RIP Rick Wright

I absolutely love Pink Floyd
I am an artist, an oil painter who paints with 5 cds in the loader, all Pink Floyd all the time. I have done the Wiz and PF together on the 3rd roar It is very cool and is worth the trouble to try it out. I did it years ago and remember it well it works. I am so sad that waters and Gilmour could not get along. I think Waters needs to be a little less auto biographical. Gilmour really needs Waters to give him some direction. Gilmour is a guitar god and should be on Mt. Rushourmor. Waters is a genius who needs to steer Gilmour in the right direction. Nick Wright seems like a normal fellow that lends stability to the progect. I Recently discovered that “Division Bells” is fantastic. Gilmour didn’t need Waters to do this. It is great as is. Roger. get on your knees and beg them to make the real final cut. The other one sucked. So did thje Obscured by Clouds. WTF?

Eilon, you’ve hit the nail on the head. The fact is that you can take paractically any piece of music and put it with any film or video and you’ll come up with something that matches. The effect is known in Hollywood as mickey-mousing. For the most part they try to stay away from it unless it’s for comedic effect.

But when you take popular rock CD’s and match them up with popular movies, you can sometimes come up with syncs that seem to transcend mere coincidence. The more closely related the themes of the CD and movie, the better the sync, i.e: Peter Jackson’s “The Lord Of The Rings - The Fellowship Of The Ring” with Led Zeppelin’s “IV”. Rolling Stone just did a pretty interesting story about some of my syncs if you’re curious: http://www.rollingstone.com/ro ckdaily/index.php/2008/04/18/m eet-the-king-of-stoner-rock-mo vies-just-in-time-for-420/

The DeVille
www.SyncMovies.com

I think the best part is the one with the witch but honestly if you take any movie and play any music on it you’ll find some stuff sync, its just the way our brain is wired to make sens of things. Also this is the reason why film score works so well. Try it with any piece of music and film and you’ll see what I mean.

and i think tina meant to say dark side of the rainbow. obviously its a combination of dark side of the moon and somewhere over the rainbow.

hey when you are high this stuff does seem really cool but when the drugs wear off then you realize you are sitting in a room watching a good movie and listening to a good CD. Just so you know while your high listening to any kind of rap and watching cartoons is freakin’ halarious too.

( i forget,, if the lion roars 2 or 3 times,, if only 2 times then start at the beginning of the 2nd roar,,

you start music at the 3rd roar of the MGM lion

Can someone please tell me exactly when to start the movie & and music?? I cant sync it…

i’m sorry but tina did you say dark side of the RAINBOW? it’s dark side of the MOON

it is fun to do it no matter what. good movie. good album. people just stop getting so pissed off about it and get lives themselves. smoke some pot and calm down or something bitches.

this is a cool fun thing to do, especially with your friends. even though it probably wasnt intentional that mekes it all the more interesting. this is one of my favorite LP’s and its so fun to watch the two together and see the weird stuff that turns up

listened and watched the whole thing on my own. very cool. probably not done intentionally. certainly not worth getting angry over like some of the previous dicks have written. as some know it all stated, any 4/4 can be played over any 4/4 song in the movie and sync, but not every 4/4 song sings “black black black and blue blue blue” and shows the wicked witch in black on the blacks and dorothy on the blues. nor do other 4/4 songs say “which is which” when were looking at witches. Idea: how bout if the angry haters f**k off and the people that enjoy it keep enjoying it? make the world a better place and punch “anonymous” and “god damn you people are stupid” in the face.

Who gives a shit, they are both amazing works of art, but find something more productive to do with your time people.

“Money” happens to be in 7/4 time.

These samplings are just a small part of the experience that fits with dark side of the rainbow. You should listen to the whole cd with the movie to tell. I will also test out the other cds suggested. It’s a cool experience in music either way.

It’s a MUSICAL. The songs were written in 4/4 time, and the “syncs” occur when an album of music recorded in 4/4 time is played over it… And you don’t get how that’s NOT amazing?

The actors were gesturing ON THE BEAT of the songs written for the movie. It doesn’t matter what songs you play over the originals– If the timing and tempo match up (which is VERY likely, considering few popular songs are written in anything but 4/4 time at 120 beats) you’ll get the actors gesturing on the beat of the new music, too.

This is elementary music theory, kids.

As for the words matching up– I’m sorry, but that’s lame. “Grave” or “death” matching when people fall down? Really? That’s the best you can do?

Oh, yes– “Knee” is said when someone goes to their knee. That’s one line out of how many?

Why don’t the lyrics to “Money” match up to a scene where people are counting money? Why does the film go for HUGE STRETCHES without matching up to the music (Answer: Those huge stretches without sync are the scenes where the actors aren’t singing to a 4/4 song.)

You’re delusional, idiotic, and desperate. You could slap a copy of Sgt. Peppers on the turntable and play the movie, and get the same effect, with different words and scenes matching “perfectly”.

It’s like none of you know a damn thing about how musical timing works, or the ideals of chance.

List all the “syncs” and then list all the words that DON’T sync, and you’ll have the number of words that would sync up by RANDOM CHANCE.

You people make me embarrassed to be surrounded by you.

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well pink floyd sinched alice in wonderland with the wall, dark side with oz, and Echoes with 2001 a space oddysey. and they were asked to do the original soundtrack to 2001 and at the last second dindt, so obviously they had expereince sinking movies, its foolish to think this is coicedence

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am i the only one who played wish you were here bigining at the end of the dark side CD. I mean the scene where there walking to the city of ozz and the poppies befell on them is to sinked to belive. those industrial sounds like alarmclocks when they openthere eyes. mot coincidence. I never tried final cut but i know its a short album. I hope im not the first.

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I never denied it.

Thank you, frequency, I went there and ordered it. I’ll post my opinion of it later. A key moment I’ll be watching for: the Tin Man weaving and weaving, and then finally stepping as “Breathe” really kicks off. That moment is not ideal in Dark Side of the Rainbow, and I know I saw it perfectly on this 2-3 disc SVCD I used to have. Maybe this Oz version will have it right. It’s the moment-of-proof for those who think PF did the sync on purpose.

Regardless, fre, I appreciate the heads-up.

Visit this site for a list of video/music pairings:
www.synchmovies.com

I response to BR in Milwaukee on 5/21/2007 there actually is a perfect synch where the movie was edited to fix all the one second misses in the straight synch. It was edited by VJ DMCA and is called The Dark Side of OZ, released by Redux Films. Last I looked it was still available at their website href=”http://thedarksideofoz.c om”>thedarksideofoz.com

I’m sure everyone would like to believe this whole sync up business. The band obviously is the one of the best if not the best by far. To stay on the charts for 741 weeks (which I think that DSOTM is in again) is an accomplishment NO OTHER BAND HAS made. They did movie sound tracks and the idea is not far fetched but I think alot more is put into it than need be. RS did a rather crappy job syncing up the music with the video so that doesn’t help at all.

I wish I had all day to sync movies with Floyd albums, I’m sure there’d be tons of conicidences. As for some dude who said Rogers voice isn’t what it used to be, when you reach 62 and have used your voice as a tool for that long I doubt you’d be sounding great either. Gilmour isn’t the same either for that matter, when they lost Roger, they lost the main creative force. I love Gilmour and his guitar playing ability. I think he’s up there with Page, Clapton and Hendrix.

Don’t fool yourself into thinking he’s good at writing because he isn’t. He’s good for 2-3 songs by himself and not with the help of his wife or anyone else. Roger can write, he can arrange and he can play the bass perfectly just as Gilmour plays that Fender Strat.

If you listen to a Waters solo album compared to Gilmour it sounds like PF. I think Waters, Mason, Wright and Gilmour are the best when they are together, just look at Live 8. Without each other they are missing something. Waters puts on a hell of a show but you can’t replace Gilmour just as you cannot replace Waters or Mason or Wright.

As far as ticket prices go Waters has gone on record saying he hates Ticketmaster and the fucking outragious fee’s that are charged to the average fan who cannot afford to sit up front. If the jerk who made the ticket comment would read or could read he’d know that Waters tickets for DSOTM can be bid on by American Express card holders which is why it costs over $1500.00 to sit up front, duh. And you’ll obviously pay out the yang to sit up front at any show.

If PF did sync TWOO they’d play it during DSOTM because they do other shit that sync’s up with the music…like the sun being eclipsed by the moon.

Don’t rule out never seeing them get back together either, now that Roger isn’t the asshole he was now David has taken that role. I’ve read he’s done with PF and wants to focus on solo stuff. Too everytime you hear his name it’ll be associated with PF because it made him who he is just like the rest of the band.

This band will live on forever because they created the perfect album that deals with every happy moment and fear of human exsistance. We are all truely lucky to have Pink Floyd in our lives.

anyone else having trouble looking at the feed. My computer won’t show the video.

What a great thread, especially Brian B (3/29) and Simple Truth (3/26). It proves my point: the best fans of any kind, anywhere, are Pink Floyd fans. Even the haters among us can spell, and manage some humor! When do you ever see that?!

As for the sync issue, it never occurred to me that it may have been intentional, but having heard the arguments, it makes sense. I don’t see a legal problem with admitting it, however, since they don’t actually USE anything from The Wizard of Oz. (( would Waters be in trouble if he said he wrote Brain Damage while wacking off to Judy Garland singing Over the Rainbow?? lol ))

I notice that sync #1 above is different from the popular 3rd lion-roar start of “Dark Side of the Rainbow.” I think it’s better actually! (”Balanced on the biggest wave” is now perfect as she balances, and the “race towards an early grave” fits with her fall much better). I wonder if there are *other* moments where the sync is a second off, and could be improved with judicious editing? I want the perfect copy!!!

Givin the background of Waters I believe that the group could have created DSOTM to sync with TWOO. But also givin Waters personality I think he would have jumped at the chance to take credit for it. He was asked about the sync in interview , and said it was not intentional , but The Wizard of OZ was a favorite of his as a child. So I conclude that he is telling the truth , and it is coincidental.

This thing is really just coincidence. I watched an interview with David gilmour about this same subject and he said that they just wrote the music and never had the intensions of making it so when u get stoned and watch the wizard of oz and put The Dark side of the Moon 2gether that u get a totally different story. But it is really physchidelic at how much they suit eachother.
PINK FLOYD ROX YOUR LIFE!!!!!
4EVER!!!

I’ve done it 5 times, and shared it with new people each time. I’ve found that people with no appreciation for Floyd, or familiarity with the album don’t seem to get it at all. Being stoned doesn’t hurt either.

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If the synching was unintentional then it’s eerie and if it’s intentional then it’s just one more example of the genius that is Pink Floyd. Either way, I say VERY cool.

i think that what you have done here is stupid… you are supposed to start the cd when the lion roars at the beginning of the movie. putting little pieces of the movie with little pieces of the song is plain ignorant, it makes no sense.

I’ve never actually done it myself(though it’s going on my to-do list), but you have to admit there’s something weird there. Acid or no, it’s creepy. That kind of thing doesn’t “just happen”. At least not that many times

P.S. JFK WAS a conspiracy, Elvis IS alive, and Kurt Cobain WAS murdered. (Okay, the second one may be a lie, but I though 3 conspiracies sounded more powerful than 2)

Glad I never took the time to do it myself. It worked better as a legend.
Try synching up Liza Minelli’s 1972 smash hit album “Cabaret” to the unrated directors cut of “The Wall”, now THAT’S sick!

Put any album to any movie and you will have many instances of apparent ’syncing’. Try it.

I love Pink Floyd! And I love DSOTM. But honestly, if you actually believe that this was planned you are extremely foolish. Did Pink Floyd also sync “The Wall” with Alice in Wonderland? That has been suggested, and I have seen it. People, this is coincidence, but it is also fun.

I believe the synch was intentional, these guys are artists with creativity unfathomable to most of us. If PF did admit to synching up with OZ, wouldn’t it devalue the content of DSOTM? By saying it is a coincidence PF adds more allure to their “best” album. Of course the whole album wont synch, that would be lame. By synching a few main parts it becomes pure genius!

The band is just Fantastic that is realy what i think… oh by the way witch ones PINK???

Wish you were here…

The Band is just fantastic that is realy what i think… oh bye the way witch ones PINK????????

Pink Floyd
Wish you were here

Try it out. Love it. These two pieces of art are impressive. Especially together.

My friend Zeke and I used to watch “Woody Wood Pecker” cartoons while listening to Alice Cooper. “From the Inside” and “Billion Dollar Babys” worked best. Maybe I’ll tell you about “Lace and Whiskey” some day.
Anyway, music, probibly especially rock music, and maybe classical(need more research)goes well with film. Thats how silent movies where played and thats why sound tracks sell.
Enough talk; go put on “Vanishing Point” turn down the volume and listen to Bad Companys “Desolation Angels”, or try “Bullit” and “Dream Police” by Cheep Trick. Try you own “synch”. You ought to judge for yourself.

The bottom line is great art goes together. Once, years ago, my friends and I were partying and we had a Who concert going on TV with the sound down and the Sex Pistols blaring from the stereo. The juxtaposition of these two seemed perfect and somehow enhanced the art of both groups!

hmm, feels like there is smoke being blown up everyones asses, its true, the mind must identify with sight and sound using auditory and visual receptors in the brain. you can literally sync up anything with anything. the brain does the rest. dont think too hard about this. its horse shit. however, i would rather listen to the album by itself.

I cannot understand how people do not see the obvious clues in regards to the whole Pink Floyd “synch-up” situation. If one examines The Pink Floyd’s discography, one can clearly see that shortly after The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (aka their first album aka Syd going around the twist) that the Floyd quickly developed into what we would now call a “progressive” rock band. With Waters at the helm, the third album the band released [More (1969)] was no less than a bona fide film soundtrack for the European film of the same name. The bands third release, Ummagumma, curiously showcases the cover of the Oscar winning film “Gigi” on the ground beside a young David Gilmour. Notice the anagram-like album titles relation to MGM (the film studio that released Gigi and The Wizard of Oz among countless other classics.) Cut to a few short years later and Dark Side of the Moon, seven minute tracks and all, is selling like buckwheat hotcakes at the County Fair Picnic(I don’t know what that means.) Can anyone name a band besides Pink Floyd that has dominated the radio and the pop charts for going on forty years with seven to ten minute tracks? (save for the odd Zeppelin track and CCR’s cover of “Heard it Through the Grapevine,” which could have done without it’s awkwardly simplistic and extensive guitar solo.) How is this band coming up with these utterly entertaining and cohesive eight minute orchestral rock-suites? My theory would be that after “More,” the band continued to make film soundtracks (as apposed to “sync-ups” or whatever the hell everyone is referring to them as) throughout the balance of their wildly successful career. And why would the band admit it to any of us? That would be like a magician letting his audience in on his biggest trick.

Thanks for the laughs everyone. Love to read the banter back and forth - hilarious !! I haven’t sync’d either one up but I probably will just to see for myself. Wouldn’t put it past PF to do this…just shows how great they are. This is in line with the Beatles “Paul is Dead” thing. It was a marketing ploy so they just let it roll. It obviously works.

Pink Floyd is easily one of the best bands of all time. This sync is great, doesn’t matter if you’re on drugs or not! Floyd is the best!!!

And To Astoria, from about a month ago:Are you saying Tool isnt real music? What about Audioslave? What about Modest Mouse? What about Incubus? Grow up. Go tell MAynard that Tool isn’t real music, I would love to see what he would say to you.

I couldn’ tell you if it was intentional or coincidence, but it was still fun to do this and try to find the syncs. Another clue to this mystery is the objects floating around on the cover of their Pulse album. There looks to be a little girl (Dorothy?) with bright red shoes on (ruby slippers?) and a bike (like the one the witch rides at the beginning of Oz. This could be coincidence also, or maybe the band making fun of the rumor. Food for thought.

These syncs (synchs, however it’s spelled) are pretty off I think. It’s much cooler when you do it yourself, oh well I think it really is just a big coincedence, and awesome one, at that.

Just for you information RS, Gilmour sings “Us and Them”. Richard Wright wrote the music, Waters the lyrics. Was that Geezer Butlers name, the bassist for Black Sabbath, he is right.

dont’ hate. this is great stuff.

Every one loves a conspiricy. DSOTM has nothing to do with TWOO. I know, it’s fun to believe and debate, but it just isn’t true guys. Just like the J.F.K assassination, every one wants to believe it was a conspiricy, but it wasn’t. I mean enough books have been written about the subject to fill a library and it was even caught on film, but anticlimactically it was just poor old Lee Oswald.
As far as the DSOTR evidence goes…there are only scraps of evidence. Or should I say, things that we want so bad to be evidence, we twist them into tacit truths. Please…a non-denial denial! What is this philosophy 101? We’re not dealing with the CIA or government secrets. Gilmour and Waters aren’t consulting with attorneys and media moguls in a back room somewhere under the cover of darkness getting schooled on how to parse they’re words and not lie while lying…non-denial denial. OOHH…I get it two negatives make a positive. So they’re really confirming it. PLEASE!!!
Whoever commented about syncing up taking a dump with Beethoven’s 5th Symphony…pure genius man. I’m just pissed that I didn’t think of that dig. I cracked up. I did sync up a fart once to the opening base line of the Barney Miller show.
Have a Pinkest of Floyd day.

Get a life everyone. I’m not impressed.

Nice it really does match up looking forward to it

I was actually going to post my views about DSotR until I saw the tone of the existing posts. Rolling Stone covering the topic of synchronicity is like Jessica Simpson getting the cover of Omni.

thats cool

um, also cant get them to work, there is nothign to press to watch them.
please do help.

Rolling Stone Magazine
1290 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10104 - 0298

April 10, 2007

Dear Rolling Stone Magazine,

I want to be on the cover of The Rolling Stone and here’s why:

This year marks the tenth anniversary of the 1997 MTV news story about “The Dark Side of the Moon” / “Wizard of Oz” match up (mash-up?) called “The Dark Side of the Rainbow” or “The Dark Side of Oz”. They interviewed Boston DJ George Taylor Morris and Michael Johnston (Arkiver) of The Synchronicity Arkive. I got stoned and I missed it…

I was first introduced to “The Dark Side of Oz” in 1999 by my son Rey ( lead singer for the band CODE ATOM ). Among all of the connections, the one that stood out the most was the fact that on the cover of “The Dark Side of the Moon” album there’s a rainbow, and in “The Wizard of Oz” Dorothy sings “Somewhere Over the Rainbow”. Soon I started noticing the “rainbow connection” in all sorts of other combinations. As my grandmother used to say, “Idle hands are the devil’s workshop”. My company Idol Hands Entertainment, dba The DeVille’s Workshop, has produced not just one or two, but thirteen syncs on DVD. So out of that you get… drum roll please… (edited for content). If that didn’t make you smile I don’t know what will.

It hasn’t been all “smooth sailing”. Along the way I’ve received three Cease to Exist letters and three DMCA takedown letters from (edited for content). I put my real name, address and phone number on my website, and sent packages to all of the artists c/o their companies. I also met with director George Romero and presented him with a 13-sync-set like the one in this box. He asked me if I had permission and I said no, they’re strictly illegal. (Oh, sure I tried to get permission up front, but quickly saw there was going to be no way to do it but underground.) He said “Well you need to get these “legaled up”. Then he shook my hand and approximately five hundred people boo’d me when he signed my copy of “Martin”, as he wasn’t signing autographs that day. It was awesome, and he was still talking about my syncs as he left the stage.

Some reviews and articles are included along with a CD of Finn’s Interview with The DeVille on 96 Rock, Atlanta, GA. It’s 4:20, seriously four minutes and twenty seconds long. (Did that make you smile again?) In the case with “The Dark Side of Oz” there is a preview DVD of all 13 syncs. Plus, I can introduce you to the whole cast of underground characters, tons more syncs and anything else you need for the blockbuster story of the year. I promise it will shake up the entertainment industry, and isn’t that what it needs? What do you say, does that rate the cover?

Hurry… I hear a deadline ticking!

Sincerely,
The DeVille

(edited for content)

P.S. Also included you’ll find a Code Atom press kit CD. (I promised I’d get them signed - see (edited for content) If this was a screenplay (which it will be) my picture on the cover of The Rolling Stone is the plot twist at the end of act 2.

cc: The Synchronicity Arkive, all of my friends and fellow syncers, the rest of the world

Omg, we did this in band class one time and now it makes even more sense now that I see the instructions and the movie;) Also, another important part, when he’s like “which is which” and there are two witches there.
COOLIO!

I was always told to start the movie at the second or third MGM lions roar and when doing so it never worked or made any sense to me. Then one time I started it a the actual second lionman roar half way into the movie and some stuff really synced up nice. Try it for yourself.

How do you get the Video to play?
All I have is four blank spots where the mashups are supposed to be? There are no control icons either. Help please.

Where is the clip of the scarecrow dancing around on the lawn, while the lyrics, “the lunatic is on the grass” and “the lunatic is in my head” are sung? That’s the best one.

Doesn’t really seem like it matches at all.

you don’t have to be a stupid kid swimming in a puddle of ecstasy or puffing on kind to know that the album and movie do sync. As far as the Wizard being the worst movie ever made, please consider John that the Oz was made in the 30’s and only a knuckle-head doesn’t see that it is as revolutionary as Floyd…..

Come on now. Why ruin the best album ever made by trying to sync it with the worst movie ever made. it just doesnt make sense. Plus this was made so people who do drugs can just waste another two hours of there lifes sitting watching a movie.

Showing clips gives people the wrong impression. The whole thing should be watched in its entirety. If if is synched up right (start album at third roar of the MGM lion) and watched with an open mind, it is hard to deny that the band did it intentionally. The album is a high production concept album. It stands on its own as the greatest album of all time, but it also “fits” with the movie. With all of their stage theatrics, Pink Floyd are not just musical artists, but also concept artists.

My favorite moments are:
-alarms going off on “time”
-Dorothy watching the airplane fly overhead
-All of “Great Gig in the Sky”
-the scarecrow and “Brain Damage”

Loved it

Everyone should sync the whole thing with the movie. Yeah, it’s more likely than not just coincidence, but it’s really fun and some of the coincidences are uncanny. Why deny yourself some fun just to be pompous asses?

The correlary is bogus, anyone on some good kush can trip out nonetheless; but it was great hearing the music of the band that was my primary education and source of inspiration..

Didn’t RS note a few years ago that there were other films that synched up with DSOTM? The only other one I can remember right now is The Matrix

Reading the comments, it seems these samples tickled the brains of those of us who have already seen it in its entirety, but left those who haven’t seen it utterly unconvinced and even turned off. That’s a shame. The entirety of the Floyd Oz sync-up is jaw-dropping. (And no, I and the others I watched it with weren’t under any influences.)

Because you’ve listened to all of the floyd albums (I own them, too) and read so much does not make you in any way a definitive soure. Who is anyone here to say that the musical genious that created these works of art could hold back from creating tricks and challenges for themselves by synching to a movie.

If you dont have the desire to research the ‘right way’ to start the synch then don’t try. You can’t just turn on the video and cd and hope for the best. It’s an art form blended into some of the best music ever made.

Also The Wall played to Alice in Wonderland kicks the shit out of OZ. Start the album right as the movie starts and skip song 6, Comfortably Numb, on the second disc (unfortunate). Enjoy.

Andrew

“Before “Darkside” pink floyd did the score for two movies, “the valley” and “more”. Nick Mason tells that the band did the score by watching the film and making notes with a stop watch. He even said “its amazing how accurate a stopwatch can be”.”………….

yeah, bad sync and no gig in the sky twister. You have to sync it yourself and you’d get it.

How you can have “the four creepiest sync-ups” without the entirety of “The Great Gig In The Sky” is beyond me.

For those that have never synced this themselves, you’re missing a decent show. The syncs are much better than RS has shown here. They have not synced them correctly so they match up not at all. The music is obviously started too early for the video. Do it yourself, it is fun.

For all you people out there that aren’t serious about your comments you need not make any about this subject.
I have seen Pink Floyd in 1977 in the In the Flesh Tour, in 1987 in the Monentary Lapse of Reason Tour, 1988 in the Another Lapse Tour, twice in 1994 in the Division Bell Tour, and in October of 2006 Roger Waters in the Dark Side of the Moon Tour. I have everything on CD that I have been able to get my hands on, approx.
40 books to my library, and approx.
20 DVD’S as well. Their music is my soul mate more than any person ever could be, and provides my life with inspiration beyond belief. No where in any interview, book, or DVD does any member of Pink Floyd ever say that Dark Side of the Moon has anything to do with The Wizard of Oz.
Imagination and Music is what Pink Floyd is about. To put any music of Pink Floyd’s with any movie other than something that Pink Floyd actually made themselves is complete blasphamy. Now for anyone not being serious when posting their comments why don’t you go play in the sandbox with Brittany Spears or the Backdoor Boys.

How do I get the video to play?
All I see is a blank screen, no
controls.

At least Waters knows he can’t get away with charging upwards of $300 for floor seats like Gilmour did on his “On an Island” tour. However, it was worth it to see David. Conversely, after hearing Waters sing at the Live 8 show last year, his stock went way down with many. His voice just ain’t what it used to be, but he still plays a mean bass. If you want to see a good Dark Side show for $15, find out where The Machine is playing and check them out. They sound great and play some really obscure Floyd songs.

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Everything’s better on acid, anonymous. Also, ahahahahaha to the guy who said he’d have to take out a loan to get a 150 concert ticket.! Third i am a stoner and even i found this to be dissapointing. Whats next? Bob Dylan’s ‘Planet Oz’ or the Beatle’s ‘A Hard Day’s Oz’?

People, come on. This is just sychronicity. If you notice it, ride that Jungian wave, if not, well, I probably won’t be seeing you on the darkside of anything. Why can’t people just enjoy it for what it is? The thing speaks for itself…whatever coincidences exist, they are there. Res ispa loquitur.

Also, the clips here are a little off sync, and the best sync-ups aren’t even represented. Do not judge until you’ve seen the WHOLE thing (at least the first playthrough of the album with the movie).

Also, if it was intentionally done, how could all the songs fit perfectly, but each was written by different members of the band? How could some songs, such as “Us and Them,” totally synch up when they were written long before DSOTM and for totally different projects?

If you listen real close when Auntie Em calls a missing Dorothy, after calling she quietly says to Henry: “If you don’t eat your meat, you can’t have any pudding”. When one of the flying monkeys picks up Toto, the Tin Man is heard in the background saying “The lunatic is in the grass” When the good witch asks Dorothy to repeat the line: “There’s no place like home” Dorothy quietly 3 verses of comfortably numb…

another stupid hippie legend exposed for the crap that it is…thank you, RS, for saving me the time wasting effort of synching it up myself! In the words of Johnny Rotten, good riddance to bad rubbish.

….when and who did this notion start with?….just curious…

some of these comments are very entertainlng. I’m a fan of the movie and the band for years but never had the opportunity to actually witness the sync-up first hand. Imagine my excitement when I saw that RS was offering the “creepiest sync-ups, right now!”
What a bunch of crap…very disappointing!!!

it’s a good story.. tell your grandkids . chills..

LOVED THE CLIPS AND LOVE THE BAND!!! Roger Waters is bringing “DARKSIDE” to my hometown this summer. Too bad he’s charging $150 after fees and all. Seem him 3 times before. Each better than the last, but I’m not taking out a loan for concert tix. Looks like I’ll be waitin’ for the DVD.
P.S. It would almost be worth it just to hear Katie Kissoon sing “Great Gig in the Sky”

piink floyd will really match up to anything, turn up the floyd and watch some nature shows.

nevermind, im an idiot

I BELIEVE WHAT R.S. IS WONDERING WHICH ONE’S IS PINK ? TO BE HONEST AS I MAY SAY,THERE IS NO PINK !!!!!THOSE BOYS GAVE OUR MINDS A TRAVEL TO A UNIVERSE WHERE NO ONE KNOW’S OF.AND JUST TO LET YOU ALL UNDERSTAND,I’M PINK FLOYD’S BIGGEST FAN OF TODAY’S MODERN DAY !!!!!!!!!! SEE YA

I personnally think there are really amazing coincidences that give the movie a fresh new ans deep psychodelic feel.
trying to give some sense to what is happening on the screen related to what the song actually means becomes an amazing task for all of you who love concept.
Still, I think you forgot to show one of the most important scenes, where the great gig in the sky is sung while the twister is ravaging most of the land.

I really hope the movie and the album do have a logical explanation for so many glitches.

I did this myself, and all that I thought was cool was the heart beat at the end when Dorothy was listening for the tin man’s heart beat.
The other thing that this didn’t show, was the clocks ringing at the begining of “Time” started exactly when the witch was first shown on her bicycle

Pretty big stretch. Maybe i should watch it again on acid?

Nope. Don’t see it. If these clips are the most compelling evidence ?

balance on the biggest wave, race towards an early grave.

Anybody who thinks this is a coincidence is insane. Do yourself a favor and watch the whole thing. It’s undeniable.

Division Bell also links up with something pretty well (coincidence or not.. i tried it.) I forget what movie it was (..an effect of the drugs. liking pink floyd, though, is not. i’m sober now and still dig them).

My one friend said that Wizard of Oz was filmed to sync up with Dark Side of the Moon. His dad worked at MGM in the 30’s, and it was not-so-well kept secret around the studio that they had a fully functional time-machine on the lot for directors and stars personal use. When the Government found out they totally took it and put it in storage with all the UFOs and then some aliens totally converted it to a space ship to get back to their planet. They left only one of their species behind: David Guest, who later married Judy Garland’s daughter Liza Minnelli. Is that weird or what?

pretty stupid

just good tunes.

who?

It’s a hippie thing,get over it.You would never understand.Follow the yellowbrick road…………………….. .

Man. If you want some really crazy stuff, you should listen to my music and watch Pulp Fiction at the same time. Crazy man, crazy.

nah- doesn’t work.

Ha Ha …Well Brian B. I really think that the Joke’s on “Beleivers of Dark Side Of Rainbow”…Perhaps Roger,Dave,Nick and Rick get a chance to amuse themselves and give a wicked smile just to let this “sync” thing hang in the air.They must be L.T.H.O. watching all these videos and the “Grand And Galant,Ma*JEST*ic” comments written here.

yeah maybe but try it with marrilion cds instead

listen to any of the 3 last REM albums while watching the grass grow, they synch perfect!

forget about pink floyd! if you go to an ashley simpson’s concert, sometimes, if you look carefully, the sound of her voice syncs up with the movement of her lips… amazing!

Carl Douglas’s Kung Fu Fighting syncs up just as well or better. Watch how “Witch Doctor General” comes on when the bad witch appears!

I see NOTHING synchronous in these clips.
If Floyd was trying to write an alternate soundtrack, they did a TERRIBLE JOB.
I just don’t believe it for a second…
… but even if some parts of the movie DO line up with the record in some convoluted way - it’s coincidence! Yes, it happens ALL THE TIME but no one wants to believe it because there HAS TO BE some hidden mystical meaning and/or secret plot behind everything.

These clips barely do it credit…I’ve actually played the cd while watching Wizard, and surprisingly, I wasn’t stoned, tripping, etc, so I could actually tell what was going on. Is does sync up constantly- it’s definitely not “power of suggestion”. Doubt me? Try it yourself. It helps to know the lyrics of the song and keep subtitles on for the movie.

But nonetheless, Pink Floyd is rock n roll royalty and history. I dont think there ever will be anything like them ever. Its just an even trippier thing to realize that people are still talking about their quirks…i mean, theyre probably the most artistic, most mind-f*cking musicians ever, and they’ve mind-f*cked the 60’s and the 70’s…and are still mindf*cking us right now.

thats psychedelic.

I think this is all the effect of THE POWER OF SUGGESTION.

When on acid, you can find anything to sync with something…you’re more imaginative and it’s easy to make connections. I’ve experienced watching The Doors (by Oliver Stone) while my friends jammed, singing random songs while playing their guitars. Everything made sense and was so perfectly beautiful. Especially because i was on ACID. Easter Islands to be exact.

Also try listening to Radiohead’s Kid A on acid and you might sync it to a movie you’ll be imagining on your head while you trip. ;p

“Dark side of oz” is a good entertainment piece just long enough to find a real movie to watch. Exploring the depths of your mind via the imagination and some good old fashioned LSD is what being “alive” is all about. However, if you consider DSoO to be a trip or anything more than a coincidence, you could use a little more quality time. It is obvious most of you have not follow the band and all of its history outside of a couple of magazine articles and/or some interviews. If this subject matter happened to be anything more than harmless, you might get a real comment out of the band. If the talents of PINK FLOYD had created an alternate soundtrack,you would’nt be sitting in your fucking seats having to look for it. A puzzle is not a puzzle without all of the pieces!

I have a copy of”The Dark Side Of OZ” at home and I enjoy watching it. Of course it’s all purely coincidental, and that what makes it so interesting and fun. You really have to get a copy of this that is synced up correctly to appreciate it. I remember syncing this up years ago using a VHS copy of the movie with a CD of Dark Side and thought it was hysterical and whoever thought up the idea of syncing the two things was a genius. I think all the idiots who are goofing on this subject either havent watched it, didn’t sync it up right, or just want to be assholes. I’m not one of these people who think that there is a conspiracy to hide the “truth” about PF composing a “soundtrack” to the Wizard of Oz - thats kinda stupid. We should all just kick back, have a smoky treat, and accept this for what it is. A very cool coincidence. Relax.

Why can’t you just enjoy the syncs and find other small dirty and ugly shit to worry your little minds over????? peace, oh by the way, while you were fighting over this, bush has been having an illegal war you shallow fucks

yeah right he has an enormous cock

ya but the tin man still has a way smaller penis than me

that is bs that stuff barely goes with tha music ha

I’d say its all up to speculation. The only ones who really know the truth is the band, and theyre obviously not saying it is or it isnt on purpose, at least not specifically.

If it is an accident, they wouldnt say so because they want the mystery to be there to sell more records, and the same thing if they did it on purpose, not to mention the lawsuits they would receive for royalties.

There’s no point in getting so worked up over something you can never prove/disprove, if you get it, you get it, if you dont, you dont, thats all there is to it.

Publius enigma, I’m working on it, getting that life. In the meantime…

Yeeshkul, I am sorry, but you are mistaken. No, all members of Pink Floyd have not categorically denied it. Wright, Mason, and Gilmour have NEVER categorically denied it.

They’ve given non-denial denials or made jokes about it, such as Gilmour, who said in an interview about for the 25th anniversary edition of “Dark Side”: “Some guy with too much time on his hands had come up with this idea of combining ‘Wizard of Oz’ with ‘Dark Side of the Moon.’”

That’s hardly a categorical denial, let alone any kind of denial. Gilmour denied nothing in that statement. That statement is so ambigious he could have been talking about Waters or himself coming up with the idea. That’s one of only two published comments I am aware of that Gilmour has made on the subject. (More on that second Gilmour quote later.) Wright has given similar non-denial denials.

Drummer Nick Mason made a joke about it, but he did not seriously deny it: “It’s absolute nonsense, it has nothing to do with ‘The Wizard Of Oz.’ It was all based on ‘The Sound Of Music.’” Again, a non-denial denial.

Producer Alan Parsons has claimed they couldn’t do it because VHS videotapes didn’t exist or weren’t available, conveniently ignoring that the Beatles had worked on film projects — not videotape, but film — at the same Abbey Road Studios that “Dark Side” was recorded at, the same studios that served as the facilities for the world’s first satellite broadcast, and the same studios Pink Floyd had used to score and create the soundtrack for the film “More.” For Parsons to claim they could not have created an alternative soundtrack to “Wizard of Oz” because they didn’t have a videotape player is specious and ignores the real capabilities Abbey Road Studios could put at the disposal of Pink Floyd. As I said previously, this isn’t some magic trick. All we’re discussing is creating an alternative soundtrack. It’s a technical and creative skill set, not voodoo.

Parsons also reportedly said at a 2006 Toronto music conference that there had been “no effort” in synching up “Dark Side” with “Wizard of Oz,” which is once again a non-denial denial. You could read that as a denial, but look at it closely. He said that it was no effort, not that they had not created an alternative soundtrack. He said it wasn’t an effort to create the soundtrack. Non-denial.

David Gilmour did make another comment about the whole “Dark Side of the Rainbow” thing in a Q magazine interview when he was asked if there was any truth to the matter. He made some silly comments about not seeing it when he tried synching them up, and asking if after “Dark Side” ends at 40 minutes he was then supposed to put on “Wish You Were Here.” But, he first gave this quote, before joking about it: “If it does, then Roger (Waters, Floyd bassist/song-writer) never let me in on it.”

Gilmour did not deny it’s true in the Q magazine interview, or even deny knowledge of its truth, just that he didn’t know about it at some point while they were recording, and Glimour allows for the possibility that it was Waters’ intention. If you really think this whole thing is not true, and that it is a bunch of garbage, that Gilmour quote ought to be pretty astonishing to a skeptic.

The lead guitarist for Pink Floyd has publicly and officially allowed for the possibility that it was Pink Floyd’s band leader’s intention to create an alternative soundtrack to “The Wizard of Oz” when the band recorded “Dark Side of the Moon.”

I don’t know why anyone would doubt this when David Gilmour himself thinks it’s possible.

AND, what has the maestro, the driving force behind the post-Syd Pink Floyd said on the matter? What has Roger Waters himself said about this “Dark Side of the Rainbow?” There have been persistent rumors for some time from relatively unreliable sources — fan sites, celebrity rumor sites, that sort of thing — that Waters has indeed confirmed it, that he has said it is 100% true. What has he said “officially?” What has Roger Waters told reliable sources — news and rock magazines and the like?

Roger Waters refuses to comment to reliable sources on the matter, and he smiles about it.

Roger Waters has NEVER denied it, not ever, not in any way. And his former guitarist states publicly that it is possible. Now, seriously, what does that tell you?

Last, I just want it noted, I have never watched “Wizard of Oz” and played “Dark Side” at the same time, and yet I accept it as a very, VERY likely possibility. Why?

Because it actually makes a lot of sense, and it would have been very easy for the band to do this, not difficult at all.

They left “clues” all over the place, such as the prism-rainbow album cover, to indicate something, and it fits very clearly with the whole rainbow motif in “Wizard of Oz.” The three albums previous to “Dark Side” and the four albums after “Dark Side” all had artwork that clearly and concretely related to the content of the album. The band has always claimed it was a very specific concept album, but have always been very vague in describing the concept, which people always seem to have just accepted without question until this “Dark Side of the Rainbow” became known. Pink Floyd, as artists, craftsmen and technically proficient modern musicians, were more than capable of doing this and were more than smart enough to think of it.

To quote another person, Simple Truth, who defended the same idea in this very same thread:

“Anyone who thinks the whole thing is just ‘too trippy to be intentional’ obviously doesn’t realize how comfortable and advanced Floyd are in operating within the context of trippiness.”

Amen!

Uhmmmm…..Mr. Bell, all members of Pink Floyd have at one time or another flat out categorically denied any connection to Oz. No “maybe yes, maybe no” but rather “definitely NO, NOT true.” Nothing wisht washy about it.

Alice In Wonder Land and Darkside try that it’s better then this.

amen! Mr Brian Bell, Thank you for telling the facts. You impressed me with you knowlege and insight…

Now, get a life!

I tottaly think this is coincidental like many people have said. According to my math teacher more things line up than what’s shown here but I just think “whatever.” It’s fun to watch though.

Wow, what a lot of anger in these posts.
Republicans and anti-drug people, take a break from the attacks and name-calling!
I think the right 60’s term is MELLOW OUT!

Meantime for those of you that don’t get it, go to eMule, download the entire movie, and watch it. It’s there and it’s free…and that movie syncs better then these examples.
High or straight it works, but don’t take my word for it, try it for yourself.
You will believe.

I think it’s ludicrous to dismiss this as a stoner-induced hoax or coincidence. It may not be true, but to just dismiss it outright is stupid.

Before I get into that, though, let’s correct some inaccuracies appearing in this thread:

* Ted Turner did NOT colorize the Wizard of Oz. The Wizard of Oz was a Technicolor movie upon its release in 1939.

* Pink Floyd has never claimed that “Echoes” synchs up with the end of 2001. Roger Waters has claimed Kubrick offered to let the band score the movie 2001, and the band declined, and Waters regrets declining. Anything beyond that is speculation, just like speculation about the “Dark Side of the Rainbow.” If I had to guess, I’d think “Echoes” was intentionally synched up with the end of the movie 2001, too, but it’s not been admitted by Pink Floyd.

* Pink Floyd did not steal from Andrew Lloyd Weber’s “Phantom of the Opera,” which didn’t exist until the mid-’80s. Roger Waters claims Andrew Lloyd Weber stole a bit of his and Pink Floyd’s music, but he didn’t care enough to sue Weber. And Weber didn’t score 2001, either.

Okay, now into my speculation, which is reality-based. So much of the speculation and denials about the speculation are of a weird, esoteric-like nature, about synchronicities and getting stoned, instead of looking at how the world actually works. My speculation:

The band says it’s all a coincidence, but they’ve never flat-out denied it. They’ve never said it is not true and it’s a coincidence. They only claim it’s coincidence, never categorically denying it. They just say, and I’m paraphrasing a bit here, “Oh, it’s a coincidence,” or, “Well, there was no intention to create that effect,” etc. Classic non-denial denials, of the sort politicians are famed for. Why don’t they just outright deny it? I think maybe because it is true. Why would they seek to create an impression that it’s maybe true or maybe false, or not clear up the rumors? To create speculation and sell more records. There’s also the whole problem that Wizard of Oz rights holders past and present might have with what the band has done, including Time-Warner (current owner of the Wizard of Oz). I think a suit for some royalties on Dark Side of the Moon, 34 million copies sold and continuing to grow every year, would be a given, money the band and EMI (its label) might not want to part with.

I totally dismiss the idea that there was no technical means for the band to do this, something that people who seek to deny the “Dark Side of the Rainbow” often state. This is something the band themselves have said (another non-denial denial), but it’s garbage. That whole line of thinking — that it was technically impossible to do — is flat-out absurd. Movies have been scored since Al Jolson’s the Jazz Singer, released in 1927. You don’t think Pink Floyd could score a movie in 1972-73? Especially one where Pink Floyd had the benefit that it was already edited, and they didn’t actually have to make it sync up perfectly for the soundtrack, just enough to make it kind of trippy? Of course they could do that. Pink Floyd already had scored two movies by the time they recorded “Dark Side,” and released soundtracks for them — “Music from the Film More” and “Obscured by Clouds.” Note that the actual music for the movie “More” and the re-recorded, re-edited soundtrack album, “Music from the Film More,” were both recorded at famed Abbey Road Studios, the same facility where they recorded “Dark Side of the Moon.” Tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people have scored movies, including Pink Floyd. This is a technical and artistic ability, not magic or make-believe, but a real, learned skill. Abbey Road was not a movie-scoring studio, per se, until the ’80s, but it was more than capable of handling a band of four plus a few extras to re-score Wizard of Oz. This is the same facility that participated in the world’s first satellite broadcast (Beatles’ “All You Need Is Love”), and which hosted filming of the Beatles’ rooftop last concert, and the studio at which pieces of documentary footage of Pink Floyd recording “Dark Side” were filmed. Setting up a projector, a screen, and letting the band work would have been no big deal.

Here’s something “weird” to consider. “Dark Side” is referred to as a concept album by the band. But what’s the concept? They’ve described it as being about life-death-madness, or something nebulous and non-specific like that. But Rogers and the band claim that it’s a very specific concept. That concept supposedly came to Waters as they were working out the material in various live settings and while working on “Obscured by Clouds,” a movie. Look at the band’s other work — “Animals,” “The Wall,” and even “Final Cut.” Extremely specific concepts, yes? The band claims “Dark Side” is the same, so why don’t they explain the concept more specifically? I think it’s obvious why — it’s an alternative soundtrack for Wizard of Oz, but since it sold so damn much and made them gazillionaires a million times over, they don’t want to part with the cash they’d surely be sued over.

Last, and I think this is the real icing on the cake of possibilities, where, EXACTLY, did this rumor come from? Oh, sure, it came from a newsgroup, but who from? Who the hell would have done something like intentionally synching “Dark Side” up with Wizard of Oz? Don’t tell me wasters. I misspent plenty of my young adulthood, and we never would have wasted our time on something like this. I would suggest someone let the cat out of the bag to someone, and that’s how we know about this. If it wasn’t true, how would we ever have known about this?

coincidence? i think so.
but it’s still pretty fukked up that they could think of that. they would have to be on a pretty good trip to see that. nice work. but not intentional.

I have done the sync-up. Sober. Many times. It’s a fun little coincidence, but there is no reason to debate it so viciously. You either get it, or you don’t.

I can’t believe how mad some of you are getting about this! Simple Truth, great info man but why the anger?? Whether intentional or accidental, it’s cool stuff! It’s Floyd, guys … lose the hate!

that stuff is really pointless. The song obviously doesnt go with the movie so stop obsessing with it. I thought it was going to be cool but it was the stupidest thing i have ever seen.

think about this ted turner and pink floyd work together on this one

So there was a comment in the m”oney” clip above that says “when Oz gets colorful Well try to digest this…

1939 - Wizard of Oz released
1973 - Dark Side of the Moon released
1980 - Ted Turner release the Technicolor version of the movie.

Now - can someone explain how PF was supposed to know that the outside of the house would be “colorful” - gold, green = money.

I’ve been watching this for almost 15 years. Never figured this one out. Totally not a coincidence.

Hey Jesse, that “munchkin hung himself on the set” thing is just a myth. That shadow in the background is actually a stork that wandered onto the set from one of the nearby soundstages. If you look closely, you can see that it really looks more like a bird than someone hanging. (I saw this on TVLand’s “Myths and Legends” show, so I know this is true)

The beauty of Pink Floyd is that is isn’t laid out and it isn’t perfect. If it synchronized perfectly, there would be nothing to talk about. If Roger and Dave got along, there would be nothing to talk about. If Syd were still with us, there would be nothing to talk about. The anomaly of Floyd is part of the beauty of Floyd…

cept for the money clip you really don’t have the best ones posted. So don’t get the impression these are the only coincidences present, their really are quite a few .If I remember right you start the cd when the mgm lion roars the third time and have the cd on repeat, until the movie is done. Coincidence or not, it’s still fun to watch.

Whether you belive that this was intentional or not, something has to be said for watching one the most visually stunning pieces of art while listening to another should by definition be a great experience.. Intentional? Probably not on a concious level. But somewhere through the strands of time\space the inspirations for both of these definitly evolved from the same place.. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go watch Pulse….

all i know is that the first person to figure this out had to be so stoned to think of putting these two master peices together…damn i wanna be there

The Wizzard of Oz is like the 3rd best film ever made right after Jackass II and Dude Where’s My Car!

When the boys were recording “Dark Side”, do you think that they had a copy of “Wizard” on reel that they projected on the walls of abby road studios? The answer is no. It is just a fun game of “co-inky-dinky” for afficianados of the “sticky stinky”. God bless them

I saw Roger Waters’ Dark Side of the Moon live rendition two weeks ago!… and you will not believe what my eyes and ears witnessed!!!! the images on the big screen were in perfect sync with the music!!!!! and it wasn’t the Wizard of Oz!!!!…. oh my god, when this people will stop synching music to images!!!! stop the madness!!!!!!

those clips are ridiculous

Hey, Guy Wise, everyone is aware that the movie is longer than the CD (which is actually closer to 40 minutes than 45). That’s why the sync is really interesting. If Pink Floyd really wanted to synchronize the movie with their music, it would not have been all that difficult if it was just in one pass. That would not be an amazing feet by any length, and you would wonder why anyone would make a fuzz about it. But, the album actually plays two and a half times before the movie ends, and you can still find synchronicity as the album begins for a third time. That is what actually makes it interesting. Was in intentional? Is it just coincidence? Either way, it is cool to watch. All you naysayers out there can just lighten up!

watching cartoons and listening to rap music can be pretty fun and a jount will make it that much better

I took a dump once while listening to beethoven’s 5th, which seemed to sync well.

There are alot of parts that seem to coincide…but not all. Now I am sure that on acid it is perfectly in sync. I ogtta try it some time soon!!

You gotta be kidding me. What a waste. Looks like the guy who thought this up originally was out of his/her mind smoking the Thai stick or dropping acid.
These two sync like Bush and Brains. Glad I never waisted my time trying this foolishness all these years.
Time to go smoke a fattie now.
Cheers mate!

Oh and PS: I was getting laid while watching this.

I pwn all!

Dude, what about the tornado scene during “The Great Gig In The Sky”? Come on, that’s the best part!

Simple Truth…
You know, I truly appreciated all of the incredible information you provided in your post, but perhaps you could have done it with a little less hostility. I didn’t have as much time as you to study up on this…what, with my getting laid and all…such an unrespectable waste of time, I know

Simple Truth…
You know, I truly appreciated all of the incredible information you provided in your post, but perhaps you could have done it with a little less hostility? I didn’t have as much time as you to study up on this…what, with my getting laid and all…such an unrespectable waste of time, I know