Is it true that when Pink Floyd's album Dark Side of the Moon is played along with The Wizard of Oz, the music "goes with" the movie?Synchronicity, is a phenomena involving rock Albums synching up with movies so that the music matches what is happening visually in the movie
Side one of the vinyl album DSOTM is the exact length of the black-and-white portion of the movie TWOZ.
And what about the DSOTM album cover, with its prism and rainbow echoing the movie's famous black-and-white-into-color switch and the movie's classic song.
The movie switches to color at the exact moment that the cash registers start ringing at the beginning of the song "Money".
Is it coincidence?
Was it planned?
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The phenomena "synchronicity" between Dark Side of the Moon and The Wizard of Oz.
Judge for yourself.
How to do it: Get your CD player ready and start the movie. Then start the album when the MGM lion finishes its third roar. You have to do this exactly right, or it won't "work."
If you are too lazy to do the above, here is a link to video of the tornado scene, synching with the Floyd song "The Great Gig in the Sky". (link)
When Pink Floyd band members present and past have been asked about the album and movie, they have all denied any purposeful link. All, that is, except for Roger Waters, the band leader at the time and the man behind that album. He refuses to comment at all.
This refusal has led some to believe that Waters arranged the whole thing without letting his band-mates in on the secret. One problem here is that Waters was not the sole writer--they worked together on this album. If he didn't write it all (Mason wrote "Speak to Me;" Waters, Gilmour, and Wright co-wrote "Breathe;" Wright wrote "The Great Gig in the Sky;" etc.), how could he secretly set it up so well? Another problem is that some of the songs (or parts of songs) had actually been written earlier but not used. This includes "Breathe" and "Brain Damage."
Also, Waters was not the producer of the album. Alan Parsons had that job, and thus had at least some control of timing and sound effects and the like. Parsons has denied any connection to the movie.
It is coincidence and wasn't planned.
In fact, Stoners find synchs all the time. It is also said that the band Rush's 2112 album can be synchronized with Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory.(link)
Of course, the band with the stoned-est fans will have the most synchs. There is also a supposed synchronicity between the Floyd Album Wish You Were Here and the movie Blade Runner.
Again, It is coincidence and wasn't planned.
But...
... "Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite", the third act in the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey totally synchs with the lengthy Floyd song "Echoes" from the 1971 album Meddle. Both the track and the sequence are the same length, about 23 minutes. Also. director Stanley Kubrick asked Pink Floyd to score the film, and Roger Waters reportedly has said he regrets having turned down the offer.
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