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Film: The Wind in the Willows (1995)
Album: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Format: PAL
Discovered By: Sam the Angel Fox
Set Up: Begin the album as soon as the movie begins.

Length of sync: 1 hour 12 minutes 6 seconds (Put album on repeat to cover movie length)  

Notes: The Original UK track listing must be used.

Connections

  • The album itself was named after the 7th chapter in the original book of The Wind in the Willows. Which contains a visionary encounter with the god Pan, who plays his Pan Pipe at dawn. Syd Barrett often gave friends the impression that he was Pan, that he was the Piper which stuck with the band members as they referred to him as a piper in their tribute song Shine on You Crazy Diamond on the album Wish You Were Here.

Lyrical/musical connections

Astronomy Domine

  • Opening scene shows a record player, when the needle is put on the record the beginning voices are audible.
     

  • "Floating Down" - The boat going down stream.
     

  • "Icy water" - The boat is (obviously) traveling on water.
     

  • "Frighten" - A water rat seen runs off.
     

  • "Stairway" - Mole digs upwards to the surface which he entered through a door to get to.
     

  • "limped and green sound surround" - hes in a beautiful garden like area of the forest.

Lucifer Sam

  • "Siam cat" - two glowing eyes appear from the dark.
     

  • "Your the left side, He's the right side" - Ratty and Moles positions in the boat.
     

  • "Lucifer go out to sea" showing Mole waiting in the boat for Ratty.

Matilda Mother

  • "Tell me more" - as Ratty warned Mole about the woods.
     

  • "Everything shines" - the sun shining on the water as Otter and his son arrive.
     

  • "Across the stream" - otter and his son swimming towards Mole and Ratty.
     

  • "Floating by" - Toad who just messed up boat rowing floats away.

Flaming

  • "Sitting" - Mole and Ratty sitting on Ratty's arm chairs.
     

  • "Sleeping" - Mole yawns.
     

  • "Here we go" - Perfect scene transition.

Pow R. Toc H.

  • The crazy sounds are heard when Toads over excitement and facial expressions.
     

  • Weird voices (possibly Syd Barrett's) are heard when Toad is in amazement over a car that sped by.

Take Up Thy Stethoscope and Walk

  • "Music seems to help the pain, Seems to cultivate the brain" - in Ratty's imagination, he's with other water rats in a different culture enjoying himself.

Interstellar Overdrive

  • The music calms as Mole reassures Ratty to stay who attempted to leave him.
     

  • The music calms as it shows a winter morning.
     

  • Music changes as Mole heads in the Woods.
     

  • Same with Ratty when he comes to look for him.
     

  • Symbols transition  the next scene.
     

  • ​Music calms and starts to end as they found Badgers door.

The Gnome

  • "Stay in their home" - shows inside Badgers hallway.
     

  • "Sleeping" - Badger had just been woken up from his sleep.
     

  • "Blue..." - Mole is wearing a blue jacket.

Chapter 24

  • "Young light" - zooms out to show fire in fireplace.
     

  • "Return" - Mole returns to his home underground

The Scarecrow

  • As Ratty opens a can/container of Tuna, a metal clicking sound is heard, similar to that of a can opening.
     

  • "Everywhere" - shows earth to show time passing.
     

  • "In a field" wavy transitions into a field where Badger is seen.

Bike

  • "Things to make it look good" - Toad is dressed in an old drivers uniform.
     

  • "Here a men there a men" - shows Ratty Mole and Badger confronting Toad.
     

  • "Lets to the other room and make them work" - Ratty and Mole taking Toad to lock him in his room.
     

  • Thumping sounds heard when Ratty slams Toads bedroom door
     

  • The sounds get louder as Toad is seen being angry.
     

  • The honking sound is heard when Toad is gloating at the others for he escaped easily.

Second Play-through

Astronomy Domine

  • "Down" - the judge points down to toad.
     

  • "Underground" - the officer with toad yanks him up since he was slumped down in the box.
     

  • "Lime and limpid green" - Toad who is green and chained up.

Lucifer Sam

  • "You're a witch" - showing a woman making food for Toad.

Matilda Mother

  • "Oh mother tell me more" - the women tells toad a warning if he's not careful on escaping.
     

  • "Across the stream" - camera pans across a riverside to Mole.
     

  • "For all the time spent in that room" - Toad has just escaped prison in a disguise.

Flaming

  • The whistling sound at the beginning sound extremely similar to that of a steam train whistle, when this is heard the train Toad is on can be seen.
     

  • "Too much" - Toad jumps out of the train before it goes into a tunnel, which would be too much for him to take in.
     

  • "The starlit sky" - Showing the current scene being at night.
     

  • *At this point of the film, Ratty and Mole meet The Piper at the Gates of Dawn.
     

  • "Lying on an eiderdown" - Otter's son was resting on a patch of grass covered by The Piper.
     

  • "Yippee! You can't see me But I can you" - Mole and Ratty find Otter's son.

Pow R. Toc H.

  • Shouting/screaming voices heard when Toad shouts at a lady who he fooled into hitching a ride with.

Take Up Thy Stethoscope and Walk

  • "Achin' head" - Toad pretends to feel ill or hurt to catch another ride.
     

  • "I'm alive" - Mole and Ratty tell Toad that Weasels took over his home, and how they tried to fight them off.

Interstellar Overdrive

  • For the rest of the film, the song played is an instrumental. Changing the moods along with the scenes.

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