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There are so many coincidences between MGM's *The Wizard of Oz© and the album **The Dark Side of the Moon© it's just plain eerie -- and as fun as all get out. All you need is a factory copy of the film (a home made copy from TV will not do unless you copied it from a channel like the American Movie Channel® or Turner Classic Movies® with NO commercial interruptions and it will need the 3 roars of the black & white MGM® lion at the beginning of the film) and CD by Pink Floyd HOW TO SET IT ALL UP
Firstly if you aren't familiar with Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon© then SHAME ON YOU! Jes kiddin' . . . For your penance you must now purchase the CD, even if you never do this synchronicity experiment, and listen to it several times and read the lyrics along with it to acquaint yourself with possibly the greatest contemporary music album ever made!


It will probably take you a few tries to get the sync lined up just right so be patient. First load the Dark Side of the Moon (DSOTM) CD into your CD player and hit PLAY (>) and then immediately hit PAUSE (II) so it is cued up and ready to roll. Be sure also to set your CD player to continuous replay. This in most CD players is done by hitting the "REPEAT" button twice. Hitting it once will usually repeat only the presently playing track so hit the button two (2) times and it will replay the CD over and over. The CD will play roughly two and a quarter times through the entire length of the movie.


Now start the video and fast forward past all the preview junk (about five minutes worth on the THX version) at the beginning and watch for the THX Digital logo to pop up. Now get the tape to the very beginning where the BLACK & WHITE MGM lion roars. After the BLACK &WHITE MGM Lion roars for the THIRD (3rd) time IMMEDIATELY hit the play button on the CD player.


Be sure to turn down the sound on the TV because the dialogue and original soundtrack are not necessary for this experiment -- neither should they even be considered. The DSOTM CD will provide all the sound you need.

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T h e D e f i n i t i v e L i s t

1) The first indicator that everything is going right is the change from Speak to Me to Breathe which coincides exactly with the fade-in appearance of the name of producer Mervyn LeRoy.
Note: In the prologue the word "Time" (one of the songs on the CD) is written with a capital letter even though it isn't at the start of the sentence. Also you will find the word "Heart" capitalized in the middle of a sentence (a sound particular to The Dark Side of the Moon).

Note: (OO) 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.

2) "Leave, but don't leave me ..." Auntie Em appears to say "... Leave ..." to Dorothy and then Dorothy turns to leave looking a bit down in the mouth.

3) Right after the words "... Look around ..." Dorothy looks around.

4) "... Smiles you'll give and tears you'll cry ..." Two men above (Cowardly Lion and Tin Woodsman) are smiling and the man below (Scarecrow) is crying. This one is sort of not on time but worth the mention.

5) "... All you touch ..." Dorothy touches the man (Cowardly Lion) holding a bucket on his arm.
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.

6) "... When at last the work is done ..." the farmhand (Scarecrow) hits his finger with the hammer (to the beat of the drum no less) and is done with his work.

7) (Y) Right after "... Dig that hole ..." the farm hand (Scarecrow) points to the ground as if telling Dorothy to dig a hole.

8) "... Balanced on the biggest wave ..." Dorothy is balancing herself on the fence.

9) "... Race towards an early grave." is said at the moment just before Dorothy falls off the fence rail. ["... Down in the pig-pen sayin' 'keep on diggin' ..." Lyrics from Pigs (Three Different Ones) by Roger Waters on the Animals CD]
Note: "... Race towards an early grave ..." Perhaps a reference to Judy Garland's untimely death?
Note: (E) 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."

10) (C) Song shifts from Breathe to On the Run at the same time (actually just slightly before) Dorothy falls off the fence.
Note: (D) At the moment Dorothy falls off the fence rail and the switch to On the Run occurs, the music in that song has an allure of danger as it matches to the mood of the scene and emotion of the other characters as they are concerned with Dorothy's well being and it matches the scene very well.

11) Auntie Em shows up and starts talking exactly at the same time as the woman's voice begins talking during On the Run. I wonder if anyone knows just what the heck that female voice is saying on the album. It sort of sounds like the overhead voice in an airport to me. I also wonder what kind of cookies Auntie Em has on that plate? "I've got a clan of ginger-bread man. Here a man, there a man, lot's of ginger bread, man. Take a couple of you wish. They're on the dish ..." (Syd Barrett/Pink Floyd from Bike)

Note: (EE) The voice heard in the background of this portion is indeed someone in an airport (I don't know what the proper title of that person would be -- any help out there?) 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 Biritish 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. 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 and then clicking on the article Planned or Coincidence?.

12) (C) During the On the Run sequence as Dorothy is singing Somewhere Over the Rainbow, the effects sound sort of like helicopters and airplanes are flying overhead & Dorothy's gaze seems to follow one across the screen.
Note : Somewhere Over the Rainbow, Well, we all know what is found on the infamous cover of DSOTM (a rainbow!) and here Dorothy is singing about one. Also there are a few fun little rhythm syncs during this piece such as Toto wagging his tail in time to the clicking sound effect and Dorothy pulling her head towards Toto's during another sound effect and swinging around to another, etc. And then the sort of rumbling sound at the end of the song that for some reason goes along with the sun piercing the clouds in the sky scene. It gives the feel of a passing thunderstorm. For more thoughts on the relation to the cover read Deep Thoughts - Section A.

Note: (II) 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!

Note: (VV) 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.

13) (AA) At the end of On the Run it looks like Toto is laughing at Dorothy.

14) (ZZ) The rumbling sound at the end of On the Run lends itself nicely, as thunder, to the clouds in the sky and the shafts of sunlight piercing them.

15) The chimes in Time go off at the appearance of Elvira Gulch (Wicked Witch of the West) on the bicycle and the chimes stop when she gets off the bike. >>>> "I've got a bike. You can ride it if you like. It's got a basket, a bell that rings and things to make it look good ..." (Syd Barrett /Pink Floyd from Bike)

16) (WW) Notice the paint brush that Uncle Henry is holding and that he raises it and drops it as if he is ringing a bell and with each movement, a bell indeed rings.

17) At the first bass chord of Time the scene changes to inside Auntie Em's house -- really cool!

18) (C) Dorothy and the rest of the cast appear to move and react to the rhythm and mood in particular of the music.

19) "... You fritter and waste the hours in an off hand way ..." Seems to describe the kind of frittered away life that the old maid /witch, Ms. Gulch has if getting rid of poor little Toto is what it takes to make her day.

20) "Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town", This is said just a little before Toto jumps out of the basket and onto the ground where he kicks off to go back to Dorothy in his hometown. So it's not exact but worth the mention.

21) "... Waiting for someone or something to show you the way ..." Toto pops up in the window (perhaps to show Dorothy the way?).

22) (Q) "... Tired of lying in the sunshine ..." as Toto is lying on the bed with the sun shining in on him wittle fuzzy body.

23) "... You are young and life is long ..." a reference to Dorothy's youth?

24) "... and there is time to kill today ..." There certainly is time to kill and Dorothy will be present at the death of not one but two people (witches).

25) "... Ten years have got behind you ..." You see Dorothy's back. (Hence, you are behind Dorothy).

26) "... No one told you when to run ..." Dorothy is running away from home.

27) Guitar solo in Time begins as scene changes (It's so cool when that happens).
Note: (YY) Dorothy and Toto cross a bridge shaped like a triangle which of course is reminiscent of the cover of The Dark Side of the Moon.

28) During the guitar solo of Time the words "Past, Present and Future" are seen on the sign of Professor Marvel.

29) (D) "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. Kinda funky eh?

30) (X)+(BB)"... to come up behind you again ..." as Professor Marvel is coming up behind Dorothy.

31) "... But you're older ..." referring to Professor Marvel's old age?

32) "... Or half a page of scribbled lines ..." referring to perhaps the photo that Professor Marvel sneaks out of Dorothy's basket? Ok so it's not scribbled lines, but it's a page.

33) "... Hanging on in quiet desperation ..." as Dorothy quietly and desperately listens to the words of Professor Marvel.

34) "... Home, home again ..." as Professor Marvel tells Dorothy that she needs to go back home.

35) (G) "... Hear the softly spoken magic spell ..." as Dorothy is leaving the "magic" wagon of Professor Marvel.

36) Song changes to The Great Gig In the Sky the moment Dorothy reaches down and grabs her bag. This begins what is probably my favourite scene in the whole sync -- with the tornado and all.

37) (voice says) "... And I am not frightened of dying ..." as the tornado heads towards a house.

Note: (U) At the scene of the tornado there is a sound (slide guitar) strangely reminiscent of the old air raid sirens during wartime -- perhaps warning of impending doom via twister (and we ain't talking about a Milton-Bradley® game either)?

38) The drums kick in as a tree is uprooted by the winds of the tornado.
Note : Right after the tree is uprooted, Clare Torry begins her operatic style wailing which keeps time with the mood and intensity of the tornado scene. Nifty rhythm syncs are seen during this piece such as the door flying off its hinges and the piece of furniture or appliance falling over on the porch as Dorothy enters the house, etc.

Note : (QQ) During this turbulent scene, the vocals of Clare Torry at times match the emotional gestures of Dorothy especially when she is screaming in hopes that her folks in the underground storm shelter will let her in.

39) After Dorothy gets bonked on the head with the window Clare Torry's wailing calms down and Dorothy begins dreaming.
Note: The song playing during the entire tornado scene and especially while the house is up in the air via the tornado is The Great Gig in the Sky (TGGITS). Get it?

Note: (PP) 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 tornado scene. Funkadelic man!

40) The "cha-ching !" of Money is heard as Dorothy steps out into colourful, and wealthy looking Munchkin Land. Money would be associated with colour and better living as is apparent to Dorothy.

Note: (BBB) Cryptic language in the song Money? Take a look at this bit of interesting word work:
M oney, get away.
G et a good job with good pay and you're okay.
M oney, it's a gas.

41) (V) "New car, caviar, four star daydream; I think I'll buy me a football team" Now granted that what an Englishman like Roger would call "football" is what we in the States call "soccer" but bear with me a second and notice that the yellow brick road bears a striking resemblance to the spiraling helmet symbol of the NFL Ram's (Los Angeles, Anaheim or St Louis depending on what time warp you are in).

42) (A) "Don't give me that do-goody-good bull___." as Glinda the (do-goody) good witch (!?) comes a-floating like an angel in her big bubble. Roger just has to throw in a dirty word on each album, now doesn't he?

Note: (UU) 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 the Wicked Witch's crystal ball.

43) "... I think I need a Lear Jet ..." as Glinda appears from the bubble. Maybe she'd prefer a jet over traveling in a bubble? "Big Bubbles . . . No Troubles." (Hubba-Bubba® Bubblegum)
Note : (H) The way Glinda is holding her wand it looks like she's playing electric air guitar during Dave's solo. (Just for a second ... sort of)

Note: During the guitar solo of Money the Munchkins appear to move somewhat to the music. When the solo is sort of "plucky" they move about in a halting and almost cautious manner -- but after the Munchkin with the tall, gray hat jumps out the solo goes wild again and all the Munchkins start dancing away. The soldiers also appear to march in time with the music.

44) (CC) "... Share it, fairly ..." As one of the Munchkins shares some flowers with Dorothy.

45) During the beginning of Us and Them it sounds like funeral parlour music and the Munchkin Coroner shows the Certificate of Death.
Note : (N) 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 rumor 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' ".

46) (DD) At the beginning of Us and Them voices of assorted people talking can be heard and at times it appears that the Munchkin officials are the ones doing the talking.

47) During Us and Them the ballerinas from the Lullaby League enter to "Us ... Us .... Us ...".
Note: (F) Just think about this for a sec ; "Us, and them . . . And after all we're only ordinary men. Me, and you . . . God only knows it's not what we would choose to do." Perhaps the little people actors playing the roles of the Munchkins prefer NOT being exploited for their stature by the folks at MGM i.e. it's not the kind of thing they would prefer to do. After all they are only ordinary men. Well, they're not really ordinary now are they? Realistically speaking though they could be glad since there aren't that many movie roles for little people -- so the money's nice when it's rollin' eh?

48) (XX) The fellows from the Lollypop Guild kick and jerk their little dance to the rhythm of the music.

49) (S) "Forward he cried ..." It looks like the Munchkins all shout "Forward!" to Dorothy.

50) (R) "... and the lines on the map moved from side to side ..." as the munchkins move to two separate sides at the appearance of the Wicked Witch.

51) "Black and blue ..." as it shows the witch who is wearing black , and "blue" when it shows Dorothy who is wearing blue.

52) "... And who knows which is which ..." (Witch is Witch ... or ... Which is Witch)?

53) "... Up and Down ..." On "up", the Wicked Witch of the West is holding her broomstick up high and on "down" she lowers it down.

54) (RR) Also on "down", the Wicked Witch of the West is bending down to retrieve the ruby slippers from her dead sister's now curling and retreating feet.

55) (D) "Haven't you heard? It's a battle of words ..." as Glinda is whispering in Dorothy's ear and then returns to her battle of words with the Wicked Witch.

56) "... And in the end it's only 'round and 'round..." As Glinda points to Dorothy's feet which are now turning 'round.

57) (W) Then it says "... and 'round ..." as there is yet another shot of the ruby slippers.

58) (X) "... said the man with the gun ..." as the Wicked Witch points her long finger at Dorothy in the shape of a gun!

59) "Down and out ... " as Glinda leaves in her bubble (she's out of here).

60) (L) "... But there's a lot of it about ..." Oy! There certainly seems to be a lot of coming and going in the Land of Oz with the house and the Wicked Witch going under the house and the other Wicked Witch coming and going and the good witch coming and going .

61) (LL) "...With ... Without ..." Dorothy starts on the Yellow Brick Road with Toto in her arms and then puts him down and he is walking beside her but without her. And after all, at least twice in the film Toto is what the fighting's all about.

62) (J) "... Get out of the way, it's a busy day, I've got things on my mind ..." as Dorothy passes through the Munchkins and leaves Munchkin Land.

63) Scene changes at the same time that Us and Them changes to Any Colour You Like

64) "... The lunatic is on the grass ..." The Scarecrow isn't on the grass but he is made of grass and he is certainly dancing around like a lunatic.
Note: ( A) 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, His arms didn't move except when the wind cut up rough and mice ran around on the ground. He stood in a field where barley grows." Notice what colour Scarecrow is in the movie?

65) (M) "... Got to keep the loonies on the path ..." Dorothy and Scarecrow are the "loonies" on the Yellow Brick Road (path).

66) "... You raise the blade ..." as the Toucan in the tree raises his bill which resembles the blade of a knife.

67) (I) "... There's someone in my head but it's not me ..." The Appletrees have someone inside who makes them move around and look alive.

68) "... Thunder in your ear ..." as the Appletrees are thundering in Dorothy's ear for snatching an apple.

69) "... And everyone you meet..." As Dorothy meets yet another interesting character in this Land of Oz, the Tin Woodsman.

70) (CC) "... all that you touch and all that you see ..." Once again Dorothy is holding a man's arm at the word "touch" as it was at the beginning of the movie (see #5) but then she and Scarecrow look up to "see" the oil can which is something that Tin Woodsman would like a "taste" of in order to "feel" better.

71) Dorothy listens for a heartbeat (or lack of one) in the Tin Woodsman's chest as the heartbeat goes on to the end of the album.
Note : When the CD starts back with the heartbeat, the Tin Woodsman is singing If I Only Had a Heart still in keeping with the idea of the heartbeat.

Nothing is quite as good as the first play-through of the CD but the subsequent play-through and partial are rather fun. Results as this point will vary due to return speeds on your particular CD players. So with that said, on we go . . .

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72) (MM) At the transition from Speak to Me to Breathe the Tin Woodsman gets his leg straightened out and begins dancing -- dancing to the music.

73) "... and high you fly ..." As the Wicked Witch stands on top of the house with her flying broom.

74) "... Run, rabbit , run ..." as the Wicked Witch throws a fireball at Scarecrow.

75) During the second play-through of On the Run it works out pretty well with the Cowardly Lion scene in several instances which lose something in the translation so you will have to see them for yourself.

(TT) Possibly one of the most profound of them is where there is a sort of scary sounding laugh and Dorothy, Scarecrow and Tin Woodsman jump back as if scared out of their wits.

Side Note: If you have a slower return response on your CD player (which I don't but have seen it on friend's CD players that do), during the scene where Dorothy, Scarecrow, Tin Woodsman and Cowardly Lion are walk/skipping to the Wizard, they do so to the drum score at the beginning of Time . . . really cool even though I can no longer achieve this effect with my CD player!

76) "... And there is time to kill today ..." as the Wicked Witch seeks to kill Dorothy with the deadly Poppies.

77) "... Shorter of breath and one day closer to death..." as Dorothy and Cowardly Lion appear to be dead.

78) During this segment the little cries from Clair Torrey seem to go along with the sad hopelessness that Scarecrow is experiencing with Dorothy and Cowardly Lion asleep or dead in the Poppies.

79) (G) "... Home, home again ..." As Tin Woodsman is once at home in being frozen in his rusted state from the snow just as he was when Dorothy found him in the first place.

80) (DD) "Far away across the field ..." As the Fearless Foursome are in a poppy field and can see, far away, the Emerald City across it.

81) (AAA) "... The tolling of the iron bell ..." This one is actually a reverse. As will be seen later in the sync, there is indeed a bell in the direction whence Dorothy and the gang are being called, although it is out of order and so they have to knock. It seems to have a silent toll which draws the Fearless Four to its great greenness.

82) "...Calls the faithful to their knees ..." as Scarecrow falls to his knee upon exiting the poppy field.

83) (NN) "...To hear the softly spoken magic spell." Not really on time, but after the magic spell is softly spoken by Glinda, Dorothy and Cowardly Lion are awakened from their deadly slumber.

84) "Cha - ching !" when the message SURRENDER DOROTHY is seen in the sky written in the Wicked Witch's smoke.

85) (GG) Money is playing while in the Emerald City -- a reference to the colour of money (American at least) and to the higher standard of living (once again as in Munchkin Land) than that Dorothy is accustomed.

Note: During the scene where the Fearless Four (and Toto too) are entering the Temple of the Wizard of Oz there is "religious" sounding music playing. In fact the working title to this portion of the album, later titled The Great Gig in the Sky was called the "religious track" by the members of the band while recording DSOTM.

86) (G) "Black and blue ..." The Wizard is seen in the midst of the smoke and in this instance the smoke appears blue.

87) "... round and round ..." as we read the sign pointing to the home of the Wicked Witch that says "If I were you I'd turn back". Maybe they should turn 'round (?).

88) (B) "Listen son, said the man with the gun ..." Scarecrow is carrying a gun.

89) "... Down and out ..." the flying monkeys swoop down to capture Dorothy, and then fly out of the woods with her in their hands.

90) "... With ... without ..." Dorothy is with the flying monkeys, but Tin Woodsman, Cowardly Lion and Scarecrow are without Dorothy. . . And who'll deny she's what the fighting's all about?

91) "... You raise the blade ... You make the change..." as the blade of the Lance is raised by Scarecrow, Lion and Tin Woodsman after they have changed into the uniforms of the three unlucky witch's guardsmen.

92) "... All that you hate and all you mistrust ..." during which the face of the wicked witch is seen. Certainly a mistrustful face if ever there was one.

93) (J) "... And everyone you fight ..." as Tin Woodsman drops the chandelier on the Guardsmen.

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94) (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: (E) During this "rewards" scene when Cowardly Lion receives his badge of courage, it sounds like military helicopters and war planes flying about. (sort of)

Note: (SS) 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.

95) (JJ) Just as Glinda appears in her bubble the lyrics to the song Time are sung. It's not necessarily a thematic synchronicity but rather a dramatic one with no "hidden meaning".

96) (WW) "... Waiting for someone or something to show you the way ..." Glinda is there to show Dorothy the way back home.

97) "... Home, home again ..." after Dorothy has awakened back in her home in Kansas.

98) (P) "... Calls the faithful to their knees ..." as Auntie Em comes to Dorothy with water and is on bent knee.

99) (Z) "... To hear the softly spoken magic spell." and then Dorothy speaks the magic spell that brought her back home which is "There's no place like home".

MYSTERY MUSIC??? (HH) Chris Hart reminded me of the music at the end of DSOTM CD. After you hear "There is no dark side of the moon really. As a matter of fact it's all dark ..." you can faintly hear some music playing. Strangely enough it's an orchestral version of The Beatles' Ticket to Ride. Both Pink Floyd and The Beatles recorded at Abbey Roads Studios, and at times, contributed to each other in one fashion or another. According to interviews that I've seen of George Martin concerning tapes, quite often the tapes would have been erased and reused. I just can't figure out what the heck an orchestral (it sounds more like MUZAK [elevator music] to me) rendition of Ticket to Ride would even be for -- unless there is some part of one of the Beatles movies that has this music in it. Does anyone have a clue as the to true use of this music? If so it would be nice to know. Meanwhile for your convenience ol' Chris recorded the mystery music so you don't have to mess around with reducing the bass on your stereo to avoid blowing your speakers from the heartbeats. Click here to Listen To The Music (MP3 Format).

NEWS FLASH ON THE MYSTERY MUSIC!!!
Now, this is not the official reason as to what the music was made for, which was the question that I asked above, but for purely entertainment reasons -- a reason suitable for The Definitive List -- and one which helps to add to the whole mystique, we have one that comes from Daniel Benke (danielb@cits.br) who suggests that Ticket to Ride alludes to Dorothy's ticket to ride back to Kansas from Oz -- namely her Ruby Slippers. And while that is a very good and fun answer, the truth be known concerning Oz stories, Dorothy would have a "ticket to ride" back and forth between Kansas and Oz as she would have many other adventures in the Oz novels by Frank Baum and by many subsequent authors as well, to this very day.

Just a little something to think about:

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. Not that this has anything to do with the sync . . . just a casual observance.