Customer Reviews

Paper Bag Records Fall '09 Sampler

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I ended up keeping four songs on my playlist:

Invisible - Winter Gloves: Really enjoyed this one.
Miracle - Sally Shapiro: This one grew on me. My first listen reminded me of teen girl mix tapes, but that wore off.
Oh, I can - Rock Plaza Central: A bit vocally over-repetitive, but I enjoy the music and how the work comes together.
That Girl - Two Fingers: This is out of place in this sampler, and I am frankly shocked that I like it so much considering that out of over 3,000 items in my library, I have only 7 hip-hop genre songs. Dirty lyrics aren't my style either. I think the catchy drum beat got me.

I know we all have different tastes in music. And it's quite nice of Amazon to allow us to have this music for free. Thanks for that! But on this sampler I think the best songs are track 6 - (Invisible) by Winter Gloves And Track 8 - (Wood Between Worlds) by Laura Barrett. I did'nt like the other ones much. But For free you can download them all and try them out -Delete what you don't like later if you wish. Not a bad deal.

This is a great sampler that you can't beat for the price (FREE!). All the songs are good, kind of alternative rock, except for Track 4 ("That Girl"). It's an OK song, but it's more hip-hop and sounds really out of place on this album. As a song of itself, it's pretty good, but it should be on another collection. Still, overall you can't beat this sampler.

AN eclectic group of songs that evoke an world culture type genre. Interesting to sample.

This is one of the best samplers I've had on my ipod. I am not a music critic, I pretty much hate all music. This sampler keeps me focused on it because it offers a compilation of very different styles. I really dislike hipster-style Arcade Fire imitators, so I just skip some songs to get to more electronic/hip hop funky tracks such as Dancer or the Miracle or That Girl.
Essentially there is a much weaker hippie/hipster feel to this, so its good.

The first two songs sound good to me, middle-of-the-road pop, so I will download this sampler.

The others might grow on me, but they are likely headed for the trash bin. The 30 second samplers for them didn't sound like my cup of tea. A little too much "grunge" or "experimental" type rock. But, we'll see.

I'd put a paper bag over my head if I were responsible for this stuff. Alt rock is not my thing, but it's great to be able to sample a cross section of new music for free. I like some, don't like some. Didn't care for any of these tunes.
Just too easy of a target to resist. Title is a parody of "Remember the Titans" film, if my humor is too obscure. (The Aint's were Saints fans in the tougher 80's times. They put paper bags over their heads in protest of the Saints' losing ways,in the manner of the great Unknown Comic). I understand-I'm a Browns fan.