The Rolling Stones album "Let it Bleed."
The Rolling Stones album “Let it Bleed.”

The “Seattle Sound” may be a mythical, all-encompassing thing that veers toward indie rock or leftover grunge hits, but according to an analysis by Spotify, the city’s musical taste is quite varied from neighborhood to neighborhood.

Streaming data reveals distinctive listening habits in eight parts of Seattle, plus Bellevue. The music service shared top-10 lists from neighborhoods such as Ballard, Capitol Hill and West Seattle.

In Ballard, older residents are holding the hipsters at bay, at least when it comes to the top song on the list, “You Can’t Always Get What You Want,” by the Rolling Stones. Maybe the anthem is aimed at the old guard that doesn’t like the massive change coming to the neighborhood.

If that was the case, the song should be at the top of several playlists, including South Lake Union. In the neighborhood being remade by the growth of Amazon, the top song is “Don’t Worry About Me” by Frances. “If I fall, you’ll fall. If I rise, we’ll rise together” she sings, perhaps just quoting from the retail giant’s leadership principles.

We’re not quite sure what’s happening in Belltown where nine of the 10 songs on the playlist are piano sonatas by Mozart. The only track that’s not is Frederic Chopin’s “Waltz No. 1 in E-flat major, Op. 18.” Are all of the elevator’s in the neighborhood’s high-rise apartment buildings streaming classical music?

Up on Queen Anne, where Seattle gets that much closer to heaven, the list is dominated by religious tracks. But dancing appears to be the higher calling across the lake in Bellevue, as Beyonce has four songs on a playlist that is topped by Major Lazer’s “Lean On.”

Spotify, which is also making a major expansion when it comes to video, offers more than 30 million songs on-demand to its 75 million users.

Scroll through the playlists below and see if any of it makes sense in regard to what you’re listening to.

Ballard

  1. The Rolling Stones – You Can’t Always Get What You Want
  2. Lapsley – Cliff
  3. Paul Simon – 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover
  4. Lapsley – Falling Short
  5. King Charles – Gamble for a Rose
  6. Barn Swallow – North Swallow
  7. The Knife – Heartbeats
  8. Bill Withers – Use Me
  9. Prince & The New Power Generation – Nothing Compares 2 U (Edit)
  10. Beach House – Lazuli

Bellevue

  1. Major Lazer – Lean On (feat. MØ & DJ Snake)
  2. Jack Ü – Where Are Ü Now (with Justin Bieber)
  3. Jack Ü – Mind (feat. Kai)
  4. Beyoncé – Crazy In Love
  5. BØRNS – Electric Love
  6. Beyoncé – Love on Top
  7. Beyoncé – Partition
  8. Beyoncé – Halo
  9. Mike Posner – Buried In Detroit – Lucas Làwe Remix
  10. TWENTY88 – Déjà vu

Belltown

  1. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Piano Sonata No. 4 in E-flat major, KV.282
  2. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Piano Sonata No. 1 in C major, KV.279
  3. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Piano Sonata No. 6 in D major, KV.284
  4. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Piano Sonata No. 11 in A major, KV.331
  5. Frédéric Chopin – Waltz No. 1 in E-flat major, Op. 18
  6. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Piano Sonata No. 14 in C minor, KV.457
  7. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Piano Sonata No. 18 in D major, KV.576
  8. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Piano Sonata No. 5 in G major, KV.283
  9. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Piano Sonata No. 13 in B-flat major, KV.333
  10. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Piano Sonata No. 13 in B-flat major, KV.333

Capitol Hill

  1. Oasis – Champagne Supernova (Remastered)
  2. Chumbawamba – Tubthumping
  3. Destiny’s Child – Bootylicious
  4. Lady Lamb – Billions of Eyes
  5. Rihanna – Right Now
  6. Brandi Carlile – The Things I Regret
  7. Beyoncé – Standing on the Sun Remix
  8. Joe Walsh – Life’s Been Good
  9. Neon Indian – Annie
  10. Eddie Vedder – Hard Sun

Downtown

  1. Zefereli – Stupid Goodbye
  2. 112 – Peaches and Cream
  3. This Will Destroy You – Dutism
  4. Shitbaby Mammals – When I’m With You
  5. Lucho Ripley – Kyoto
  6. Globelamp – Controversial/Confrontational
  7. Western Skies Motel – Whelm
  8. The Echelon Effect – First Fall
  9. Megan Davies – Take Me to Church (Acoustic Cover) Feat. Matt Wright
  10. City of the Sun- What Took You So Long

Queen Anne

  1. Elevation Worship – O Come To The Altar
  2. Bryan & Katie Torwalt – Holy Spirit
  3. Kings Kaleidoscope – Come Thou Fount
  4. Kristene Dimarco – It Is Well (Live)
  5. Paul McClure – Jesus, We Love You (Live)
  6. Will Reagan – Set A Fire
  7. Hillsong United – Scandal of Grace
  8. Matt Corby – Resolution
  9. James Bay – Sparks
  10. All Sons & Daughters – Great Are You The Lord

South Lake Union

  1. Frances – Don’t Worry About Me
  2. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Gold Lion
  3. Man Man – Head On (Hold On To Your Heart)
  4. The New Basement Tapes – Kansas City
  5. ELEL – Animal
  6. Quiet Life – Housebroken Man
  7. John Mayer – Neon (EP Version)
  8. Of Monsters and Men – I Of The Storm
  9. Ray LaMontagne – Forever My Friend
  10. Headphone Activist – Midnight Strike

Wallingford

  1. U2 – One
  2. Charlie Cunningham – Blindfold
  3. Soul Asylum – Runaway Train
  4. Sufjan Stevens – Eugene
  5. Spoon – The Underdog
  6. The Avett Brothers – Live And Die
  7. Sly & The Family Stone – Dance to the Music
  8. Marian Hill – Lips
  9. Ben Harper – Burn One Down
  10. Sturgil Simpson – Turtles All The Way Down

West Seattle

  1. Drake – One Dance
  2. Rihanna – Work
  3. ZAYN – PILLOWTALK
  4. Meghan Trainor – NO
  5. Mike Posner – I Took A Pill In Ibiza (Seeb Remix)
  6. Calvin Harris – This Is What You Came For
  7. Lukas Graham – 7 Years
  8. DNCE – Cake By The Ocean
  9. Major Lazer – Light It Up (feat. Nyla & Fuse ODG) [Remix]
  10. Iron & Wine – Naked As We Came
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