If so, which song?

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[–] 41 points 1 year ago (7 children)

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

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    The correct way is to use a song you already hate...

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    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

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

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    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    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)

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    I use Your New Morning Alarm by Marc Rebillet

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    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

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  • Caramelldansen, the Caramella Girls version.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    This soundtrack kicks so much ass on its own that I almost don’t want to watch the movie and understand the context

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    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    City of the dead by The Rasmus.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

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

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Nine Inch Nails - The Frail

    A++ would wake up again

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

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

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    Guiles' theme gets the blood coarsing straight away

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    “Just Us” by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

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

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    https://youtu.be/iNmGzWe5jC8

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

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    No. I have to make it the loudest, most unpleasant sound I can find otherwise it does not work.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

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

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    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”

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    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

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    https://youtu.be/uLeAot4Zrxo?diOr49wL77tdZ1_h

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

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago*

    Yes, I use Lord of the Rings: The Shire Theme (Concerning Hobbits) Epic Version by Samuel Kim.

    https://youtu.be/cFC6v1UrPn8

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

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

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    I usually change mine once a year. Currently I have Coffe by supersister

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    HT: theme from Trigun

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    A demo track mikey303 did for the M8 Tracker

    https://youtu.be/vjGeywcinCA

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    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.

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    Underground 80s radio

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Generally just the taps from my watch, but sometimes… I just need some Smile HD in the morning.

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    been tryin'

    to MEET you

    mmm-mm-mm-mm

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

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

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

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

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

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    not currently but in the past I used jethro tulls solstice bells and kelpie.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

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

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Shared Loneliness by Mindthings

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  • I have the Spongebob outro track as my alarm.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago*

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

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