Dark Side of the Rainbow

[tblue]

– also known as Dark Side of Oz or The Wizard of Floyd – refers to the pairing of the 1973 Pink Floyd album The Dark Side of the Moon with the visual portion of the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz.[1] This produces moments where the film and the album appear to correspond with each other. The title of the music video-like experience comes from a combination of the album title and the film's song "Over the Rainbow". Band members and others involved in the making of the album state that any relationship between the two works of art is merely a coincidence.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Side_of_the_Rainbow#section_2


Anybody try this?

[leftyohiolib]

1. yes i did. for example dorothy was walking on a fence rail balacing herself on it and the lyrics

the album was " balanced on the biggest wave and race towards an early grave" coincidental stuff like that nut who and how did someone put that 2 and 2 together would be intresting

[HughBeaumont]

2. I did.

Uncanny how some of it can serve as an actual soundtrack to what's going on in the movie (dance moves, balancing, change from sepia to color, "The Great Gig in the Sky", heartbeats, etc) . . .

http://dark-side-of-the-rainbow.com/list-printer-friendly.html

[harmonicon]

3. Yeah, but it will work with almost any two things.

You can put just about any two different media together and - especially if you're under the impression that it's a deliberate pairing - make these connections.

By "works," I mean works as well as this one does at least, which is not all that convincing.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

4. can you give examples of others that you have paired ... interesting. thanks

[harmonicon]

5. Hmm... nothing off the top of my head.

I just know that I learned this sometime in musical school with various demonstrations. A friend of mine did a series of pieces to demonstrate this, composing short atmospheric pieces and pairing them variously by chance to a select number of film clips. Each pairing seemed to "work," though the impression was different with each.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

6. did the musical pieces have lyrics? seems like this would make a difference -

[harmonicon]

8. They didn't, but I'm not sure that it does make a difference.

This gets too far into psychology for me to be any authority on it. I know about composition, and a bit about related things, like music psychology. With that huge caveat, my understanding is that we pick and choose from these lyrics to find significance. Really, just thinking about that now, isn't that what we always do with music? Isn't this why there are sad songs which may be personal to the composer that we can still identify with when we're sad?

If I can't sleep tonight, I may have to look up something on this and get back to you.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

9. kind of like the old adage:

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you always find what you are looking for.

biblically: seek, and ye shall find.

that kind of thing.

possibly.

and, I have heard writers say that to write a good song is to leave enough out that the listener can supply what they need.

[harmonicon]

10. I think that's largely right about songwriters.

What's the name of Elton John's writing partner? Anyway, I heard that there were other verses to their song "Daniel" that John left out of the arrangement he recorded. The other guy was angry, but it's such a better choice, because as it is, almost anyone can related to the song - the verses left out were about specifics.

I just did a little searching around (searching for words as generic as "music" gives you a million matches no matter what it's paired with), and apart from an academic journal behind a paywall, the best thing I found was this:

http://rulefortytwo.com/secret-rock-knowledge/chapter-11/pink-floyd-judy-garland/

It's not at all scientific, but it does describe some other pairings of the album with movies and relationships people have found.

[Taverner]

7. It's cool, but if you go looking for patterns...

You will assuredly find one