Do you use a song for your alarm clock?

Seems like I'd condition myself to hate that song.

Right now I use a mix of these two:

Marc Rebillet - YOUR NEW MORNING ALARM

James Brown screaming for over a minute

Vanessa Carlton's "A thousand miles", mostly for the piano part at the beginning.

austin powers theme.

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.

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.

Blah Blah Cafe - Jean Michel Jarre

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.

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.

Yep, this one.

Luke Skywalker's theme from Star Wars: A New Hope.

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)

https://youtu.be/uLeAot4Zrxo?diOr49wL77tdZ1_h

Got to start the day with a smile or screams...

No, right now I'm using the Star Trek TOS bosun's whistle.

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.

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.

City of the dead by The Rasmus.

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 use Your New Morning Alarm by Marc Rebillet

Just changed it recently to Init by NIN (Tron Ares soundtrack). YouTube

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

My body is now cursed, so 99% I wake up before my alarm.

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

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.

Nine Inch Nails - The Frail

A++ would wake up again

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 wake up to iPhone‘s disgusting alarm, but I shave listening to Slayer - Raining Blood

“Just Us” by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross

Caramelldansen, the Caramella Girls version.

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.

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

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

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.

https://youtu.be/iNmGzWe5jC8

The game is to get up and turn it off before the bass can kick in and wake the neighbours.

I used to, but it kinda ruined the song lmao. Everytime I heard it after that I felt alerted

Guiles' theme gets the blood coarsing straight away

My alarm for the longest time was Saku by DIR EN GREY

In the Shadow or the Valley from New Vegas. Try it. You will enjoy.

I have the Spongebob outro track as my alarm.

Yes, I use Teh Internets from the Super Meat Boy soundtrack.

been tryin'

to MEET you

mmm-mm-mm-mm

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.

If it can be called a song...
Discord Rare mix

Same as my ringtone.
Makes sure I wake up (lol)

HT: theme from Trigun

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.

A demo track mikey303 did for the M8 Tracker

https://youtu.be/vjGeywcinCA

my alarm is home-assistant with music-assistant and it just plays the collection of my fave'd songs on full blast

I used to use First of tha Month by Bone Thugs N’ Harmony

Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien by Edith Piaf, for reasons (yt)

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.

Shared Loneliness by Mindthings

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 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

I don't, but if I did:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eN6jkWxxm2Y

Underground 80s radio