Instruct: Classify the given Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: Grim and hopeless

What a true disaster this release is, was, and always has been. There is absolutely nothing about this cd to recommend to anyone except the most fanatical punk completists. There isn't even any real connection to his Sex Pistols days to be found amid all the woefully performed and awful- sounding crud on here. So if you are a Sex Pistols fan because of the messages behind their original music, you can safely skip this and not feel as though you've missed anything. Because you haven't...