No. I have to make it the loudest, most unpleasant sound I can find otherwise it does not work.

Vanessa Carlton’s “A thousand miles”, mostly for the piano part at the beginning.

Guiles’ theme gets the blood coarsing straight away

Luke Skywalker’s theme from Star Wars: A New Hope.

Nine Inch Nails - The Frail

A++ would wake up again

We actually use a 90s clock radio that has a “radio alarm” feature! So we get whatever the radio station we last used is playing. It’s nice.

– Frost

I used to, but it kinda ruined the song lmao. Everytime I heard it after that I felt alerted

I have created a perfect loop of “Picture this / I’m a bag of dicks / put me your lips” from the intro of Run The Jewels & DJ Shadow’s “Nobody Speak”

“Rise and shine, Mr. Freeman. Rise and shine. Not that I wish to imply you have been sleeping on the job. No one is more deserving of a rest. And all the effort in the world would have gone to waste until… well, let’s just say your hour has come again. The right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world. So, wake up, Mr. Freeman. Wake up and smell the ashes.”

That followed by ‘marc rebillet - wake up’

https://youtu.be/iNmGzWe5jC8

The game is to get up and turn it off before the bass can kick in and wake the neighbours.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nkx1hWs88Ek

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnFv-vlroPw

I have others for other alarms. I set multiple so that I can gauge on who I want to be for the day.

sometimes I want to be Donnie Azoff, most the time I want to be almost unemployed.

Brennan Hart and The Prophet

The Sir Digby Chicken Caesar song

The To These Gods You Cannot Pray monologue from Hellblade

And if you really need to wake up, this sound effect can be very effective

I wake up to this beautiful Spanish Anarchist song

Tbh the vibration motor in modern smart phones has been an absolute game changer, the sound doesn’t really matter as long as it’s a softer sound that still is an alarm. But even semi decent vibration motors in phones are leaps and bounds better than the best of early android phones, it’s like someone is tapping me through the mattress, I wake right up.

https://youtu.be/uLeAot4Zrxo?diOr49wL77tdZ1_h

Got to start the day with a smile or screams…