Maybe not as important as St. Pat's Day, but today is the 36th anniversary of the US release of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon album. Dark Side is considered by many rock critics to be the epitome of the "progressive rock" genre, which is probably true, but I've always thought that the 1971-1979 Pink Floyd (the years in which they released Meddle, Obscured by Clouds, Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals, and The Wall) had more in common with the Beatles than King Crimson. The later Beatles and Floyd in the 70s were kind of like Baby Boomer Folk Music; had Woody Guthrie been in either band he probably would have written a song called "This Head Is Your Head." See the first video below for Roger Waters' acoustic version of "Brain Damage."
Someone with too much time on their hands discovered that parts of Dark Side synchronize nicely with The Wizard of Oz. Note at about the 3:55 mark in the second video below that when "Balanced on the biggest wave you race towards an early grave" are sung. Dorothy falls as the words "early grave" are sung. You can find the entire album synched to the movie on YouTube.
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