School has started and my teen refuses to use an alarm, leaving me to do the wakeup myself. As thr door is locked, I cannot gently awaken them. So, I decided music was great and chose the following 3 songs (played in this order and the reaction):
- Viva La Vida - Coldplay
- [quiet groans from inside, no movement]
- Baby Shark
- [whimpers and the sound of pillows shuffling]
- Welcome to the Jungle - Guns & Roses
- [door flew open, I was forced to flee]
So three songs seems to be the sweet spot. I’d like to keep it fresh and change daily so they can’t adapt. Please give me your 3-song playlist so I can continue to psychologically torture wake my child for school every day.
Chord Organ Blues - Daniel Johnston
Sound of Da Police - KRS-One
Frank - Bongwater
Originally I was thinking I’ve Got Drugs by The Frogs to open, but it may not be suitable for your teenager.
The Humpty Dance - Digital Underground
Twist - Korn
Everybody (Backstreet’s Back) - The Backstreet Boys
Twist is such a jam, great choice.
Metallica - For Whom the Bell Tolls
Reveille, the morning bugle call
Elvis Costello Welcome to the Working Week
Pink Floyd Another brick in the wall
Evanescence Bring me to life
A dance version:
Belle and Sebastian The Party Line
Scissor Sisters I don’t feel like dancing
Wham! Wake me up before you go go
ETA, if you are desperate, use the song the Feds did to try to drive the cultists out at Waco TX:
Achey Breaky Heart
Achey Breaky Heart
Achey Breaky Heart
My favorite song to gently wake up is Hammock, Ten Thousand Years Won’t Save Your Life - but the reason it’s so good is because it is good to hear while I am sleeping, so not a good alarm. But so nice to hear while laying in bed.
Meshuggah - bleed, Marc rebillet morning alarm , Miley Cyrus - party in the USA
Came to make sure this was posted. Has gotten me out of bed for the last 3 years.
GTF out of bed B go
Chop suey
Alternatively
Your new morning alarm by Mark Rebillet
My dad would always fall back on:
Hear me out. We start low and slow with:
Not too loud. Just enough on the annoying side.
No? Well, let’s get the point across with:
Evanescense - Bring Me to Life
We’ve been pretty nice so far and no joy, huh? You asked for it, the worst(best) song in this kit:
Walking on broken glass by Annie Lennox.
Either What’s New Pussycat is longer than I remember…
Rawr.
If you really want to startle them awake:
Wannabe - Spice Girls has an abrupt start. Someone woke me up that way when I was young and I hated it.
Helix Nebula by Anamanaguchi
My grandmother would regularly play mariachi music at way too early hours of Saturday as she was cleaning because she liked it. I learned to wake up before the crack of dawn on those days so I could be out of the house in time to avoid it.
Anyways, spice it up with things like yodelling, bagpipes, any cultural music with extremely high pitched instruments or vocals, and particularly emotional songs from popular musicals. And maybe throw in a soundtrack of metal pots falling down the stairs or glass crashing in between songs, just to keep them on their toes.
Just two:
Take five – Panzerballet
@@@@@ – Arca
