
If you're not familiar with this thing, you start the CD just after the Goldwyn-Mayer lion's third roar right at the beginning. Scenes change with the music, lyrics synch with action on the screen, characters walk in time to the beat - it is an astonishing achievement, made even more astonishing by two things:
1) It works when you repeat the disc a second time, which absolutely blows my mind.
2) The music is good. Without the context of the tornado that strikes the Gale homestead in Kansas, I might not have noticed what a wailer Clare Torry is on "Great Gig in the Sky," but a lot of the other songs stand on their own. "Us and Them" and "Eclipse" are as powerful as "Money" is playful. Writing music to correspond to a film made Pink Floyd construct an album instead of a mere collection of songs, and an album that not many musicians could hope to top.
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