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* HilariousInHindsight: All those clocks going off at once are bound to remind one of ''Film/BackToTheFuture''.

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* HilariousInHindsight: All those clocks going off at once are bound to remind one of ''Film/BackToTheFuture''.''Film/BackToTheFuture1''.
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** The insinuation that if you pair the album with various films it somehow synchronizes. Started with more serious attempts like ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'' or ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'' and then branched out into the [[SoundTrackDissonance absurd]] with films like '' Film/PaulBlartMallCop 2''. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7wyfTsIm1k We aren't kidding.]]

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** The insinuation that if you pair the album with various films it somehow synchronizes. Started with more serious attempts like ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'' or ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'' and then branched out into the [[SoundTrackDissonance absurd]] with films like '' Film/PaulBlartMallCop 2''.Film/PaulBlartMallCop2''. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7wyfTsIm1k We aren't kidding.]]
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** The second song is "Breathe", not "Breathe in the Air". This wasn't helped by some CD reissues in the '80s and '90s which labelled the song "Breathe in the Air", sometimes with the final three words in parentheses.

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** The second song is "Breathe", not "Breathe in the Air". This wasn't helped by some CD reissues in the '80s and '90s '90s, as well as Spotify, which labelled the song "Breathe in the Air", sometimes with the final three words in parentheses.
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** "I like your pride shirt."[[labelnote:Explanation]]A comic in which a woman mistakes a man's ''The Dark Side of the Moon'' tee shirt for a gay pride shirt. The comic caught on among Pink Floyd's LGBTFanbase, who poked fun at its queerphobic undertones (as homophobes occasionally claim that the pride flag "appropriates" rainbow imagery) by either replacing the design on the shirt or jokingly calling the cover for ''The Dark Side of the Moon'' a pride symbol. The fact that the rainbow on the album cover and the rainbow on the pride flag have identical color schemes only heightens such jokes.[[/labelnote]]

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* FandomEnragingMisconception: Some fans of "The Great Gig in the Sky" can get very touchy if one refers to Clare Torry's performance as "wailing".



* HypeBacklash: Given that this album is touted as Pink Floyd's greatest (and maybe even SacredCow), this is to be expected. In particular, those who don't like it as much as the rest of [[Music/WishYouWereHere1975 the]] [[Music/Animals1977 Big]] [[Music/TheWall Four]] tend to believe that the album suffers from pacing problems, with songs like "Breathe (In the Air)", "Time", and "Brain Damage" having a good rhythm and flow to them that ends up getting undermined by their placement near songs like "On the Run" and "Any Colour You Like", which get accused of being little more than {{padding}}.

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Given that this album is touted as Pink Floyd's greatest (and maybe even SacredCow), this is to be expected. In particular, those who don't like it as much as the rest of [[Music/WishYouWereHere1975 the]] [[Music/Animals1977 Big]] [[Music/TheWall Four]] tend to believe that the album suffers from pacing problems, with songs like "Breathe (In the Air)", "Time", and "Brain Damage" having a good rhythm and flow to them that ends up getting undermined by their placement near songs like "On the Run" and "Any Colour You Like", which get accused of being little more than {{padding}}.



* InsistentTerminology: Some fans of "The Great Gig in the Sky" can get very touchy if one refers to Clare Torry's performance as “wailing”.
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* OneSceneWonder: Clare Torry's wail on "The Great Gig in the Sky" was entirely self-improvised. She was initially paid a flat studio fee of just £30 (about £400 in today's money) for her performance, believing her vocals wouldn't end up on the finished album. In 2004, she finally sued for a portion of the royalties as well accreditation for her work. The lawsuit was settled out of court for an undisclosed sum, and she's now credited alongside Richard Wright as a songwriter.

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* OneSceneWonder: Clare Torry's wail on "The Great Gig in the Sky" was entirely self-improvised. She was initially paid a flat studio fee of just £30 (about £400 in today's money) for her performance, believing her vocals wouldn't end up on the finished album. In 2004, she finally sued for a portion of the royalties as well as accreditation for her work. The lawsuit was settled out of court for an undisclosed sum, and she's now credited alongside Richard Wright as a songwriter.
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That's a little questionable. As noted on the main page: it's one of the top four highest selling musical albums in history. Mainstream Obscurity is for works that are well-known, despite not that many people having actually read/seen/listened to them. If it's one of the highest selling works in the history of its medium, that clearly isn't the case.


* MainstreamObscurity: Pretty much everyone knows it's considered a common candidate for their best album and one of the best albums of all time, but it's harder to find people who know individual songs on it. "Money" is the most commercially successful one, and it only charted to #13. Certainly, it was their most successful song up to that point, but it was far eclipsed by others later on.
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* SugarWiki/SweetDreamsFuel: A lot of people cite the album's relaxed, jazz-and-blues-inflected sound, as such.
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* EpilepticTrees: "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Side_of_the_Rainbow The Dark Side]] [[Film/TheWizardOfOz of the Rainbow]]". The band members, [[MemeAcknowledgement aware of this rumour]], have repeatedly denied that it was intentional; Nick even made a joke about it.
-->'''Nick''': It's all nonsense. It has nothing to do with ''The Wizard of Oz''. [[HumorMode It was all based on]] ''Theatre/TheSoundOfMusic''.

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* EpilepticTrees: "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Side_of_the_Rainbow The Dark Side]] [[Film/TheWizardOfOz of the Rainbow]]". The band members, [[MemeAcknowledgement [[MemeAcknowledgment aware of this rumour]], have repeatedly denied that it was intentional; Nick even made a joke about it.
-->'''Nick''': -->'''Nick:''' It's all nonsense. It has nothing to do with ''The Wizard of Oz''. [[HumorMode It was all based on]] ''Theatre/TheSoundOfMusic''.
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** Money worries, death and going insane are bad for your mental wellbeing.

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** Money worries, death death, and going insane are bad for your mental wellbeing.

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