![]() Music: Makes an abrupt change to the frenzied “On The Run” introduction. Movie: Dorothy is talking to Zeke and walking on the fence rail between two pigpens when she loses her balance and tumbles into the pigpen. Music: “Long you live and high you fly/But only if you ride the tide/And balanced on the biggest wave/You Race towards and early grave.” Movie: Dorothy searches the farmyard for someone else to talk to and settles on the farmhands. Music: “Look around and choose your own ground” Warning: Even if you love “Dark Side,” you’ll probably want to have something else to listen to for a few weeks after doing this. Regardless, this was a fun way to spend a Saturday night. In our book, this urban legend lands somewhere between reading a horoscope and analyzing literature: There’s probably some truth in it somewhere, but finding the “truth” relies upon the user doing a lot of mental heavy lifting, and those theories may not match up with what the authors actually intended. Or, it could be that writing an album to hold up through two and a half cycles isn’t exactly easy - or, possibly, wasn’t even done in the first place. That may be due to greater familiarity (and, by extension, observational powers) of what’s going on in the movie and on the album. The album boasts the song “Great Gig in The Sky,” which sounds like the perfect name for a song to go with a movie about a tornado.įor the most part, the biggest coincidences seem to show up on the first trek through the album. There are plenty of tidy thematic coincidences between “Wizard of Oz” and “Dark Side of the Moon.” The movie’s keynote song, “Over The Rainbow,” fits neatly with the iconic, light-splitting prism design used for the album’s cover art. Your results may vary based on the “refreshments” you choose (wink wink). Note: Movie-viewing snacks for this experiment consisted of potato chips and decaf soda. According to, when you see the credit “Produced by Mervyn LeRoy,” the credit should be fading amid the transition from “Speak to Me” to “Breathe.”
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