Instruct: Classify a given review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: Really took me (a)back

It took me the longest time to figure out what this recording reminded me off, but it finally came to me. Back in high school a buddy of mine had this old lp from like the 1950s entitled "Poitier Meets Plato." It was Sidney Poitier giving dramatic readings of passages from Plato's Republic to backing tracks of hokey beatnik bongo jazz, real beret-and-goatee-groovy-daddy-o kind of stuff. The mega-solemnity of the spoken part and the cheesiness of the musical part made for a hysterically funny combination. It made us laugh to the point of physical pain. This record has something of the same thing going on, but it's nowhere near as much fun. I'd give big money to get my hands on the Poitier/Plato album again.