I must be completely lost because i really identify with this album. Recently, i found myself socially ill equipped to handle the preliminary stage of a relationship with a girl i find stupefyingly attractive. Listen, six months passed before she felt sorry enough for me to assume the aggressive posture and ask me to come out with her 5 or so weekends consecutively, to which i politely refused because i was (and am still not) confident enough that i am man enough to put up with such impending sexual joy / emotional hardship. I contemplate suicide every 25 minutes...It'll get easier, i believe it.

12 out of 13, this one is an example of sample manipulation mastery, believe it.

Stunt Rock has claimed in the past that "Regret Instruction Manual Issue 2" is a superior piece of work, but I find myself listening to the first one much more often. The harsher sounds and so-called sloppier production evoke a much more frenzied and desperate feeling permeating throughout the CD, and the expertly-selected vocal samples seem to present a progressive story of relationships, hopes and dreams slowly going wrong and an impotence to turn them around for the better. While both Regret Instruction Manuals are underground (and consistently underappreciated) works of art, the first will always stand out in my mind as a masterpiece.