Sleep: Dopesmoker

[Rubywatch74]

Am I the only who hears a whole lot of Hendrix influence in the guitar playing?

[letsgetdrugs666]

"Onward Caravan prepare new bong"

[Bassoman123]

ive just listened to the whole thing.. i amazed and scared at the same time. cant believe the sound and vibes that just hurled through my body that entered from the first note and lasted for 63 minutes..

[Nebelgranate]

listen today for my first time...so epic and great, i belive in this man

[heebomanify]

Thumbs up if you love to sing along!

[Axellson]

If I was the record label and Sleep dropped this on my desk, I would've been like "guys, this is great, but I need it to be longer and heavier"

[PearlJamm]

theres a crying baby in the other room (my nephew) who wont shut the fuck up. so i turned this on to go to sleep to. heres hoping it works.

[Axellson]

@PearlJamm Warning: You might not wake up for a very long time...

[1337xavi]

Both those who wrote Bible and those who wrote Dopesmoker were stoned off their asses. Does that mean that this is the new Bible, for us, weedians? Hell yes. Let's make a religion of hasheeshians, with black masses and shit like that.

Damn, weed is amazing.

[TheeUnidentified]

@1337xavi "Black masses?" ...the inner gatefold of this record reads:

"Thanks to The Almighty and The Son"

I follow what you're getting at tho...

[1337xavi]

@TheeUnidentified I know, i know about Al Cisneros's faith and shit. But you can always interpret it in your own ways. I was always on the occultism-stoner side. Electric Wizard themes are perfect for me!

[BadGroundBand]

@TheeUnidentified Al is very spiritual, but I do hope he's not completely fooled by the religious. However, 1337xavi, let's change that from "let's make" to we ARE the fellow Weedians, and Dopesmoker is our High Holy Script. Just please, don't take the story literally. It is a beautiful story that can bring us together just as it is. Hail!

[francoxxxfranco]

@1337xavi black masses?

ARISE THE SON OF THE GOD OF ISRAEL - WITH BONG IN HAND!

[2daewoo4u]

@1337xavi Dude, I imagine that shit everytime I hear this song. I imagine my life in like biblical days in a covenant of weed-smoking Taoist arabs who have an entire covenant of weed, and they're like...high all the fucking time, and everything's about weed; they worship the shit. Like they walk around in a state of complete weed zen, and they go with the flow of everything. and they're known throughout the land as wise and mysterious sages, and they're the only ones that know the secretsofweed

[amalanwilliams]

Y U NO allow playback on iPhone.

[WormdrivE66]

@amalanwilliams Because Matt Pike would Kick You in the Nuts if he allowed that.

[btoskich]

"You see all these A students who have to pee in a cup," Hooker said

[panzerveps]

All right... I asked my self to review this song.

I've been "clean" for 2-3 years now, but still... this song...

Man.... This song is probably THE BEST SONG (Sorry, ran out of capslock) ever written...

Serioysly... I've been clean for 2 years, + 3 weeks without nicotine... Still best song ever...

[armytaskforce11x]

This just made me want to smoke more weed,but dam am so high I feel sober think it's time to combined 40s with blunt to enhance my high so I can unerstand this song more better fuck

[Rauscheder]

Holy shit, am I glad I found this video. Would have been a great background track to my 5 40's in an hour video. Subscribed. Favorited. Awesome!

[PilmarKhinKari]

Truly angelic. No music has ever come closer to making me feel one with everything, one with the void.

[upabovechoices]

whats the best stoner album>???? i put this in the top 3 ,, behind kyuss red sun album and holy mountain by sleep at number 1.. ??.. i think that shrinebuilder had it been 3 tracks longer and those 3 track be just as good as the 5 on the album it would be in there knocking something out of the top 3 for sure... shrinebbuilder is the shiznit

[kosmokratein]

simply the best album ever...considering all music genres....



[asdurrett9]

@kosmokratein Rush and Black Sabbath would both like to have a word with you. Did you just forget about 2112 and Master of Reality?

[pattonPwr]

I GOT ERECTION.

[samuelraphael]

One of my buddies saw Sleep in the early nineties, went across the street for a drink, played a game of pool, and when he came back they were still holding the same chord.

[MrNomSauce]

@samuelraphael THC is a hell of a drug...

[samuelraphael]

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[viadaj]

best thing evar!

[c0ldcity]

So far every evening since I found this has had one less hour in it...

[dudonaut]

ahhhhhhh....Sleep's mindblowing Dopesmoker... which kills me every time ._.

and I finally got the record! haha :D

[plkelly72]

you can listen to what ever you want right after this song

[meeces13]

my cousin and i picked up 2 punker hitch-hikers. got em rrrrrealy high and made em listen to this on the canadian highway drivin @3am. good times.

[Rhamag]

I had a smoke, listened to most of this in a trance then realised I'd burnt the sausages I was cooking for supper. Nevermind. Some you win, some you lose! Sleep, little ones...

[nineelevenjfk1776]

doesnt get better than this

[vectorialalo]

0:35:00 WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!­!!!!!!! (head explodes)

[AlexOvertheBee]

that was the first time I was able to finish it.

Now that it's gone, I feel empty.

[Gardnerb2]

Sometimes a riff is so fucking good, that you just have to repeat it for 64 minutes!!

"Such Hawks, Such Hounds"

[EaTaesse]

Has anyone seen the documentary Baraka? Me and a friend of mine watched that amazing piece of art but with Dopesmoker as soundtrack instead of the movies music, stoned as hell. It was glorious. And genius.

[vectorialalo]

Thank you "Such Hawks, Such Hounds" for showing me this....

[wheelchairpropeller]

yeah.. ill finish this.. right now.

[ericrmack]

I have jammed to this song at least once a day, all the way through, for the last 2 weeks now. Insanely good tune.

[SuperRabbit98]

This is the best song i've ever heard. <3

[bludgeonedPROD]

im 0:09:05 minutes in, fuck yeah

[Youmiketube10]

25 people couldnt listen to the whole song

[ThaFreakymeL]

just heard the intire song.. Its fucking epic man

[Krematorum]

GREEEEEEEAT DUDE!!! the whole masterpiece... that's what I needed!

macabreemptiness.blogspot.com

[TheeUnidentified]

I find it interesting that this comment that has 45 + votes isn't displayed in the Top Comments:

"It's so beautiful that this actually has the balls to combine the Bible with weed..."

metallicakixtotalass

[MegaPelotes]

not even halfway done, too epic for words... the gods have SPOKEN!!!

[TheGreaterGood80]

@mikebaal its not for you

[TheJames1233]

So lemme get this straight My Jerusalem version and this version are the same version?

[MrThembones]

@TheJames1233 Yeah, I know what you mean. And to answer your question, no, Jerusalem is an edited version of Dopesmoker that came out first when record labels refused to release the full song.

[thescottwino]

@MrThembones Plus, it has a different cut of the whole song and a different mix, not the origial one by Billy Anderson (wich is this almighty heavyness you can hear).

[TheJames1233]

@MrThembones actually i think its the music that gets you stoned in a way you know man? like it transports you to this other world

[ZoeRydahNigguhChiken]

@mikebaal

i can understand why you might feel that way. i love all music, and bands like sleep and om and sabbath are all seriously kick ass like no others. i can't say it's boring, because if someone truly loves music they'll love the most basic and primordial of songs, and i can get hyped up over a basic, four-note bassline. yeah, it's long. however, it was written for a reason, and that was for the few that could appreciate it's entirety.

[SocialAnthrax]

@mikebaal obviously lower intellect than most lads.

[perrottafamily1]

@mikebaal *facedesk*

[psychoman564]

Listen to this song

Take a hit out of the bong

Every two minutes.

That's both a haiku and a fun game to play.

[WeedVulva]

@psychoman564 I wait around a minute my friend.

[diziamonddave]

one of my favorite albums ever. its nice you have this one here so i can surf the interweb with headphones on and jam this bitch. this was an album i used to drive around on the hillside here in texas and listen to bcause, to me anyway, its extremely therapeutic. i love this album like no other. fucking amazing

[MrHIGHlow75]

these sleepers are definately one of my faves! this shit really is monumental fuckin' dope! holy sleep holy...

[afropunk84]

Sleep FUCKIN ROCKSSS!!! LOL...guys took their entire signing bonus and bought nothing but weed so they could make this album..WTF?!?...thats awesome:)

[templedown]

i put this song on and my cat toked all the weed i had then stage dived off the couch onto me ;)

[mujuma]

1 hour? my Laptop will overheat before then ):<

[ender10100]

Owning Black Sabbath,

[dubcasp]

i raped the replay button -_-



[dakotamanomgwtf]

Holy shit it's an hour!?

[mastodon77]

Sometimes it only takes 1 song...

[Foreignsik]

@mastodon77 Sometimes it only takes 1 riff...

[TheARCHxENEMY]

this needs a million more views, its the greatest song in existance.

[MrNorbertweiner]

Yuck, youtube compressed the audio quality of this down considerably 

[MrEmmeTube]

...uh.....brb Holy Mountain.....

[TheMightyClaybear]

This is a real potheads music. Not Lil Wayne and his bullshit

[TheWrenaissance]

Can't stop listening to this masterpiece. Great for going on a long run through mountainous terrain.

[Thyclaine]

I am everything.

[v8metal]

@Thyclaine Thank you.

[jcdrums1]

Just to let ya know: there's some skips around the halfway mark...sounds like loading errors...but, otherwise, thanks for posting!

[doukissa11]

EZAZ GECI

[JordiSmulders]

Last week we held this smoke-a-thon,8 people. We had 1 rule: the circel could not die,at least 1 joint should be lit the whole time. Ofcourse this evening kicked of with Jerusalem. This was our hommage to the holiest of holy. This evening all the speakers would vibrate were the rifftastic sounds the three kings from the east. Soon the room was filled with smoke, the scene was hot and tense. This wasn't just an evening smoking weed, this was an epic journey through the band which is called SLEEP

[SuparMonkey]

43:25 is a lungsman inhaling a monster hit and receiving the word of God.

[SuparMonkey]

@MrThembones I found these guys well after I stopped smoking... sometimes brings back the feeling almost. Absolutely amazing combination of musicians to create this fucking masterpiece of an album. So glad the whole thing got up unsegmented on the tube. It needs to be listened in full.. and I can't stop myself dropping out of life every time...

[Teaglex93]

Dopesmoker and Jerusalem are the same song.....????!?!?! im confuzzled because they sound the same... which one is which and what one ><



[Copidat]

@Teaglex93 Dopesmoker is the ORIGINAL Jerusalem, but Sleep's record label thought that was pushing it just a little too much. So they cut about 11 minutes out of Dopesmoker, and re-released it as Jerusalem.

[Teaglex93]

@Copidat thank you sir i have been enlightened

[christin12345678910]

how could this give stoners a bad name? we do love this shit, all the way from 0:00-1:03:24

[imaguy123]

Possibly the greatest song ever recorded.

[boothoot]

Haha, Strangely I started jamming this and looked up from the comments and realized it had been playing for 4 minutes and 20 seconds - sadly, I haven't enough time left in this morning to stay up and finish listening... damnit!!!

[ipwnzyounow]

i can listen this song the rest of the day if is possible

[autopsy87]

technical playing guts the soul out of music. i love extreme metal and quite a few progressive/technical bands, but this shit has much more soul and atmosphere.

[elderofinternet]

If I had to decide which CD the only one would be I may own, it would be this

[razblack]

one cord.. over and over and over and over and over and over.... its' liek a brain stroke.

[michellica1983]

@razblack Exactly. Dude, I was actually messing with the controls on video because the first thing I thought was: "WHY IS MY COMPUTER FREEZING?" And then I realized it really was the song and I went to go cut myself.

[killthenewkid]

why in the fuck would you not like this? its the mix the band likes more. hail sleep.

[ShadowDreadblade]

Proceeeeeeeeds the Weeeeediaaaaan, Nazareth!

[aghona]

Yeah man! ill be right over, just gonna listen to this song first!

[dropd29]

Proceeds the Weedian NAZARETH!!

[00Mayes]

Fuck those executives at London Records for refusing to release this as an album. I guess it had to happen for High on Fire though. Still, fuck em'. Sleep rules

[PhiladelphiaCollins0]

Matt Pike > Everything



[TheCuriousgeorge90]

this is some heavy stuff man...

[FieldyLLP]

Todays setlist: Intro - Dopesmoker - outro

[sadim31]

imagine recording this song and messing up at the end :p

[bloodpool]

even when im baked as fuck i cant listen to this shit. Sooo boring. Yeah lets listen to the same chord over and over again for an hour.

[BadGroundBand]

@bloodpool It's funny because you don't get it. Clearly, you would never join the Stoner Caravan on the journey to Jerusalem across the great Sandsea....

[bloodpool]

@BadGroundBand Probably not.

[FoStoFoSho]

@bloodpool i feel the exact same way! i smoke constantly, but when im high i want to listen to technical, mind-blowing, and interesting music. This gives stoners a bad name :(

[perrottafamily1]

@FoStoFoSho I like it.

[Switchfifty]

@FoStoFoSho I think only you think this give stoners a bad name, the rest of us LOVE IT! Especially 12:30-15:00

[jk47hm4]

I feel stoned listening to this.

[legendzskate]

@jk47hm4 me too

[metallicakixtotalass]

It's so beautiful that this actually has the balls to combine the Bible with weed...

[BadGroundBand]

@metallicakixtotalass You see it too?! lol, it's kinda obvious, but oddly enough I've never heard anyone else mention that except me until now

[metallicakixtotalass]

@BadGroundBand I know, right? The lyrics are almost all biblical images combined with weed puns. And look at the album art - it's all images of ancient Hebrew priests worshipping by smoking up! Fuckin beautiful.

[SuparMonkey]

@metallicakixtotalass The full vinyl sleeve of this is glorious. The lyrics.. ah so good. It's a fucking exercise in rhythmic meditation as well, gloriously revolving around C. Sitting back and playing along to this is better than any bong hit I've ever had. 

[Switchfifty]

@metallicakixtotalass Wow I never thought of it that way.

[Switchfifty]

@metallicakixtotalass No wonder it's that powerful! AAAAHHHH

[Sober182H]

@metallicakixtotalass It's not like Rastafarianism hasn't been doing that for decades upon decades upon decades.

[hollywoodsheraton]

sleep, but wake up. nobody is in control, right? the only one to say how to live is you, not your parents-- nobody. piss on drugs, then you'll only be smoking the stuff after that dries out. nobody is telling you what to do. nobody can tell you what to do. i am digging sleep's epic tale completely straight. i also listen to every youtube song i like. i don't care who is against my music. do whatever you want, but i like more, more, more--- she's probably a witch anyway. i dig the sound

[MisuOfArabonaClan]

huh. you probably all know the feeling, when a Sleep song suddenly ends, and you stand there in a yellow cape, that was your mom's before you've put runes on it holding the knife to your sister's guniea pig ready to sacrifice it to the Three Headed Chaos God on the altar you just made (it's been there since 20.000 years I mean) and the cave (your bedroom) is cloudy from all the candle and potsmoke, and you're like WTF AM I DOING?

I mean,...I mean you do KNOW that...RIGHT????mNOK

[razvy4]

This is beyond reality.

[br00t4lbreakdownzfuk]

to all the people who think you have to conform to a certain style of music and not stray from your comfort zones, I'm just about to start listening to this after listening to Midian by Cradle of Filth. just saying.

[CreatORder]

My girlfriend hate therefore, I love.

[wheelchairpropeller]

@TheeUnidentified Ima be so proud when my kids drop out

[MetalMissa]

@wheelchairpropeller That's the spirit! :D

[macleodponeage]

@TheeUnidentified I don't think this song is referring to Dropping out and being a lazy stoner, but its more about just smoking and having a sort of spirtitual experience in general. Like this is just what happens when you smoke just once. Its not so much dropping out of life as it is crossing into a new realm of conciousness.

[TheeUnidentified]

@macleodponeage If you browse the various data/viewpoints/quotes at my channel it should be crystal clear that I don't promote 'dropping out' to be a "lazy stoner," which is your extrapolation, and nothing I've implied.

As stated in my above posting - a reply to someone else who left a typical trolling comment re the 'dropping out' thing - the choice to 'drop out' that is alluded to in the song, while open for interpretation, denotes a spiritual / existential choice in how one approaches life.

[macleodponeage]

@TheeUnidentified Oh yeah I know, I was agreeing with you, my comment probably would have been more effective if I had replied to the other dude... oh well. Cheers \m/

[TheeUnidentified]

@macleodponeage ... and that's not to say I've anything at all against lazy stoners, ha...which I am, too, in part. Especially as it pertains to things and/or ideological aspects I don't support, or care for, or disagree with on moral grounds..while simultaneously being quite motivated towards things I do care about. I suspect such idiosyncrasies are universal among people, even those who don't smoke weed.

'Dropping out' means divorcing one's self from empty priorities and imposed wants & needs

[macleodponeage]

@TheeUnidentified That's a nice way of putting it. All I'm saying is that the way I interpret the phrase "drop out" in this song is using weed as a temporary escape from life's struggles, not necesarily making a lifestyle of it. I don't have problems with "Lazy Stoners" either, I'm just saying thats not the message I personally get from this song. I dig your philosophies, reminds me of Dudeism...

[HD027]

I wish I could play this at a DJ set into one of those techno disco

[cdavis421]

No weed is strong enough to make me want to sit through this...

[punksaregayjokes]

@cdavis421 im sitting though the whole song and i just got stoned



[redfoxskater]

@cdavis421 Oh thats interesting. Your comment was greatly appreciated. The way you used your sentence structure changed the way I look at music. It also makes you look like you know what you're talking about and that you really love music as an art form and not just noises that fit together when you dance. :)

just kidding.

[FoStoFoSho]

@cdavis421 haha perfect cpmment.

[Fyropyro420]

I had to drop out of life before I ever really ever wanted to drop in.

[DirtMerchant1990]

thats the dopest dope I ever smoked

[noxgenus]

so i guess they were stoned out of their minds, pressed 'record' by accident and played for an hour...then one of them went like wtf, we recorded an hour of mayhem. Can't do better then that

[zosothedestroyer]

@noxgenus i think it took them like 5 years to write the whole thing, they got signed to london records, and they wouldnt put out a 60 minute song, so they cut it up into pieces. This version finally got mixed and released. A lot of history behind this song

[wheelchairpropeller]

got my vinyl today

maybe when i stop smoking i can get an apartment somehow to listen to it in.

[MrShredFish]

is this an album or a song...cause i just skipped to parts and parts and it seems like its one song lol its still awesme but...damn lol

[MrPopescuTheSecond]

@MrShredFish Yep, It's a song.

[Jamcad01]

Didn't know music could make my eyes hurt...

[TheGreaterGood80]

Stupid London Records butchery has been avenged....

[zztosha]

I still can't get the image of a space rocket that is taking off the ground when the first riffs start playing. Fucking epic.

[davemunrothumb]

like a sledgehammer of sludge that comes before me

[apatheticbrutality]

who else is a dopesmoker?

[apatheticbrutality]

for a second, i thought this was an hour long song

[Coroner308903]

@apatheticbrutality It is

[SuperGomes47]

@apatheticbrutality Don't know if you know this already but it IS a song.

[PisauraXTX]

YEEES! Finally I can listen to this masterpiece in Germany!

[tango616]

this song is longer than some albums I know O.o

It's fucking epic though, love it.

[FrenchConcrete]

@TheeUnidentified

Sure. I get what you are saying...

I was inferring that dropping out of life meant no money & scarce food. Do that to yourself: 'whatever'. Do that to your kids: you suck.

[FrenchConcrete]

make sure you drop out of life before you have kids. thanks.

[TheGreaterGood80]

@FrenchConcrete I don't want kids. I'll stick to be an uncle. Suck my bag :)

[SneakyOstrich]

It goes on for an hour?

[GrowTheCaine]

Its like watching a movie......

[lobosolo]

Hey-Vee.

[LoquaciousApe]

38:52 - 43:30

[000Metallegions000]

I'm writing an essay about this song for my Philosophy of Art class. I am baked as fuck. My professor is a hippie. I am getting an A+ for sure.

[TubeFreakification]

@000Metallegions000 Did you get an A+?

[000Metallegions000]

@TubeFreakification I got a B+. But I'd say that's still damn good. Got most points off for structure/grammar, cause I was completely toasted while writing the damn thing, after all... xD

[mobilesuitZer0]

@000Metallegions000 I bet you smoke shwag and think you're high as fuck.

[000Metallegions000]

@mobilesuitZer0 Nah man I get the good shit.. It was 2 1/2 g's of white widow, i think, mixed with 3 g's of pure hash, spread over about 8-9 bowls and a few bongfuls. Shit busted my wallet but it was WAY fucking worth it.

[DeIMarrrrr]

@mobilesuitZer0

No reason to get all up the dude's ass about what he smokes.......raise the bongs in peace my friend!