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Ok gang, so out of boredom I'm putting together a bit of a mixed tape/dj mix of psychedelia-style music and to keep it flowing am thinking of intercutting some/all the songs with movie quotes from some psychedelia films.  Musically think of the soundtracks from Barbarella or Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, that type of vibe, and am thinking of things that are weird and wonderful to throw in there to split the songs up to let it flow.

I have a ton of music already, but suggestions on that front are also more than welcome!

You can use visuals from the weird dance club in Coogan's Bluff [the Pigeon Toed Orange Peel] and any amount of quotes from Roger Corman's The Trip.  :smile:

Here's one to consider.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WqSwrAacX8

You're only looking for quotes?

Lots and lots of stuff from FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS ("by this time, our minds were totally twisted...")

Ringo saying "it's all in the mind" from YELLOW SUBMARINE. (You should be able to find lots of quotes from that one too).

Willy Wonka's "tunnel" poem.

Personally I'd include "Your sacrifice has completed my sanctuary of 1,000 testicles" from THE HOLY MOUNTAIN.

Surely something from ALTERED STATES ("You don't have to tell me how weird you are. I know how weird you are") belongs.

ALICE IN WONDERLAND (Disney's animated version) is always good for insert quotes.

Hope that's the kind of stuff you're looking for.

Oh and if you're looking for more music check out the FANTASTIC PLANET soundtrack---beautiful, sensual psychedelic rock.

A Clockwork Orange contains some stunning visuals.
Though not quite psychedelic in effect, McDowell's narration & Wendy Carlos' soundtrack (together or separate) are what really drives the dream scape of this movie.

I have a strong love for psychadelic and surreal films...there's been so many great mind-warping films over the years with surreal imagery. I also have a strong tendency to love these sequences in films where characters wander dreamingly from one place to another oftentimes via some sort of transportation (this is quite common in anime films. 2 examples that really stand out in my memory right now occurred in PATLABOR 1: THE MOVIE and SPIRITED AWAY). Anyways back to psychadelic and surreal films, get your mind around some of these and their imagery:

ALPHAVILLE
REPULSION
NAKED LUNCH
12 MONKEYS (love a lot of the music in this one especially "It's a Wonderful World" by Louis Armstrong)
PI
THE MATRIX
THE 13TH FLOOR
THE TRIAL
KAFKA
THE WIZARD OF OZ
METROPOLIS (2001) (another great soundtrack, gotta love Ray Charles' music in this)
THE DARK CRYSTAL
CITY OF LOST CHILDREN
CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI
METROPOLIS (1927)
VAMPYR
NOSFERATU
1984 (1984)
V FOR VENDETTA
WILLY WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY
BLADE RUNNER
2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE

Rumble Fish has a pretty dreamy feel to it.

from VIDEODROME (1983)

. After a while,I started hallucinating,and developed a tumor. I believe the visions caused the tumor,and not the other way around.
.Long Live the New Flesh!

A few more films of possible interest:

CHARLY
SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE
STRANGE DAYS
DARK CITY
THE TRIP
THE HUDSUCKER PROXY
JACOB'S LADDER
IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS
THE TWILIGHT ZONE: THE MOVIE
TRAINSPOTTING
BRAZIL
BEING JOHN MALKOVICH
GODZILLA VS. HEDORAH
HAUSU
TOTAL RECALL (1990)
TOMMY

Certainly agree as well with others who suggested FANTASTIC PLANET, one of the trippiest of trippy movies.

One vote for Vampiros Lesbos.  Very groovy psychedelic soundtrack and cool German dialogue to boot!

Beyond the Black Rainbow has some awesome music, too.

The Velvet Vampire and most recently, Kaboom (2010).

Certainly Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas has some of the most accurate depictions of what being on psychedelics is actually like. It also has a lot of stuff that is nothing like what being on psychedelics is like.

I second Beyond the Black Rainbow, which is not necessarily true-to-state, but certainly the aim of most psychedelic movies.

Avoid The Wall, because avoid cliches like the plague. (I like the movie.)

The Monkee's Head is interesting, because that is a movie specifically made by Bob Rafelson and Jack Nicholson (yes, that one) high off their minds on LSD specifically trying to destroy the idea of the Monkees. It has Frank Zappa in it, for no real reason.

My recommendation is that you take whatever weird and wonderful stuff you can find and start splicing them together in a true William S. Burroughs cut-up style. That always works, because when you talk psychedelic, it doesn't really matter. It isn't what you're playing, it's the mind that is splicing them together that matters, i.e. your viewer.

Also, Catch-22.

All these varying replies make me wonder how the OP is defining "psychedelic."  I associate that word with that whole genre of mid-Sixties to late-Seventies movies packed with solarized visual FX and floaty-woaty music characterized by hypnotic drum signatures and either heavy keyboards or twangy guitars, sometimes both.

The ultimate soundtrack from that era, for me, is the incidental music from Psychomania and/or the theme music from The Green Slime.  Parts of the soundtrack from See No Evil also fits the bill nicely.

And this is from a much later epoch, but I get exactly the same feeling from the superb soundtrack of Manhunter.

I think you could mine some excellent quotes from all the movies I just listed.

Hey gang, thanks for the contributions.  Plenty to trawl through!

Just to give more context as I've thought more about it: I'm basically compiling a list of psychedelic music to put together as a mix tape of sorts: mainly hippy type music, but am putting in a whole host of different songs of similar feeling as well.  In order to bridge the gap between some of the songs I was basically looking for quotes from movies of a psychedelic nature. Eg normally a DJ would mix in the next song and everything seems like one long seamless song, with the music I'm choosing, this isn't always possible, but to give a cleaner transition from one to the next I figure I can throw in movie quotes/soundtracks from the era to hide the transitions from song to song.

Some classic dialogue examples would be people talking about universes/general philosophical mumbo jumbo, or perhaps quotes that sound from the 60s/70s [ie the language is very 'groovy' or they're talking about something from that era.]  Whilst they don't have to specifically be from the era [same goes for the music], quotes from 60s/70s films are preferred as they seem a bit more authentic.

Whilst I'm less likely to use too many movie soundtracks [as opposed to songs that appeared in a movie] some of you have reminded me of a couple I own that I completely forgot about that I may have to listen to again and see whether they suit.




That being said, even though I don't need any visuals, with all the suggestions it does make me want to edit a psychedelic music video as a separate project... Damn you all...

Barbarella I always found to be quite psych/trippy. Does that count?

Sure does crackers!  I actually am debating about using the "Angel Is Love" song or the Barbarella theme in the mix, but there's a few dialogue options I may throw in too, depending on what I can find that suits.

Yeah, there are tonnes of great samples in that flick.

Not quite in the same era, but perhaps some of Pink Floyd's The Wall might be appropriate.

Another song/album closer to the true psychedelic era would be Number 9 by The Beatles, as well as any of their other acid-inspired songs (Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds).

Droning Indian music like Ravi Shankar might also be cool.  Tripping people were always listening to that stuff in those days, or is that just how they were depicted in film?

You might like to watch the Social Seminar videos on archive.org and YouTube.  There are a few of them, with some very interesting profiles of drug takers in the 70's, and how they have a hard time with general society.  There would be some choice quotes in there.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOvZ0b11ocQ

"Decrucify the angel or I'll melt your face!"

    Try these....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faq7vqzNJBI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRNKmje-Abs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMSYYBMljQU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSl4fonVuCI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWufdLk9k-s

Anybody mention that Disney movie where they take a bunch of classical music & put it to trippy cartoons?

Fantasia is what I meant.

The Who's Tommy
The Trip
Pink Floyd's the Wall
Easy Rider

Are the ones I can think of.

Ozzymandias speaks: I realize this may be a little late, but I just saw an episode of the TV series Mod Squad that would be perfect for your project. The episode is called "Survival House." Near the end of the episode, the guest star Sammy Davis Jr, attacks a pusher who sold drugs to his illegitimate daughter. The pushers thugs subdue him and try to give him a lethal does of heroin. Pete and Linc arrive and fight the pusher and his thugs. While this is going on, Sammy Davis Jr character watches the fight while under the influence. It is filmed in slow motion with red, yellow and blue lag-lines following the motion of the characters that are fighting. I believe the music switches to a draggy, fuzztone bass.

Ozzymandias has spoken!!!

I do recommend Roger Corman's "The Trip" (1967) very much. Has a good amount of psychedelic LSD hallucinations and groovy rock music throughout. It was a very controversial title over here in the UK because the BBFC refused to classify and put a ban of it back during it's original release. If I remember correctly, it wasn't released until it's 2002 DVD release. Interesting film overall, I plan on checking out "Psyche-Out" (1968) (also released by American International) as well. These hippie cult flicks are quite interesting.