Dopesmoker

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Dopesmoker
Dopesmoker cover
Studio album by Sleep
Released April 22, 2003
Genre Stoner Metal
Doom metal
Length 73:07 (Cd), 71:26 (2LP)
Label Tee Pee Records
Producer(s) Billy Anderson, Sleep
Professional reviews
Sleep chronology
Jerusalem
(1999)
Dopesmoker
(2003)


Dopesmoker is an album and song by the stoner metal band Sleep. The album was released by Tee Pee Records originally in 2003.

For their third record, Sleep took almost two years writing, re-writing, and recording with producer Billy Anderson, investing a large portion of their major label advance on the album. The result was a 63-minute song, "Dopesmoker", that left the managers at London Records confused and dismayed. The song was reworked into the 52-minute "Jerusalem" but London Records still refused to release it. The band was subsequently dropped, and the resulting red tape contributed heavily to the band’s disbanding. The later version was released under the title of Jerusalem with the the song cut into six different tracks against the band's wishes.

In 2003, "Dopesmoker" was released in its full-length single-track form and is considered the definitive version of the third album by Sleep.

A very abridged version of the song "Dopesmoker" appears on the soundtrack for the Jim Jarmusch film Broken Flowers.

Contents

[edit] Track listing

[edit] Compact disc

  1. "Dopesmoker" (Sleep) – 63:31
  2. "Sonic Titan (Live)" (Sleep) – 9:36

[edit] Vinyl

The vinyl version of Dopesmoker has the song "Dopesmoker" split into three parts. The song stays the same but is cut off between the first three sides of the record. "Sonic Titan" is 39 seconds shorter than the version found on the compact disc version of the album.

[edit] Side A

  1. "Drop Out of Life" (Sleep) – 21:10

[edit] Side B

  1. "Creedsmen Roll Out Across the Dying Dawn" (Sleep) – 20:11

[edit] Side C

  1. "Marijuanaut" (Sleep) - 21.08

[edit] Side D

  1. "Sonic Titan (Live)" (Sleep) – 8:57

[edit] Personnel

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