Someone in some smokey college dorm room in the 1970′s realized that in a fortunate happenstance of the elegant intersection of random events, one could watch the 1939 film “Wizard of Oz” with the sound track replaced by Pink Floyd’s record bestselling “Dark Side of the Moon” and have a totally awesome experience.

This was a mashup of epic and long-lasting proportions. It’s irrelevant that the Floyd/Wizard mashup predates the commercial use of the Internet. It’s still a mashup.

The reason I’m writing about this is that now the web has taken the original mashup and gone a step further, according to Michael Moran of UK Times Online.

… It’s one of those things that most music fans have heard about while lacking the time or the inclination to actually observe. So of course someone has done all the hard work for you. Starting from here you can watch the classic 1939 film while listening to the 1973 album (in mono rather than the quadraphonic sound that its creators originally intended) and make your own assessment.

It really is uncanny how the film and music seem to go together. Even when it’s not late at night and you aren’t in a smokey college dorm room.

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