The Good, The Bad, The Ugly, & The Animals

Audio: Animals by Pink Floyd 1977, Capital Records

Video:  The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly 1966, United Artists,

The Setup

The setup for this synch is incredibly easy; just start the album just after the credit sequence, right when screen goes from black to color. There is no complicated CD programming required; sit back and enjoy! Let the album run all the way thru (You can repeat the CD and continue getting some entertaining match-ups as well).

Notes about Pan & Scan Version:
Given that that Leone uses the "dollar bill" screen ratio (2.5:1?? That sound right?) and TV is somthing like 1.6:1, there's a good chunk of visual information missing on the Pan-and-Scan copy (so might not work quite as well). If possible, get the widescreen version!

Special thanks to Scott Goia for discovering this synch. And also for writing most of the text of this page, thanks to the wonders of cut-and-paste!! Here, in Scott's words, are the details of his discovery...


The inspiration for this was itself very synchronistic.... last year I went to the mall with a gift certificate (Xmas or something) and got meself two items: the widescream video version of Sergio Leone's masterpiece "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly", and Pink Floyd's underappreciated CD "Animals".

After the Oz/DSOTM hullaballo, I wanted to see what results I'd get doing other "synch-ups", to see if any old CD would match any old movie. I scoured my video and music collections and came up with: zip. Nada. Zilch. It just didn't work!! I mean, you do get the occasional synch-up, but NOTHING went on as long, or worked as consistently as the original: Oz/DSOTM.

I was about to give it up and go out and try and get a life, but then I noticed, right on top of my TV: Animals and The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. That's when it hit me.

This one "feels" as right as any of the other synchs I've tried, and I convince myself at times I've acciedentally stumbled onto an INTENTIONAL Pink Floyd synchronization (you're almost guartanteed to get similar queer flashes if you try this). It IS theoretically possible, unlike some synchs, like Blade Runner/WYWH... G,B,U, was made in 1963, plenty before Animals in '77. Not only that, but I hear G,B,U was a phenomenon in Floyd's port-of-call, merry 'ol England. AND, consider: Three things: Good, Bad, Ugly :: Three things: Dogs, Pigs, Sheep. And, IMHO, they convey extremely similar tones.

Not just A/V matches here... the whole scale of eerie coinqidinks, very much like Oz/DSOTM: thematic, lyrical, musical, song lengths/scene lengths, etc.