Ranking the Albums: Sleep
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- Join Pete Pardo as he ranks the albums of doom/stoner metal legends Sleep. #sleep
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I wish the band would re-record the earlier albums with the sound, equipment and production they have now on The Sciences. Vocals were never a strong point but Al sounds better now than he did back then too. When they do the older songs live they just crush it, sounds better than the studio versions.
agree 100%
Al isn't a strong vocalist, but I love his voice. It's perfect for this band & what they do
Has anyone noticed that the black & white photos of the 3 band members on the insert with The Sciences is a takeoff on the time lapse exposure photos of Rush from the Moving Pictures album?
Thanks, Pete. Keep listening to more doom/stoner music since coming to SoT. So another band for investigating and listening. As always, appreciate these ranking the album shows - particularly for bands that it sounds like need to be heard.
Follow the smoke to the riff filled laaand!! 🤘
Thanks PETE/. Only know. Dope smoker. So more homework assignments today. Lol. Thanks again for your time 👍💯
Sleep and Neurosis the two heaviest bands I've ever seen live, just massively crushing. Makes sense that Jason Roeder was the drummer in both bands.
I think I saw both of them on a bill at a warehouse on 16th St. in San Francisco, 1993.
Neurosis we're great, but too bad about Scott as a person!
@@markfurru3368 Yea, that was messed up, good on the rest of them for calling him out though.
@@markfurru3368 what's the beef with him? He seems like a good dude.
Oh man, you hit the nail on the head there buddy. I personally think that there will never be a band like Neurosis. I am 53 years old and in all my years as a metal fan, nobody does, or has done what they do. crushing, sooo heavy, emotive, apocalyptic as well as sublimely beautiful.
Sleep... the best at what they do.
My current ranking:
1. The Sciences
2. Iommic Life: Clarity / Leagues beneath singles
3. Dopesmoker
4. Holy Mountain
don't own the first one
Al's singing got better on the latest releases (after the reunion)
1. The Sciences 2. Holy Mountain 3. Dopesmoker 4. Vol. 1
I wish they'd rerecord that early 90's Vol 1 album, I absolutely love the riffs and MASSIVE tone that goes throughout.
4. Volume One (1991)
3. Sleep's Holy Mountain (1992)
2. The Sciences (2018)
1. Dopesmoker (the full version, not the truncated "Jerusalem" version)
Often said that I prefer Al Cisneros' other band OM and his time in the supergroup Shrinebuilder more but a fan of Sleep all the same. Here's my ranking...
Holy Mountain.
Volume One.
The Sciences.
Dopesmoker.
Jerusalem.
Huge fan of the side projects (OM and Shrinebuilder) from members of Sleep as well
I've only heard Volume 1 and Holy Mountain, so far. I've always been a bit confused on the whole Jerusalem/Dopesmoker thing; which is the best version? And, I'd like to hear The Sciences as well.
I am a huge Matt Pike fan, though. Love all of High on Fire's albums. Also, he came out with an amazing solo project and album last year called Pike vs. the Automaton - which was sadly overlooked by much of the heavy metal public - but it's amazing!
Only 4 studio albums, but they are top notch! Stoner and Desert rock is what I grew up on in the early 2010s, while my contemporaries were still listening to Five Finger Death Punch, Metallica, and Iron Maiden. My first vinyl record was the 2012 reissue of SLEEP's Dopesmoker. I do in fact have Volume 1 on CD and vinyl. Extremely underrated, even in the Stoner Doom community. I didn't even realize you were into this stuff when I watched your channel years ago. Listen to any Electric Wizard or possibly Goatsnake?
Wow. Was listening to high on fire when this notification popped up
Love, love, love the Sleep discog., along with Pentagram, St. Vitus, Trouble, Electric Wizard and Windhand. If you like 70s Sabbath, you're gonna dig these. 🤘
This is exciting. I love Sleep, and it will be a treat to hear Pete do a deep dive into their discography.
For me, it's:
1. Dopesmoker
2. The Sciences
3. Holy Mountain
4. Volume One
need a video on electric wiz!
Sleep alomg with Kyuss revitalized my interest in metal; I wasn't into the overproduced pop sound of mid to late 80s hard rock and metal. This is the stuff that brought me back into rock in the 90s.
Kyuss rules! Pete just did their ranking. I'm sensing a trend...
Thanks for the ranking. One of the great Stoner/ Doom bands. My ranking would match yours. I don`t have Vol.1, but:
1. Holy Mountain - Classic
2. The Sciences - What a great return, this one can almost tie with Holy Mountain.
3. Dopesmoker - I love it but it can be a challenge to get through at times.
Let me preface my ranking by stating the obvious: I love all four of these albums!
1. The Sciences - It is their best sounding album. It is a more mature and focused version of the band.
2. Dopesmoker - It took me awhile to get into it. It isn't something I listen to often, but when I give this titanic release my undivided attention, it is a rewarding experience.
3. Holy Mountain - Great songs stripped of some impact by hollow production.
4. Volume 1 - Creepy, ominous, and raw. Highly underrated.
Agreed 10000% with your assessment, and thank you for saying that about the Sciences...so few people acknowledge that its the first album of theirs that seemed to capture the huge sound that the band achieves live. As much as Sleep is one of my fav bands, the '90s production definitely negatively impacts those early albums.
Have loved what I have heard from Sleep. Thanks for the ranking Pete. Always enjoy the suspense of a ranking show. Of what's on the bottom. What's in the middle and what's at the top. Take care.
The Sciences was released on 4/20/2018 and wasn’t announced at all till the day before 4/19 🌳🔥💨💨💨
Killer 👍 👍
I love sleep
Like their Rush reference on the inner sleeve of The Sciences...
Cheers.
Hello Pete,
I absolutely love the channel and I'm an avid watcher of your shows with Martin Popoff, Album Ranking and New Album Reviews.
Love your ranking recently of Kyuss and Sleep but I was curious if you were familiar with the band Solitude Aeturnus? If so, what's your opinion of them and if not, I highly recommend them. I discovered them maybe 3 years and love the brand of doom metal they made.
King Buffalo has been a recent love over the last couple years as well. Great interview with Sean McVey.
My music collection has increased ever since following your channel. I discovered the greatness of Budgie through your channel and your shows with Martin have introduced me to more obscure albums.
Continue the good work. You've expanded my collection and my musical ear for classic rock, hard rock, progressive metal, doom and stoner metal.
Thank you Pete.
Yep, great band. I have everything they ever recorded I believe.
1) Sleep’s Holy Mountain
2) Jerusalem / Dopesmoker
3) The Sciences
4) Volume One
I didn't think putting Dopesmoker at number 3 is contrarian. It's hard to listen to because it's basically one riff for an hour with a solo every 15 minutes, and not a whole lot of lyrics. It is one of those albums that requires you to be in the mood.
Sleep's Holy Mountain is easily my favorite Sleep album. Great stoner metal classic.
I tried to get into this band a few times...I understand why they call it Sleep.
1. Holy Mountain
2. Vol. 1
3. The Sciences
I don't how to rank Dopesmoker because it's just such a different listening experience.
Sleep is such a great stoner metal band and Matt Pike is a legendary guitarist. Here would be my ranking for Sleep:
4. Volume One
3. The Sciences
2. Sleep’s Holy Mountain
1. Dopesmoker
Great band! For me not an instant listen like kyuss but I tend to listen to them once in a while. My ranking would be the exact same as yours. I don't like dopesmoker as much as many others do I definitely think sleep's holy mountain and sciences is much better
Sleep is Amazing!!
Top 4
1. The Sciences
2. Dopesmoker
3. Holy Mountain
4. Vol. OnE
Holy WeeD!!
I see what you mean w/ Dopesmoker Pete, but I think it's such a monolithic statement - heavy rock worship taken to transcendental extremes - that I almost feel I have to rank it number one. Al took that approach to really interesting places w/ Om (who I like way more than HoF).
If you're into the debut than you should 100% check out the Melvins, esp Ozma, Bullhead and Lysol, a very big influence on this scene. Good luck doing a ranking w/ a 34 album discography though...
I might have flipped your 2 and 3 but like you said there’s not a bad record in the bunch. Al’s band Om is also amazing
Another side project if ya don't know:
m.th-cam.com/video/Ya6hEXlKXlk/w-d-xo.html
Check out the inside artwork from The Sciences.
There are hidden references for every Black Sabbath member in that picture, can you spot them all? ;)
Pete, when did you become a Sleep fan? Did you, for example, own Holy Mountain in the mid-'90s? This is one of those bands where I'm always curious when/how people became aware of them. It often feels as if most discovered them in retrospect, drawn in by the reputation of Dopesmoker in particular.
listen to 'this heat' please
I don't know how anyone could prefer Sleep over High on Fire but many do for some reason 👌💨😵💫
And I’m one of them for sure, but I do like HoF a lot as well.
Any chance you can rank the releases from Fu Manchu?
Have you ranked Khemmis yet? Seems like a band you would dig…
Yes pretty sure Pete did it with Jamie Laszlo last year
I did.
"This guys were really into pod" LOL. For me dopesmoker get a new level if you're dope. Great ranking
Listen to the band Ancient Days!!
or Ancient Cross!!
@@independenceltd. AND Ancient Days!
For anyone interested here’s a rad ‘Dragonaut’ I shot in Bklyn back in 2018
th-cam.com/video/KNvIkcrb7wc/w-d-xo.html
My ranking is pretty much the same. I would put Dopesmoker on the bottom; it's the heaviest, but just too much repetition for me.
I thought for sure Lazlo would show up here, but I guess Lazlo isn't a stoner metal guy.
4. Volume One
3. The Sciences
2. Dopesmoker
1. Holy Mountain
Thru a haze of pot roast?
Man, I love me some doom, but Sleep does nothing for me. I only own "Jerusalem".
Dopesmoker with alternate lyrics , nice 👍
I don't know this band...
you've been sleeping on Sleep
@@independenceltd. Yes.😂😂👍...(I don't like stoner or doom).
@@franciskocher200 If you like Black Sabbath then you should check out Witchfinder General and Orchid. Very Sabbath-y.
@@independenceltd. I know these bands but not good for me
@@franciskocher200 😐
Vinyl copies of Vol.1 are actually plentiful and inexpensive…on CD not so much you are correct
Look up vol 2 , it's been sitting at $250 dollars for 3 songs for years now. Live from Third Man Records 4 record set is the best vault release I've bought to date
Damn. $250. At my age , there is zero chance I’m spending that. lol 👍💯
@@garyjoyce2160 the cover is orange Sabbath vol 4 with sleep instead
@@garyjoyce2160 sadly it's the only album I'm missing by them , hardcore fan
@@bryanmcfadden4071 /. Gotcha 👍💯
Sleep was known as Asbestos Death ☠️ before calling themselves sleep , they have albums