If you use a song for your alarm clock, which one is it?

Ventrue said:
Johann Sebastian Bach - Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565
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I made that my phone's ringtone for a while knowing damn well that I would condition myself to be terrified of that piece. I thought it would be funny, it kind of was.
 
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Steve Martin Short said:
I still use a clock radio, because I like to be able to see what time it is if I wake up in the middle of the night without having to reach over and fiddle with my phone. It's set to the local oldies station, which works well for me.
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Given the state of radio these days, I'm sure that means you hear the exact same song at the exact same time at least three times a week.
 
The Connected Nose said:
Given the state of radio these days, I'm sure that means you hear the exact same song at the exact same time at least three times a week.
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It's not an appendage of some corporate monstrosity, but rather a low-powered revival of a local top-40 station that aired from 1959 to 1976. And they play songs from that entire era, not just the top 5 from any given year. Lots of b-sides and deep cuts, and performers who have been long forgotten elsewhere. And once an hour they offer up a "Forgotten oldie", some novelty song or something that for some reason or another didn't quite stand the test of time. Guess when I have my alarm set?
 
This has been my alarm for the last year and it will probably remain that way for a very long time because it's a banger.
 
It used to be
Now it’s a cat thinking she’s entitled to food at 6 AM.
 
Have to pick something that doesn't immediately irritate me when I wake up. If I ran an early morning radio show, I'd use one of these as my intro song.


 
When I was a youngster I had this as my alarm song. It completely ruined the concept for me but definitely woke my ass up.
 
I used to use "Face Melter" by Death Grips as my alarm until my now wife told me to stop. It sounds, to me, like a dial up signal fed through a meat grinder, which worked very well at the time.
 
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Imo the best alarm songs start slow and build and aren’t too jarring so I can wake up gently, so to speak. Of course a lot of people need a freight train to wake them up, I don’t really have that problem. I’ve used this song for years as my alarm and don’t hate it yet.
 
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