A rather strange idea, this original soundtrack has members of
Minimal Compact and
Tuxedomoon and vocalist Niki Mono diving into material by various disparate 1960s rock icons, with three tracks by
Syd Barrett or
Pink Floyd, a pair of
Velvet Underground tunes, and a song each by
the Yardbirds and
Jefferson Airplane, as well as a
Patti Smith piece and an original to round off the LP. The psychedelic '60s music gets transformed into chamber rock pieces, with somewhat subdued but lush piano and violins, stiff, clunky rhythms, and oozing with the peculiar Euro-decadence tendencies that both
Minimal Compact and
Tuxedomoon gravitate toward. Since the
Velvet Underground pieces were already quite saturated in decadence, the transformation is not quite as radical as the slow and ponderous rendition of
Jefferson Airplane's "Coming Back to Me" or
the Yardbirds' "Still I'm Sad," with its chorus of deathly vocals. At times this gang almost trips over its own pretentiousness, but then a goofy sense of humor sneaks in on
Pink Floyd's "Flaming." Whereas some groups, say
the Grateful Dead, will suck the life out of a cover version and leave it at that, the musicians on
Fuck Your Dreams suck the life out of these songs to turn them into strange and beautiful corpses. This may not be the best material by either
Tuxedomoon or
Minimal Compact, but it's certainly quite fascinating just the same.