[XXhalberstramXX]

For sheer shock, i'd go for Mahler's 1st symphony, movement 4. if you've heard it, you know what i mean.

A more appropriate and calm wakeup might be the prelude to "Das Rheingold" by Wagner, or even Ride of the Valkeries (from "Die Walküre" 3rd act?).

Or if you need some energy, "Arise Ye Russian People" from Prokofiev's Alexander Nevesky would be perfect. makes you want to run out and kill Germans (if you've seen the movie that is).

 

[eric343]

For personal use, I do the first track on Engie's Choice 2, the audiophile's all-purpose recording... (it's the 1812 overture, but starts slowly and builds up, so you can get up quickly if you slept well or it will throw you out of bed if you're refusing to get up...)

 

[pigmode]

I was working on another island and staying with friends who had the TV configured as an alarm clock. For about two weeks straight I was awakened at 4:00am to the blaring sound of Natalie Merchant singing Wonder on VH1. It became addicting...

 

[Audio-Me]

Waking up to the sound of your dog... Beautiful it is.

 

[sideswiped]

hehe 'here comes the sun' -Beatles ?

 

[legoman]

Dar Williams - Better Things

Energizing (and annoying enough at the end to make you get up)

 

[shaunybaby]

''DND'' -- Semisonic
 
well maybe not a song to wake happy campers up to but i love to wake up to it.

 

[tOukooo]

I like to wake up to relaxing songs, these are what i use:
deadmau5 - Strobe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCpfVPY4J6I
Xzibit - Paparazzi (instrumental) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3c3aroYhR_Q
Bonobo - Kiara http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ5p-3CmkBg

 

[shaunybaby]

I really should move my setup back to my bedroom so i can go to sleep with them on and wake up and put em on as well would be very nice!

i have to argree tOukooo waking up to a relax song can start the day of well and the rest will follow in tune with that song. :

 

[Borgbox]

Deadmau5 - Waking up from the American Dream 
Four Tet - Angel echoes
Shpongle - Nothing is Something Worth Doing
Four Tet - She moves she
Four Tet - my angel rocks Back and Forth
Above and Beyond - Good for Me
Kaskade - Seeing Julie
Kaskade - 4am
Gorillaz -  Hong Kong
Daft Punk - Voyager
Daft Punk - Veridis Quo
 
and Pink Floyd - Time because my dad used to put it on every morning before school.
 
A few of my favorite wake up songs.
 
 

 

[Happy Camper]

The birds singing in the woods.

 

[shaunybaby]

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The birds singing in the woods.

I don,t know how many of you might of done this but once....

i had been up all night reading these forums and listening to music and i look at the time and it was 5 in the morning and i had work at 10, so i quickly went to bed and then got a headache and the birds had started singing and all i could think was ''please stop, just stop, just stopppppppppppppp!!!'' hrmmmmm i should of gone to sleep, but yeah bird song is good to wake up not to try to go to sleep.

oh yeah since we are on the subject..... my favourite song to drift off to sleep is ''Jet Lag'' -- Frank Turner , such a good song and the piano is just great!!!