The Dark Side of the Rainbow
“The dark side of the rainbow” is a name for the weirdly specific synchronization of Pink Floyd’s 1973 album The Dark Side of the Moon and the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz. This theory was officially published on August 1995 in the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette article by Charles Savage.
According to him, if you start the album as the MGM lion roars, “The result is astonishing. It's as if the movie were one long art-film music video for the album. Song lyrics and titles match the action and plot. The music swells and falls with character's movements ... expect to see enough firm coincidences to make you wonder whether the whole thing was planned.”
Some examples of this synchronization are -
The lyric “balanced on the biggest wave” aligns with Dorothy's tightrope walk; the lyric “No one told you when to run” aligns with Dorothy running away from home; the most iconic synchronization being the rising and falling intensity of The Great Gig in the Sky aligning with the tornado scene; Money starting to play as soon as the movie turns to colour; Brain Damage aligning with the Scarecrow, who has no brain; and the album's closing heartbeat playing as Dorothy listens to the Tin Woodman's chest.
The members of the band denied any relation between the album and the movie, the band’s song writer-singer-guitarist, David Gilmour, going as far as saying that this is simply a result of “some guy with too much time on his hands.”
There are fan websites dedicated to cataloging the syncs between the album and the movie, there have been theatres that have tried to ‘stage’ the dark side of the rainbow by projecting the movie and either playing the record or having a jam band cover the album live.
- just some cool stuff i learnt about recently.
