Author Topic: Using songs for alarm clocks (Read 2781 times)

Zyzzyva17 · « **on:** August 28, 2014, 04:04:03 PM »

As long as I've had an iPhone (all 15 months), I always set my phone alarm clock with a song. The way I see it, there are two main schools of thought for an alarm clock song:

1. Song that is automatically in-your-face to wake you up.

Liquid Tension Experiment - Paradigm Shift
Symphony X - Evolution (The Grand Design)

2. Song that starts soft/ambient and grows to something in-your-face.

Dream Theater - The Glass Prison
Spock's Beard - Day for Night

Which method do you prefer? What songs do you use for alarms?

Also, if you don't use songs for alarms, that's fine, but there's no need to write a reply saying that.

Zantera · « **Reply #1 on:** August 28, 2014, 04:07:01 PM »

For the last year or so, my alarm-signal has been Converge - Fault and Fracture. Imagine waking up to this every morning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMPvknyczCE

In all fairness, it works perfectly. I always fly out of bed and have no idea where I am or what time it is.

Buddyhunter1 · « **Reply #2 on:** August 28, 2014, 04:08:13 PM »

If I set my alarm clock to a song it'd be this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckRCH4ZKUCE

Dark Castle · « **Reply #3 on:** August 28, 2014, 04:10:16 PM »

I don't like using music as an alarm clock anymore. I don't like music I enjoy being associated with one of my least favorite moments. A blaring beeper works dandy

MrBoom_shack-a-lack · « **Reply #4 on:** August 28, 2014, 04:10:48 PM »

At the moment this. Works like a charm!

Evermind · « **Reply #5 on:** August 28, 2014, 04:13:48 PM »

I've been using Mark Knopfler - Dream of the Drowned Submariner for the first alarm for two years already. Very mellow, very pleasant, and I actually don't hate that song after two years of being on alarm, so that really shows, I think. For the second alarm, I'm using Nightwish - Song of Myself, more intense and stimulating. Works great. Getting up at 5 a.m. and never overslept with this scheme, so yep, works great, as I said.

Lowdz · « **Reply #6 on:** August 28, 2014, 04:23:15 PM »

Quote from: Dark Castle on August 28, 2014, 04:10:16 PM

I don't like using music as an alarm clock anymore. I don't like music I enjoy being associated with one of my least favorite moments. A blaring beeper works dandy

Yeah, I'd want to lay there and listen to the song and I'd fall asleep again. The beep it has to be.

If I did, something like Paradigm Shift was my first thought.

Accelerando · « **Reply #7 on:** August 28, 2014, 04:23:39 PM »

I Want You Back by The Jackson 5 has always gotten me up and in a good mood!

TioJorge · « **Reply #8 on:** August 28, 2014, 04:33:13 PM »

I've had the title opening to Ocarina of Time as my alarm for the longest time and it's amazing. Even if I'm hungover I'm all "Ahhh...what a beautifUUUGHHHHBLLUEUUUGGHHH"

FreezingPoint · « **Reply #9 on:** August 28, 2014, 04:40:32 PM »

Quote from: Dark Castle on August 28, 2014, 04:10:16 PM

I don't like using music as an alarm clock anymore. I don't like music I enjoy being associated with one of my least favorite moments. A blaring beeper works dandy

And then it turns into this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZbtAFq7dP8

King Postwhore · « **Reply #10 on:** August 28, 2014, 04:42:54 PM »

Quote from: Dark Castle on August 28, 2014, 04:10:16 PM

I don't like using music as an alarm clock anymore. I don't like music I enjoy being associated with one of my least favorite moments. A blaring beeper works dandy

You win the internet sir. Buy this man a drink.

Dark Castle · « **Reply #11 on:** August 28, 2014, 04:59:38 PM »

Quote from: kingshmegland on August 28, 2014, 04:42:54 PM

Quote from: Dark Castle on August 28, 2014, 04:10:16 PM
I don't like using music as an alarm clock anymore. I don't like music I enjoy being associated with one of my least favorite moments. A blaring beeper works dandy

You win the internet sir. Buy this man a drink.

Grabbed myself one

King Postwhore · « **Reply #12 on:** August 28, 2014, 05:05:02 PM »

Had a rough day at work today. just knocked down a Pumpkin ale. Cheers.

ZKX-2099 · « **Reply #13 on:** August 28, 2014, 05:06:46 PM »

I had a CD player with an alarm function when I was 14. I used WWF The Music, Volume 4 for a year straight.

I broke down the walls daily.

Outcrier · « **Reply #14 on:** August 28, 2014, 05:20:30 PM »

Right now, i'm using DJ Shadow - High Noon.

wolfking · « **Reply #15 on:** August 28, 2014, 05:24:29 PM »

I use to use All Guns Blazing by Judas Priest.

TheAtliator · « **Reply #16 on:** August 28, 2014, 05:34:11 PM »

I have it on anything random from my iPad. Includes the entire Dream Theater, Symphony X, and Rush discographies and most of Iron Maiden, a bunch of my original music, a bunch of ELP and Kansas, and all of Styx minus their few ballads.

Some mornings I wake up to "Tears" by Rush or "Far From Heaven" by DT, and some mornings it's "Inferno" by Symphony X or "Captain America" by Styx.

wolfking · « **Reply #17 on:** August 28, 2014, 05:36:33 PM »

Quote from: TheAtliator on August 28, 2014, 05:34:11 PM

I have it on anything random from my iPad. Includes the entire Dream Theater, Symphony X, and Rush discographies and most of Iron Maiden, a bunch of my original music, a bunch of ELP and Kansas, and all of Styx minus their few ballads.

Some mornings I wake up to "Tears" by Rush or "Far From Heaven" by DT, and some mornings it's "Inferno" by Symphony X or "Captain America" by Styx.

I like this, having it on random.

rumborak · « **Reply #18 on:** August 28, 2014, 05:53:19 PM »

As a software engineer, I don't set my alarm, ever. I show up in the office after I woke up and had breakfast, whenever that exactly is.

Xenon · « **Reply #19 on:** August 28, 2014, 05:57:48 PM »

I used to use In your face songs. But then I started to use The moor by opeth and realized that was the perfect alarm song. Because tue build up lasts like 2.30 mins. First of all those electric ambient guitars wake you up, then the acoustic guitars kick for you to not fall asleep again and finally drums and electric guitars for all. At that moment you are totally awake. the trick was trying to be up before Mikael's brutal growls (and trying to sing along with them)

Sadly my phone now reproduces only one minute of song

Zook · « **Reply #20 on:** August 28, 2014, 06:02:40 PM »

The beginning of Into Eternity's Timeless Winter is my alarm.

King Postwhore · « **Reply #21 on:** August 28, 2014, 06:11:39 PM »

Quote from: rumborak on August 28, 2014, 05:53:19 PM

As a software engineer, I don't set my alarm, ever. I show up in the office after I woke up and had breakfast, whenever that exactly is.

We all hate you too

Tom Bombadil · « **Reply #22 on:** August 28, 2014, 06:19:30 PM »

I thought they scientifically proved that people begin to hate whatever noise their alarm clocks make. I don't want to start hating my favorite songs so I leave it on beeps.

Jaq · « **Reply #23 on:** August 28, 2014, 06:24:46 PM »

I actually don't require an alarm, provided I set one. Because if I set an alarm, I will wake up five minutes before it goes off. Every time. Five minutes. On the nose. It's kind of uncanny.

GentlemanofDread · « **Reply #24 on:** August 28, 2014, 06:25:39 PM »

If I was going to have one, it would be Time by Pink Floyd.

Mosh · « **Reply #25 on:** August 28, 2014, 06:30:06 PM »

Painkiller always does the job. 6:00 is good sometimes too. I guess I like anything with a nice drum intro to get me going.

Dr. DTVT · « **Reply #26 on:** August 28, 2014, 08:22:52 PM »

For my first alarm I use "As I Lie Bleeding" by Evergrey.

Five minutes later "Telos" is my second alarm, as it tells me to wake up NOW.

Sacul · « **Reply #27 on:** August 28, 2014, 08:36:17 PM »

Anathema's Untouchable pt. 1 is perfect for weekends or days I don't want to leave bed soon. But, it the alarms was set early, I'd go with something badass like Universe in a Ball by Devin Townsend or Paradigm Shift.

Zyzzyva17 · « **Reply #28 on:** August 28, 2014, 08:40:24 PM »

Quote from: GentlemanofDread on August 28, 2014, 06:25:39 PM

If I was going to have one, it would be Time by Pink Floyd.

I see what you did there.

BlobVanDam · « **Reply #29 on:** August 28, 2014, 09:47:27 PM »

Quote from: Dark Castle on August 28, 2014, 04:10:16 PM

I don't like using music as an alarm clock anymore. I don't like music I enjoy being associated with one of my least favorite moments. A blaring beeper works dandy

I worried about the same thing, so I chose Metallica - Frantic as my alarm clock. I couldn't possibly think any less of the song, and it sure as hell gets you up in a hurry.

FRANTIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TOCK
FRANTIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TOCK
FRANTIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TOCK
FRANTIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TOCK

Xenon · « **Reply #30 on:** August 28, 2014, 10:44:16 PM »

Quote from: BlobVanDam on August 28, 2014, 09:47:27 PM

FRANTIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TOCK
FRANTIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TOCK
FRANTIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TOCK
FRANTIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TOCK

God, this is brilliant.

PolarizeMe · « **Reply #31 on:** August 28, 2014, 10:54:04 PM »

I've never used songs for an alarm clock but now this thread is convincing me to do so for the upcoming school year. It'd be anything intense sounding...like Bleed by Meshuggah. Now that I'm thinking about it, Converge's Fault in Fracture would make a good alarm also as Zantera already pointed out

TioJorge · « **Reply #32 on:** August 28, 2014, 10:54:31 PM »

Quote from: BlobVanDam on August 28, 2014, 09:47:27 PM

Quote from: Dark Castle on August 28, 2014, 04:10:16 PM
I don't like using music as an alarm clock anymore. I don't like music I enjoy being associated with one of my least favorite moments. A blaring beeper works dandy

I worried about the same thing, so I chose Metallica - Frantic as my alarm clock. I couldn't possibly think any less of the song, and it sure as hell gets you up in a hurry.

FRANTIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TOCK
FRANTIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TOCK
FRANTIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TOCK
FRANTIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TOCK

? · « **Reply #33 on:** August 29, 2014, 12:05:11 AM »

Quote from: Dark Castle on August 28, 2014, 04:10:16 PM

I don't like using music as an alarm clock anymore. I don't like music I enjoy being associated with one of my least favorite moments. A blaring beeper works dandy

This. I also can't use any good song as my ringtone.

Quote from: BlobVanDam on August 28, 2014, 09:47:27 PM

I worried about the same thing, so I chose Metallica - Frantic as my alarm clock. I couldn't possibly think any less of the song, and it sure as hell gets you up in a hurry.

FRANTIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TOCK
FRANTIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TOCK
FRANTIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TOCK
FRANTIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TOCK

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCwFCTQ9Q2Y

BlobVanDam · « **Reply #34 on:** August 29, 2014, 12:51:58 AM »

Quote from: ? on August 29, 2014, 12:05:11 AM

Quote from: BlobVanDam on August 28, 2014, 09:47:27 PM
I worried about the same thing, so I chose Metallica - Frantic as my alarm clock. I couldn't possibly think any less of the song, and it sure as hell gets you up in a hurry.

FRANTIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TOCK
FRANTIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TOCK
FRANTIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TOCK
FRANTIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TOCK
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCwFCTQ9Q2Y

I was expecting the edit of the music video that's nothing but that section repeated for like an hour.

I think it works better with the trashcans pounding in your ear too, rather than just the vocal track.

News: DreamTheaterForums is a place for people who just don't have the time for music anymore.

Author Topic: Using songs for alarm clocks (Read 2781 times)