Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: buy the reissued classics instead

I have been as big a meat puppets fan as anybody for as long as I can remember, but i can't stomach this album. Way too chord based, lyrically contrived and truly an overall disappointment. The strengths of their best early albums were the Kirkwoods' ability to make a beautiful mess, never resorting to the pure chord-rock of so many punk contemporaries, and always with beautiful, slightly cryptic but perpetually insightful lyrics. all that is lacking on this very conventional release. If you want to hear good heavy meat puppets, buy the oustanding reissued debut album. not this.