Below, you will find a portion of what used to be included in the official Definitive List, along with some newer additions, reflecting different takes and philosophies on the DSOTR sync. Some of the entries were formerly listed as syncs, which lost their place in that particular category, after more careful deliberation. But instead of just ditching these little nuggets of disinformation and fun, I thought they'd fit a bit better in a page of their own. The ones that still have place settings, such as (D, G, WW & DDD), also have syncs on the official Definitive List. Otherwise, each entry has the name and/or email address of the contributor(s).
1) Note: As the camera is panning across the landscape and following the path of Dorothy, a large tree is seen and from the lower, main bough of the tree hangs a triangle. The position of it hanging and the horizontal slats of the fence lining up beside it is strangely similar to the cover of DSOTM. ~ stego
2) The words, "Don't be afraid to care." appear to go along with Dorothy telling Auntie Em of her concerns and seemingly getting the brush-off. ~ Anthony Kingsley, kingsleyanthony @ hotmail
3) Note: "All you touch and all you see is all your life will ever be" Dorothy's life will only really be all she touches and all she sees in her Kansas home because Oz exists only in her pretty little head. ~ stego
4)
"... Race towards an early
grave." is said at the moment just before Dorothy falls off the fence rail.
Note: "... Race towards an early grave ..." Perhaps a reference
to Judy Garland's untimely death?
Note: Judy Garland died in 1969, the same year we put a man on
the moon ... "I'll see you on the dark side of the moon." ~ stego
5) Note:
The voice heard in
the background of this portion is indeed the instructional announcer in an airport, and can be
heard giving flight information. This audio footage was apparently taken
from stock reels in the Abbey Road Studios which Roger rifled through and
felt useful. More information on this and the entire creative process of
the DSOTM album which started as a free-form jam and developed into the slick
and fabulous album we all know and love. For a song-by-song description
and more see the March 1998 special edition of the British music magazine MOJO
in which extensive interviews are given with band members as well as Alan
Parsons for the 25th Anniversary of The Dark Side of the Moon. ~ Bruce Rusk, yyz
@ kscable
I
haven't read it myself but have a sneaky suspicion it may be the exact same
interview I have on MP3. If I had the room I'd add that interview to this web
page but the thing is 33MB! However I have included some valuable clips
from the interview in MP3 format which you may download and listen to by
clicking here . ~ stego
6) Note : Somewhere Over the Rainbow -- We're all aware of the imagery on the famous cover of DSOTM (a prismic rainbow!) and here Dorothy is singing about one. ~ stego
7) Dorothy's gaze appears to follow across the sky, what sounds something like Aeroplanes flying by. ~ Colleen Pudentane, bnlno1 @ yahoo
8) Note: Just before Dorothy begins to sing Somewhere Over the Rainbow she is talking about a place where there is no trouble. She says ". . . You can't get there by boat or train, it's far, far away, BEHIND THE MOON . . . " and of course that would be the DARK side of the moon! ~ Juan H. Heath, jhheath @ hotmail
9) Note: Somewhere Over the Rainbow as compared to the lyrics, "... Over the rainbow, he is crazy", from The Trial on Pink Floyd's The Wall. The Dark Side of the Moon evolved into a concept album centering on the subject of madness, and being "over the rainbow" is synonymous with going crazy. ~ Russ, UnrttenLaw @ aol
10) During the argument between Miss Gulch and the Gale family, the music introductory music to TIME sounds like old western showdown music -- and indeed this is a showdown between Elvira and Auntie Em. ~ Melissa Morisette, supervixen2x0 @ gmail
11) "... You fritter and waste the hours in an off hand way ..." Descriptive of the kind of frittered away life that Ms. Gulch has, if indeed getting rid of poor little Toto is what it takes to make her day. ~ stego
12) "... lying in the sunshine ..." Toto is lying on the bed in a beam of sunshine. ~ Kristopher Sandoval, jackandmeg2001 @ comcast
13) There are "oohs" and "aaahs" coming from the backing vocalists, perhaps decrying their feeling of awe in the presence of the powers of Professor Marvel (?) ~ John Lasher boffomusic @ earthlink
14) "... and there is time to kill today ..." There certainly is time to kill, and Dorothy will be the bringer of death, in one way or another, to not just one, but two people (witches). ~ stego
15) (C) "And you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking; Racing around to come up behind you again!" First think about this: "Time is a predator which stalks us all our lives." --Star Trek: Generations . . . Now take a look above the door mantle as Dorothy enters Professor Marvel's wagon. What do we see but a skull . . . a reminder of time and the shortness thereof indeed. ~ Brad Eisenhauer, eisenhau @ purdue
16) "... The sun is the same, in a relative way, but you're older..." as Prof. Marvel lights two candles. The two candles are like suns as they give off light and they are relatively the same. The "but you're older" matches exactly to when he lights the second candle. This can be taken to mean birthday candles, and lighting the second one means that one is now older. ~ Amrit Heer, amritheer @ hotmail
17) "... Home, home again ..." as Professor Marvel tells Dorothy that she needs to go back home. ~ stego
18)
(E) "... Hear the softly
spoken magic spell ..." as Dorothy is leaving the magic wagon
of Professor Marvel.
NOTE: The magic spell, as will be apparent later in the sync is "There's No
Place Like Home". ~ Eugene
Whong, euge @ wam.umd
19) Note: During TGGITS the instrument being played in the foreground is a Hammond B3 Organ which uses a Leslie speaker. Coincidently, the Leslie speaker makes the sound that it does by spinning inside it's box, using the "Doppler Effect" to make it sound so cool. So we have a spinning speaker inside an organ playing music to a spinning tornado scene. ~ Howard Ehrenberg, howard @ aheadhigher
20) "... I think I'll buy me a football team" Now granted that what an Englishman like Roger Waters would call "football", is what we in the U.S. would label "soccer", but bear with me, and notice that the beginning of the Yellow Brick Road bears a striking resemblance to the spiraling helmet symbol of the NFL Ram's. ~ Paul Ide, pawnsong @ hotmail
21)
Note:
Cryptic language in the
song Money? Take a look at this bit of interesting word work:
Money,
get away
Get
a good job with more pay and you're O.K.
Money,
it's a gas
~ Rene Molenaar, renem @ ch.twi.tudelft
22)
"... I think I need a Learjet ..." as Glinda appears from the bubble. Maybe she'd prefer a
Learjet
over traveling in a bubble?
Note: The way Glinda holds her wand, at times, looks a little like she's
playing electric air guitar during Dave's solo. ~ Sara Hermanson, toung4fun @
aol
23) Note: Take a gander at this (the orb from the "Welcome to the Machine" cartoon by Gerald Scarfe played in Pink Floyd concerts on the big round screen behind the band) and note the similarity to both Glinda's bubble and especially the Wicked Witch's crystal ball. ~ Emily A, Era8381 @ aol
24) Note: A little before the Munchkin Coroner comes up some officials come out of one of the buildings and are talking back and forth about their new arrival and in the background you can hear a man say "... I was really drunk at the time ..." which could be a reference to the drunken and carousing little people who played the Munchkins. Then you can hear a woman say "... He was cruisin' for a bruisin'..." which according to rumour (or urban legend if you will) Judy Garland said the little actors got drunk and at least one tried to hit her up for a date. So the latter voice could be considered as Dorothy saying that particular Munchkin was "cruisin' for a bruisin' ". ~ Lisa Messmer, dalmatia @ eburg
25) (AA) "And after all, we're only ordinary men ...", as if the Munchkin ballerinas are explaining that, though they are tiny and appear different, they are just like the rest of us.
26) Note: The song Brain Damage is playing as the Scarecrow is
singing If I Only Had a Brain.
Note: Check out these lyrics from The Scarecrow by Syd Barrett with
The Pink Floyd on their album The
Piper at the Gates of Dawn, " The black
and green scarecrow as everyone knows, stood with a bird on his hat and
straw everywhere; he didn't care. He stood in a field where barley grows. His
head did no thinking ... "
Notice what colour Scarecrow is in the movie? ~ TJ Higgins, tjhiggin @
alpine.b17a.ingr
27) "... Got to keep the loonies on the path ..." Dorothy and Scarecrow must stay on the path to achieve their goal. ~ Andrew Duhan, aduhan @ TTACS.TTU
28) "... There's someone in my head but it's not me ..." The Appletrees have someone inside who makes them move around and look alive. ~ Aqualung57, aqualung57 @ aol
29) "... fritter and waste the hours ...", once again focusing on the Margaret Hamilton character, who is wasting her hours trying to make Dorothy miserable.
30) Note: After Scarecrow is handed his "Doctorate of Thinkology" he says "The sum of the square roots of any two sides of an isosceles TRIANGLE is equal to the square root of the remaining side." Of course the triangle being a recurring theme in this synchronicity as well as the image we find on the cover of DSOTM. ~ Gary A Bridgman - gary.bridgman @ ipaper
31)
Third playthrough - (voice says) ..."Live for
today, gone tomorrow ..." as the Wizard hands Tin Woodsman his clockwork
heart, and then we hear a strange noise that sounds like a rusted metal hinge.
Perhaps a prophetic utterance of Tin Woodsman's ultimate demise?
Note: During this "rewards" scene when Cowardly
Lion receives his badge of courage, it sounds like military helicopters and
war planes flying about ... sort of. ~ Tony Zehnder pip97 @ capecod
32) During the third playthrough, when Dorothy and Professor Marvel are getting into the balloon to take Dorothy home, the chimes and bells at the start of the song "Time" play loudly. My interpretation of it is that the chimes and bells are representative of an alarm clock saying "Time to go!" ~ A1nut @ aol
33) (V) "... Waiting for someone or something to show you the way ..." Glinda is there to show Dorothy the way back home. ~ Big Al Cohen acjetnut @ comic
34) "The Sun is the same in a relative way ..." as Glinda waves the magic wand with a star on top. The sun is a star. ~ Kevin Stillwagon kevinstillwagon @ cs
35) The Great Gig in the Sky, a song in reference to the afterlife, begins playing at THE END ... most folks like to think they go to Heaven in the end. ~ JazzyJoeyD @ aol
36) In L. Frank Baum's original book, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the final chapter in which Dorothy returns to Kansas is titled "Home Again". The lyrics "Home, home again" are played during this part of the movie. ~ Duncanthrax L. Necromancer
37) The
last five songs of DSOTM, in reverse order, and skipping the last track,
ECLIPSE, the first letter of the remaining four tracks, spells out B-A-U-M, as
in L. Frank Baum, author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. ~ Robert Fick
calloway1823 @ yahoo.
Side Note: This bit of information was originally brought to my attention by
Andrew Wendland, who has a perfectly ghastly sync website,
and who uses this bit of interesting, but useless information as evidence for
the "intent" side of the debate. You'll have to scroll about on his site to find
his less than persuasive argument for his position. To read mine, click
here.
38) In a similar vein: If you invert the M in Moon, it becomes a W. Leave the first O just as it is (or you may invert it too, but it remains an "O" - ;o) ~ stego). Now, turn the last two letters in moon, ON, at a 90 degree angle and read it top to bottom. It spells OZ. "W" "O" "Oz". ~ David Logg ... chargers_fan @ yahoo
39) Didja ever notice that Dorothy's Uncle Henry plays absolutely no part in the Land of Oz? Everybody else gets some sort of appearance in the Land of Oz but not ol' Uncle Henry. ~ stego
