In case you havn't already heard about the strange cosmic synchronization that occurs when you play Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" in place of the original "Wizard of Oz" movie soundtrack, here's the rundown.
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This has been submitted hundreds of times to the archive and rejected all those times, but I'm letting this one in because it's so descriptive. It's a neat urban legend, but that's all it is in my opinion - an urban legend. Yes, I've tried it, and it is entertaining, but I have to say I'm extremely skeptical that it's anything more than a coincidence. io9.Webmaster's Preamble: This "synchronicity" between Dark Side of the Moon and The Wizard of Oz has been spread around for years. "Another Brick in the Wall-E? Pixar Meets Pink Floyd". Archived from the original on July 30, 2012. ^ "Another Brick in the Wall-E? Pixar Meets Pink Floyd".Saucerful of Secrets: The Pink Floyd Odyssey. ^ "Does the music in Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon coincide with the action of The Wizard of Oz?"." "Dark Side" at 30: Alan Parsons: Pink Floyd". ^ "The Pink Floyd/Wizard Of Oz Connection".^ a b "The Pink Floyd/Wizard Of Oz Connection".Archived from the original on Octo– via rbsavage. ^ a b Savage, Charles (August 1, 1995).Ĭomedian Matt Herzau claims that the Pixar film WALL-E syncs up with Pink Floyd's rock opera The Wall, which he has called "Another Brick in the WALL-E", after the album's three-part song " Another Brick in the Wall." See also Both the track and the sequence are approximately 23 minutes. Again, the correspondences are primarily formal/structural and not grounded in the content of the lyrics. The lengthy Pink Floyd song " Echoes" from the 1971 album Meddle has been paired with "Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite," the fourth act in the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey. The fame of Dark Side of the Rainbow has prompted some to search for synchronicities among other albums by other bands and films by other directors. Roeper also noted the technical issue of the roughly 43-minute Dark Side of the Moon being short compared to the 101-minute The Wizard of Oz. Roeper concluded that while the band may have had the resources and technical know-how to produce an alternative film soundtrack, undergoing such an endeavor would have been highly impractical. Film critic Richard Roeper published his assessment of the phenomenon, which he referred to as "Dark Side of Oz". ĭetractors argue that the phenomenon is the result of the mind's tendency to think it recognizes patterns amid disorder by discarding data that does not fit. And anyway, if you play any record with the sound turned down on the TV, you will find things that work. One of my fiancée's kids had a copy of the video, and I thought I had to see what it was all about. I tried it for the first time about two years ago. It's such a non-starter, a complete load of eyewash. It was all based on The Sound of Music." Dark Side of the Moon audio engineer Alan Parsons denied any connection, saying the band had no means of playing video tapes in the studio at the time of recording. It has nothing to do with The Wizard of Oz. Drummer Nick Mason told MTV in 1997, "It's absolute nonsense. Guitarist David Gilmour dismissed it as the product of "some guy with too much time on his hands". Members of Pink Floyd have repeatedly denied any connection between the album and the film. In July 2000, Turner Classic Movies aired The Wizard of Oz with the option of synchronizing the broadcast to the Dark Side album using the SAP audio channel. In April 1997, DJ George Taylor Morris discussed "Dark Side of the Rainbow" on Boston radio. įans created websites about the experience and catalogued corresponding moments. But do expect to see enough firm coincidences to make you wonder whether the whole thing was planned." Savage said that there was "no obvious reason" why Pink Floyd would have written the album to match the film. The music swells and falls with character's movements. Song lyrics and titles match the action and plot. It's as if the movie were one long art-film music video for the album. According to Savage, "The result is astonishing. Savage said the idea was first shared on an online Pink Floyd newsgroup.
In August 1995, the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette published an article by Charles Savage suggesting that readers try watching The Wizard of Oz while listening to The Dark Side of the Moon.
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