime has something to do with?) if I was closer to it but like many people raised on the same pop culture imports and socio-historical ignorance californian suburbia might as well have been heaven to us

classic for sure

it was definitely a late outing for the sunshine pop thing*. to me it feels a bit more pop punk coded than smash mouth or steal my sunshine. my first exposure to it was on my sixth birthday through the compilation 'sk8er rock'. i was about to say it is next to smooth criminal and fat lip on now 50 but bohemian like you is in the way.

*which in my head does span from the socal stuff to, like, 5ive. i remember seeing the video to got the feelin' on the vault once and thinking that, ignoring who it is by completely, it could have been on kerrang, a corny track by a usually cruder rap rock band (i (deliberately?) ignored the presence of synchronised dancing hehe).

The other day, after hearing my son blast Citizen King's "Better Days" from the garage, I was tempted to start a thread about this strain of positive alternative pop of the 90s. I wanted to trace its history and get into the nitty-gritty of it. That urge passed, but Heaven is a Halfpipe was definitely get brought up.

Would have been something like, "the first Urban Dance Squad album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought one..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4Dw6q-5iaA

classic

The other day, after hearing my son blast Citizen King's "Better Days" from the garage, I was tempted to start a thread about this strain of positive alternative pop of the 90s. I wanted to trace its history and get into the nitty-gritty of it. That urge passed, but Heaven is a Halfpipe was definitely get brought up.

We had that thread recently about the whole post-Beck Alternative movement, of which there is a lot of overlap.
'if Odelay sucked...' How Alt-Rock Dealt With Beck In The '90s

Thanks!