# Song Suggestions for Alarm Clock **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 27, 2013, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-suggestions-for-alarm-clock/667309 "2013-08-27T15:43:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2013, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-suggestions-for-alarm-clock/667309/41 "2013-08-28T12:38:43Z")
Monday to Friday: [Johnny Paycheck - Take This Job and Shove It](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzGoDtmTllg) ---
**Author:** ![CorneaGenii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@CorneaGenii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CorneaGenii)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2013, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-suggestions-for-alarm-clock/667309/42 "2013-08-28T16:32:44Z")
[Carry On, Wayward Son](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2X_2IdybTV0) by Kansas is what I have as my wake up alarm on my cell. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2013, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-suggestions-for-alarm-clock/667309/43 "2013-08-28T16:49:55Z")
[Puberty Love](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsxwwhJ6GrY) ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2013, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-suggestions-for-alarm-clock/667309/44 "2013-08-28T16:53:53Z")
[Wake Up](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oiyn0_m2LZQ) by XTC [Wake Up Boo](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHwnXudBcfY) by the Boo Radleys > [@panache45](#): > > But how about a rip-roarin’ [Sousa march](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5bcpjUjLpU)? I dunno—I think it would lend a surreal air to my day to start it with Sousa’s [Liberty Bell March](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vL6ton0Dbz4). ---
**Author:** ![standingwave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@standingwave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/standingwave)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2013, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-suggestions-for-alarm-clock/667309/45 "2013-08-28T17:03:28Z")
[This](http://youtu.be/hMPM0-k40G8) at full volume, preferably with headphones. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2013, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-suggestions-for-alarm-clock/667309/46 "2013-08-28T17:18:46Z")
The song, [Good Morning](http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=good+morning+song+singing+in+the+rain&mid=78C47E63F1A998FE41E978C47E63F1A998FE41E9&view=detail&FORM=VIRE1) - from Singing In the Rain. When I was teaching in Switzerland, one of the teachers had a beginners class of young kids and was teaching them that song…I heard it every morning. Then, on the last day of summer school, and knowing that song was driving me nuts, she had her entire class come to my office and sing it to me at the top of their lungs at 8:30 AM. She got a perverted glee from that, knowing I was going to kill her later, but I had to smile and congratulate the kids for their swell performance… ---
**Author:** ![Lukeinva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lukeinva/32/17872_2.png) [@Lukeinva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lukeinva)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2013, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-suggestions-for-alarm-clock/667309/47 "2013-08-28T18:15:45Z")
Some years ago my clock radio was set to go off at 7:20 at which time the radio station always seemed to be playing “She Works Hard for the Money.” So… don’t go with that. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-suggestions-for-alarm-clock/667309.md?page=2)