consolejockey

I’ve known about Dark Side of the Rainbow for years, even saw it at the Alamo Drafthouse way back when, but up until recently I had never known about the mysterious connection between Pink Floyd’s Echoes and the final act of Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. Wired’s Listening Post has a write up along with some YouTube videos of the film synced with Floyd’s epic psychedelic rock song. Talk about when worlds collide.

I’ve been both a Pink Floyd fan and a fan of Kubrick and Clarke for a while. I’ve seen the film a bunch of times and read the first three Space Odyssey books in high school, about the same time I got into Floyd via the live double album Delicate Sound of Thunder (I know, I got on the scene pretty late.) About six months ago I rented David Gilmour’s Remember That Night, which he, with the recently departed Rick Wright, performed Echoes in it’s entirety. Bands just don’t write songs like this anymore. If it can’t be condensed into a three minute top ten hit, the major labels won’t go near it. But I digress.

Forget about Dark Side of the Rainbow, Echoes and Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite sync up eerily well. And Pink Floyd band members won’t go on record as saying that it’s just a coincidence. I want more. I want Explosions in the Sky to create a sound track for the end of Solaris, Nine Inch Nails needs to score the end fight scene of Aliens, or how about Radiohead re-do the sound track to anything.

Now if you’ll excuse me I’m going to try and figure what sci-fi film Acid Mother’s Temple And The Cosmic Inferno’s half-hour-plus Starless And Bible Black Sabbath syncs up with.