i've just finished listening to dr. dre's "2002 remix" of the stones' "miss you" for the austin powers 3 soundtrack. it's a curious proposition, a name producer remixing a big hit by an even bigger band twenty+ years after the fact. it seems all the more curious in this era of the bootleg (like why not just crossbreed it with, say, blur's "girls & boys.") curiosity doesn't lead to anything interesting or intriguing in this case; here, it BORES the cat. it sounds like your state-of-the-art dr. dre 2002 production : goosestepping beat, synth string stabs, candy-covered shell. except this production seems to have the opening of curtis mayfield's "get down" playing in the background, in the 1987 sense (loop) rather than the 2002 sense (the whole damn thing.) if eminem's "my dad's gone crazy" didn't prove otherwise, i'd say that this was symbolic of how stilted dre's productions have become. maybe mel-man didn't ghost on this remix...