Do you use a song for your alarm clock?

Seems like I'd condition myself to hate that song.

That's exactly what happens lol
Yup. I tried it because it sounded like a pleasant way to wake up. Instead I just started hating some of my favorite songs.
This.
Now I just have a generic alarm signal because I would like to keep enjoying the music I like
When I was in my teens I used Babe I'm Gonna Leave You, by Led Zeppelin as my alarm, over 15 years later and I can't help but feel like I'm being yanked out of dead sleep every time I hear it.
The correct way is to use a song you already hate...
- But why would I want to make waking up even more horrible by playing a song I hate? I don't think there is a way for the songs to win

Right now I use a mix of these two:

+1 for Marc Rebillet

Yeah, I use The Ecstacy of Gold from The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. It starts quietly and peacefully so doesn't startle me but builds to a crescendo which guarantees my awake attention.

This is an amazing choice. I just changed all my alarms.

Vanessa Carlton's "A thousand miles", mostly for the piano part at the beginning.

Not to mention it’s an absolute banger

I use Your New Morning Alarm by Marc Rebillet

HT: theme from Trigun

austin powers theme.

That's a pretty groovy tune

Concerning Hobbits. I picked it to try to set the tone for the day, and it usually works. I'm not a morning person so this is about as good as I can get.

I use the radio, so that I don't get conditioned to hate one specific song, but still have something more pleasant than an alarm tone (which I'd also grow to hate)

No

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

"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’

“Just Us” by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross

Nine Inch Nails - The Frail

A++ would wake up again

My body is now cursed, so 99% I wake up before my alarm.

I use FM radio for a random song or ad to wake me up. It's the only time I hear the radio on purpose.

I had devil dogs by sabaton as my alarm for a while because all the instruments come in at once and it would jolt me awake.

Blah Blah Cafe - Jean Michel Jarre

Yep, this one.

not currently but in the past I used jethro tulls solstice bells and kelpie.

No, right now I'm using the Star Trek TOS bosun's whistle.

I wake up to this beautiful Spanish Anarchist song

Viva la Quinta Brigada

Caramelldansen, the Caramella Girls version.

I use the middle chorus from Gloryhammer's Masters of the Galaxy, and it's worked really well for a while. But I'm thinking of changing it to the opening of Powerman 5000's Bombshell

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”

I have a Garmin fitness watch that only vibrates to wake me up. It’s mildly annoying since it is not as gentle as my old Apple Watch from many years ago. The Apple Watch’s vibration alarm felt like a finger gently tapping my wrist. It was a nice way to gently wake up without disturbing my partner. My Garmin watch vibrates entirely on the lowest setting. I can also hear it audibly vibrate, too.

Edit: fixed typos from mobile keyboard typing

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've done something similar, but I use home assistant to gradually increase the volume of the radio over the course of 10 minutes.
“Then put your little hand in mine, there ain’t no hill or mountain we can’t climb…babe…”

Monody by TheFatRat

I love his work especially with Laura Brehm and this one specifically has a nice slow build without any vocals for a while which I find more pleasant to wake up to.

Just changed it recently to Init by NIN (Tron Ares soundtrack). YouTube

This soundtrack kicks so much ass on its own that I almost don’t want to watch the movie and understand the context
- I will tell you that the soundtrack alone tells a story without a doubt, having listened to it at least a hundred times on repeat. After seeing the movie, all the pieces fit perfectly.
  I know others are complaining about the movie and maybe that is dissuading you, but fuck 'em. I don't pay much mind to others opinions because most people like to play follow the leader and not think for themselves. It's a great movie and I'm going to see it again before it leaves theaters.

I've learned to use a shuffled playlist to wake up. Different song each day, but pulled from my liked songs.

Now if I can just figure out how to make that happen with Home Assistant instead of Google's bullshit assistant.

Yes, I use Teh Internets from the Super Meat Boy soundtrack.

For the first alarm, I use the default iPhone setting. For the second emergency alarm, I use Entombment of a Machine by Job For A Cowboy. I already wore that song out the better part of 20 years ago and it's guaranteed to wake you up every time

City of the dead by The Rasmus.

Nope. I still have From LA to New York etched into my brain in bile and loathing from it playing on a cheap crappy clock-radio alarm I had when it was first released in '76 or whenever. Actually waking up to that song probably only happened a couple of times, but it was enough. I found that I preferred the brain-piercing built in alarm to having any other songs or drivelling DJs hypnogogically imprinting themselves.

These days I have either birdsong or Tibetan chimes instead.

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

Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien by Edith Piaf, for reasons (yt)

My alarm for the longest time was Saku by DIR EN GREY

In the Shadow or the Valley from New Vegas. Try it. You will enjoy.

The office intro

I used to use the beginning of clutch's psychic warfare. The first track is some low murdering, and then it comes in hard with X-ray visions. Always woke me right up.

I also used slothrust's "like a child hiding behind your tombstone" for a while. That also starts a little quiet and then ramps up. Never hated the song, somehow. https://slothrust.bandcamp.com/track/like-a-child-hiding-behind-your-tombstone

Now I just have one of the default alarms and I kind of hate it.

been tryin'

to MEET you

mmm-mm-mm-mm

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.

I use sleep as android and have it set to pull from a web radio. My brain used to tune out any song/ringtone I set for an alarm in about a week. No longer an issue when it's always a different track.

https://youtu.be/iNmGzWe5jC8

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

I don't, but if I did:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eN6jkWxxm2Y

No, my alarm simultaneously vibrates on my wrist and plays jungle birdsong sounds, gradually increasing in volume, which is a really nice way to wake up.

I usually change mine once a year. Currently I have Coffe by supersister

I have a rotation of instrumental ambient playlists like Medieval Ambient and Dungeon Ambient. We're so used to them, it's strange not to have them when we're on vacation.

A demo track mikey303 did for the M8 Tracker

https://youtu.be/vjGeywcinCA

If it can be called a song...
Discord Rare mix

Same as my ringtone.
Makes sure I wake up (lol)

Shared Loneliness by Mindthings

The most grating annoying song that I can find at the time. This one is my current alarm tone
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=I-djgdra6Fs
I wake up angry and am scrambling to switch it off as quickly as possible but even when I do I cant go back to sleep again out of sheer annoyance of having that be the first thing I had to hear waking up.

I used to use First of tha Month by Bone Thugs N’ Harmony

Underground 80s radio

I have the Spongebob outro track as my alarm.

my alarm is home-assistant with music-assistant and it just plays the collection of my fave'd songs on full blast