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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[–] 1 point 4 hours ago

My dad would always fall back on:

https://youtu.be/It7MrzMzMQ8

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  • [–] 1 point 4 hours ago

    Metallica - For Whom the Bell Tolls

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  • [–] 2 points 6 hours ago

    Reveille, the morning bugle call

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  • [–] 1 point 5 hours ago

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 hours ago

    Helix Nebula by Anamanaguchi

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  • [–] 1 point 6 hours ago

    Just two:

    Take five – Panzerballet

    @@@@@ – Arca

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  • [–] 2 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 hours ago

    Hear me out. We start low and slow with:

    Rainbow Brite - Brand New Day

    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:

    This Diabolical Mashup

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  • [–] 2 points 8 hours ago (1 child)

    The Humpty Dance - Digital Underground

    Twist - Korn

    Everybody (Backstreet's Back) - The Backstreet Boys

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  • [–] 2 points 8 hours ago

    Walking on broken glass by Annie Lennox.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 hours ago*

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 hours ago

    Anything by the Shaggs, it's possibly the worst music ever published and he'll probably jump out of bed to turn it off:

    https://youtu.be/XR9d4ESlpHY

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  • [–] 1 point 8 hours ago

    Hide a BT speaker on a shelve or something high up.
    Then blast the everliving volume of any song out of it :)

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  • [–] 1 point 9 hours ago

    If you want to wake them up, anything you can play with a bugle.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 hours ago (1 child)

    Come to daddy - Aphex twin Godhood - Humanity's last breath Bleed - Meshuggah

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  • [–] 3 points 13 hours ago

    Chop suey

    Alternatively

    Your new morning alarm by Mark Rebillet

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  • [–] 4 points 15 hours ago* (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 2 points 12 hours ago*

    Cum on Feel the Noize - Slade

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78ezU7x3jfE

    What what in the butt - Samwell

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbGkxcY7YFU

    my bet is they be up by the time #3 is on.

    I've been everywhere man - The Beggars (Aussie edition)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20oqyMVbss0

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  • [–] 2 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

    Killing in the name of - Rage Against the Machine

    Been suggested before. Instead, try this:

    2Cellos - The Trooper

    Fuel - Metallica

    Carraspana - Peste e Sida

    The last one is from a portuguese punk band. The way the singer opens the song never fails to open a couple of eyes.

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  • [–] 1 point 12 hours ago

    Frankentek - Is Too Soft

    no 2nd or 3rd song needed :3

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  • [–] 2 points 15 hours ago (1 child)

    1: Good Morning Vietnam monologue. 2: Whatever march music you find appropriate. I'd recommend the March of the Red Cavalry. 3: Dead Kennedys: Kill The Poor.

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  • [–] 3 points 18 hours ago

    Good morning sunshine by the narcissist cookbook

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  • [–] 5 points 20 hours ago
    • MELT-BANANA - The Hive
    • Anna Meredith - Nautilus
    • Aphex Twin - Come To Daddy

    If they're not enough for your child to choose an alarm instead, I don't know what is.

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    [–] 5 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

    Marc rebillet good morning wake up

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  • [–] 2 points 17 hours ago*

    One - creed

    Detachable penis - king missle

    Everybody shooters too - 42 dugg

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  • [–] 3 points 19 hours ago*

    It's opinionated, but anyway here's my list lol

    Toots & the Maytals - Broadway Jungle then The Toasters - I'm Running Right Through The World and finally Reel Big Fish - She Has a Girlfriend Now

    Your teenager will feel like new

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  • [–] 1 point 15 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

    Substance by Haste the Day.

    This used to be my alarm clock, the abrupt opening is very jarring, in a good way for waking up.

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