other people's hits, especially if it might have been done without permission.
That's too often simply trading on the name and reputation of the famous artist whose work is being remixed. It's using their work to draw attention to the remixer. I saw social media posts from remixers who viewed remixing as advertising for work as mixers or producers.
I just found some videos on YouTube for that short film, 39 Pounds of Love, and the snippets of the score that I could hear were excellent. Which makes Gube choosing to do derivative work like remixes of classics more puzzling.
And with Ramble On, as I said, his remixing lost what made the song a classic in the first place. For instance, the intro buries one of the best basslines John Paul Jones ever played.
Gube mangled the opening of that track so badly. He took a powerful song, definitely one of Zeppelin's best, and turned it into what most rock fans would consider elevator music, burying it in mush.
It's as if someone took one of Hemingway's cleanly written stories and buried it in poetic descriptions and meandering asides and called it a remix.
I doubt Gube would have wanted the same thing done to the score he wrote for that film.
Now, if he had wanted to do a cover of Ramble On with that arrangement, it would still have been bad, but at least it wouldn't have dragged Led Zeppelin's stunning musicianship into the mess.
Remixes tend to show a lack of respect for the original (since they're supposedly an improvement in some way), while at the same time trying to evoke what the original evoked. Doesn't work. And the more a person loved the original, the worse the remix will sound, because what can still be heard of the original is a inevitable reminder of how bad the remix is by comparison. At least a cover doesn't force that comparison into one track.
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