# Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon, and a minor nitpick.

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**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [July 1, 2002, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pink-floyd-dark-side-of-the-moon-and-a-minor-nitpick/116883 "2002-07-01T19:04:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![Threadkiller](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aca169/32.png) [@Threadkiller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Threadkiller)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2002, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pink-floyd-dark-side-of-the-moon-and-a-minor-nitpick/116883/1 "2002-07-01T19:04:49Z")

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This may qualify me for the “Stupidest SDMB Nitpick Award” but you gotta dream:

First the article:  
[Does the music in Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon coincide with the action of The Wizard of Oz?](http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mdarkside.html)

Which states:

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> …Waters was not the producer of the album. Alan Parsons had that job, and thus had at least some control of timing and sound effects and the like…

My liner notes (1992 Remastered CD) list Pink Floyd as the “Produced By” credit. And Alan Parsons as the Engineer.

Of course as the engineer, Alan Parsons would still have input on the timing of the album and whatnot but he was _not_ the producer as reported. And, in fact, as a member of Pink Floyd, Waters _was_ a producer for the album.

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**Author:** ![lilblupiggy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/eb8c5e/32.png) [@lilblupiggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lilblupiggy)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2002, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pink-floyd-dark-side-of-the-moon-and-a-minor-nitpick/116883/2 "2002-07-17T07:39:10Z")

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Why? Why would someone make such an obscure connection to begin with? Did they just say to themselves one day, “Hrmm…I am bored so I think I’m just going to pop in this video here and oh well let’s see…I can listen to this album at the same time…doot dee doo…Oh lookit this! They match!” I just don’t understand…

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**Author:** ![Rube\_E.Tewesday](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f0a364/32.png) [@Rube\_E.Tewesday](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rube_E.Tewesday)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2002, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pink-floyd-dark-side-of-the-moon-and-a-minor-nitpick/116883/3 "2002-07-17T16:21:16Z")

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Excellent question, lilblupiggy, with a simple answer.  
Drugs.