The Wizard of Odd
I did something with Jen this weekend just gone that I haven’t done since Uni. We sat down and watched the Wizard of Oz muted, while listening to “The Dark Side of the Moon” by Pink Floyd.
For those of you that haven’t done this before, well done you are a normal human being with a healthy life and things to do. For those of you who are interested, when I was at Lancaster I read a report that said that some students in California had found that Dark Side of the Moon (DSOTM from now on) was a near perfect soundtrack to the film the Wizard of Oz. You start the album playing on the 3rd roar of the MGM lion at the beginning of the movie. When I first did it I was studying for my finals and so was trying to find any excuse not to do work. I watched it with Stu and Jon and all 3 of us ended up with bad degree classifications. Coincidence – you decide.
So I did it again this Sunday gone with Jen, and I must admit it works spookily well. I had forgotten most of the coincidences of the music or lyrics of DSOTM and the Wizard of Oz. For example at the beginning of the movie Dorothy is running, and the 1st lyrics sang on DSOTM are “run, rabbit, run”. When Dorothy is lifted up into the sky by the cyclone, the song that is playing is Great Gig in the Sky. When Dorothy opens the door into the word of the Munchkins it is the sound of money falling and Money starts. At one point the lyrics sing “which is which” and the camera pans from the good Witch of the North to the Wicked Witch of the West. When Dorothy and Toto meet The Scarecrow the songs lyrics sing about the Idiot on the Hill. Those of you that know the album will know that it finishes with a heartbeat and this plays at the same time that Dorothy and The Scarecrow are listening for The Tin Man’s heart.
This is where the album finishes. I wonder if their next album “Wish You Were Here” would be the soundtrack to the rest of the movie?
For those of you that haven’t done this before, well done you are a normal human being with a healthy life and things to do. For those of you who are interested, when I was at Lancaster I read a report that said that some students in California had found that Dark Side of the Moon (DSOTM from now on) was a near perfect soundtrack to the film the Wizard of Oz. You start the album playing on the 3rd roar of the MGM lion at the beginning of the movie. When I first did it I was studying for my finals and so was trying to find any excuse not to do work. I watched it with Stu and Jon and all 3 of us ended up with bad degree classifications. Coincidence – you decide.
So I did it again this Sunday gone with Jen, and I must admit it works spookily well. I had forgotten most of the coincidences of the music or lyrics of DSOTM and the Wizard of Oz. For example at the beginning of the movie Dorothy is running, and the 1st lyrics sang on DSOTM are “run, rabbit, run”. When Dorothy is lifted up into the sky by the cyclone, the song that is playing is Great Gig in the Sky. When Dorothy opens the door into the word of the Munchkins it is the sound of money falling and Money starts. At one point the lyrics sing “which is which” and the camera pans from the good Witch of the North to the Wicked Witch of the West. When Dorothy and Toto meet The Scarecrow the songs lyrics sing about the Idiot on the Hill. Those of you that know the album will know that it finishes with a heartbeat and this plays at the same time that Dorothy and The Scarecrow are listening for The Tin Man’s heart.
This is where the album finishes. I wonder if their next album “Wish You Were Here” would be the soundtrack to the rest of the movie?
posted by Nick at 11:26 AM
6 Comments:
Never heard of this before - how interesting! I presume you're going to try out Wish You Were Here?
Very much enjoying the blog - adds a bit of amusement to spending lunchtimes at my desk.
And on the subject of a previous blog I have actually met both Nick Shorthose and Sarah Rogers-Thomas whilst doing this job!
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We talked about trying out Wish You Were Here and we may do. I'll keep you posted. Glad I can amuse you from 8,000 miles away.
Don't you live with a Nick Shorthouse - oh no sorry that's a Nick shortarse. The Sarah one is very funny - why did they hyphenate those names??
never done it, but sounds like fun. its just a little thing, but i think your find wish you where here was before dsotm and i belive that the wall was the next after dsotm.
DSOTM came out on 1973. Wish You Were Here came out in 1975 (the year I was born) the Animals came out in 1977 and then the Wall in 1979.
sorry got my info off a friend who says he know everything about pink floyd, proof if proof be needed that he knows nothing.
Never trust friends, or for that matter men with beards, people's whose eyebrows meet in the middle or those people that have the same last name as an American state.
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