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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.

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[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 71 points 1 week ago (1 children)

WAKE UP

^wake^ ^up^

Grab a bush and put a little makeup

[–] grranibal@lemmy.zip 27 points 1 week ago

Chop Suey! - System of a Down

I love SoaD so much :D I was looking for this comment

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 40 points 1 week ago (2 children)

What's New Pussycat 7 times, followed by It's Not Unusual, then more of the first.

Same shit as always

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[–] Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 1 week ago

Nyan cat 24 hour loop

[–] Ciryamo@feddit.org 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

"Get the fuck outta bed bitch go!"

[–] Okokimup@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Ballroom Blitz - Sweet

Mr Blue Sky - ELO

X Gon Give It to Ya - DMX

Turn Down for What - Like Jihn

Pound the Alarm - Nicki Minaj

Everybody - Backstreet Boys

Wannabe - Spice Girls

Cha Cha Cha - Kaarija

Paloma Rumba - Simon

X Gon Give It To Ya is brilliant, changing my alarms rn

[–] Wfh@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago

Cha cha cha is a fucking banger and the best thing to come out of Eurovision since Epic Sax Guy.

[–] Broadfern@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Pick three three of their favorite songs and start singing terribly. I’m talking off-key, purposely wrong lyrics. As loud as you can.

Even better if you can improv the lyrics to customize it just for them.

If they wish to preserve the sanctity of their media they’ll wake up sooner rather than later.

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 1 week ago

Pick three three of their favorite songs and start singing terribly

no. just their favorite songs in general.

I once had the briht idea of using my favorite songs as my alarm sound.

It just lead to me absolutely hating the songs, because my brain associated them with waking up

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[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)
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[–] Nemo@slrpnk.net 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wham! — Wake Me Up

TMBG — Wake Up Call

Bullfrog ft. Kid Koala — Music for More Morning People

(I used to use Hokus Pick's "I'm So Happy" but it just hits different under the current presidential administration)

[–] Tujio@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Not gonna cap it off with Wake Up by RAtM?

[–] Sybilvane@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] fubarx@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

I had a roommate who would play "Burning Down the House" by Talking Heads every morning at top volume.

It starts slow and quiet, then the drums kick in hard, launching you out of bed. By the end of the song we'd be pogo-dancing around the apartment.

[–] soaringbirdie@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 week ago
[–] smeg@infosec.pub 9 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Ride of the Valkyries by Wagner

Elephant Talk by King Crimson

Hocus Pocus by Focus

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[–] FollyDolly@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Might I suggest: Who Let the Dogs Out followed by Around the World and lastly The Final Countdown.

[–] Dookieman12@piefed.social 8 points 1 week ago

All Star - Smash Mouth (Kid's Bop version)

The Pokérap

DK Rap

[–] makeshiftreaper@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)
  1. Cbat - Hudson Hawke

  2. Gangnam Style - Psy

  3. Burning Down the House - Tom Jones/The Cardigans

Start off confusing them with a cacophony of sound, followed by high energy, into Tom Jones shouting. Should be pretty hard to sleep through all of that

[–] TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Had no idea there was a Tom Jones cover of Burning Down the House.

In return, here's a David Byrne cover of Crystal Water's Gypsy Woman.

Neither really capture the original, but they're interesting.

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Cbat is evil

[–] helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I think you're going about this the wrong way, You won't have wake them up if they can never fall asleep listening to every song here all night. Tell them you'll only turn it of if they set their own alarm.

Right now you're training them that the obnoxious music will be their alarm.

Also, if your kid has an android I love the alarm app called AMDroid. It is super customizable, (who knew an alarm could have so many options). It can set to do things like send a notification after a few minutes "are you awake?", if you don't respond the alarm goes again. You can set various math or word challenges to stop the alarm, you can make it only turn of if you're close enough to the router, or at a certain light level, and so on.

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[–] starlinguk@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The trick is to pick something and sing it yourself. Preferably some old traditional song.

[–] yakko@feddit.uk 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)
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[–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)
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[–] Dookieman12@piefed.social 6 points 1 week ago

There's a YouTube channel called " The Guy Who Sings Your Name Over and Over "

See if he has a song with your kid's name.

[–] Archimedes@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago

The main theme from the Lion King

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Stress by Justice, at extremely high volume.

Shouldn't even need anything else. The stress the song gives should be enough to cause someone to vacate the premises.

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[–] Slayan@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Marc rebillet good morning wake up

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[–] Grass@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago

make your own song entirely out of gen alpha memes and slang that you don't even understand and make it as wrong as possible

[–] notabot@piefed.social 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)
  • The 1812 overture. If that's too long, just focus on the section with the cannons.

  • Crazy frog

  • The macarena (I was struggling to think of a third song, but I would hope the first two would do the job)

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[–] TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

When I struggled to get up in my late teens and early twenties, I used a submarine dive horn as an alarm. That worked well, but my roommates were not a fan.

Edit: This is a fun post and I kinda ignored the game, my bad!

I use Fleet Foxes' Sun Giant as an alarm, the deep inhale in the beginning gets me up instantly then the soft music is comforting as I stir awake. But might not be as useful for a teen who can't wake up.

Streetlight Manifesto's Everything Went Numb starts with horns and quickly gets upbeat and fast, great track that seems hard to sleep through.

Moxy Fruvus' King of Spain has a good mix of upbeat, percussive vocals and a slightly embarassing Weird Al/comedy acapella vibes that might make it insufferable to sleep through.

I could easily see Blue Swede's Hooked on a Feeling becoming a dreaded familiar wake up call. Ooga Chaka Ooga Ooga Ooga Chaka Ooga Ooga Ooga Chaka...

Maybe set up a subwoofer under their bed and hit em with something like Aquagen's Ihr Seid so Leise.

[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 5 points 1 week ago

Firestarter by The Prodigy

Wipe Out by The Surfaris

Mars from Holst's Planet's Suite

[–] TryingToBeGood@reddthat.com 5 points 1 week ago

AC/DC — “Thunderstruck” or “For Those About to Rock”

And—please don’t hate me for this, everybody—that horrible Kars for Kids jingle. Play it on something he has to physically get out of bed to shut off.

[–] normalentrance@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Meshuggah - bleed, Marc rebillet morning alarm , Miley Cyrus - party in the USA

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[–] SGGeorwell@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)
[–] Dookieman12@piefed.social 4 points 1 week ago

Seconding Banana Phone

Also, Schfifty five

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 4 points 1 week ago

Bodies - Drowning Pool

It gives nice quiet and loud so that it isn't easy to tune out

[–] gergolippai@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

it has 1 song: paradigm shift by liquid tension experiment

https://youtu.be/Vi2IQNs8hlE?is=dNjKIzntyy-X7wHx

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Just start playing Pantera's Cowboys From Hell album from the beginning and I guarantee he'll get up. If you want to spice it up just start it on a different song each morning.

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[–] village604@adultswim.fan 4 points 1 week ago

When I went to band camp, they'd wake us up by setting up giant speakers in the dorm halls and playing Eye of the Tiger or Convoy

[–] noxypaws@pawb.social 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Aphex Twin - Rhubarb (#3 on Selected Ambient Works Volume II)

Tycho - Awake

Ray Parker Jr - Ghostbusters

Gentle come-up, gentle rhythm introduction, followed by unresistable urge to dance

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