Seems like I'd condition myself to hate that song.
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Right now I use a mix of these two:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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)
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
I used to, but it kinda ruined the song lmao. Everytime I heard it after that I felt alerted
The game is to get up and turn it off before the bass can kick in and wake the neighbours.
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. 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.
I wake up to iPhone‘s disgusting alarm, but I shave listening to Slayer - Raining Blood
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”
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
https://youtu.be/uLeAot4Zrxo?diOr49wL77tdZ1_h
Got to start the day with a smile or screams...
Yes, I use Lord of the Rings: The Shire Theme (Concerning Hobbits) Epic Version by Samuel Kim.
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
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.
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.
Generally just the taps from my watch, but sometimes… I just need some Smile HD in the morning.
If it can be called a song...
Discord Rare mix
Same as my ringtone.
Makes sure I wake up (lol)
I used to use First of tha Month by Bone Thugs N’ Harmony
not currently but in the past I used jethro tulls solstice bells and kelpie.
Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien by Edith Piaf, for reasons (yt)
In the Shadow or the Valley from New Vegas. Try it. You will enjoy.
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