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Gift Tape · Seattle

The Seattle Grunge Road Trip

Point the car toward I-5 and let Seattle's whole family tree ride along. This tape opens with the names the city gave the world — Nirvana's Drain You, Pearl Jam's State of Love and Trust, Soundgarden's Fell On Black Days, Jimi Hendrix's The Wind Cries Mary — then digs into the deep cuts: The Sonics out of Tacoma, Death Cab for Cutie's Bellingham beginnings, Sir Mix-A-Lot's Posse On Broadway, Shabazz Palaces and Blue Scholars repping the Central District.

The real find is what's underneath: this tape leans hard on artists who are genuinely from the towns along this route — some as well-known as Fleet Foxes and The Head and the Heart, others as under-the-radar as Zeffon, Dale Crover, and TAD. Riff-heavy, homegrown, and built for the drive up the coast.

30 songs · about 111 min
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  1. 1 Have Love Will Travel album art
    Have Love Will Travel
    The Sonics
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  2. 2 Swallow My Pride album art
    Swallow My Pride
    Green River
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  3. 3 Second Skin (2024 Remaster) album art
    Second Skin (2024 Remaster)
    The Gits
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  4. 4 Flagpole Sitta album art
    Flagpole Sitta
    Harvey Danger
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  5. 5 No Excuses (Live) album art
    No Excuses (Live)
    Alice In Chains
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  6. 6 White Winter Hymnal album art
    White Winter Hymnal
    Fleet Foxes
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  7. 7 The New Year album art
    The New Year
    Death Cab for Cutie
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  8. 8 Peaches album art
    Peaches
    The Presidents of the United States of America
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  9. 9 Magic Man album art
    Magic Man
    Heart
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  10. 10 The Wind Cries Mary album art
    The Wind Cries Mary
    The Jimi Hendrix Experience
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  11. 11 Fell On Black Days album art
    Fell On Black Days
    Soundgarden
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  12. 12 Drain You album art
    Drain You
    Nirvana
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  13. 13 In Circles (2009 Remastered Version) album art
    In Circles (2009 Remastered Version)
    Sunny Day Real Estate
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  14. 14 State of Love and Trust album art
    State of Love and Trust
    Pearl Jam
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  15. 15 Touch Me I'm Sick album art
    Touch Me I'm Sick
    Mudhoney
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  16. 16 Mayb' Door album art
    Mayb' Door
    Zeffon
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  17. 17 Jinx (2016 Remastered Version) album art
    Jinx (2016 Remastered Version)
    TAD
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  18. 18 Forerunner Foray album art
    Forerunner Foray
    Shabazz Palaces
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  19. 19 Sure Don't Miss You (feat. The Dip) [Club Edit] album art
    Sure Don't Miss You (feat. The Dip) [Club Edit]
    BUNT.
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  20. 20 Posse On Broadway album art
    Posse On Broadway
    Sir Mix-A-Lot
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  21. 21 Silent Knight album art
    Silent Knight
    Kylydian
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  22. 22 Down in the Valley album art
    Down in the Valley
    The Head and the Heart
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  23. 23 Loyalty album art
    Loyalty
    Blue Scholars
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  24. 24 Heaven and Hell album art
    Heaven and Hell
    Black Sabbath
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  25. 25 Fickle Finger of Fate album art
    Fickle Finger of Fate
    Dale Crover
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  26. 26 Gentlemen album art
    Gentlemen
    The Afghan Whigs
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  27. 27 Swinging On a Star album art
    Swinging On a Star
    Bing Crosby
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  28. 28 Sneaky Sasquatch album art
    Sneaky Sasquatch
    scntfc
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  29. 29 Master of the Moor album art
    Master of the Moor
    Odd Logic
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  30. 30 All Apologies album art
    All Apologies
    Nirvana
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