Music to Wake up by!

GastroBoy

apologies if this thread was created before but i couldent find one similar!


Hi,

Completely fed up with my alarm tones so I'm looking for some suggestions to set as an alarm in the morning.
There must be some good ones out there that would get your morning off to a good start.

The only one I have at the moment is "End of the world as we know it" by REM, hardly appropriate title for first thing in the morning but its a great, upbeat tune.


So what's your song for getting you out of bed in the morning?

Thanks, GB.

kunst nugget

GastroBoy wrote: »

apologies if this thread was created before but i couldent find one similar!


Hi,

Completely fed up with my alarm tones so I'm looking for some suggestions to set as an alarm in the morning.
There must be some good ones out there that would get your morning off to a good start.

The only one I have at the moment is "End of the world as we know it" by REM, hardly appropriate title for first thing in the morning but its a great, upbeat tune.


So what's your song for getting you out of bed in the morning?

Thanks, GB.

Well if you wanted to stay on an R.E.M. upbeat vibe:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OORfygtkYGU

mike65

Boo Radley - Wake Up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WumSB0vZ5l8

Pilot - Magic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iiryJwvDtc

and then roll over and back to sleep!

SilverScreen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReqhO232HU8

You'll be wide awake, out of bed and ready for a hard days work.

seachto7

Pantera - F*cking Hostile

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5NX3OVjzHg

Squarewave

I quickly grow to hate any song I use as an alarm. I wouldn't advise using a song you like anyway.

rcaz

I reckon I've got two great suggestions for an alarm tune...

One to get you really up and going for the day: The Flaming Lips - Race for the Prize

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WN9zMTAAwqQ

And one to get you out of bed as fast as ****ing possible...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeMTcbXgc6k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4smim2MNvF8

DEFTLEFTHAND

What about music you never wake up to!! Personally I'd like the piano version of Made of Stone played before my sealed casket is lowered into dirt for eternity.

RoverZT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ia4T_-zAvzo

rcaz

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

What about music you never wake up to!! Personally I'd like the piano version of Made of Stone played before my sealed casket is lowered into dirt for eternity.

That escalated quickly...

Fenian Army

Wake me gently, Alice Cooper

kunst nugget

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkQrJ3SVXko

bodhrandude

My mate used to have a timer on his stereo, and he would always set this track up for the morning blasting out of his speakers. God knows how his family or neighbours took it, but damn effective.

Welsh Megaman

'More Than A Feeling' by Boston, or 'Just Like Paradise' by David Lee Roth...you can thank me later!

Temaz

These two for me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBZ1HTkGF4s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lyu1KKwC74

Songs that define my life!!

bullpost

In the right company...........

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-VeOakGGPQ

notnumber

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zdNdjF-htY

Declan A Walsh

Music to Wake up by... If the idea is to get you up, surely you should use a song you cannot stand! If you like the song, you might just lie there to listen to it. So using that perverse logic: anything by Westlife, Daniel O'Donnell or Neil Diamond... and not forgetting "If the Going Gets Tough..." by Boyzone! Also - "Wake me Up Before You Go-Go" by Wham! (the exclamation mark was part of their name!)... I don't care that it's catchy, it's still awful. Oh, and a lot of that repetitive stuff played in gyms (and Spin103)!

notnumber

Declan A Walsh wrote: »

Music to Wake up by... If the idea is to get you up, surely you should use a song you cannot stand! If you like the song, you might just lie there to listen to it. So using that perverse logic: anything by Westlife, Daniel O'Donnell or Neil Diamond... and not forgetting "If the Going Gets Tough..." by Boyzone! Also - "Wake me Up Before You Go-Go" by Wham! (the exclamation mark was part of their name!)... I don't care that it's catchy, it's still awful. Oh, and a lot of that repetitive stuff played in gyms (and Spin103)!

I Would say bad idea waking up to music you hate..but you successfully named a number of songs that if i woke to i would get up and then slay the device emitting those sound waves,

cherryghost

You all fail. This is mine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRTD-FtSQpI

GastroBoy

Declan A Walsh wrote: »

Music to Wake up by... If the idea is to get you up, surely you should use a song you cannot stand! If you like the song, you might just lie there to listen to it. So using that perverse logic: anything by Westlife, Daniel O'Donnell or Neil Diamond... and not forgetting "If the Going Gets Tough..." by Boyzone! Also - "Wake me Up Before You Go-Go" by Wham! (the exclamation mark was part of their name!)... I don't care that it's catchy, it's still awful. Oh, and a lot of that repetitive stuff played in gyms (and Spin103)!

So start the day off pissed off and angry is it? Great advice, must try that.....

Potential-Monke

If you have the option to do a slow wake up, where the volume goes from quiet to loud over a small while (i've mine set to 30 seconds), then this is the BEST thing to wake up to:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7L2PVdrb_8

Declan A Walsh

Music I would actually like to wake up to (as opposed to hating (see above!) or go comfortably to sleep to or just totally chill out or just lie there reflecting upon):
Rock and Roll - Led Zeppelin
Shut Your Eyes - Snow Patrol
Good Morning Judge - 10cc
Dreadlock Holiday - 10cc
Babylon's Burning - The Ruts
No More Heroes - The Stranglers
Good Vibrations - The Beach Boys
Life in the Fast Lane - The Eagles
Blue Monday - New Order
Rock Lobster - The B52s
Planet Earth - Duran Duran
I Will Follow - U2
Mary of the Fourth Form - The Boomtown Rats
Exit Sandman - Metallica
Wuthering Heights - Kate Bush
Song #2 - Blur
American Girl - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Invisible Touch - Genesis
Island in the Sun - Weezer
Brewing Up A Storm - The Stunning
Borderline - Madonna
You Make Me Feel Mighty Real - Slyvester
Smalltown Boy - The Bronski Boy
Why - The Bronski Beat
Run - A Flock of Seagulls
Default - Django Django
Life is a Rollercoaster (no, really!) - Ronan Keating
...probably anything by The Frank and Walters and The Smiths

LordSutch

GastroBoy wrote: »

Music to Wake up by!

I think you mean 'Music to wake up to'

Anyway I like something at low volume, gentle quiet and chill like. My own DAB radio tuned to Chill music starts off with low volume music and gradually gets louder before I have to reach over and press the sleep button )

GastroBoy

LordSutch wrote: »

I think you mean 'Music to wake up to'

No, I meant "Music to Wake up by".
Its a play on the song title "Music to Watch Girls by" by The Bob Crewe Generation.
But thank you for your concern.

Nailz

John Zorn's Naked City have some great alarm-worthy tracks, here's "Thrash Jazz Assassin".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7yB4wcOoy4

Another good one is "Sack of Shit".

tommyboy2222

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6zPvkP5uVI

This one also has an alarm clock at the start

I use to wake up to this:

Not too loud or abrupt. But agree with the others after a week or so i had to change it. You get to hate any song.