Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: subpar recording

this was a great band from back in the days when bruford smacked the snare rather than today's fiddly cymbal work (hint: bill, your progressive rock/fusion drumming was/is far more interesting than your attempts to be an old-time jazz-o), but the recording quality is appalling, fluff such as the sponsoring radio station's promotional announcements were left in whilst decent songs were poorly faded out early to fit the 33-1/3 disk layout, and i did mention the recording quality is appalling. spend your money on bruford's studio recordings, "feels good to me" and "one of a kind" rather than this lame excuse.