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.
My dad would always fall back on:
Metallica - For Whom the Bell Tolls
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
Just two:
Take five – Panzerballet
@@@@@ – Arca
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:
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.
Walking on broken glass by Annie Lennox.
Anything by the Shaggs, it’s possibly the worst music ever published and he’ll probably jump out of bed to turn it off:
Hide a BT speaker on a shelve or something high up.
Then blast the everliving volume of any song out of it :)If you want to wake them up, anything you can play with a bugle.
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.
