Mixtape: Goodbye, Seattle

This is our last week as Seattle residents. My family and I are moving back to the greater Olympia metropolitan area. In years past, normally what I'd do at this point is write a tl;dr post recounting struggles, successes and emotions that would ultimately serve to romanticize whatever place I'd be leaving. However, I'm busy packing. Besides, music compilations are my main form for communication these days. So this is my 59-minute executive report. All these songs reflect certain pertinent events, emotional and intellectual considerations over the past 13 years. As much as possible I used Seattle-area artists, but in some cases, I had to digress for the sake of the narrative. Yes, there's a narrative. Some of it you'll have to build yourself, but it's there.

Tracklist:

The U-Men - Dig It a Hole

The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Crosstown Traffic

Perry Como - Seattle

Blue Scholars - Slick Watts

Mudhoney - Overblown

Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues

Brandi Carlile - The Joke

The Mekons - Club Mekon

Sean Nelson - The Price of Doing Business

Heart - Straight On

Car Seat Headrest - Cute Thing

Eddie Vedder - Longing to Belong

The English Beat - Save It for Later

Tom Waits - Take One Last Look

The Posies - Everyone Moves Away

Robyn Hitchcock - Viva! Sea-Tac

Goodbye, Seattle.