Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Tedious self-indulgent noodling

I remember where I was the first time I heard Echo Beach - the beer cellar at Queen's College, Oxford. But it is asking a bit much of a single hook, however memorable, to support an entire CD of variations. And what variations - interminable, repetitive, soporific, with admittedly polished production passed off for originality and invention. They could barely be further removed - in the wrong direction - from the naive energy of the original. Oddest of all, the original songwriter has not merely endorsed the project, but appears actually to have re-recorded his little masterpiece (with Martha) for these vivisectionists. The album calls itself a tribute. Burnt offering, more like.