Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: The Emperer's New Songwriter

Dowd fooled a lot of poseurs with this album. Don't be one of them. This is unmitigated trash - unlistenable singing, EZ Big Note playing, and mostly lousy lyrics. The occasional brilliant line is mixed in with a bunch of third rate moon-june-spoon stuff, so that not a single piece rises above the trash heap that is this CD.Comparisons with Waits and Beefheart are disingenuous. This is puerile, steaming excrement.Avoid it.