Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: You Can't Go Home Again

This isn't a "bad" retrospective, but it's not the same as the original stuff. Maybe I wouldn't be so hard on this cd if I didn't also have some old "real" Ventures tapes with the original cuts. The Gold version of songs like Walk Don't Run and Apache are oddly "off" -- the reverb isn't right, the slides aren't right and the rhythm lines are too crisp. I'm not sure, but I think the guitars aren't tuned quite the same, either. The notes might be OK but the music isn't the same. Perfidia is pretty good but Telstar stinks -- it's too "digital". To me, part of the magic of the original was the mushy cymbals and guitar reverb, you know, early "surround sound" stuff. If you're into early surf guitar music, go with the Dick Dale "King of the Surf Guitar" cd and leave the golden oldie Ventures on the shelf...