Dopesmoker is an album by the stoner metal band Sleep. It was released by Tee Pee Records originally in 2003.
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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. The result was a 63-minute song, "Dopesmoker", that left the managers at London Records confused and dismayed. The band was subsequently dropped, and the resulting red tape contributed heavily to the band’s disbanding. The album was released under the title of Jerusalem by Music Cartel Records, with the the song Dopesmoker cut into six different tracks against the band's wishes.
Four years later in 2003, Dopesmoker was released in it's 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.
Track listing
- "Dopesmoker" – 63:31
- "Sonic Titan (Live)" – 9:36