Exit, Voice and Loyalty: The Last Exit
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timBecause I'm trying to lean in to my own self-importance, I made a soundtrack for my ragequitting post. I say "self-importance" because these are songs that helped me along in my decision to quit the tech industry, and yet most of them are actually about either the music industry or divorce. Go fig.
You can listen on Spotify, but here's an old-fashioned track listing in case you don't use online music listening services and want to burn these onto a CD for your car.
"He Thinks He'll Keep Her", Mary Chapin Carpenter
“Everything runs right on time, years of practice and design
Spit and polish till it shines. He thinks he'll keep her
Everything is so benign, safest place you'll ever find
At least until you change your mind.”
"This Town Is Wrong", The Nields
"Why don’t you make the rules?”
"Nashville", Indigo Girls
"Now I'm leaving, I've got all these debts to pay
You know we all have our dues, I'll pay 'em some other place"
“Somebody Loved Me”, Reel Big Fish
“What did I do? Was it so wrong?
I used to fit in, now I don't belong”
"All the Right Friends", R.E.M.
"I've been walking alone now for a long, long time
I don't wanna hang out now with the friends who just aren't mine"
"Your Racist Friend", They Might Be Giants (dedicated to B. Eich)
"Can't shake the devil's hand and say you're only kidding"
“Accident Waiting to Happen”, Billy Bragg
“And my sins are so unoriginal
I have all the self-loathing of a wolf in sheep's clothing
In this carnival of carnivores, Heaven help me”
"My Favorite Mutiny", The Coup
"I ain't rockin' with you
Your logic does not compute"
"Maggie's Farm", Bob Dylan
"Well, I try my best to be just like I am,
But everybody wants you to be just like them"
"I Ain't Marching Anymore", Phil Ochs
"Call it peace or call it treason, call it love or call it reason,
But I ain't marchin' any more"
"Frankly, Mr. Shankly", The Smiths
"Frankly, Mr Shankly, this position I've held
It pays my way and it corrodes my soul
I want to leave
you will not miss me
I want to go down in musical history"
"Solsbury Hill", Peter Gabriel
"I was feeling part of the scenery
I walked right out of the machinery"
"L.A. Freeway", Guy Clark
"We've got something to believe in
Don't ya' think it's time we're leavin'"
"Late Night Train", Brooks Williams
"It takes mighty big courage to pack up and go
'Cause even a bad life is still a life that you know"
"Midnight Train to Georgia", Gladys Knight & the Pips
"He said he's goin' back to find
Goin' back to find
Ooh, what's left of his world"
"Rong", Röyksopp
"What the fuck is wrong with you?"
"H-a-T-R-E-D", Tonio K.
"it's hard to express the resentment i feel
for the years that i've wasted on you"
"No Children", The Mountain Goats
"And I hope when you think of me years down the line
You can't find one good thing to say
And I'd hope that if I found the strength to walk out
You'd stay the hell out of my way"
"Independence Day", Bruce Springsteen
"Well, Papa go to bed now, it's getting late
Nothing we can say can change anything now
Because there's just different people coming down here now
And they see things in different ways
And soon everything we've known will just be swept away"
"Glory Bound", Martin Sexton
"I'm taking a chance on the wind
I'm packing all my bags
Taking a mistake I gotta make
Then I'm glory bound"
"Level Up", Vienna Teng (s/o tobrainwane via yatima)
"call it any name you need.
call it your 2.0, your rebirth, whatever –
so long as you can feel it all,
so long as all your doors are flung wide.
call it your day #1 in the rest of forever."
Bonus tracks (not on Spotify):
"Come a Long Way", Michelle Shocked
"Now you tow it to the repo man's front door
And you give him these keys, I don't need them no more"
"Silicon Valley Game", Little George Band [difficult to find outside of Bay Area college radio stations and my Gmail archive]
"One day layoffs came
And you sat there looking stunned
You thought that you were so special
You were just another working bum
Playing that Silicon Valley game
Congratulations, you won"
Thanks tobookherd, substitute, etb, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
spoothbrush, and Morgan for their suggestions and/or reminders; also thanks to those who made suggestions I didn't end up using!
You can listen on Spotify, but here's an old-fashioned track listing in case you don't use online music listening services and want to burn these onto a CD for your car.
"He Thinks He'll Keep Her", Mary Chapin Carpenter
“Everything runs right on time, years of practice and design
Spit and polish till it shines. He thinks he'll keep her
Everything is so benign, safest place you'll ever find
At least until you change your mind.”
"This Town Is Wrong", The Nields
"Why don’t you make the rules?”
"Nashville", Indigo Girls
"Now I'm leaving, I've got all these debts to pay
You know we all have our dues, I'll pay 'em some other place"
“Somebody Loved Me”, Reel Big Fish
“What did I do? Was it so wrong?
I used to fit in, now I don't belong”
"All the Right Friends", R.E.M.
"I've been walking alone now for a long, long time
I don't wanna hang out now with the friends who just aren't mine"
"Your Racist Friend", They Might Be Giants (dedicated to B. Eich)
"Can't shake the devil's hand and say you're only kidding"
“Accident Waiting to Happen”, Billy Bragg
“And my sins are so unoriginal
I have all the self-loathing of a wolf in sheep's clothing
In this carnival of carnivores, Heaven help me”
"My Favorite Mutiny", The Coup
"I ain't rockin' with you
Your logic does not compute"
"Maggie's Farm", Bob Dylan
"Well, I try my best to be just like I am,
But everybody wants you to be just like them"
"I Ain't Marching Anymore", Phil Ochs
"Call it peace or call it treason, call it love or call it reason,
But I ain't marchin' any more"
"Frankly, Mr. Shankly", The Smiths
"Frankly, Mr Shankly, this position I've held
It pays my way and it corrodes my soul
I want to leave
you will not miss me
I want to go down in musical history"
"Solsbury Hill", Peter Gabriel
"I was feeling part of the scenery
I walked right out of the machinery"
"L.A. Freeway", Guy Clark
"We've got something to believe in
Don't ya' think it's time we're leavin'"
"Late Night Train", Brooks Williams
"It takes mighty big courage to pack up and go
'Cause even a bad life is still a life that you know"
"Midnight Train to Georgia", Gladys Knight & the Pips
"He said he's goin' back to find
Goin' back to find
Ooh, what's left of his world"
"Rong", Röyksopp
"What the fuck is wrong with you?"
"H-a-T-R-E-D", Tonio K.
"it's hard to express the resentment i feel
for the years that i've wasted on you"
"No Children", The Mountain Goats
"And I hope when you think of me years down the line
You can't find one good thing to say
And I'd hope that if I found the strength to walk out
You'd stay the hell out of my way"
"Independence Day", Bruce Springsteen
"Well, Papa go to bed now, it's getting late
Nothing we can say can change anything now
Because there's just different people coming down here now
And they see things in different ways
And soon everything we've known will just be swept away"
"Glory Bound", Martin Sexton
"I'm taking a chance on the wind
I'm packing all my bags
Taking a mistake I gotta make
Then I'm glory bound"
"Level Up", Vienna Teng (s/o to
brainwane via yatima)"call it any name you need.
call it your 2.0, your rebirth, whatever –
so long as you can feel it all,
so long as all your doors are flung wide.
call it your day #1 in the rest of forever."
Bonus tracks (not on Spotify):
"Come a Long Way", Michelle Shocked
"Now you tow it to the repo man's front door
And you give him these keys, I don't need them no more"
"Silicon Valley Game", Little George Band [difficult to find outside of Bay Area college radio stations and my Gmail archive]
"One day layoffs came
And you sat there looking stunned
You thought that you were so special
You were just another working bum
Playing that Silicon Valley game
Congratulations, you won"
Thanks to
bookherd, substitute, etb, spoothbrush, and Morgan for their suggestions and/or reminders; also thanks to those who made suggestions I didn't end up using!