David Rees: Letter of Recommendation: Sleep, ‘Dopesmoker’. New York Times Magazine, archiviert vom Original (nicht mehr online verfügbar) am 31. Januar 2016; abgerufen am 1. September 2022: „The essence of heavy metal is discipline in service of the preposterous. At its best, the genre solemnizes the impulses of adolescence. Couple this with the stoner’s habit of uncovering deep truths in whatever’s at hand and you might understand why Sleep’s magnum dopus can actually feel profound.“
David Rees: Letter of Recommendation: Sleep, ‘Dopesmoker’. New York Times Magazine, archiviert vom Original (nicht mehr online verfügbar) am 31. Januar 2016; abgerufen am 1. September 2022: „The origin story of “Dopesmoker” sounds like a light-bulb joke co-written by Nancy Reagan and Sisyphus: Three California stoners decide to write a song about how much they love marijuana, but they’re so high that it takes them four years. When they finally deliver the song to their record label, the label refuses to release it. And so the band breaks up without the world hearing their wonderful heavy-metal jam about weed. Don’t do drugs. The end.“
Matamp: About Matamp. Matamp, archiviert vom Original (nicht mehr online verfügbar) am 29. August 2022; abgerufen am 1. September 2022.
David Rees: Letter of Recommendation: Sleep, ‘Dopesmoker’. New York Times Magazine, archiviert vom Original (nicht mehr online verfügbar) am 31. Januar 2016; abgerufen am 1. September 2022: „The song’s first line is ‘Drop out of life with bong in hand,’ and things only get hazier from there. ‘Dopesmoker’ tells the story of a caravan of ‘weed-priests’ traveling across the ‘sand-sea’ in search of the ‘riff-filled land’ so as to fulfill their ‘desert legion smoke-covenant.’ Because I’m overeducated and insecure, I package my banal observations in semantic finery, so I feel a kinship with lines like ‘Earthling inserts to chalice the green cutchie/Groundation soul finds trust upon smoking hose,’ which is a fancy way of saying ‘a guy smokes some weed.’ The thesis of ‘Dopesmoker’ may boil down to ‘smoke dope,’ but first-time listeners should be forgiven for wondering if it’s actually an anthropological study of Qedarite tribes in the pre-Christian Sinai Peninsula.“
Felix Kalvesmaki: Bad Religion: Sleeps Hazy biblical Magnum Opus. Afterglow Wat X, archiviert vom Original (nicht mehr online verfügbar) am 21. April 2021; abgerufen am 9. September 2022: „Dopesmoker at times feels like a new religious epic.“
David Rees: Letter of Recommendation: Sleep, ‘Dopesmoker’. New York Times Magazine, archiviert vom Original (nicht mehr online verfügbar) am 31. Januar 2016; abgerufen am 1. September 2022: „It took me about 20 listens before I appreciated how seamlessly the time signature shifts between 4/4, 6/8 and 3/4, a neat aural analogue to the complications of walking on loose sand.“
Southern Lord Records: Dopesmoker. Soutnern Lord Records, archiviert vom Original (nicht mehr online verfügbar) am 1. April 2022; abgerufen am 1. September 2022.
David Rees: Letter of Recommendation: Sleep, ‘Dopesmoker’. New York Times Magazine, archiviert vom Original (nicht mehr online verfügbar) am 31. Januar 2016; abgerufen am 1. September 2022: „The essence of heavy metal is discipline in service of the preposterous. At its best, the genre solemnizes the impulses of adolescence. Couple this with the stoner’s habit of uncovering deep truths in whatever’s at hand and you might understand why Sleep’s magnum dopus can actually feel profound.“
David Rees: Letter of Recommendation: Sleep, ‘Dopesmoker’. New York Times Magazine, archiviert vom Original (nicht mehr online verfügbar) am 31. Januar 2016; abgerufen am 1. September 2022: „The origin story of “Dopesmoker” sounds like a light-bulb joke co-written by Nancy Reagan and Sisyphus: Three California stoners decide to write a song about how much they love marijuana, but they’re so high that it takes them four years. When they finally deliver the song to their record label, the label refuses to release it. And so the band breaks up without the world hearing their wonderful heavy-metal jam about weed. Don’t do drugs. The end.“
Matamp: About Matamp. Matamp, archiviert vom Original (nicht mehr online verfügbar) am 29. August 2022; abgerufen am 1. September 2022.
David Rees: Letter of Recommendation: Sleep, ‘Dopesmoker’. New York Times Magazine, archiviert vom Original (nicht mehr online verfügbar) am 31. Januar 2016; abgerufen am 1. September 2022: „The song’s first line is ‘Drop out of life with bong in hand,’ and things only get hazier from there. ‘Dopesmoker’ tells the story of a caravan of ‘weed-priests’ traveling across the ‘sand-sea’ in search of the ‘riff-filled land’ so as to fulfill their ‘desert legion smoke-covenant.’ Because I’m overeducated and insecure, I package my banal observations in semantic finery, so I feel a kinship with lines like ‘Earthling inserts to chalice the green cutchie/Groundation soul finds trust upon smoking hose,’ which is a fancy way of saying ‘a guy smokes some weed.’ The thesis of ‘Dopesmoker’ may boil down to ‘smoke dope,’ but first-time listeners should be forgiven for wondering if it’s actually an anthropological study of Qedarite tribes in the pre-Christian Sinai Peninsula.“
Felix Kalvesmaki: Bad Religion: Sleeps Hazy biblical Magnum Opus. Afterglow Wat X, archiviert vom Original (nicht mehr online verfügbar) am 21. April 2021; abgerufen am 9. September 2022: „Dopesmoker at times feels like a new religious epic.“
David Rees: Letter of Recommendation: Sleep, ‘Dopesmoker’. New York Times Magazine, archiviert vom Original (nicht mehr online verfügbar) am 31. Januar 2016; abgerufen am 1. September 2022: „It took me about 20 listens before I appreciated how seamlessly the time signature shifts between 4/4, 6/8 and 3/4, a neat aural analogue to the complications of walking on loose sand.“
Southern Lord Records: Dopesmoker. Soutnern Lord Records, archiviert vom Original (nicht mehr online verfügbar) am 1. April 2022; abgerufen am 1. September 2022.
