At least one Pink Floyd-oriented website claims that the 23-minute opus "Echoes" (from the album Meddle) is an alternate soundtrack to the finale of 2001. We take a look to decide if the sound and picture really synch up.

Meddle on CD

2001 on DVD

By now, almost everyone has heard the urban legend that Pink Floyd’s 1972 progressive rock album DARK SIDE OF THE MOON is a sort of substitute soundtrack for MGM’s classic film THE WIZARD OF OZ. There’s even been talk that Floyd’s follow-up recording, WISH YOU WERE HERE, also synchs up with OZ in interesting ways. But did you know that there is supposedly yet a third unofficial soundtrack attributed to the group? That’s right: according to the Internet Movie Database, `Echoes,` the 23:31 track that takes up all of Side Two on the 1971 album MEDDLE, was intentionally composed and recorded to synchronize with the `Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite` sequence from Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY.

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