# Songs to wake up to.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-wake-up-to/330268>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [November 9, 2005, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-wake-up-to/330268 "2005-11-09T20:26:47Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2005, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-wake-up-to/330268/41 "2005-11-11T18:55:52Z")

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To be awoken gently, the lovely _On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring_, by Delius.

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**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2005, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-wake-up-to/330268/42 "2005-11-11T19:38:47Z")

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I highly recommend John Cage’s [4’33"](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4%2733%22).

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**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2005, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-wake-up-to/330268/43 "2005-11-12T04:51:18Z")

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Wagner’s _The Ride of the Valkyries_, especially if you’ve seen _Apocalypse Now_.

For old school rap, **KRS-One** ’s _I Can’t Wake Up_ would be fun in a reversing kind of way.

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**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2005, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-wake-up-to/330268/44 "2005-11-12T04:58:45Z")

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I found the Fight Song of the Brunnen-G very effective.

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**Author:** ![Strinka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/strinka/32/512_2.png) [@Strinka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strinka)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2005, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-wake-up-to/330268/45 "2005-11-12T05:42:55Z")

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Anything by Phillip Glass.

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**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2005, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-wake-up-to/330268/46 "2005-11-12T05:50:12Z")

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I suppose it depends how quickly you need to get up.

How about Wagner’s \*Ride of the Valkyries \*?

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**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2005, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-wake-up-to/330268/47 "2005-11-12T13:26:51Z")

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I have a tape player alarm clock that I bought for the specific purpose of waking up to “Wake Up, it’s 1984” by Oingo Boingo. I haven’t been remembering to do that for awhile, but the song starts like this:

Wake up! Won’t you listen to me?  
Wake up! Won’t you listen to me?  
Wake up! Won’t you listen to me?  
Won’t you listen to me?  
WON’T YOU LISTEN TO ME???

Effective at getting me up and out of bed.

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