The Darkside Of The Rainbow
 

I had heard about this some number of years ago but had never checked it out - until now. It's pretty amazing! You can read about it here. In the meantime, check out the vid.



I almost wish a were a mathematician, because I can't help but wonder if there's some sort of mathematical phenomenon going on about human perceptions of time, or attention spans (e.g., people will want to pay attention to a scene/song for a certain amount of time before wanting to shift to someone else, and both the producers of The Wizard of Oz and Pink Floyd unconsciously were aware of that). Or something else.

4:00 into this and I have already deducted that I'm too drunk for this and I'm starting to cry

Right around the 4:00 mark is the first really good coincidence.

I just tried watching the movie to Innerspeaker, it works pretty well with that album too. The song going when the tornado comes is really good, though there's no good transition in the music when she opens to door to Oz.

TBH since I heard all the songs from DSOTM numerous times on the radio, I never had the desire to play it - just for the sake of listening to it as an album. I think the first time I listen the album all the way through is when I watched the movie with the CD, and only did that once. I heard you start playing the album after lion's third roar. So I did that, and it was pretty much in sync, but the second time cause there was a pause when it repeated the album I wasn't so sure if it was in sync, or not. The thing I remember is Dorothy opening the door (~19:20) and the film turns into color and the song, Money, starts on as if on cue. That is wild.

It makes me think if the first person to think of putting the two together would someone else do it or would it be something no one else would think of doing. I think it has more to do with Carl Jung's concept of Synchronicity than it has to do with "mathematical phenomenon going on about human perceptions of time."

WAAF is a Boston radio station. They were the first to break this.

Best bits for me in the scarecrow dancing during "The lunatic is on the grass"

And the heartbeat at the end of the album just as Dorothy leans in to listen to the tin man's chest.

Then there's Dorothy walking on top of the fence during "Balanced on the biggest wave" and the lollypop kids dancing perfectly in beat with the music. (forget which song it is)

And "black..... and blue....." (good witch / bad witch)

I work with a guy that's spoken to Alan Parson's about this and he says it's 100% coincidence.

I imagine you could do the same thing with other albums and they would have a lot of coincidences that would sync up with the movie depending on where in the movie you started the album. And it probably works with other movies and other albums also. It just depends on how much curiosity and free time you have to put into it. A large supply of weed or hashish probably helps also. ;)

One of my favourites was watching Begotten while listening to Whitehouse, Ramleh, and Throbbing Gristle (separate occasions of course, but I'll try out playing them at the same time later).

My mind is completely ****ed up from watching this.

There are. There is a blog that does movie/albums syncs and a website that sells them. The blog is That Syncing Feeling, the other was a paysite - I don't know if I can disclose the site's name. They have titles like Planes, Trains and Candy-O, OK Hackers, Wish You a Wonderful Life (Wish You Were Here + It's A Wonderful Life) The Masterful Mystery Plan (Oasis/The Masterplan + The Beatles' movie). I think the one that's really worth watching: The Fellowship of the IV -- Led Zeppelin's IV album played over Peter Jackson's "The Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship Of The Ring."

This version here has captions pointing out the various coincidences in the pairing as they occur.



This got me so interested in this I bought a Wizard of Oz DVD today. :D