better on acid

Well, all I can say is that the band itself has gone on record saying any that this whole thing is purely coincidental.

In fact, one could achieve similar results with any number of additional pairings. How about “And Justice For All” with “The Sound of Music?” Anyone tried it yet? It’s a trip.

No way, they have got to be edited. I’m not having that!

It’s been scientifically proven that if you combine audio and video, that the mind syncs the two together.

The History Channel has a special on dogfights that synchs perfectly to Porcupine Tree’s Deadwing, oh and according to a couple friends of mine Sound Tribe Sector Nine synchs perfectly to any disney channel program.

Echoes and 2001: A Space Odyssey are pretty good too…

Nope. Can we end this stupid rumor now? The music and video don’t even sync enough to be considered mildly coincidental.

Kids…say no to drugs.

ugh. are you kidding me with this bullshit? this wasn’t even mildy interesting or impressive. what a fucking load of shit this rumor has been floating around all these years. jesus christ. if anything this just turns me off from wanting to listen to classic rock at all. lay off the fucking dope.

When I was in High School we watched OZ and listened to Pink Floyd and they synch perfectly, anybody who doesnt see they match up is deaf or blind.

This is beyond conincidence. Try any of the other supposed ’snycs’, like OK Computer/Matrix or Amnesiac/Total Recall and they don’t work nearly as well.

Also: The clock chimes when the which comes in on her bike. Scary.

Uh, shouldn’t this article have been posted in 1995 when people were still excited abot this?

i once litened to a random hip-hop playlist while watching the Fellowship of the Ring. that was whacky.

I think that I’ll listen to the white album while watching Night of the living Dead.

On acid

I should add that Akira and Wish You Were Here match up even better than Dark Side and OZ and there’s no way that was intentional. So this really could be a coincidence too.

play the aquabats dvd with the butthole surfers’ locust abortion technician. both bands will lose their meaning in the coincidence.

I listened to the Chemical Brothers’ ‘Dig Your Own Hole’ while watching a hard-core porno and it was like every pump was in sync with the beat. Unreal.

My fav is “You Spin Me Round” and The Exorcist…

I watched Oz with Dark Side once and when the album ended another one I had in the player came on. It was P-Funk’s Greatest Hits (The Bomb) and it synched up better. They were singing Chocolate City when Dorothy and the crew were entering into Oz. Classic.

Watch full house to any Weird Al album and watch the laughs unfold.

Jebeal is right on about listening to albums while watching porn. It creates a surreal feeling. I think i was listening to RHCP’s Stadium Arcadium and it matched perfectly with the porn I was watching.

That being said, this is purely coincidental. Just think about how anal Roger Waters is. If he had synced the two they would match PERFECTLY for every moment.

It’s still fun to do though.

Hello World! I am Duane Carter of Carlsbad NM. I have something to share. Many people know how great watching Wizard of Oz and listing to Dark side of the moon is, but I now know of three new albums by pink floyd that sync to movies. I am only going to reveal one now until i get credit for my hard discovery. This is that Wish You Were Here, the follow up to Dark Side, will totaly sync with FANTASIA!!!!!!!!!!! Put the CD on repeat and play it about 2 seconds before the opening scene. This all makes perfect sense, because wizard of oz was the first movie in color and fantasia was the first animated movie in color “Welcoming it to the Machine”!! For a long time people have tried to find the meaning to the album cover of the two men shaking hand with one on fire. I hear things like “he’s getting burned on a busness deal”, but the two men shaking hands are forming the letter “M” for Mickey Mouse. It would take to long to explain all the art that matches to move, but on the “diver pic” at the end of the booklet, The reflecting rocks look like the vibrating line in fantasia. So their it is the next great pink floyd secrect. The next great rock culture secret, discover by me Duane Carter of Carlsbad NM. Now if you want to know some other undiscoved Pink Floyd/Movie syncs e-mail me at Joyce_Back2000@yahoo.com . Once I recive some created for my crativeness I will reveal all that I know….enuff to write a book!!!
Only ill leave that up to rolling stone the greatest mag in the world.
Duane Carter

warning: not recommended to watch “the sync” several times while on acid, it will permanently mess you up. trust me!!!

Don’t forget that “The Great Gig In The Sky” plays during the tornado.

If you play Oz in slow motion and reverse Money, you can clearly hear Paul McCartney sing a ZZ Top song. If you cue up the dvd with the music on 2 ch instead of 5.1, all the cast are naked…except the lion, who is just hairless. You can cue up George Bush’s Iraq War speach to each of the famous speeches by the lion, the scarecrow and the tin man. If you play it all on 32 x speed it fits perfectly with “American Idiot”. RS haven’t you got something better to do with your time?

OMG! Unbelievable! Bro.. When i was in college me and my friend Jerry would listen to this all the time!

Seriously…you’re all a bunch of LOSERS

URGENT URGENT
BUY ANOTHER COPY OF DARK SIDE OF THE MOON
THAT IS ALL

To Kansas: this is time very well spent for RS or would you rather they venture further into reality TV???

To Greg: there hasn’t been any real music made since 1995, so of course people are still excited when confronted with originality

I synched Nickelback with “Dunsten Checks In” and my head exploded!

The White Album w/ The Ghost and Mr. Chicken

Everything works depending on what you have been taking. This will sync if you want it to. As will some of the other suggestions. Ahh the mind is a beautiful thing to waste. Get yourself together, with out drugs kids, life can be just as good. If you can make it for yourself.

to: get a life

if we’re all a bunch of losers what are you doing even on this website, let alone this page, commenting on how loserish we are

Floyd is unreal.

To Astoria: Ur an idiot. I know. . . when Nirvana was done, you probably packed up ur panties and quit on music, but people like you are the reason Top 40 stuff get press instead of legit artists. Grow up, quit hating on new shit, and drop the “No more good music” thing, u sound like some lame 80’s sitcom dad. By the way, Oregon sucks

me and my friends did this once and it does work and is pretty cool

Great album-Great Movie
ENOUGH SAID!!!!!

I don’t care if it’s accidental or not, it keeps enough people interested to make it viable. Hall of Fame musicians and one of the best movies ever – How Cool! As long as you enjoy it, who cares what anyone else thinks.

I’ve heard about watching The Wizard of Oz while listening to Dark Side of the Moon, both of which I like a lot, and how “tripped out” it is, but after watching these clips something tells me I should have eaten some magic mushrooms or gone running through a poppy field first.

Muito podre!

Well, first off, I’m a HUGE Floyd fan, and I have done this very thing many times. There are a lot of concidences here. Its not something my mind has created. A lot of the words and music DO match up. You can’t deny that. Whether its on purpose or not, who gives a damn?! Its an interesting thing to sit back and watch. And no…you don’t need acid to enjoy it…those idiots who think you need drugs to enjoy this experience or listen to Pink Floyd in general, need to be shot. I’ve never done a drug in my life and I probably know about Pink Floyd and listened to more Floyd than they could ever dream of!

The last scene in 2001: A Space Odyssey (Jupiter and beyond the infinite) and Echoes are a far better sync than this one.

Zeppelin – Battle of Evermore w/the final scene of fantasia..

just listening to something many times does not mean you understand it. in the same way that someone who has never played any sports cannot fully understand football .someone who has never done drugs can only claim to understand Pink Floyd to a point.this isn’t to glorify drug use or the myth of mind expanding drugs, it’s simply that you don’t have the experience to call yourself a scholar until you understand the entire nomenclature

No new music since 1995?? What a fucking idiot…

actually if you keep the album on repeat it will go thru once more fully and a third tim when the film will end going out on “great gig” …i think the 2nd and 3rd times actually sinc up much better too…try it out

I think the coolest is on the first play-through of MONEY, the munchkins begin hopping around and dancing in perfect sync to the 7/9 to 4/4 time change…(when the song really starts rocking). It’s really funny.

ok, now im not quite sure about the credentials of everyone who has posted comments before me, but i would claim that i am a very big floyd-head. I own all of the floyd albums from piper at the gates of dawn to the the final cut, cause after roger waters floyd started to suck hard. I also have seen roger waters live when he did the dark side of the moon tour last year. And oh yea, i do a crapload of drugs. That being said i would like to raise a key point that everyone else has failed to state. Pink Floyd before the dark side of the moon was a hip artsy band from england and had put out two albums, MORE, and, OBSCURED BY CLOUDS, that were soundtracks to a couple of english art flicks. So that being said it is entirely possible that floyd set dark side to the wizard of oz. But it is entirely possible that it happened by chance. I would just like to say that anyone who tells you either statement is definatly true is an idiot.

i love you

Would you all like to come over to my house to watch tv? I love all of you. Please be my friend.

I have all the Kiss dolls in their original packaging! I love you.

Hi Tommy, I’ll come over. I’ve got the original New Kids dolls as well. We can set up a mock concert, and film it with my camera.

I can’t believe how bereft of knowledge you all are, including rolling stone! dark side of the moon was intentionally recorded to sync up to disney’s ALICE IN WONDERLAND. they’ve even admitted that they had the movie in the recording studio to refer to. just sync up alice’s leg swinging from the tree branch in the opening frame to the ticking of the clock at the beginning of speak to me. if you hear the lyrics “run rabbit run” as the rabbit is running, you’ve got it. it’s unbelievable, with or without psychadelics (preferably with, the cheshire cat as the “lunatic in my head” is particularly creepy). cmon people, do your research!

Hi Tommy, I’m in as well! I’ve got the Barbie dreamscape simulated action van (it’s in mint condition). I’ll bring it by for the concert! Can’t wait.

One of the people below claim you can’t “understand Pink Floyd” until you’ve done drugs. That is the most hysterical, asinine thing I’ve ever heard. Can you ask the writer of the comment below one thing – Can you play guitar like David Gilmour? Can you write song lyrics and arrangements like Roger Waters? I didn’t think so. Don’t be judging Pink Floyd fans by how much drugs they’ve taken or haven’t taken in their life. You can feel the music and understand the music without having to actually live in that person’s shoes. I’m willing to bet that I could play as well or outplay that poster who mentioned you have to take drugs on the bass, but that doesn’t make me a better or wiser Pink Floyd fan. To say that one can be a better or wiser fan because one takes or took drugs is completely gibberish.

On the Pink Floyd/Wizard of Oz blending, did anyone else notice that when Gilmour says “Run, rabbit run,” that is when the witch throws fire and smoke at Toto. Great stuff.

Oh, and that is David Gilmour singing “Black and Blue … ,” not keyboardist Richard Wright, like Rolling Stone said above …

Peace

Please gentlemen, let’s cut the crud. You know if you’ve got the Kiss dolls in their original packaging you can’t possibly be thinking of removing them for some dumb concert! I am A Pauled at this notion. How dare you. I never, and I never will!

I hate when I stub my toe into my eye.

I like to watch the Luci show. I also like to play video games. Sometimes I go outside to play soccer, football, or tennis. I like to watch the clouds and try to picture things in them. Oh, almost forgot; I like to play Nintendo DS too. Marcus.

The only thing I have to say is that this is very cool. I also would like to add that you are very nice people. Oh, finally, I really enjoy everything.

ASTORIA – Since 1995, nothing good?

How about we start with Radiohead’s OK Computer.

Hi All, If this letter seems odd it’s only because it is. I have never seen the grain tall man showing his dog the tree tops; but I have seen many a “wares” in the summers eve of a mid-summer nights dream. Have you ever gazed into the star speckled eyes of a nanotoric lizard as it watches it’s prey. I have. It may well astound you to know that the many offerings of a three horned proxy toad have never been fully realized by the majority of fan mail that is sent in to me. Do you know what time it is? Does anybody really know what time it is? Does anybody really care about time? If so I can’t imagine why oh no, we’ve all got time enough to cry don’t we? Winter, spring, summer, or fall, all you’ve got to do is call, and I’ll be there. There was a time in my life when I knew what it was, but now I’ve lost it. Can you find it? I need to know.

2 words:

Sometimes there’s that, then there’s the other thing.

Hi Marcus, I like the same things you do.

Anthony, I like you.

Al, don’t think there’s such a thing! Faker!

If you fast forward the movie to the end you’ll see the credits.

This is really freaky. Watch the beginning of the movie, and you’ll see it start. Then listen to the music and you’ll enjoy it. I was really excited by this.

Can I borrow a quarter?

Yes, here it is.

Hey, can I borrow a quarter as well? Phil, you didn’t say thank you to Jennifer. Please don’t be inconsiderate.

Sorry Jennifer. Bob reminded me to say thank you for the quarter. So, thank you! I’ll put it to good use. P

Sorry Bob, but I’m not in the habit of lending out quarters. I only did it this one time. I’ll never to it again, so please don’t ask anymore.

Anything will sync up with anything else on acid. Losers.

Odys, please don’t use that kind of language, or I won’t be your friend anymore. I will still love you though.

i play paul’s boutique with the tv off, without tripping. it’s a much better experience than watching toto or those damn monkey winged bastards,

Now, I can see why the Beatles is the best band in the world….

EVERYTHING HAS A DIFFERENT MEANING WHEN ON A TRIP!

An album from 1973 and a movie from 1939 – and they are still being talked about. What’s up with that must-have cd from 2003? Can’t remember who it was? My point exactly. If the mash up works or not, who cares. Floyd rocks and is still a topic for discussion 34 YEARS after Dark Side came out and 13 YEARS since their last cd. How many of you are even over 30 yrs. old?

umm…i guess cause i’m not high, but i just don’t see it.maybe it’s a consenual hallucination…or just a bunch of stoner b.s….not that there’s anything wrong with that.but,yeah, not so much.

The thing is that they didn’t show a lot of things that are obvious (except for the money thing), like when the wicked witch pops on the screen for the first time and the alarms go off for time. Also when any colour youd like goes off and shes in the tornado. I am not a stoner and love watching it together.

they missed one…also “brain damage” cues with the scarecrow running in the field….”the lunitic,is on the grass…”

Very excellent point Chris.

There’s also a point in the movie when there’s a man hiding behind a curtain. He’s actually doing the voice for the “Great Oz”. He’s discovered by Dorothy & the others. It’s unbelievable. Also, the dog is pretty cool.

jeff u r a loser and darkside of the moon is awesome!

Spo, I still love you. I also like to watch tv in the evenings. Do you?

If you watcg closly you can see a guy hang fim self in the back round right after dourthy meets the tin man and runs into the witch

Hi Jesse, thank you for that. Do you ever think about the stars? I do. Let’s try to love all things and people, really. Don’t fret, all will work out. I Love You.

You’ll all be Republicans when you grow up, have kids of your own, and realize you’ve been knuckleheads for the first part of your lives. You’ll explode when you read this now, but it’s inevitable (unless you remain a knucklehead, and live out the rest of your lives living in your 1 bedroom apartment, listening to “Floyd” dude). I understand.

Sorry for that. I’m sure you’re all nice people.

for a whole community of folks that are into this kind of thing…

http://www.synchronicityark ive.com

Yes, it’s my site so I’m biased. but it’s been around since 1995, and has lots of material and discussion on this and other audio/visual synchs.

–mj
arkiver

RollingStone needs to check out Phish’s album Rift, with Mickey’s apprentice scene in Fantasia. Start the album right when the wizard’s hands come together the third time. The musical clues and the lyrics sync up beautifully, and leave you several WTF?! moments. With or without drugs.

Rolling Stone should really check out Phish’s Rift with Mickey’s apprentice scene from Fantasia, Phishtasia. Start the album after the wizard’s hands come together the third time. The music and lyrics sync up waaay better than Dark Side of Oz, giving you several WTF?! moments. With or without drugs, it is really cool.

sorry for the double post….stupid computer

the schnozberries taste like schnozberries

So Jeff, is everyone who is not a Republican a knucklehead? Just like everyone else is crazy except you right? I will listen to Floyd until I die while I’m sure you’ll live out your wet dreams in Loma Linda trying to conjure a Reagan clone. Republicans are such republicans.

I can tell by reading the comments that for one, most of you don’t have a life. Another fact that’s very apparent is that you don’t know thing one about Pink Floyd or their music. So why don’t you play with your Nintendo DS’s or go out, buy “Dark Side of the Moon”, and go listen to it. I hope you don’t have a “Momentary Lapse of Reason” while trying to comprehend its meaning.

Listen, I’ve been a PF fan since 1975. I’ve been to a dozen shows. Seen various solo efforts. Have painstakenly learned most every tune on guitar. I also love The Wizard of Oz. But come on. This rumor has been around for 10 years and it’s just plain nonsense. Now if this is “creepy” then you people really need to get out more. There ain’t nothing creepy or amazing about it. Except that PF is the greatest band in history. Followed up quickly by The Who, Zeppelin, The Dead and The Doors. Just my humble opinion!
Peace,

Bill

It’s interesting to note that Nick Mason, in his book about the band released a couple of years ago, discusses how right before Dark Side the band was spending a lot of time writing and editing songs to fit against film scenes, so it’s not impossible that WoO was used to help edit and shape the songs of DSotM. Additionally, the Hipgnosis album design parallels the progression of the movie: It starts out b&w, goes through a prism into color, and then the heartbeat rises in the green (emerald city) until it eventually goes back in b&w.

Coincidental? I think so, sure the band has denied it (but Lennon also denied LSD had anything to do with Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds) but it still could be coincidence (although this would be what Jung referred to as Significant Coincidence).

My belief is that both of these pieces work on so many levels that they are bound to find common ground. (Anybody remember the theory that Baum wrote the book as a progressive political tract: Yellow brick road = gold standard, Emerald city = greenbacks, Wicked Witch of the West = Railroads, WWof E = banking, Scarecrow = agriculture, Tin man = industry, etc.,) Then there’s the elemental derivations (Dorothy/Earth, Scarecrow/Air, Tin Man/Water & Lion/Fire). Then all of the Dark Side songs are conceptual: Money, Time, War, Insanity, Life & Death. With such broad strokes there’s bound to be a meaningful juxtaposition.

my god, adjective is trying to sound all smart and shit. shut the hell up. yes it is a coincidence, nothing more. get over it. believe what you want and seriously lay off the drugs.

I’ve played floyd with the tv on mute many times you can make it sync to almost anything. cartoons work best

Atom Heart Mother and 2001 go quite nicely together. Of course, it’s better . . . on weed!

This banter has been more amusing than any sinc-up posted. thank you folks for the right send off to the weekend

You people are all so hip! I like being a part of this group. We are all against “the man”. Let’s continue to write cool things to eachother, because we are different than the rest. Someone else write something cool now, okay?

I don’t see why you guys have to bash those who feel they see a connection in these two timeless pieces of art.

As for me, I really don’t see all that much connection first time around but will keep an open mind.
Peace

it is not so far fetched to were it is just a coupla stoner guys drooling in doritos over listening to “imigrant song” while watching braveheart fight scenes. pink floyd at the time of of dark sides recording were doing quite a bit of scoring for films and had access to studios with full size motion picture screens. i mean by then they had done thefilms more, zambriskie point and some of obscured by clouds was aiming at that direction. there is also the belif that ummagumma links up with gigi. wish you were here has some sort of 2001 link up but honestly what album recorded between 1965 and 1975 doesnt? point here is pink floyd were scoring films and practicing doing so around that time. they are also a group that is wise enough to keep an air of mystery about them. so i dont think they will admit to it but see for yourself at home. if you make it out of great gig in the sky a non believer maybe you should stick to listening to fall out boy.

Just a passing coincidence that some random scenes in this movie some-what appear to synch up with certain frames of OZ… it’s absolutely asinine for anyone to truly think that these two pieces of pop culture are remotely related. Come on people, don’t we have anything better to do with our time?!?

1. the fact that nobody can either confirm nor deny the WoO and DSotM sync in any way is what makes this all the more interesting . . . you cannot deny there are parts that seem to sync exactly together (B&W to color and the cash register anyone?) but you also must agree for all the hype syrrounding this there are depressingly few moments which sync throughout the movie.
2. Nobody hung themself in the background as our interpid travellers skipped out of the forest – get the DVD, get a good TV and you can see it is a bird walking and pecking towards the ground. I hated to find this out as the ‘midget hanging him/herself’ story was always a great one to tell and a great urban legend but alas it is just not true.
3. PF syncing up with any movie does not matter in the long run – what matters is the quality of music on their albums and that they are one of the bands that are going to be around for quite awhile – my son goes to sleep listening to a Floyd mix i made for him . . .and he asks for it as soon as story time is over. . . but, if the sync theory makes a few more kids out there but DSotM instead of some of this other crap being recorded today so be it. I for it.

hmmm . . . think I’ll go get stoned and see if The Final Cut syncs with any of the March Madness games . . .

Okay, I’ll admit that the first and fourth clips were pretty good, but for the most part, this is really overrated. What’s the deal with syncing Oz with the start of “Money”? That doesn’t mean any damned thing! It’s the start of side two, people! Just flip the record over and put the needle to the groove just as Dorothy opens the door.

Which pretty much nullifies the whole conspiracy, I guess.

Still, it’s a fun game, and sometimes you can get this weird syncronicities. The other day, I clicked on a Vanilla Ice video just as side two of Animals started. Oddly enough, it synced perfectly with the video – it was Ice’s corny video tie-in with the Ninja Turtles. Ha HAH!!

So the whole Wizard of Oz thing is a fun little game, but it’s not true in any real sense. But, hey, you’re probably stoned or tripped out anyway, so whatever helps expand your mind, I suppose. For me, it doesn’t really work.

I first learn this trick in 1998, and have been doing it ever since. You always find a new “trippyness” ever time i see it. trust me its not edited. also if you want to try this test for yourself, simply hit play on your stero after the lion roars three time on the movie. you can silence the movie completely or link up the sounds so you can here both. its opitional to your taste and mood. I done both, but I perfer to link up the sound.

There is no Dark side of the moon sync-up really. ‘Matter a fact it’s all crap!

i get so sick of the “freaks” who swear by this sync thing. if you’re stoned enough, ANY music will “sync” with just about ANY film. it’s so effing annoying that all the pseudo heads vomit this crap up. you don’t NEED any video to listen to ANY pink floyd. close your eyes and look at your mind for hell’s sake.

i dont really get it

I ENJOY “TRIPPY” DISCOVERIES AS MUCH AS THE NEXY GUY. TO BAD “THE NEXT GUY” THIS TIME HAPPENED TO BE A DUMBASS.

that great and all but you havent seen anything till you have watch the hills have eyes too (echoes the best of Pink floyd) second disk second track now that freakie

start cd

dark side syncs with alice in wonderland while “run rabbit run” plays as the rabbit runs into the hole. Also, all that crazy mad gibberish at the beginning of DSotM reminds me of the mad hatter and the other two cronies as they were having breakfast with Alice. Plus one of them had a clock around his neck “Time”. Just say no.

With my usgov’t approved medicinal marywanna, i can cue up any iggy pop Cd and any quentin tarantino film and be happy as clams at the beach.
I think it’s great that there was so much fervor in the commentary between all the people on this issue.

I tried it first back around 1996, only on reefs, and the 4,maybe 6 or 7 times it really REALLY seemed synched were defintely noteable…..BUT, i also have visual epiphanies while walking down any street at any given time, depending on my frame of mind.
Example:
Hear a BIrd: See a dog that looks like a birddog,. Hear a dog barking in the distance……stopping to sit upon a park bench to ponder what all that just meant……..because I looked at the sky after hearing the dog bark and I saw a crow with it’s wings outstretched. Or was it a Phoenix? oh my god…..where are my tranqs?

Have fun guys!

Hey I here alot of people saying its all crap, and untrue. If you truely link it right, Watch the part where the Lions at oz, Hes normally singing his song, but you’ll notice everytime he raises his arm and shakes it, David Gilmour shakes his guitar notes in the guitar solo of Money. That part is Cool! And I’ve done the Wall and Alice in Wonderland, (take out the song Comfortably Numb) thats one of the only songs he wrote, remember him and Roger Waters didn’t get along. The movie 2001 space oddicy is linked up to the Song Echoes from Meddle (not the song Echoes from the Echoes greatest hits album, Meddle version is longer)the dirctor is a big fan. I heard every Floyd album links to a movie, remember in Syd days, they played their music from differnt light patterns that flashed on the wall.
Like on Darkside of the moon, the whole album is black, on the left is a white line (black and White) on the right is a rainbow, (color) whats the 1st movie to go from black and white to color Wizzard of OZ. Plus Dorthys main song is somewhere over the rainbow.
And on the album the W A L L See how the letter A (alice) is between the W (wonder) and L (Land) The A is in the W L. Now pink floyd had nothin to do with 2001 space oddicy and Meddles Echoes, that was the dirctors doing. And on the Album Ummagumba You’ll notice on the front cover like a tiny record leaning to the building that says GIGI, Umm goes with GIGI. I’ve never tried that one though, I also heard wish you were here goes with Mickey Mouses Fantasia. Never tried that one either.

If you still think the Darkside and Oz is Fake. Look at the front cover of the Floyd album Pulse, (CD not DVD) If you look closely you’ll see a bike with a basket and 2 red shiny shoes. Remember disk 1 of Pulse is the whole album of Darkside of the Moon, but live though. So thats proof They meant to link them together.

Actually, a better sync is playing Rick James with any movie from Jenna Jameson porno collection. IT WORKS,,TRUST ME,,I AM WATCHING RIGHT NOW. LOL.

Put down the Ganja and get a life losers! There is no connection! Not even close! DUH!

weirdal rules!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!

Keep in mind that song production and movie production depend on timing. Any song that uses common 4/4 timing (like Dark Side) will probably match up to a movie. Also, “The Wizard Of Oz” starred a lot of people that had worked on Broadway stage musicals, which are very time oriented. Still its pretty cool.

Ever since the Beatles preached “All You Need Is Love” my generation is still looking for the “Dead Walrus”.
I absolutely LOVE PF, but I consider it EXCEPTIONALLY good music, and that’s all there is to it! Just enjoy….

WHAT A LOAD OF CRAP.

On a completley side topic from PF if anyone, me and my friend Marc discovered that the Gorrillas second album “Demon Days” syncs up to Alice in Wonderland the animated movie by disney. We tried it drunk/high, just drunk, just high, and even sober…after that we showed some of our friends to see what they thought and in the end even my skeptical girlfriend was convinced on the sync up.

“Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite” and Floyd’s Echose from 2001 sync up much, much better (particularly because, unlike with “Oz” those two have the exact same lenghts. ALSO, Try starting the scene in “Alien: Resurrection” when the group is in the waterhole and begin to realize that they’re surrounded by face-huggers… with Pulp’s “Common People”. That one might be better than both.

Although very coincidental, I doubt Floyd had the premonition to foresee Compact Disc creation and therefore, track timing. Remember, they recorded analog and then the disc was mastered to CD with 2 second track pauses, crossfading, etc. Try linking Oz to the vinyl and see how THAT works.

Night of the Living Baseheads by Public Enemy sync’s perfectly with Night of the Living Dead. Leave it on repeat and get ready for your mind to evaporate.

Fact of the matter is this: FLoyd were in a creative rut after Syd left the band and the rest of Floyd wanted to start doing more film work, as it was more lucrative than playing gigs and touring all the time. They like working in a manner that everything was timed and had an acr to it. At this point Roger struck up a friendship with Rick Geesin, who was a film composer and helped them sync Atom Heart Mother up with the footage for More. It is plausible that they liked working this way so much that they started writing music for the albums as if they were writing them for movie soundtracks. After all, the studios that they recorded in were renouned posting facilities for recording movie soundtracks. It makes it plausable that they took inspiration from Oz for the timing of DSOTM. BTW, if you start Wish You Were Here immediately after Dark side when watching Oz, it syncs to.

Coincidence? HMMM.

Publius Enigma

Edit to my last post. It was Ron Geesin, not Rick.

N’Sync-’No Strings” and any episode of “I Love NY”

Nuff said!!

what you need to do is play “gonna fly now” at the beginning of a Rocky montage, it’s weir how it fits just perfectly!

I really don’t think that the band had any thing to do with this “Co-incidence of Sync”.After all DSOTM is Recorded at Abbey Road beginning in June 1972 – and is released on January 1973.So in so less time I don’t think they would have had time to do that,because the mastering and fade-out ,loops etc. were such a heavy tasks and the band took great care to make the songs seamless with the help of alan Parsons.Its just “CO-INCIDENCE” or “Freudian-Train Of Thoughts”.

I think that most of you who have posted here should really study up on Quantum Mechanics / Time Compression and how perception works it might help you to appreciate the real beauty of being human .The Real Truth is that everything is linked to everything and always will be. Most of the concepts talked about in the prior posts are not that far fetched, true synchronicity exist everywhere. However modern marketing goes to much greater extremes to create the same kind of brain association with very little effort, most advertising agencies use this technique as common place .The Beatles used the same kind of marketing “Paul is Dead ” Look it up. Both bands will deny it and to some degree maybe neither of them where aware, Floyd’s will stand up through history and time expertly crafted as a message to the future telling them who we where. Think about it while listening to wish you where here.

Eternally Entangled

Yeah what a trip that all works out, man. But I think Pink Floyd kinda syncs up to anything! Have a cigar man! Keep smoking grass too..

There is more to it than smoking grass and taking drugs, those things actually belittle and defy the beauty of what is taking place.

Asyd Waters they performed dark side for about a year and a half live before they began recording DSOTM lots of bootlegs out there and if you pay attention to there discography you will see they had experience with this already .

If a man finds that his nature tends or is disposed to one of these extremes…, he should turn back and improve, so as to walk in the way of good people, which is the right way. The right way is the mean in each group of dispositions common to humanity; namely, that disposition which is equally distant from the two extremes in its class, not being nearer to the one than to the other.”
— Maimonides

I can’t beleive you idiots are DEBATING if Dark Side/Oz is intentional because it’s PROVEN that is…follow this…god it’s simply really.

1.- Pink Floyd asked Stanley Kubric
to do the score for “2001 A Space Oddysey”…Kubric tuned them down, opting instead for Andew Lloyd Webber. Floyd, to spite both Webber and Kubric, wrote the song “Echoes” to perfectly synch to the movie’s epic final section “Jupiter And Beyond The Infinite” and as an inside joke, they lifted the hook of the song from Webber’s score for “Phantom Of The Opera”.

2.- Now…knowing #1 to be true (and 10 minutes of Floyd research will confirm everything I just said), I find it HILARIOUS that you all are wondering if Floyd would “think to do something like that” when they EXPLICITLY DID IT ON THEIR FREIKEN PREVIOUS ALBUM.
YES IT IS INTENTIONAL. These clips do no justice to just HOW DIRECT AND HOW MANY “coincidences” there are in Dark Side/Oz…let me name but a few…

A.- Did it ever dawn on anyone here that the song-name for the music playing when Dorothy’s house is lifted high into the sky by a tornado is “Great Gig In The Sky”?

B.- Did anyone else notice that the music for that song is wildly intense and crazy as the tornado is wildy and intensely baring down on Dorothy, but the moment she gets hit in the head with the window and knocked into dreamland, the music instantly calms and becomes dreamy and atmospheric?

C.- Did it ever dawn on you guys that The Wizard Of Oz’s 2 most iconic identities- the black/white into technicolor, and “Over The Rainbow” ae represented by the album art, which is monochromatic light relenting to all the colors of the rainbow?

Yes you idiots…it’s not some jackass smoking too much weed. It’s an undeniably tangible, factual hybridizing of media by Floyd. 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.

P.S.- And I can’t beleive nobody here has mentioned the only movie/album synchonicity admitted by the band members, and conceded by the “hand through water/hand though fire” analog in their music video…I speak of course of Tool’s “Aenima” synched to the movie “Legend” starting the album as the word “Legend” appears on the screen in big red letters.

It’s the only synch ever conceded to be intentional by the band, and nobody hear knows about it? God, you dumbasses…the song during the green swampmonster is amazing…as is the storm music until Tom Cruise breaks through the ice…and of course the lady screaming through the echoing halls as the baby screams are echoed on the albu are chilling. I love “Aenima/Legend”…perhaps the greatest guarded secret in the music industry. Maynard was furious when it leaked. He is quoted in an Danish interview that he wished to take it to his grave….as Waters and Co likely will with Oz.

Its defintiely true…With all the names of songs, album art, timing, there is just no concievable way it wasn´t intentional.

The part I never hear anybody talk about is a critical part of the movie. If you leave the album on repeat (even though nothing happens at the middle of the movie), one part of the ending syncs. The lyric goes ¨the time is up, the song is over¨ at which point Dorthy immediately wakes up out of her ¨dream¨.

And to all you who think it is just a figment of stoned peoples minds…try it sober. I noticed WAY more things sober than high.

Maybe I am mistaken…it’s been a while since the ’60’s, but wasn’t Obscured by the Clouds the soundtrack for the french film ‘La Valee’? See… film and Floyd do go together…

Man, try “Oops I did it again” backwards while playing “Zoolander”. It syncs up perfectly during the gasoline fight. The key is you have to be on meth and red bull to understand.

i don’t get it.

The Very fact that some much Time has Been consumed sync -ing Music to film has anyone thought about maybe becomming good enough musicians today As Floyd & the rest of The great band line ups Of The 60’s (Beatles/Stones/Who/Kinks/Byrd s/Etc….) or are we doomed to listen to Fall out Boy for the rest of this lifetime. Stop blogging & start writing some tangible new Music for Gods sake

I guess this was too much acid for more than just Syd! I do not see anything of value that this old folklore BS portays. Sorry, as I wanted to believe this old myth.

I am a young-old hippie, and I totally get it. I think that the generation of the baby boomers, even when they were on drugs, could find the coolest SH*T! Also, assemble the best music and bands. A world without this ingenious would be completley drowsy and asleep!

it is one the best thangs ive ever seen i think the hole movie should be redune like that and maid wear we can git it id pay 25 dollers

Not quite mind blowing…too bad.

They missed the best part, during the song Dark Side of the Moon, the scare crow is dancing like mad on the yellow brick road as the lyrics say “the lunatic is on the path”

You want trippy? I was so goddamned confused by all these posts, referring to insults and claims that weren’t there, random non-sequitors at a high scale. Then I realized RS.com orders their comments from most recent down! How asinine! How droll! Seriously though, it’s counterintuitive and needs fixing.
Oh, and Floyd is pretty damn awesome too. Long live the multimedia mashup

It tell you how to do it on the Pink Floyd website…..isnt that proof enough?

*YAWN* Those clips hardly made me sit forward in my chair and go “Wow, that syncing is amazing”. I want the last 15 minutes of my life that I just wasted on this crap back.

The Nightmare Before Christmas and “Lateralus” is a pretty cool little media mash-up as well

DISCLAIMER : oh by the way this only works if you smoke an 1/8 OZ. of alaskan thunder fuck

try The Velvet Underground and Nico with Toy Story and eye opening experience indeed!

People, you can sync up many things in this way and have a blast. It is very funny that two people have talked about syncing up Tool albums with movies. I’d like to think that I’m not a moron like these people…yet I’ve done the same thing!!! A Jan Svankmajer movie called “Alice” and the Tool album Lateralus (”later, Alice”?) sync up startlingly well. (Pretty sweet movie, too. It is said that this guy Svankmajer has helped direct some Tool music videos. Tool’s early videos are definitely influenced by his work.)

Honestly, though, just play your favorite psychedelic tunes to television or movies. It almost always works!

Everything is insync. It just comes down to our ability to see it. Truth is almost always stranger than fiction. At least that’s been my experience. “…Which is Which and who is who.” Indeed.

Hey, you brain-fried dope fiends, there’s a problem with your little theory. DSOTM is perhaps 45 minutes long, WOZ perhaps 2 hours. Oh, BTW, Paul’s not really dead, either. Go take more acid.

these are the most negative comments i have ever read. i hope i don’t know any of you people.

Shut up guy wise. You probably still live with your mom.

Trippin’ That was soooo wicked. I want ta see more! Wasn’t the Wall done to this movie too?

Woah man like T-totally trippin’ bra. I wanna see more of this cool stuff man!

You got to play the album twice dummy! Duh, go back and cry to mommy!

Many dark moons again I took my two nieces (8 and 7 at the time) to see OZ on the big screen. Afterwards, when I asked if they liked it, they said, “We don’t like it when she sings.” I asked why, “Because then the witch shows up.”

they cheated a lil bit. in US and Them with the witch, the part where the slippers disapear from under the lil house thing is cut out so it seems that when “blue” is sang it goes right to dorothy. someone edited to make it seem better but its still pretty damn sick

The first scene (Dorthy tripping about on the farm) might work well with Animals but Dark Side – just don’t see it.

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

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

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

I pwn all!

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!

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!!

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

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

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!

those clips are ridiculous

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!!!!!!

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

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

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

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….

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.

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…

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)

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.

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

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.

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!

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.

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 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?

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 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.

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

Now, get a life!

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

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.

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!

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.

that is bs that stuff barely goes with tha music ha

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

yeah right he has an enormous cock

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

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.

“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 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

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.

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.

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.

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!

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!

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

yeah maybe but try it with marrilion cds instead

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.

nah- doesn’t work.

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.

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

who?

just good tunes.

pretty stupid

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?

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).

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

nevermind, im an idiot

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

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”

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

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!!!

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

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.

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…

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?

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.

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’?

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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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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”.”………….

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.)

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

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..

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?

Loved it

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”

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.

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…..

Doesn’t really seem like it matches at all.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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

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

thats cool

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.

Nice it really does match up looking forward to it

Get a life everyone. I’m not impressed.

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.

dont’ hate. this is great stuff.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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

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

Pink Floyd
Wish you were here

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

Wish you were here…

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!

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.

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

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!

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)

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.

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.

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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.

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!!!

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.

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!!!

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

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.

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

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

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.

I never denied it.

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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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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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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.

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.

“Money” happens to be in 7/4 time.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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
http://www.SyncMovies.com

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?

RIP Rick Wright

its not even that sync

it really isnt that big a deal

Pink Floyd is some really good stuff.

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i agree with anonymous but I think the trippiest parts is when Dorothy gets back from her big ordeal and right as she opens her eyes David gilmour sings “Home, Home again/I like to be here when I can/When I come home cold and tired/It’s good to warm my bones beside the fire/Far away, across the field(If you look out the wind you can see far across a feild)/Tolling on the iron bell/She calls the faithful to her side (as the three farm hands that are the scarecrow, the tinman and the cowardly lion/. The camera than pans and focuses on Dorothy out as the songs switches to the great gig in the sky a few seconds later all you see is the sky and THE END which eventualy turns into the credits still on the background of the sky.

Y’all need day jobs.

To all the patronizers who say “kids, get off drugs,” fuck OFF. This album rocks and the way it syncs with the movie is amazing. Intentional or not, it is interesting that lyrics, song titles and musical arrangement all sync up.

To the one who said the “M” is for Mickey Mouse, think again, the “M” is for Masonic. The Wizard of Oz is one of those mind control movies, of which there are many.