The stoner rock movement - if you can call it a movement - proved to be as nebulous as past trends like "Second Wave British Blues" and well, "post-punk". It involved a litany of varied bands from the hippest of music scenes to the farthest of far-flung places you can't even imagine. San Jose, California's Sleep provided arguably the biggest mystery the genre has ever seen. Their one and only foray into the corporate big leagues took eons to record (well, about two years, because of the Man, man) and felt even longer to experience. This epic hour-long bout of hash-slung pile-driving sludge apparently didn't impress their bigwig label enough for official release, so originally it came out in edited form as Jerusalem in 1999, followed by the full version in 2003. Not saying the Sleep records before and after suck or anything but when all is said and done their career hinges on this Gordian Knot-style whopper.