When I was in my teens I used Babe I'm Gonna Leave You, by Led Zeppelin as my alarm, over 15 years later and I can't help but feel like I'm being yanked out of dead sleep every time I hear it.
Concerning Hobbits. I picked it to try to set the tone for the day, and it usually works. I'm not a morning person so this is about as good as I can get.
Yeah, I use The Ecstacy of Gold from The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. It starts quietly and peacefully so doesn't startle me but builds to a crescendo which guarantees my awake attention.
I use the radio, so that I don't get conditioned to hate one specific song, but still have something more pleasant than an alarm tone (which I'd also grow to hate)
I love his work especially with Laura Brehm and this one specifically has a nice slow build without any vocals for a while which I find more pleasant to wake up to.
I use the middle chorus from Gloryhammer's Masters of the Galaxy, and it's worked really well for a while. But I'm thinking of changing it to the opening of Powerman 5000's Bombshell
I will tell you that the soundtrack alone tells a story without a doubt, having listened to it at least a hundred times on repeat. After seeing the movie, all the pieces fit perfectly.
I know others are complaining about the movie and maybe that is dissuading you, but fuck 'em. I don't pay much mind to others opinions because most people like to play follow the leader and not think for themselves. It's a great movie and I'm going to see it again before it leaves theaters.
Nope. I still have From LA to New York etched into my brain in bile and loathing from it playing on a cheap crappy clock-radio alarm I had when it was first released in '76 or whenever. Actually waking up to that song probably only happened a couple of times, but it was enough. I found that I preferred the brain-piercing built in alarm to having any other songs or drivelling DJs hypnogogically imprinting themselves.
These days I have either birdsong or Tibetan chimes instead.
For the first alarm, I use the default iPhone setting. For the second emergency alarm, I use Entombment of a Machine by Job For A Cowboy. I already wore that song out the better part of 20 years ago and it's guaranteed to wake you up every time
I use sleep as android and have it set to pull from a web radio. My brain used to tune out any song/ringtone I set for an alarm in about a week. No longer an issue when it's always a different track.
No, my alarm simultaneously vibrates on my wrist and plays jungle birdsong sounds, gradually increasing in volume, which is a really nice way to wake up.
Tbh the vibration motor in modern smart phones has been an absolute game changer, the sound doesn't really matter as long as it's a softer sound that still is an alarm. But even semi decent vibration motors in phones are leaps and bounds better than the best of early android phones, it's like someone is tapping me through the mattress, I wake right up.
I used to use the beginning of clutch's psychic warfare. The first track is some low murdering, and then it comes in hard with X-ray visions. Always woke me right up.
The most grating annoying song that I can find at the time. This one is my current alarm tone https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=I-djgdra6Fs
I wake up angry and am scrambling to switch it off as quickly as possible but even when I do I cant go back to sleep again out of sheer annoyance of having that be the first thing I had to hear waking up.
I have a rotation of instrumental ambient playlists like Medieval Ambient and Dungeon Ambient. We're so used to them, it's strange not to have them when we're on vacation.
Seems like I'd condition myself to hate that song.
That's exactly what happens lol
Yup. I tried it because it sounded like a pleasant way to wake up. Instead I just started hating some of my favorite songs.
When I was in my teens I used Babe I'm Gonna Leave You, by Led Zeppelin as my alarm, over 15 years later and I can't help but feel like I'm being yanked out of dead sleep every time I hear it.
This.
Now I just have a generic alarm signal because I would like to keep enjoying the music I like
The correct way is to use a song you already hate...
But why would I want to make waking up even more horrible by playing a song I hate? I don't think there is a way for the songs to win
Mornings are rough, true. But when you hate the song enough, you can make your morning at least slightly better when you make that POS stop.
Right now I use a mix of these two:
Marc Rebillet - YOUR NEW MORNING ALARM
James Brown screaming for over a minute
+1 for Marc Rebillet
Vanessa Carlton's "A thousand miles", mostly for the piano part at the beginning.
Not to mention it’s an absolute banger
austin powers theme.
That's a pretty groovy tune
Concerning Hobbits. I picked it to try to set the tone for the day, and it usually works. I'm not a morning person so this is about as good as I can get.
No
Yeah, I use The Ecstacy of Gold from The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. It starts quietly and peacefully so doesn't startle me but builds to a crescendo which guarantees my awake attention.
This is an amazing choice. I just changed all my alarms.
Luke Skywalker's theme from Star Wars: A New Hope.
Blah Blah Cafe - Jean Michel Jarre
Yep, this one.
I use FM radio for a random song or ad to wake me up. It's the only time I hear the radio on purpose.
I had devil dogs by sabaton as my alarm for a while because all the instruments come in at once and it would jolt me awake.
I use Your New Morning Alarm by Marc Rebillet
I use the radio, so that I don't get conditioned to hate one specific song, but still have something more pleasant than an alarm tone (which I'd also grow to hate)
Monody by TheFatRat
I love his work especially with Laura Brehm and this one specifically has a nice slow build without any vocals for a while which I find more pleasant to wake up to.
I've learned to use a shuffled playlist to wake up. Different song each day, but pulled from my liked songs.
Now if I can just figure out how to make that happen with Home Assistant instead of Google's bullshit assistant.
I use the middle chorus from Gloryhammer's Masters of the Galaxy, and it's worked really well for a while. But I'm thinking of changing it to the opening of Powerman 5000's Bombshell
Just changed it recently to Init by NIN (Tron Ares soundtrack). YouTube
This soundtrack kicks so much ass on its own that I almost don’t want to watch the movie and understand the context
I will tell you that the soundtrack alone tells a story without a doubt, having listened to it at least a hundred times on repeat. After seeing the movie, all the pieces fit perfectly.
I know others are complaining about the movie and maybe that is dissuading you, but fuck 'em. I don't pay much mind to others opinions because most people like to play follow the leader and not think for themselves. It's a great movie and I'm going to see it again before it leaves theaters.
Nothing’s dissuading me, I’m definitely gonna watch it. I’m just a bigger NIN fan than a Tron fan.
https://youtu.be/uLeAot4Zrxo?diOr49wL77tdZ1_h
Got to start the day with a smile or screams...
Nope. I still have From LA to New York etched into my brain in bile and loathing from it playing on a cheap crappy clock-radio alarm I had when it was first released in '76 or whenever. Actually waking up to that song probably only happened a couple of times, but it was enough. I found that I preferred the brain-piercing built in alarm to having any other songs or drivelling DJs hypnogogically imprinting themselves.
These days I have either birdsong or Tibetan chimes instead.
No, right now I'm using the Star Trek TOS bosun's whistle.
City of the dead by The Rasmus.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nkx1hWs88Ek
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnFv-vlroPw
I have others for other alarms. I set multiple so that I can gauge on who I want to be for the day.
sometimes I want to be Donnie Azoff, most the time I want to be almost unemployed.
Nine Inch Nails - The Frail
A++ would wake up again
For the first alarm, I use the default iPhone setting. For the second emergency alarm, I use Entombment of a Machine by Job For A Cowboy. I already wore that song out the better part of 20 years ago and it's guaranteed to wake you up every time
Yeah job for a cowboy would have me getting up to turn that shit off real fast
Lmao I wake up in a fucking rage any time I let it get that far
My body is now cursed, so 99% I wake up before my alarm.
I use sleep as android and have it set to pull from a web radio. My brain used to tune out any song/ringtone I set for an alarm in about a week. No longer an issue when it's always a different track.
I used to, but it kinda ruined the song lmao. Everytime I heard it after that I felt alerted
No, my alarm simultaneously vibrates on my wrist and plays jungle birdsong sounds, gradually increasing in volume, which is a really nice way to wake up.
No. I have to make it the loudest, most unpleasant sound I can find otherwise it does not work.
Tbh the vibration motor in modern smart phones has been an absolute game changer, the sound doesn't really matter as long as it's a softer sound that still is an alarm. But even semi decent vibration motors in phones are leaps and bounds better than the best of early android phones, it's like someone is tapping me through the mattress, I wake right up.
https://youtu.be/iNmGzWe5jC8
The game is to get up and turn it off before the bass can kick in and wake the neighbours.
Caramelldansen, the Caramella Girls version.
Guiles' theme gets the blood coarsing straight away
Brennan Hart and The Prophet
The Sir Digby Chicken Caesar song
The To These Gods You Cannot Pray monologue from Hellblade
And if you really need to wake up, this sound effect can be very effective
We actually use a 90s clock radio that has a "radio alarm" feature! So we get whatever the radio station we last used is playing. It's nice.
-- Frost
“Then put your little hand in mine, there ain’t no hill or mountain we can’t climb…babe…”
I've done something similar, but I use home assistant to gradually increase the volume of the radio over the course of 10 minutes.
I have created a perfect loop of “Picture this / I’m a bag of dicks / put me your lips” from the intro of Run The Jewels & DJ Shadow’s “Nobody Speak”
I wake up to this beautiful Spanish Anarchist song
Viva la Quinta Brigada
“Just Us” by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross
I wake up to iPhone‘s disgusting alarm, but I shave listening to Slayer - Raining Blood
my alarm is home-assistant with music-assistant and it just plays the collection of my fave'd songs on full blast
not currently but in the past I used jethro tulls solstice bells and kelpie.
Generally just the taps from my watch, but sometimes… I just need some Smile HD in the morning.
In the Shadow or the Valley from New Vegas. Try it. You will enjoy.
been tryin'
to MEET you
mmm-mm-mm-mm
I don't, but if I did:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eN6jkWxxm2Y
I used to use the beginning of clutch's psychic warfare. The first track is some low murdering, and then it comes in hard with X-ray visions. Always woke me right up.
I also used slothrust's "like a child hiding behind your tombstone" for a while. That also starts a little quiet and then ramps up. Never hated the song, somehow. https://slothrust.bandcamp.com/track/like-a-child-hiding-behind-your-tombstone
Now I just have one of the default alarms and I kind of hate it.
The most grating annoying song that I can find at the time. This one is my current alarm tone
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=I-djgdra6Fs
I wake up angry and am scrambling to switch it off as quickly as possible but even when I do I cant go back to sleep again out of sheer annoyance of having that be the first thing I had to hear waking up.
If it can be called a song...
Discord Rare mix
Same as my ringtone.
Makes sure I wake up (lol)
Underground 80s radio
I usually change mine once a year. Currently I have Coffe by supersister
Yes, I use Lord of the Rings: The Shire Theme (Concerning Hobbits) Epic Version by Samuel Kim.
https://youtu.be/cFC6v1UrPn8
Shared Loneliness by Mindthings
I used to use First of tha Month by Bone Thugs N’ Harmony
I have the Spongebob outro track as my alarm.
Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien by Edith Piaf, for reasons (yt)
A demo track mikey303 did for the M8 Tracker
https://youtu.be/vjGeywcinCA
My alarm for the longest time was Saku by DIR EN GREY
HT: theme from Trigun
Yes, I use Teh Internets from the Super Meat Boy soundtrack.
I have a rotation of instrumental ambient playlists like Medieval Ambient and Dungeon Ambient. We're so used to them, it's strange not to have them when we're on vacation.