Music to Wake up by!

GastroBoy · 21-09-2012 12:55PM #1

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 · 21-09-2012 01:45PM

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 · 21-09-2012 01:52PM

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 · 21-09-2012 08:33PM

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

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

seachto7 · 22-09-2012 01:29AM

Pantera - F*cking Hostile

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

Squarewave · 22-09-2012 01:36AM

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

rcaz · 22-09-2012 03:19AM

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

22-09-2012 03:29AM

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

DEFTLEFTHAND · 22-09-2012 03:44AM

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 · 22-09-2012 03:54AM

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

rcaz · 22-09-2012 04:09AM

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 · 23-09-2012 12:04AM

Wake me gently, Alice Cooper

kunst nugget · 23-09-2012 10:40AM

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

bodhrandude · 25-09-2012 11:08AM

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 · 25-09-2012 11:59AM

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

Temaz · 25-09-2012 12:24PM

These two for me.

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

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

Songs that define my life!!

bullpost · 25-09-2012 04:21PM

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

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

notnumber · 25-09-2012 07:43PM

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

Declan A Walsh · 25-09-2012 08:48PM

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 · 25-09-2012 09:11PM

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 · 25-09-2012 10:38PM

You all fail. This is mine.

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

GastroBoy · 25-09-2012 10:57PM

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 · 26-09-2012 12:20AM

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 · 26-09-2012 06:37PM

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 · 28-09-2012 09:59AM

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

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GastroBoy · 28-09-2012 03:03PM

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.