MATRIXSYNTH: Logan On The Run Part 1


Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Logan On The Run Part 1


YouTube via fathermckenzie1. EMS Synthi in "On The Run."
I'm curious if this will take off like Dark Side of OZ. This one does have it's moments. If you've seen Logan's Run, the foreboding music for "On The Run" definitely captures what that scene is about. Ick... Creeps me out.

Description:
"Recently I discovered this sync: Logan's Run and Dark Side of the Moon.

Logan's Run mainly deals with themes of getting old, death, running from death, isolation, and violence, so I naturally thought of Dark Side. It actually syncs up amazingly, imo. Here's how it breaks down: * Start the album at the MGM lion :D
1. "Speak to Me" and the beginning of "Breathe" play as the camera is flying over the futuristic city. The lyrics to "Breathe" start almost exactly as the scene cuts to the newborn baby's hand with the crystal on it. The lyrics sync up amazingly with the scene, as if the singer is telling the baby about life and the world he's been born into.
2. "On The Run" starts just as Logan and Francis get off the tunnel car or whatever it is, and enter the city. It almost looks like they're in an airport, so the sound effects work pretty good. "Live for today, gone tomorrow, that's me!": I guess that could be the slogan of the entire city.
3. In "Time", the clocks all ring right as the Carousel starts, signaling that their time/lives are up. The ominous mood during the rototom section goes on while the people in Carousel fly upwards toward their death. "No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun": right when this lyric is sung, Logan points his gun, and then the runner appears around the corner. Then the guitar solo starts as he dashes away. This might be the best lyrical sync in the entire movie! The theme of dying and time slipping away is obviously palpable in both the movie and song. "Breathe (reprise)" plays as Logan returns home, too! ("Home, home again...")
4. "Great Gig" doesn't really sync too well, unfortunately. The main "violent, cymbal-crashing" section ends right as Jessica starts to walk away, though. The last note on the piano hits exactly as the movie cuts to a scene outside of a building.
5. In "Money", Francis puts all his personal belongings, what looks like a wallet and some coins(?) down on a thing that makes them instantly disappear.
6. The entire theme of "Us and Them" matches the film perfectly. The song starts just as Logan's life clock starts flashing, meaning he has just become one of "them", and no longer one of "us". "Short, sharp, shock": people in this movie are killed through what looks like electrocution.
7. "Any Colour you like" begins as Logan and Jessica get on the tunnel car thing.
8. In "Brain Damage", Logan and Jessica are surrounded by the savages: the "loonies"? "You raise the blade...": Billy, the main savage, wields a large knife, and puts it against Logan's throat a bit before this lyric. After the main section of the song ends, and the synthesizer/Lunatic's voice comes in, the runner appears looking very crazy and frightened.
9. "Eclipse": As the final lyric "sun is eclipsed by the moon" is sung, Logan and Jessica are being filmed at a unique angle, through two circular openings, making them look like their two heads are actually "the sun" and "the moon". (I dunno: Logan has light blonde hair, so he's the sun, and Jessica has dark brown hair, so her face is the light part facing the sun, and her darker hair is the reverse, dark side of the moon)."

6 comments:

  1. i might be wrong but i think the Logan's Run original soundtrack was Jerry Goldsmith on the Buchla 100.

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  2. This is extremely TRIPPY - maybe that's what Pink Floyd always was and wanted ..............And that is what I love them for. They were able to reproduce some moods very difficult to explain in nowadays time.

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  3. The original score was done by Jerry Goldsmith with an Arp 2500 & an orchestra.

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  4. Oops thanks for the accurate info Reed ! I need to hear that.

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  5. Audio rips from the film here:

    http://www.wiels.nl/blog/index.php?entry=entry080101-145057

    Cheers...!!

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  6. Hmm... I wonder if it's possible to take a film you more or less like and play Pink Floyd and NOT have some sort of amazing revelation?

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