The Dark Side of Oz
July 18th, 2006 Davis Posted in VOD |
Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon was the second album I ever purchased. The first time I took it home I remember putting it into my CD player and being very disappointed by the fact that it was only 40 minutes long. I listened the the album once and then didn’t touch it again until I got into college and took it out one day on a whim. Since then this has been one of my favorite all time albums. What it lacks in length it makes up for in pure brillance.
Perhaps the most interesting part about the whole album is it’s synchronicity with the Wizard of Oz. You have to start the album right on the third roar of the lion, but if you watch the movie and listen to the album at the same time, it’s almost as if the two were written for each other. It’s a very cool effect and worth checking out. Someone has posted the Dark Side of Oz to Google Video and I still find the synchronicity creepy. Mad Dog In The Fog has listed his highlights as the following “coincidences”
1) 8:07. The wicked witch arrives at the exact same time that the bells go off.
2) 14:45. The music turns ominous when the sky darkens and the winds begin to pick up.
3) 16:00. Intense female vocals start when Dorothy starts to run around, avoiding objects that have been picked up by the strong winds.
4) 17:15. The music starts to die down and the vocals become calmer when Dorothy gets knocked out by the blown in window.
5) 18:29. The female vocals intensify again when Dorothy sees the witch on her bike.
6) 19:31. The sounds of the cash register start after Dorothy opens the door and the movie switches from black & white to color.
These are all great, but my personal favorite coincidence is that right when Dorthy’s house gets picked up in a tornado an instrumental starts and ends as soon as she goes from black and white to color. The name of the instrumental is “the great gig in the sky.”
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