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Give me your best 3 song playlist for waking up my teenager for school. (lemmy.world)

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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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[–] Hr24@aussie.zone 1 points 1 day ago

Chord Organ Blues - Daniel Johnston

Sound of Da Police - KRS-One

Frank - Bongwater

Originally I was thinking I've Got Drugs by The Frogs to open, but it may not be suitable for your teenager.

https://youtu.be/PS2mCuX1zeM

https://youtu.be/9ZrAYxWPN6c

https://youtu.be/MwhzJfNCSdE

[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 72 points 4 days ago (1 children)

`WAKE UP`

^wake^ ^up^

Grab a bush and put a little makeup

[–] grranibal@lemmy.zip 27 points 4 days ago

Chop Suey! - System of a Down

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

[–] CrazyLikeGollum@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The Humpty Dance - Digital Underground

Twist - Korn

Everybody (Backstreet's Back) - The Backstreet Boys

[–] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Twist is such a jam, great choice.

[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 13 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

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[–] Sybilvane@lemmy.ca 13 points 3 days 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.

[–] normalentrance@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

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

[–] mudstickmcgee@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago

Came to make sure this was posted. Has gotten me out of bed for the last 3 years.

[–] NihilsineNefas@slrpnk.net 2 points 3 days ago

GTF out of bed B go

[–] NihilsineNefas@slrpnk.net 4 points 3 days ago

Chop suey

Alternatively

Your new morning alarm by Mark Rebillet

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 42 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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

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[–] Slayan@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Marc rebillet good morning wake up

[–] GrayBackgroundMusic@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 days ago

Link to it https://youtu.be/enYdAxVcNZA

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[–] lena@gregtech.eu 2 points 2 days ago

Metallica - For Whom the Bell Tolls

[–] Simon_Shitewood@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 days 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.

[–] Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 4 days ago

Nyan cat 24 hour loop

[–] pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago

Reveille, the morning bugle call

[–] RBWells@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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

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.

[–] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days 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

[–] Eyedust@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days 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

[–] boaratio@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Walking on broken glass by Annie Lennox.

[–] Pat@feddit.nu 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

What about Hell March from Red Alert 2?

[–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Wake up bitch, get up

https://youtu.be/Tz2tD8Hzb7o

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

As a live cover. With the robe.

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[–] Ciryamo@feddit.org 21 points 4 days ago (1 children)

YOUR NEW MORNING ALARM

This is actually my alarm sound

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[–] helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days 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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[–] Somsphet@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 days ago

Good morning sunshine by the narcissist cookbook

[–] AndyMFK@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

I remember the first time I heard Come to Daddy was on cky2k, and the ong blew me away. At that time I'm listening to basically pop punk, and then this song knocks my socks off.