# Best song to wake up to in the morning **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 15, 2002, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-to-wake-up-to-in-the-morning/142821 "2002-12-15T01:18:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Dignan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f07891/32.png) [@Dignan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dignan)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2002, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-to-wake-up-to-in-the-morning/142821/1 "2002-12-15T01:18:23Z")
When your alarm goes off in the morning, assuming you don’t go with the _beep_beep_beep_beep\* buzzer, what song is the best to wake up to? Personally I want something that’s relaxing and easy on the ears. The two that I heard this week (so by default they are my choices) were Ricky Nelson’s song about going to a garden party, and John Lennon’s _Imagine_. Neither of them are loud or blasting like The Who or Led Zeppelin, not that I don’t like those bands, I just don’t want to wake up to them. What do you want on that radio when you wake up in the morning? ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2002, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-to-wake-up-to-in-the-morning/142821/2 "2002-12-15T01:46:40Z")
“WAKE YOUR MIND UP, CLEAR YOUR EYES UP, MOVE AND RISE UP, BEFORE YOUR TIME’S UP!!!” -311 ---
**Author:** ![Swinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8c91f0/32.png) [@Swinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swinger)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2002, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-to-wake-up-to-in-the-morning/142821/3 "2002-12-15T02:15:40Z")
Wake Up, by Rage Against the Machine. Ideally, the part near the end where Zach screams WAAAAKE UUUP at the top of his lungs over and over again. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Global\_Citizen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/46a35a/32.png) [@Global\_Citizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Global_Citizen)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2002, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-to-wake-up-to-in-the-morning/142821/4 "2002-12-15T02:29:03Z")
It’s not really a song, but… When I lived in Tokyo I would sometimes turn on the radio right after my alarm clock went off. I would listen to the beginning of the (then) Far East Network morning show. It was hosted by a Marine sargeant and she would always play this clip from some old movie, where the characters are shouting “GOOD MORNING!!!” to each other. Inbetween these bursts of solicitation the sargeant would urge the listener to “tap dance” to the fridge, get the milk, tap dance to the table and sit and eat some cereal. It sounds strange, but it got stuck in my head every day and I still remember it. Global Citizen ---
**Author:** ![njufoic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/278dde/32.png) [@njufoic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njufoic)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2002, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-to-wake-up-to-in-the-morning/142821/5 "2002-12-15T02:32:39Z")
When I was in high school, I used to load up my alarm with my brother’s Everclear CD, which started out with “So Much For the Afterglow.” That was a pretty good song to wake up to, because is starts out with this quiet choral thing and then gets louder, so it sort of wakes you up gradually. These days I just go for the infamous “Beep-beep-beep” alarm. I’ve slept through one too many CDs. -Andrew L ---
**Author:** ![Odeon\_Bypass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Odeon\_Bypass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odeon_Bypass)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2002, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-to-wake-up-to-in-the-morning/142821/6 "2002-12-15T04:21:38Z")
Ravel’s “Bolero”. Starts off quiet, gets progressively louder. Okay, in actuality, the song is so damn boring until the end, I usually turn it off and get up when I can’t stand it anymore. ---
**Author:** ![don\_nardo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@don\_nardo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_nardo)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2002, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-to-wake-up-to-in-the-morning/142821/7 "2002-12-15T04:28:18Z")
Man, for me, it is Chuck Berry. " Wup in the mornin/and off to school… the teacher keeps teachin the Golden Rule…" Can’t beat it. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Carter_of_Mars)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2002, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-to-wake-up-to-in-the-morning/142821/8 "2002-12-15T04:40:38Z")
Mine’s set to play James Brown’s “I Feel Good”. That gets everything movin’! Chuck Berry could get this done too, as **don nardo** pointed out. ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2002, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-to-wake-up-to-in-the-morning/142821/9 "2002-12-15T06:05:51Z")
Closer to the Heart by Rush. Yeah, right. Like they ever play THAT on the radio anymore. ---
**Author:** ![SonOfArizona](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SonOfArizona](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SonOfArizona)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2002, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-to-wake-up-to-in-the-morning/142821/10 "2002-12-15T14:12:49Z")
Filter - Take a Picture This song is the best song to wake up to, period. The beat sounds like something from a coffee commercial, it gradually gets harder as the song goes along, and the lyrics are related with waking up. "awake on my airplane awake on my airplane my skin is bare my skin is theirs awake on my airplane awake on my airplane my skin is bare my skin is theirs I feel like newborn and I feel like a newborn awake on my airplane awake on my airplane I feel so real…" ---
**Author:** ![MSU\_1978](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac8455/32.png) [@MSU\_1978](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MSU_1978)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2002, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-to-wake-up-to-in-the-morning/142821/11 "2002-12-15T14:34:28Z")
Sonny and Cher’s “I Got You Babe” on Groundhog Day. ---
**Author:** ![whistlepig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/73ab20/32.png) [@whistlepig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whistlepig)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2002, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-to-wake-up-to-in-the-morning/142821/12 "2002-12-15T20:43:19Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Odeon Bypass \* > \*\*Ravel’s “Bolero”. Starts off quiet, gets progressively louder. > \*\* I don’t even rember the scene, but I do remember this song in the movie “10”. I hear “Bolero” and I think of Bo Derek nude. [Beavis] “Sometimes I get morning wood, and it isn’t even morning.” [Beavis] ---
**Author:** ![IThinkNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ce73a5/32.png) [@IThinkNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IThinkNot)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2002, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-to-wake-up-to-in-the-morning/142821/13 "2002-12-15T21:23:38Z")
I second Rage Against the Machine, “Wake Up”, just for the irony. But I think the best waking-up song would have to be “Day by Day”, by Badmarsh and Shri. I so love that song. It’s just a beautiful, beautiful song. Check out Track 7 on the “CSI” soundtrack. ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Tan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/charlie_tan/32/12582_2.png) [@Charlie\_Tan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Tan)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2002, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-to-wake-up-to-in-the-morning/142821/14 "2002-12-15T22:37:27Z")
I’m a big softie so… **Here comes the sun** ---
**Author:** ![KidCharlemagne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@KidCharlemagne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KidCharlemagne)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-to-wake-up-to-in-the-morning/142821/15 "2002-12-16T14:32:01Z")
“Overture” from Tommy ---
**Author:** ![Llama\_Llogophile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@Llama\_Llogophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Llama_Llogophile)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-to-wake-up-to-in-the-morning/142821/16 "2002-12-16T16:59:13Z")
I have a collection of mini-CD’s that I burn two or three songs on to, and rotate them periodically. Right now we’re on “Surfer Girl” by the Beach Boys. Some of my others: Blackbird - The Beatles Zombie Jamboree - Rockapella Here Comes the Sun - The Beatles Come Sail Away - Styx Jump in the Line - Harry Belafonte Sometimes I worry about doing this with songs I like. It feels like I might turn against them because they wake me up in the morning. ---
**Author:** ![LolaCocaCola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7cd45c/32.png) [@LolaCocaCola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LolaCocaCola)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-to-wake-up-to-in-the-morning/142821/17 "2002-12-16T17:05:16Z")
AC/DC - It’s a long way No need for coffee after that! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-to-wake-up-to-in-the-morning/142821/18 "2002-12-16T17:06:21Z")
**OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO… OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO… OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO… OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO… OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO… OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOklahoma!** I’m in the O K C, you see… ---
**Author:** ![roadrunner70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19b73/32.png) [@roadrunner70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roadrunner70)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-to-wake-up-to-in-the-morning/142821/19 "2002-12-16T17:13:26Z")
Blink 182 It’d be nice, to get a blow-job It’d be nice, to get a blow job It’d be nice, to get a blow job The tricky part is hitting the alarm off button before the last line. From your Mom. ---
**Author:** ![heresiarch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/278dde/32.png) [@heresiarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/heresiarch)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-to-wake-up-to-in-the-morning/142821/20 "2002-12-16T17:20:25Z")
Sonny and Cher’s “I Got You Babe” on Groundhog Day. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-to-wake-up-to-in-the-morning/142821.md?page=2)