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

https://youtu.be/cFC6v1UrPn8

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.

Yep, this one.

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 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.

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

No

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.

Blah Blah Cafe - Jean Michel Jarre

I use Your New Morning Alarm by Marc Rebillet

City of the dead by The Rasmus.

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.

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

https://youtu.be/uLeAot4Zrxo?diOr49wL77tdZ1_h

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

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 have a Garmin fitness watch that only vibrates to wake me up. It’s mildly annoying since it is not as gentle as my old Apple Watch from many years ago. The Apple Watch’s vibration alarm felt like a finger gently tapping my wrist. It was a nice way to gently wake up without disturbing my partner. My Garmin watch vibrates entirely on the lowest setting. I can also hear it audibly vibrate, too.

Edit: fixed typos from mobile keyboard typing

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

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

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

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

Nine Inch Nails - The Frail

A++ would wake up again

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.

"Rise and shine, Mr. Freeman. Rise and shine. Not that I wish to imply you have been sleeping on the job. No one is more deserving of a rest. And all the effort in the world would have gone to waste until... well, let's just say your hour has come again. The right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world. So, wake up, Mr. Freeman. Wake up and smell the ashes."

That followed by ‘marc rebillet - wake up’

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)

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.

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

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

Guiles' theme gets the blood coarsing straight away

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