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It's intriguing to consider that two different forms of media might "match up" to create a single coherent experience, but who would ever think to pair the moody classic Dark Side of the Moon with Dorothy and Toto? To get to the bottom of this, we did a search on "Pink Floyd" and went to the resulting Yahoo! category. Among the many subcategories, we spotted Dark Side of the Rainbow and hoped that the answer was there. After clicking around for a while, we found The Synchronicity Arkive, a nice site with
a section titled The Evidence. Eureka! They cover both sides of the debate: random chance vs. intended art. Read for yourself to see which seems more plausible. An interesting side note: Both The Synchronicity Arkive and The Ultimate Pink Floyd Synchronicities explore other odd matches of Pink Floyd albums with various movies. Examples include the movie Contact with the album Echoes, Blade Runner with Wish You Were Here, and Fantasia with Meddle. Judging by the theories we read, it's doubtful that Pink Floyd truly intended to match The Wizard of Oz with their best-selling album. Suggestion seems to play a big role in the experience. (Psychologist Carl Jung coined the term "synchronicity" to describe unrelated events that somehow seem linked.) And since Pink Floyd denies doing anything intentional, we are left to speculate if album "syncs" are just the work of the little man behind the curtain...
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