A wake up playlist
About 14 years ago I got a stereo from my uncle in Italy. It was a top-of-the-line stereo, and one, at the time, quite unusual feature it had was a wake up function.
So from then on (for a few years) I always woke up to the the Forrest Gump Suite by Alan Silvestri from the Forrest Gump soundtrack. It’s a very soft and pleasant wake up. Then when I did my military service the song changed, and for an unknown reason, it ended up being Rattlesnake by Live from Secret Samadhi. Rattlesnake is a very bad song to wake up to. So not by any means a recommendation. Just a fact.
After my military service ended, the habit of waking up to music ceased and got replaced by the mobile-phone alarm clock. Very romantic.
It isn’t until earlier this year, when Willow and I bought an alarm clock with an iPod dock, that I again began each day to the sound of music.
Unlike before, this time I have a playlist and not just one song to wake up to. Every morning that “alarm” picks up where the previous morning ended. We didn’t strategically choose what songs to go in the playlist. We just quickly browsed through our iTunes and picked a few that passed our mouse pointer.
So that’s why I’m writing this post, really. I’m so surprised that the playlist we literally just threw together is an extremely good wake up playlist. So good that I like to share it with you.
In alphabetic order (by track name), Volume 1 of the 2007 wake up playlist:
- Be Good or Be Gone by Fionn Regan, from The End of History
- Carolina by Ben Gibbard, from Home: Volume V
- Comfort of Strangers by Beth Orton, from Comfort of Strangers
- Fly by Nick Drake, from Bryter Layter
- Half Acre by Hem, from Rabbit Songs
- Hand in My Pocket by Alanis Morissette, from Jagged Little Pill Acoustic
- I Was Just Thinking by Teitur, from Poetry & Aeroplanes
- My Tiger My Heart by The Boy Least Likely To, from The Best Party Ever
- Naked As We Came by Iron and Wine, from Our Endless Numbered Days
- Twilight by Elliott Smith, from From A Basement On The Hill
- You and I Both by Jason Mraz, from an unknown live album
Cheers for the nice playlist, I’ll give it a go.
Although, I use the harsh method to get up, because the pleasant method makes me fall back to sleep. So I’ve tuned my clock radio to the most vile, sadistic, inhumane and mentally depraved morning show I could recieve.
It only takes a split second for me to leap from my bed, half blind in sheer horror - each and every morning - across the room to turn it off. Voilà , I’m awake.
This has lead my clock to get more or less smashed. Once a few years ago I woke up so disorientated and confused I litteraly bent it open and threw it to the floor.
To get an idea about the severity of the show in question, this promotional picture wraps it up quite nicely. It’s hard to look at, so viewer discretion is adviced:
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