Start off confusing them with a cacophony of sound, followed by high energy, into Tom Jones shouting. Should be pretty hard to sleep through all of that
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Had no idea there was a Tom Jones cover of Burning Down the House.
In return, here's a David Byrne cover of Crystal Water's Gypsy Woman.
Neither really capture the original, but they're interesting.
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Cbat is evil
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The 1812 overture. If that's too long, just focus on the section with the cannons.
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Crazy frog
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The macarena (I was struggling to think of a third song, but I would hope the first two would do the job)
The trick is to pick something and sing it yourself. Preferably some old traditional song.
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Wake me up when september ends
make your own song entirely out of gen alpha memes and slang that you don't even understand and make it as wrong as possible
Firestarter by The Prodigy
Wipe Out by The Surfaris
Mars from Holst's Planet's Suite
Honorable mention: The darkest and most evil song ever made. Satan himself couldn't conjure a more effective earworm.
Cradle of Filth - Her Ghost in the Fog
Rebecca Black - Friday
System of a Down - Bounce
Psyopus - pig keepers daughter
Meth witch - burn victim
Archspire - golden mouth of ruin
The Barney the Dinosaur song, "I Love You," on repeat, has been proven to be effective psychological warfare by the US Military.
Also just because it has a beat, and will confuse them, All Paladins Are Bastards
There's a YouTube channel called " The Guy Who Sings Your Name Over and Over "
See if he has a song with your kid's name.
Just start playing Pantera's Cowboys From Hell album from the beginning and I guarantee he'll get up. If you want to spice it up just start it on a different song each morning.
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it has 1 song: paradigm shift by liquid tension experiment
AC/DC — “Thunderstruck” or “For Those About to Rock”
And—please don’t hate me for this, everybody—that horrible Kars for Kids jingle. Play it on something he has to physically get out of bed to shut off.
Starting with Them Bones is key
Aphex Twin - Rhubarb (#3 on Selected Ambient Works Volume II)
Tycho - Awake
Ray Parker Jr - Ghostbusters
Gentle come-up, gentle rhythm introduction, followed by unresistable urge to dance
When I struggled to get up in my late teens and early twenties, I used a submarine dive horn as an alarm. That worked well, but my roommates were not a fan.
Edit: This is a fun post and I kinda ignored the game, my bad!
I use Fleet Foxes' Sun Giant as an alarm, the deep inhale in the beginning gets me up instantly then the soft music is comforting as I stir awake. But might not be as useful for a teen who can't wake up.
Streetlight Manifesto's Everything Went Numb starts with horns and quickly gets upbeat and fast, great track that seems hard to sleep through.
Moxy Fruvus' King of Spain has a good mix of upbeat, percussive vocals and a slightly embarassing Weird Al/comedy acapella vibes that might make it insufferable to sleep through.
I could easily see Blue Swede's Hooked on a Feeling becoming a dreaded familiar wake up call. Ooga Chaka Ooga Ooga Ooga Chaka Ooga Ooga Ooga Chaka...
Maybe set up a subwoofer under their bed and hit em with something like Aquagen's Ihr Seid so Leise.
Wake up song improvised by Marc Rebillet Good morning sunshine by the narcissist cookbook Happy morning - The song from the folgers coffee ad
Bodies - Drowning Pool
It gives nice quiet and loud so that it isn't easy to tune out
Mr Brightside by The Killers
The Distance by Cake
Higher by Creed
When I went to band camp, they'd wake us up by setting up giant speakers in the dorm halls and playing Eye of the Tiger or Convoy
I know you said three songs but Ghost Love Score by Nightwish is 10 minutes long and is basically 3 songs in one
Here Comes the War - New Model Army
One Step Closer - Linkin Park
Baby Shark (10 Hours) - some random maniac on the interwebs
John Sykes - Cautionary Warning
really anything from Sykes would be good to wake up to.
Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick & Tich - Hold Tight!
Harry Nilsson - Gotta Get Up
Modest Mouse - Float On
The Strokes - 12:51
Stone Temple Pilots - Plush
Bush - Machinehead
The Prodigy - Breathe
Chumbawamba - Tubthumping
Los Del Rio - Macarena
My dad loves Harry Nilsson and this was his go-to vinyl to get me up when I was a lazy teenager. I now inflict it on my children.
All Star - Smash Mouth
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