My dad would always fall back on:
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Reveille, the morning bugle call
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
The Humpty Dance - Digital Underground
Twist - Korn
Everybody (Backstreet's Back) - The Backstreet Boys
Twist is such a jam, great choice.
Edit: I missed the "gentle" part of the ask. My bad.
Let the bodies hit the floor by drowning pool
This meme remix of a forum post asking for help identifying a song is just fun and annoying
Any of the "toad sings" are also fun ones.
Anything by the Shaggs, it's possibly the worst music ever published and he'll probably jump out of bed to turn it off:
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.
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.
Come to daddy - Aphex twin Godhood - Humanity's last breath Bleed - Meshuggah
I remember the first time I heard Come to Daddy was on cky2k, and the ong blew me away. At that time I'm listening to basically pop punk, and then this song knocks my socks off.
Chop suey
Alternatively
Your new morning alarm by Mark Rebillet
If you want to wake them up, anything you can play with a bugle.
Cum on Feel the Noize - Slade
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78ezU7x3jfE
What what in the butt - Samwell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbGkxcY7YFU
my bet is they be up by the time #3 is on.
I've been everywhere man - The Beggars (Aussie edition)
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
~~Killing in the name of - Rage Against the Machine~~
Been suggested before. Instead, try this:
The last one is from a portuguese punk band. The way the singer opens the song never fails to open a couple of eyes.
https://washedout.bandcamp.com/track/waking-up
https://dubmood.bandcamp.com/track/and-off-they-rode-the-whole-colorful-troupe
https://igorrr.bandcamp.com/track/opus-brain
It gets less accommodating the more they don't get up !!
I'll show some love for Igorrr, good shit.
- MELT-BANANA - The Hive
- Anna Meredith - Nautilus
- Aphex Twin - Come To Daddy
If they're not enough for your child to choose an alarm instead, I don't know what is.
It's opinionated, but anyway here's my list lol
Toots & the Maytals - Broadway Jungle then The Toasters - I'm Running Right Through The World and finally Reel Big Fish - She Has a Girlfriend Now
Your teenager will feel like new
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Good morning sunshine by the narcissist cookbook
1: Good Morning Vietnam monologue. 2: Whatever march music you find appropriate. I'd recommend the March of the Red Cavalry. 3: Dead Kennedys: Kill The Poor.
What about Hell March from Red Alert 2?
Substance by Haste the Day.
This used to be my alarm clock, the abrupt opening is very jarring, in a good way for waking up.
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.
Locomotive Breath - Jethro Tull
Smoke on the Water - Deep Purple
LaGrange - ZZ Top
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One - creed Detachable penis - king missle Everybody shooters too - 42 dugg
You Suffer by Napalm Death. It’s 1.6 seconds long, but played at max volume, it would wake the dead.
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