Sleep - "Jersulam"/"Dopesmoker" - C/D?

i forgot i bought it. i was flipping through my records the other day and found a copy. true story.

The audio is clearer, louder, and at last brings a true representation of SLEEP’s hour-plus Weedian chronicle.

this is the annoying part, to me. not just that it keeps getting reissued, but that every time it happens, it has to finally be the band's "true vision" or w/e. as if they could fucking see...

they can't even remember what it's called!

Holy Mountain is the one that has been done to death reissue wise. Discogs show just one proper 2xLP issue of Dopesmoker, in 2003, on Tee Pee. One of the copies is listed for ~$80.00. I'm fine with this reissue and will probably buy it.

i dont think i ever bought that on lp so i guess i'll pick this up

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you are wrong. this is literally the fifth version of this

why would anyone want to own this on vinyl?

From Wikipedia: "Four versions of the album have been released: a rare London Records promotional disc, a bootleg with cover art by Arik Roper, the Rise Above/Music Cartel Records album and a release by Tee Pee Records.[12] The Rise Above/Music Cartel release was an unauthorized edited version, released in 1999 under the title Jerusalem.[1][3] Jerusalem runs at 52 minutes and is a single composition split into six identically-named tracks.[13] The version of the album titled Dopesmoker was released on April 22, 2003 by Tee Pee Records on compact disc and vinyl with a 63-minute running time.[2][14] Cisneros spoke most positively about the 2003 Dopesmoker release, saying "I don't think the Dopesmoker thing is the exact version that we submitted, but that's the closest one that's come out of the four. If I had to pick a favorite, that would be it."[12]"

Also – it's Algerian Goalkeeper. Of course he wants it on vinyl.

if there is any album where you do not want to get up from your chair...

i bought jerusalem on cd when it came out and it always sounded fine to me. little did i know it wasn't the REAL version. and yeah vinyl kinda defeats the purpose.

So four versions have been released: one is a promo, one is a bootleg, and one is an "unauthorized" edit. The other one is out of print and came out ~10 years ago. Not really seeing the issue here. I mean there are 36 versions of My Aim Is True.

i just don't get why its out of print at all. southern lord could keep it in print. tee pee could keep it in print. the om dudes have their own label, right? the tee pee guy is one of my facebook friends. i should ask him.

i mean its the kind of thing you could just keep selling, right? eh, what do i know.

a product of slowly increasing attention from outside die-hard metal circles? dopesmoker version came along at just the right time, coincided w lots of attention directed at both high on fire and om, but seemed intended as a fans-only collector's piece.

Brand new cover art, again!

http://www.earsplitcompound.com/site/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/sn158d-e1333380276402.jpg

Ned, Ned, Ned... beat you to it on the metal thread!

Ah well. But now it can celebrated here too. If that's the right word.

I like it on this thread too.

the art is good, but the fonts and font colors are atrocious. the writing was clearly done by a different person than the image. and that person should be fired.

otm

weedians iirc

That shade of lime green makes me want to clean my sink not smoke a bowl.

Font aside, best artwork of the three released versions of this imo. Not that I will be buying it a third time...

so thats what a procession of weedians looks like

the art is good, but the fonts and font colors are atrocious. the writing was clearly done by a different person than the image. and that person should be fired.

eh, i can hang with the retro space fonts, but this cover ain't a patch on the teepee edition from a few years back

looks like taller jawas leaving uncle owen's house

eh, i can hang with the retro space fonts

no you can't. the feel of the fonts are completely inconsistent with the image, and not in a way that's clever.

http://www.earsplitcompound.com/site/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/SleepCover300dpi-RGB-e1333384944852.jpg

this works a lot better imo, from the earsplit pr blog

this is better, but the green does not work. it should either be shade of green from the robes, or shade of the brown from the sands. and the font does not encapsulate the tone of the band at all.

the contrast works for me, what can i say? i like a little bit of pop in my graphics.

2nd version is much, much better though

i think the font works, its just the color is really wrong

you have to imagine it as a foil stamp, knowing southern lord

looks like they're already committed to that logo

http://weedian.com/files/products/23054_th_94.png

Actually, that top is amazing.

i think the font works, its just the color is really wrong

See, to me, the font evokes something good-natured, friendly, and somewhat futuristic. But it should evoke something mysterious, elaborate, hallucinogenic, and vaguely threatening. This was better communicated by the font on "Sleep's Holy Mountain," though even that album's art looked somewhat amateur and probably could have been greatly improved.

it's retro-futuristic, as is the album title. Very 70s, fits the sound of the band just fine.

album title font, I should say. Smoking dope is timeless.

xp: feh, the holy mountain art is magnificent and requires no mortal "improvement":

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vY8I5HvOvk8/SoR_vu6XCjI/AAAAAAAAIL8/NJ8gdb7STXE/s400/Sleep%2520Holy%2520Mountain.jpg

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vY8I5HvOvk8/SoR_vu6XCjI/AAAAAAAAIL8/NJ8gdb7STXE/s400/Sleep%2520Holy%2520Mountain.jpg

^ for those too stoned to click links

love how the 'ee' the new logo looks like a pair of lidded eyes glancing thataway

half want to read it as "bloop" though

it's retro-futuristic, as is the album title. Very 70s, fits the sound of the band just fine.

otm

Yeah I like it a lot.

T-shirt also awesome.

philistines.

http://www.earsplitcompound.com/site/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/SleepCoverSpreadArt-e1333384672854.jpg

i like the foldout even more

stonarz on tattoine