Talk:Dark Side of the Moon – Wizard of Oz coincidences

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This article needs a better title. I suggest

Claims is a neutral word, while coincidences is clearly not. The longer titles are clunky, but they include both the album and film title, which is good for search purposes. - Omphaloscope 14:52, 8 November 2005 (UTC)Reply

How about just Wizard Side of the Moon? I jest. BabuBhatt 23:41, 12 November 2005 (UTC)Reply

Coincidence: An event that might have been arranged although it was really accidental. In what way is that not "neutral"?

I think Omphaloscope is bothered by the embedded assumption in the word "coincidence" that the sychronicity was not deliberately, if covertly, created by the band at the time it recorded the album. Personally I see no evidence that it was not a coincidence (discounting an Intelligent Design-like argument that nothing so complex could be an accident), so don't disagree with the word choice on a descriptive level. But I would support switching to a "Dark Side of Oz" or "Dark Side of the Rainbow" title, since either would be more poetic and would have the additional NPOV virtue of leaving the question unbegged for those who harbor suspicions that this was all intentional. "Dark Side of the Moon - Wizard of Oz Synchronicity" would also be better. Archaic 15:08, 10 November 2005 (UTC)Reply

Dark Side of the Rainbow is marginally more popular than Dark Side of Oz. Go with that?

Agreed. I have moved content to Dark Side of the Rainbow. - Archaic 23:30 12 November 2005 (UTC)

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I have removed the following text, which is lifted directly from http://members.aol.com/rbsavage/floydwizard.html, which is linked at the bottom of the article.

"The Great Gig in the Sky" appears choreographed with the tornado scene: rising as the storm gathers, falling when Dorothy is knocked unconscious, rising again as the house spins up into the sky, and falling again as the house returns to earth.
"Black... and blue" from "Us and Them" is sung as the Wicked Witch of the West appears dressed in black and Dorothy is dressed in blue. That is shortly followed by "and who knows which is which" (witch is witch) as she and Glinda confront each other.
"Brain Damage" - which corresponds with the movie's "If I Only Had a Brain" - presents the lyrics "The lunatic is on the grass" and "Got to keep the loonies on the path" as the Scarecrow, stuffed with dried grass, flops around like a madman on the Yellow Brick Road.
In the same sequence, Dorothy and The Scarecrow skip along the path in perfect time to the music.

I'm sure the facts of the matter can be reinserted without copyvios. Staecker 13:38, 12 November 2005 (UTC)Reply

I have restored, with some rewriting, the examples Staecker deleted for being too similar to the 1995 article wording, on the moved page Dark Side of the Rainbow. (Staecker: was it too much effort for you to fix them yourself?) Archaic 23:30 12 November 2005 (UTC)

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