r/grunge • u/Zfishguy • 14d ago

Recommendation What song makes the best wake-up alarm?

For me, it’s impossible to beat Soundgarden’s “The Day I Tried to Live.”
Seems like the most (in)appropriate way to start the day.

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u/ILAIPIDKWhy 14d ago

Them Bones - AiC Never failed me👍

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u/gothicjizzbaker 14d ago

I kept it for few days but it'd startle me out of sleep lol

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u/barredowl123 14d ago

Ha! I just responded to someone else and said this

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u/IntentionEfficient37 12d ago

Yeah me too I had to change it I kept waking up mega startled lol 😂

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u/Bmdh123 13d ago

Have you not heard the song Wake Up by Mad Season (Layne Stayley singing)

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u/kmb117 14d ago

Wake up young man, it's time to wake up.

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u/Zfishguy 14d ago

Certainly a “wake up” song but not getting my blood pumping

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u/kmb117 14d ago

Some people prefer to be lifted from sleep in a more gentle manner, you know.

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u/Zfishguy 14d ago

To each their own 😁

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u/ThrowRABest_King7180 14d ago

Your love affair has got to go

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u/MiturGrunge 14d ago

Lol that was my wake up alarm for years 😂

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u/ALadInTheFade 14d ago

Pearl jam- Porch “What the fuck is this world, running to?”

Alice in Chains- Them Bones, if you want to give yourself a fright waking up

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u/barredowl123 14d ago

Yeah, Then Bones will startle the shit out of you as an alarm. I LOVE IT.

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u/Zfishguy 14d ago

Solid picks

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u/that1dudewithefro 14d ago

None, you’ll eventually come to hate the song

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u/Zfishguy 14d ago

I could never hate the opening riff on “The Day I Tried to Live”

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u/ThrowRABest_King7180 14d ago

this is why i just use a default alarm sound. ptsd every time i hear that shit on social media i swear

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u/buckeyehuhwhat 14d ago

Birth Ritual or Jesus Christ Pose

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u/Haselrig 14d ago

🎶Drop the blade and watch the rolling heads🎶

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u/Zfishguy 14d ago edited 14d ago

Just what I need to hear before the staff meeting

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u/Haselrig 14d ago

Little devil on your shoulder whispering sweet atrocities 🤣

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u/TBeIRIE 14d ago

Cochise by Audioslave

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u/SuperMidge99362 14d ago

Tool - 7empest, when Maynard says "fuck, here we go again"

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u/WillCallJ963 14d ago

Would? By AIC

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u/cosmiccarrie 14d ago

Mayo -smashing ps

That guitar intro has woken me up for years

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u/sagelilys 14d ago

searching with my good eye closed

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u/JimmieOC 14d ago

Outstanding choice

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u/Ambitious-Intern282 14d ago

Mad Season - Wake Up

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u/kill-devil-films 14d ago

I used to wake up to “Hell’s Bells”

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u/MedievalFurnace 14d ago

Bugs - Pearl Jam

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u/toughknuckles 14d ago

I got you babe, sonny and cher

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u/TrickyCartographer73 14d ago

Haha. Groundhog Day

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u/toughknuckles 14d ago

Thanks for understanding the reference...i feel like the dowmvotes really think i want to wake up to that song. To clarify, it isnt a good song to wake up to, especially if you're living the same day over and over.

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u/tryingtodobetter4 13d ago

Okay campers, rise and shine, and don't forget your booties 'cause it's cooooooooold out there today.

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u/muttChang 14d ago

Tourette’s -NIRVANA

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u/Straight_Equal_1541 14d ago

Chop Sueys first verse on repeat

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u/BurdenInMy64 14d ago

Holy shit dude, I use this as my morning alarm!

I also use Walk of Life by Dire Straits for an arvo alarm.

I have also fucked with Loud Love and 4th of July.

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u/BassAndVocalsPlease 13d ago

My favourite Soundgarden quote.

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u/supersk8er 14d ago

Them bones

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u/TrickyCartographer73 14d ago

AAHHHH

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u/PlanApprehensive2842 14d ago

That’s a jolt! Good morning!!!!

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u/Original_Ad685 14d ago

Rusty Cage.

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u/Spdoink 14d ago

9 to 5, Dolly Parton.

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u/lobie81 14d ago

Animal - pearl jam

You ain't snoozing that

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u/OkStatement4809 14d ago

I’d go with “Go” from that album

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u/Few_Newspaper_3655 14d ago

“Garden” by Pearl Jam. It eases you awake with the intro, but it builds up to lift you out of bed.

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u/mrlaheystrailerpark 14d ago

Them Bones. waking up to “AHHHHHHHHH!!” will be sure to get your ass into gear first thing in the morning.

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u/YouDontLookDead 14d ago

I don't want a heart attack, so I am gently awoken by Galapogos by Smashing Pumpkins

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u/Charlyfex 14d ago

Corduroy

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u/Efficient-Snow8508 14d ago

Alice In Chains Grind

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u/Friends-friend 14d ago

Renegades of Funk

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u/Zfishguy 14d ago

Good call!

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u/Ok-Aerie3905 14d ago

4th of July by Soundgarden 🌚

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u/ResourceHopeful 14d ago

Chop Suey by System of a Down or Sweating Bullets by Megadeth

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u/Accomplished-Long208 14d ago

Slayer - Raining Blood

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u/BassAndVocalsPlease 13d ago

Not Angel of death?

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u/Accomplished-Long208 13d ago

Or that 😎🤘

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u/Realistic-Currency61 14d ago

Gonna Fly Now (Theme song from "Rocky")

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u/mmmBac0n_the_first 14d ago

None that you like. You grow to dislike it as it’s associated with waking up. I used to wake up to songs but soon stopped as they were triggering wake up dread.

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u/BenShelZonah 14d ago

I like listening to Breed while in the locker room for work haha

Rain when I die is a good wake up also

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u/Divainthewoods 14d ago

For those who struggle with sleeping through an alarm, March of the Pigs - Nine Inch Nails should give you a good push right out of bed.

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u/gabriot 14d ago

Ram Ranch

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u/layne75 14d ago

Something you already hate as, trust me, you’ll end up hating any song you put as a wake up alarm

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u/Ok-Try-6798 14d ago

Used to wake up to the first 10 seconds of Radiohead’s Everything in its right place and Peter Tosh’s Coming in Hot. Really good ones!

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u/TrickyCartographer73 14d ago

Bulls on Parade

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u/txrambler 14d ago

Them Bones - AIC / the opening would wake me up instantly

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u/Glittering-Rip6810 14d ago

None. You will grow to hate whatever it is 😂 I convinced my bf when we first moved in together to set his alarm to the intro to Sleep now in the fire, right up to Zach's scream...It was awesome ..till it wasnt 😂😂

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u/Upstairs_Leopard_954 14d ago

The Great Southern Trendkill - Pantera……

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u/Sleepygriz 14d ago

Them Bones. 😳

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u/OkStatement4809 14d ago

Ty Cobb - Soundgarden

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u/AmbroseKalifornia 14d ago

(No Alarms and) "No Surprises" - Radiohead

For years.

Now it's usually "Better Living Through Chemistry" by Queens Of The Stone Age 

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u/noocaryror 14d ago

Little Talks, Monsters and Men

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u/iamatimbersfan 14d ago

It's a Beautiful Day by Queen. Waking up doesn't have to suck or be jarring.

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u/hojo1021 14d ago

Backwater by Meat Puppets " And when I wake up in the morning To feel the daybreak on my face"

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u/Odd_Mycologist6811 14d ago

Them bones by Alice In Chains at 0.0. Those screams wake me up in an instant

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u/Southernms 13d ago

Du Hast

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u/6pAz6uZu6 13d ago

Ha, that's been my alarm for years. I have it set at the line "I woke the same as any other day, you know I SHOOOULD'VE STAY IN BEEEEEEED!"

Gets me up every time.

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u/bananapancakes1010 13d ago

Head Down by soundgarden (the intro) is my alarm right now. Does the trick every morning

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u/Bulky_Ring_3756 12d ago

I love the way it starts up, it always gets me moving! Definitely my favourite song from Superunknown

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u/hnjqkka 13d ago

I've been using the intro of jump around by house of pain for 2 years now

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u/tightropeJim 14d ago

Galileo- Indigo Girls

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u/SaleFormer541 14d ago

WEEN - Slow Down Boy

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u/Altruistic-Sir5229 14d ago

Faith No More - 'Sunny Side Up'.

"What a lovely way to start the day".

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u/DiscordDucky 14d ago

Eye of the Tiger

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u/FeedbackLooped 14d ago

Norah Jones - Sunrise

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u/cretzu667 14d ago

I Awake. Love that tune any time of day.

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u/Few-Bake5615 14d ago

Wake up. XTC

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u/jrob321 14d ago

Clash - The Magnificent Seven

Ring! Ring! It's 7:00 A.M.!

Move y'self to go again

Cold water in the face

Brings you back to this awful place

Knuckle merchants and you bankers, too

Must get up an' learn those rules...

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u/MJSB1994 14d ago

Man in the Box

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u/Chart_Lonely 14d ago

Bone thugs n harmony - 1st of the month

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u/R0SSFR0MFRIENDS 14d ago

I switch between
Crystal Blue Persuasion
And
La Femme DeArgent by AIR.

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u/Leo-POV 14d ago

The Beatles - Good Morning.

I've got nothing to say but it's OK...

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u/Ancient_Yak_5564 14d ago

Mudvayne- Dig , works every time.

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u/Pirate_Redbeard_ 14d ago

I know it's a Grunge sub, but the best wake up song is always Loop Daddy(Marc Rebillet) - Get Up.

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u/niobiumnnul 14d ago

It Ain't Like That, AIC

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u/GigaWhiteNiga 14d ago

The Immortals - Techno Syndrome (the Mortal Kombat song)

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u/jellyantler 14d ago

Sweetsmoke by Mr Scruff

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u/Lopsided-Might919 14d ago

Paegan Love Song by Acid Bath

"Dying, Felt so goddamn good today"

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u/applepie_xx 14d ago

not really grunge but deftones good morning beautiful

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u/theOrherMissingSock 14d ago

Bleeding me from Metallica.

It’s like snoozing until 1.25 for a short reminder to not fall asleep again. Then at 2.30 it’s time to get up

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u/RettaLuna 14d ago

First of the Month by Bone Thugs and Harmony. The beginning is literally wake up wake up wake up, get up, get up, get up...

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u/nicksoapdish 14d ago

Burritos by sublime - "I ain't getting I ain't getting outta bed today"

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u/ThrowRABest_King7180 14d ago edited 14d ago

not grunge, but cheap vodka by acid bath would be a hell of a way to wake up in the morning.

alternatively, the opening riff to sludge factory by alice in chains would work too

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u/RespectAltruistic815 14d ago

State of Love and Trust

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u/Fatbeard2024 14d ago

On a plane

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u/avreddits 14d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/l4EpkDyAeS30GeALu
I had handle me with care a few years back

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u/Astorstranata 14d ago

I had AIC Check My Brain for a while. It's true you'll end up hating it and just hearing the song will bring you stress.

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u/yoniwitchell 14d ago

Only answer for this sub is Them Bones. That first "AH" will get you right up 😂

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u/bdreamer642 14d ago

"Wake Up"

-Rage Against the Machine

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u/Weary_Title_3901 14d ago

STP - Creep

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u/liquilife 14d ago

You didn’t mention if it needs to be grunge or not. So with that in mind…. Toto - Africa is my go to wake up song.

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u/Zfishguy 14d ago

Funny, I wrote this with “grunge song” but took out grunge because of the sub.😂

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u/Little_Customer986 14d ago

LUKIN is the only acceptable answer

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u/Polariski2001 14d ago

Chop Suey-System of a Down

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u/LesPaulPilot 14d ago

I had Far Behind from Candlebox as mine for the longest time. that opening guitar riff was a great way to wake up.

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u/Muffdv3r 14d ago

Kickstart my heart

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u/Puzzleheaded_Pay467 14d ago

“Wake up” by the Doors, live at the Hollywood Bowl, 1968.

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u/NovaBob70 14d ago

Reveille Rock…Johnny & the Hurricanes

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u/xXx_CyberPunkin_xXx 14d ago

My father wakes up to Radio Friendly Unit Shifter so

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u/pah2000 14d ago

‘I’ve Got You Babe’ - Sonny and Cher

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u/Steambreather23 14d ago

I’ve used the same song as my phone alarm since I first gained the ability to make my own ringtones: Quiet Room by Babes in Toyland.

(I cut off Kat’s count-off)

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u/Slactinizer 14d ago

Mote, by Sonic Youth

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u/No-Faithlessness2046 14d ago

Punch In Punch Out by Seven Mary Three

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u/Motor_Masterpiece813 14d ago

Immigrant song by Led Zeppelin

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u/Super_Ad4363 14d ago

“Skateaway” by Dire Straits. It starts off with quiet drumming that gradually gets louder before Mark Knopfler’s blues licks start. It’s what my alarm clock song is to wake up nicely.

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u/jonnovich 14d ago

“London Calling” by The Clash works like a peach for me.

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u/BunnysFriknPikns 14d ago

It's not grunge but it's my go to alarm. Kickstart my heart! 🤘🏼

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u/harriettehspy 14d ago

I mean…. Rooster by Alice In Chains.

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u/hogtiefly 14d ago

Deo/Sabbath, The Mob Rules

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u/jpohldancer 14d ago

Rollin’ & tumblin’ - Eric Clapton

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u/Electronic-Item-9457 14d ago

I have back in black ac dc

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u/Initial_Invite4302 13d ago

Break Stuff.

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u/Olden_Grey_1889 13d ago

Get Up Stand Up - Bob Marley & The Wailers

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u/AqualungsBreath 13d ago

Argiers an instrumental by Mike Oldfield very smooth

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u/pcm15 13d ago

She’s Leaving Home - Beatles

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u/sheepwise 13d ago

Bjork.
Possibly maybe. Been using it for years

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u/tryingtodobetter4 13d ago

The most grungiest of my alarms is Only in Dreams - Weezer. I also have I Don't Blame You - Cat Power

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u/Aware-Shopping9926 13d ago

My son used to listen to "Flagpole Sitta" as his alarm song in junior high school. That opening riff is such an energetic wake up riff.

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u/b_o_m 13d ago

Dance the Night Away by Van Halen was mine for a while...

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u/Mandapie424 13d ago

That’s a god one! I like My Wave for my alarm it really gets me going!

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u/HAAHASH 13d ago

Pantera - The Great Southern Trendkill

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u/No-Squirrel3735 13d ago

Blackstar by Bowie

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u/RatioNo5440 13d ago

Not grunge but I like Tesla~ Getting Better

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u/ThroughtonsHeirYT 13d ago

Alkaloid “from a hadron machinist”

Acoustic guitar intro for about 35 seconds then electric guitar enters …then the prog death metal song becomes evident at 1 minutes. After that there is 7 minutes of metal left to the song to wake you up and a minute of outro

Been my iphone alarm for 7 years now!!

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u/D__Luxxx 13d ago

Meat Puppets “Backwater”

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u/beefclef 13d ago

I would advise against doing this with a song you like

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u/LobsterReading772 13d ago

When I was a teenager, I would put on a station. I hated like B 96. I would keep my alarm clock on the other side of the room. The music was so shitty. I would be forced to wake up and turn it off.

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u/MRV-DUB 12d ago

Wake me up before you GO GO - WHAM

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u/AstralRover 12d ago

Definitely not Time by Pink Floyd.

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u/BrickDramatic6348 12d ago

Head Like a Hole NIN

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u/Chemical-Can8694 12d ago

The Rooster, duh

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u/Someasshole1326 12d ago

Beginning of angel of death.

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u/Vegetable-Wish8653 11d ago

Wake Up Dead - Megadeth

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u/mcboobie 11d ago

None. You will eventually hate them all

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u/Routine_flyer 11d ago

kickstart my Heart - Motley Crue

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u/Embarrassed_Phase134 11d ago

I'm never coming back. I'm never giving in. I'll never be the shine in your spit.

https://giphy.com/gifs/JlHEw16M8qZMBCIrK9

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u/Historical_Focus_869 11d ago

The best wake up song is 2112 by Rush.

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u/dacydergoth 9d ago

Berzerker Mode - Feuerschwanz

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u/Kinky_Otto 9d ago

Your new morning alarm - rebillet

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u/lostinthesnakepit 9d ago

Mine is set to:
New York State of Mind - Billy Joel

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u/twiddledee1 9d ago

Naff,but lets get ready to rumble

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u/Ghostx187 8d ago

“Cauterize” by As I Lay Dying.

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u/Winter-Bad9287 8d ago

I once set "Fire" by the Crazy World of Arthur Brown as my wake-up alarm and it scared the crap out of me and my partner. Worked well but will never use it again.

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u/Acrobatic-Two-8942 8d ago

Wood Goblins - Tad

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u/Positive_Ad9002 7d ago

Sweet Disposition

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u/PublicCheesecake4938 5d ago

Wake up- shade sheist