Ah, I knew we’d have to differ on something eventually.  I hate few things more than remixes.

I dislike most remixes unless it’s electronic, industrial or dance.  Those genres kind of lend themselves to the whole remix thing...what I can’t stand are the 82 million R&B;remixes you get for some song that sucked in the first place.  ;)

I gotta ask, how do you feel about cover songs?  I tend to like them only when they are somewhat faithful to the original *and* have some briliance.

I love the remix of Neodammerung at the end of Matrix Revolutions. It runs the entire length of the credits, and is so good that I’ve actually sat here and left it on through the entire credits just to listen to it.

I especially hate electronic and dance remixes.  AC/DC doesn’t need a fucking dance remix.  Then again, I hate most originals in those genres too, so that pretty much explains it.

Cover songs I think are hit or miss, nothing too special about them.  There are great ones (Aerosmith’s “Come Together"), boring ones (Ataris’ “Boys of Summer"), horrid ones (Lenny Kravitz “American Woman") and some that are superior to the original (Jimi Hendrix on “All Along The Watchtower” or Stevie Ray Vaughn on “Little Wing").

I don’t see much point in covering “staple” songs like “Stairway to Heaven” or “Hotel California” (whether I like the original or not).  I’ll make an exception for an act like Dread Zeppelin, but in that case it’s more like musical theater than a straight-up cover song.

I love the remix of Neodammerung at the end of Matrix Revolutions. It runs the entire length of the credits, and is so good that I’ve actually sat here and left it on through the entire credits just to listen to it.

I’m afraid I’m going to have to disagree with you there. After the first Matrix movie they played Wake up (!), delightfully appropriate. After the second they played Calm Like a Bomb(!!). Part of the fun of watching the third was guessing what Rage song would be at the end and my friends and I even had bets lined up. Then they played whatever they played at the end of the movie (?). It may be great, but I was expecting something completely different so I didn’t like it.

As for the Steppenwolf remix, I’ve had it for a couple years and it’s been listed as being done by Crystal Method, Fat Boy Slim, and others so it’s finally nice to know who really did it.

I’m afraid I’m going to have to disagree with you there.

Well, since I was just stating that I loved it, not that it was “OMG TEH GREATEST SONG OF ALL TIME!!”, bully for you for having your own opinion.
Also, maybe you could actually read my message… maybe even the part you quoted, since I SAID what it was, it was a remix of Neodammerung, the music played during Neo and Smith’s final fight.
(People that whine that they didn’t like something because “It wasn’t what I was expecting” earn nothing but eye-rolling from me, anyway.)