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Following The Martorialist’s post regarding burial soundtrack songs/themes, my choice would be Ennio Morricone’s Dies Irae Psichedelico. While Il Maestro’s more familiar The Ecstasy of Gold would have been a more obvious choice in my younger years, Metallica and JAŸ-Z have rendered it unusable, thanks to their cultural appropriation of it; permanently turning it into a clichéd theme.
I had heard Dies Irae Psichedelico well before seeing Escalation (1968), the film it is featured in. Your host immediately imagined a scene with marching angels, sounding the horns for the Rapture, or a similarly epic biblical event which would be fitting of Morricone’s remarkable theme. Sadly, Escalation is a forgettable Italian sex comedy, and the particular composition appears when giallo star Lino Capolicchio (more of him in a forthcoming film review) attends a London rave full of stoned and tuneless hippies ruining the track by screaming all over it; one of whom experiencing an epileptic fit while on the piano, by the sound of it. Bond girl and Hammer starlet Madeline Smith dancing to Morricone's disrespected masterpiece, in a brief and uncredited part, is a minor perk for what's otherwise a bitter disappointment for your host.
Thankfully, the legendary director Mario Bava managed to feature a hippie party scene that complimented another Morricone fave of mine, in the classic fumetti neri Danger: Diabolik (1968). I'm all over Eureka's forthcoming Masters of Cinema release of the film like gold on John Philip Law, by the way.
For what it's worth (no Buffalo Springfield), Gen X fares no better than annoying hippies when I'm seeing folks like the one below on my local high street blasting '90s techno rubbish upon the general public:
