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Wizard of Oz / Dark Side of the Moon

I noticed that Wizard of Oz is showing on television tonight, and it made me think about the rumor/urban legend that Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon was secretly composed as a soundtrack to the movie. For those who have tried it, as I once did, do you agree that there is something to this? For those who haven't (but have too much time on their hands and would like to try), you should begin Dark Side when the MGM Lion roars for the third and final time before the movie begins.

Note that the effects of certain chemicals on the brain may enhance the apparent synchronicity of Wizard and Dark Side -- or so I have read :->
jeffreybowman2k
snofun3
601 posts
 
A few years ago they had the DSMTM / WOO combination pre-synched for your listening pleasure on PBS.

I have a tape of it, and there are some very interesting coincidences.
stltrains
845 posts
 
darn i missed the third lion roar, we have the great movie wizard of oz on and was checking up on some goning and caught this tread. the cyclone is right behind Dorthy, and we are going over the rainbow. alright here comes the colors. yea
calbrs03
184 posts
 
Regardless of soundtrack, The Wizard of Oz is just a strange movie. It freaked me out as a kid--the flying monkey bit had me running for mom--and the movie is still bizarrely psychedelic today. After that, I created my own Technicolor, gingham, flying house, altered-state dilemmas with Dark Side of the Moon. Doesn't surprise me that the two would work together, but I won't be playing with that combo too soon. :-O
thomasedison
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I have tried this several times. I completely DO NOT believe that Dark Side of the Moon was composed as a soundtrack to The Wizard of Oz.

Popular music in general, and Dark Side of the Moon in particular, has many key changes, tonal changes, and lyrics which espouse general themes of love, fear, loss, and longing. Movies have many camera, scene, and set changes and also use universal themes of love, fear, loss, and longing.

If you put any movie and music album together you will find occasional coincidences between them. Combining a movie about a girl's dream fantasy (Dorothy), and an album about a acid-using musician who went off the deep end (Syd Barrett), you are bound to find more than the usual amount of coincidences. See this website for some of the coincidences you may see when combining them:

http://www.ingsoc.com/waters/info/oz.html

However, there are many more key and song changes, lyrics, and other aspects of the album that DO NOT match up with the scenes and plot of The Wizard of Oz than there are connections. But the human mind works by trying to find meaning in the world, trying to find connections between everything we experience, particularly when we experience them simultaneously. So we do find connections between the album and the movie. But it is not unique between these two creations.

Try matching up The Wall with Alice in Wonderland. If you want to try dozens more coincidental "synchronicities" between movies and albums then check out this website:

http://www.synchronicityarkive.com/
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