They both feature an editing style reminiscent of the musique concrete compositions found on Frank Zappa's Lumpy Gravy. The soundtrack, like the film itself, is presented as an unrelenting montage of images.
Musically, these include Tiny Tim, Barry McGuire, Peter Yarrow, Hamza el Din, and producer John Simon. The 1968 cinematic release is a pseudo-documentary dealing with the identity crisis facing the concurrent youth movement as seen through the eyes of its participants. You Are What You Eat is one of the few late '60s artifacts which has remained comparatively underground in the wake of numerous exploitive revisitations by the pop media - usually dispensed in the form of nostalgia.
