Pink Floyd & Wizard of Oz - Dark Side of the Rainbow

Pretty weird but I read this yesterday.

There are a striking number of coincidences between events in the Wizard of Oz (1939) and musical cues (and lyrics) on the 1973 Pink Floyd album, "Dark Side of the Moon". It is highly improbable that the band had a print of the movie with them at Abbey Road, and few attempt to claim it to have been deliberate (David Gilmour dismisses it as nonsense), but the coincidences are remarkable nonetheless.

If you begin the album on the third roar of the MGM lion (using the NTSC version of the movie, not the 25 fps PAL version which runs a little over 4% faster) the coincidences include (but are not limited to):

• The line "balanced on the biggest wave" comes as Dorothy balances on the fence.
• The song "On the Run" starts as Dorothy falls off the fence.
• "The Great Gig in the Sky" begins when the tornado first appears.
• The song "Us and Them" is played when Dorothy meets the Wicked Witch of the West.
• The line "black and blue" is repeated when they are talking to one another (Dorothy in her blue outfit, the Wicked Witch in black).
• The line "the lunatic is on the grass..." coincides with Dorothy meeting the Scarecrow.
• When we first see Miss Gulch on her bicycle, the song "Time" starts with its bells and alarms.
• Dorothy asks Professor Marvel what else he sees in his crystal ball as the line "thought I'd something more to say" comes along in the song "Time".
• As the Scarecrow sings "If I Only Had a Brain", Pink Floyd sing "Brain Damage".
• Side 1 of the original vinyl album (up to the end of "The Great Gig in the Sky") is exactly as long as the black and white portion of the film.
• As Dorothy listens to the Tin Man's chest, the album ends with the famous heartbeat sound effect.

This phenomenon is known as "Dark Side of the Rainbow," "Dark Side of Oz," and "The Wizard of Floyd."

What I want to know is, who the hell found this out?

That's like playing a 2Unlimited album as soon as the Godfather starts and trying to find a correlation.

 

You only heard this yesterday?

You need to play the album 2.5 times over and can actually buy a version with the Pink Floyd audio already dubbed onto it.

Welcome to the seventies, Medro

 

"David Gilmour dismisses it as nonsense"

Most pertinent part of the whole post.

 

I bet he likes wwe

 

'What I want to know is, who the hell found this out?'

2001 - I reckon when Dave Gilmore came out of his 28 year drug haze he remembered....

 

Wasn't born in the 70s. Not a Pink Floyd or Wizard of Oz fan.

 

I remember reading some ****e like this about the bible years ago. Add the number of words on page blah, blah to the number of letters in the opening sentence of page blah, blah and you would get Mary Magdalene's age etc.

It's alll ****e.

 

'Not a Pink Floyd fan'

Treat yourself to a loud rendition of Comfortably Numb and Wish You Were Here, you'll probably enjoy

 

Heard them before, but not for me.

 

Money and time are better tunes

Agreed, Dark Side of the Moon (best album ever recorded ever) and Wizard of Oz sync with each other eerily, it really does stretch it being a coincidence

 

Watched it and it a load of ****e ...

It looks cool tho!

The best WoOz story is about the midget who killed himself onset during filming!

 

Wasn't that just a peacock in the end?

For all the myths around the WoOz, my kids have a special edition version of it and the doc on that showed you the original tin man's make up (the guy got really ill from lead poisoning in the make up) before they replaced the actor - that's scary

 

somthing like that or a peice of set falling over!

 

I heard that if you add the record number of blokes Tina has had in him at any one time to the number of registers on which EDGE's name can be found, you get Dev's real age.