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General => General Music Discussion => Topic started by: Zyzzyva17 on August 28, 2014, 04:04:03 PM
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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.
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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. :D
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If I set my alarm clock to a song it'd be this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckRCH4ZKUCE
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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 :lol
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At the moment this (https://clyp.it/0iowofrh). Works like a charm! :laugh:
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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. :D
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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 :lol
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.
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I Want You Back by The Jackson 5 has always gotten me up and in a good mood!
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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"
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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 :lol
And then it turns into this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZbtAFq7dP8
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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 :lol
You win the internet sir. Buy this man a drink.
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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 :lol
You win the internet sir. Buy this man a drink.
Grabbed myself one :hat
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:metal
Had a rough day at work today. just knocked down a Pumpkin ale. Cheers.
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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. :metal
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Right now, i'm using DJ Shadow - High Noon. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUNq9XKIRTE)
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I use to use All Guns Blazing by Judas Priest.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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) :rollin
Sadly my phone now reproduces only one minute of song :'(
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The beginning of Into Eternity's Timeless Winter is my alarm.
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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
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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.
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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.
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If I was going to have one, it would be Time by Pink Floyd.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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If I was going to have one, it would be Time by Pink Floyd.
I see what you did there.
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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 :lol
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. :lol
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
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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.
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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 :lol
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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 :lol
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. :lol
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
:rollin :rollin
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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 :lol
This. I also can't use any good song as my ringtone. :D
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. :lol
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
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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. :lol
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. :lol I think it works better with the trashcans pounding in your ear too, rather than just the vocal track.
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Devin Townsend Project - Lucky Animals is absolutely fantastic for making sure I get the hell out of bed.
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Yeah I don't like to use songs as an alarm, because I'd just end up hating them. Same for ringtones to be honest, I'm not sure why cos I actually don't hate it when people call me :lol But it happens all the same and that's why I just use the regular ringtones my phone has.
But I really think Frantic would work in the mornings :rollin
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I used to have Ghost of Perdition. Scared the cat so much he refused to sleep in my bed after that. :lol
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I used to do this with no particular song structure but after a time a realized I started hating the songs I used because well, they were waking me up and I hate being waken up. I tried using songs I didn't like that much but I woke up in a bad mood.
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The Spirit Of Radio does the trick for me when I need music.
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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. :lol
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
I was actually just thinking randomly yesterday about how Frantic is the one song from St. Anger that I thought I liked. That prompted me to listen to it and realize that even it actually isn't that good.
On topic: I used 6:00 for a while because I had to get up at 6:00 and I thought that was funny or something. Now I think most of my alarms are still set for it, but I get up before my alarm now because my roommate always has earlier classes than I do. If I was using alarms again in the future I'd probably still use 6:00, but I don't know for sure. I might switch it up to something more positive or something.
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I used to have Ghost of Perdition. Scared the cat so much he refused to sleep in my bed after that. :lol
I listened to Opeth at max volume one night, and when the CD finished I forgot to turn the volume down before I went to bed. I used my CD player as alarm clock at the time, it just started to play the first track of whatever disc that was in there. Now, I slept through the nice little intro of Ghost of Perdition, but when Mikael Åkerfeldt started screaming GHOST OF!!! MOTHER!!!! at 6 a.m. I woke up rather fast...
Not recommended. :lol:
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I used to have Ghost of Perdition. Scared the cat so much he refused to sleep in my bed after that. :lol
I listened to Opeth at max volume one night, and when the CD finished I forgot to turn the volume down before I went to bed. I used my CD player as alarm clock at the time, it just started to play the first track of whatever disc that was in there. Now, I slept through the nice little intro of Ghost of Perdition, but when Mikael Åkerfeldt started screaming GHOST OF!!! MOTHER!!!! at 6 a.m. I woke up rather fast...
Not recommended. :lol:
Hahaha I can imagine this so well :rollin :rollin
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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. :lol
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
I was actually just thinking randomly yesterday about how Frantic is the one song from St. Anger that I thought I liked. That prompted me to listen to it and realize that even it actually isn't that good.
MY EAT STYLE
DETERMINES MY POOP STYLE
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Often times, on days where I need to get up at a certain time, I use Alter Bridge's Rise Today. Good chorus to wake up to.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvBfHwUxHIk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvBfHwUxHIk)
Sounds just as much like a grating alarm beep. There's the perfect incentive to get out of bed.