Wake-up alarms recommendations

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Here’s a thread for sharing tunes that work especially well as alarms in the morning.

I’ll start with this one :

It never gets boring or annoying, it’s chill and upbeat at the same time and puts you in a good mood. I recommend starting it at 0:41 so you can chill to the beat for a sec and really wake up when the horns kick in. 10/10.

Second recommendation is this :

Bit more of a risky one as you may start to trip balls inside of your dreams instead of waking up if you’re a deep sleeper lol. More of a slow burn kind of wake-up if you’re into that. Just like the other one, it doesn’t get boring morning after morning but ymmv. I rate it a solid 9/10 (as an alarm clock, 10/10 otherwise). Lost a point for making you want to dream a bit longer than you should.

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This is my wake up call:

This is the one I use to end my naps:

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I’ve always liked ZZTop’s Cheap Sunglasses as an alarm, gets the day started on a pretty cool foot

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Oh yeah i used the midi sans frontières version with the drums for a while ! Amazing tune. Just too nostalgic feeling for starting a new beautiful day

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I’m immune to any iPhone alarms by now so I have to use a video alarm website with 1 hour long compilations of imperial marches, 90s atmo dnb or old Formula 1 broadcasts:


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I’ve got a bunch of old Thunderdome compilations set to go off at 7am on random and very loud.

It’s how I’ve woken up every morning since the mid 90’s.

Here’s a couple of highlights.

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I’ve been using this track as my morning alarm clock for quite some time now. I like how it slowly builds up and gently wakes you from sleep.

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I’ve spent so much time just trying to find the right one…

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if anyone wants, i’ll record my 9 year old son smashing around upstairs in his room at 5 am. it’s effective but not musical. let me know.

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I just wake up to random stations on the radio. This morning it was death metal. Hilarious. Really got me going lol

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If it’s not goats bleating at sunrise then it’ll be the neighbours’ really irritating dogs trying to kill each other or anything coming within a few tens of metres of their home, or one or other of the cats demanding food and digging claws in; failing that, the sound of some Juno-60 arpeggio recordings from my phone.

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Vice versa my 14 y.o. girl stomping around at 7am, smashing around school books, with breaks of hot air drying hair on full speed.

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Slightly off-topic, but when I was a kid, my wake up was a mechanical clock with a timer that would trigger a Garrard turntable to drop The Beatles « Back in the USSR » (at least I remember that choice) at eardrum-shattering levels. It worked well …

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Nu Yorican Soul’s cover of I Am The Black Gold Of The Sun.

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Yes I can get to that thank you very much

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I wake up to the radio blasting a local pop station at full volume. (Poor speaker in the clock clips every time). It is extremely effective. Also try Mariachi, works just as well when played too loud at 7 am. :joy: (Not dissing Mariachi tho, it’s better than the pop station that’s for sure).

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