Does music get you up in the morning? Are you awakened by the classical tones of WQRS, or do you eat breakfast to the soft music of Mariah Carey? It's pretty common. Alarm clocks almost never occur without radios. Some even have tape decks built in. What do you do?49 responses total.
I'm one of those losers with the tape deck in his alarm clock. Every night I cue up one of my hard rock tapes and set to full volume (this is quite loud with the speakers in the thing). I carefully have it set in a position where I have to get up (out of a loft bed), get down, and turn it off. And I usually do it pretty quickly so I don't wake up the rest of the house (which is to say, everybody two floors above me. It's been known to wake them up before me.) Right now I'm in the middle of Grind by Alice In Chains ont eh tape. That song is *very* effecitve at waking me up.
I remeber when Junior Walker died a couple of years ago, and the news anchor began this segment by saying "This ought to wake you up" before playing the intro to "Shotgun" followed by the report of Walker's death.
When I need to be up and alert, I usually wake to WJLB at maximum volume, which usually does the job. On mornings when I just get up leisurely, I usually have the radio tuned to KOOL 107, WQRS, or WJR. My uncle was the one who taught me the WJLB thing, since he felt that it was the most obnoxious music he could find. That didn't work because he was one of those people who could sleep through a nuclear bomb and an air-raid. Needless to say, he was impossible to wake. I miss him, because he passed on about 3 yrs ago.
We wake up to WUOM, usually 'Michigan Morning' or something like that. I prefer an alarm, and use one when I have to get up before the family.
i'm remarkably difficult to awaken. the only thing that'll get me up is to set my clock radio to a talk station at full or almost full volume and have it on the other side of the room so i have to get out of bed to turn it off. this method doesn't always work, but it's gotten more effective since wjr started carrying dr. laura.
I do the NPR thing, but I also have timer (X-10!) driven lamps that go on a few minutes earlier than the radio.
No wake-up music for me but I usually hit the "play" button on the CD-changer when I'm getting out of the shower and listen to whatever's left-over from the night before while I'm drying off and getting dressed.
We have morning X-10 controlled lights too, but they seem to have lost their effectiveness in awakening us.
Phish, if I have time, is great wake-up music. "Harry Hood" from A Live One to wake up, and "The Squirming Coil" from the same album to fall asleep. Alternately, if I'm really in need of energy, Ashley MacIsaac, Kula Shaker, Dave Matthews' Band, or Blues Traveller.
Usually have the radio set to the oldies station at Domino's Farms. I snap to attention when they say the time, normally. Of course, if Gareth and Rhiannon are getting up on time, I get a very loud bang and a "MOM! UP!"
Hmm. I should look into morning lights. They'd help me quite a bit. After my musical brain drain (anybody remember the scene where "Darth Vader," or Marty Mcfly in a radiation suit visits George Mcfly and puts a Van Halen guitar solo through headphones? My wake up call is louder and worse) I don't listen to any music until I get in the car, where I listen to the radio for about 30 seconds before I pop in a tape on the way to school.
I haven't been awakened by music for years. I'm not fond of most of what I hear on the radio, and I prefer a higher quality sound than what I get on most clocks. I don't do mornings, either, so a simpler buzzer does fine for me. This will be the case until I can afford a BOSE Wave radio, or something approaching that (on what I now earn and will earn in the future? Hah!).
Well, I don't like to be *awakened* by music, but once I'm conscious, it helps my brain wake up.
I don't like being wokedn up by music, but it's better then the the buzzer on my radio, so I do it. I used to listen to music obsessively in the mornigs, but now that I'm downstairs, tha's where my music is, and I'm always upstairs in the morning.
hey void-- Ever consider waking up to Rush Limbaugh? Now THAT's obnoxious.
RE #15 Ditto for Don Imus and Howard Stern.
Talk about waking up on the wrong side of the bed...
hmmm. sorry, omni, but i think rush limbaugh would put me in too foul a mood to deal with the general public all day. either that or i'd start getting (more) paranoid and developing weird conspiracy theories. :)
Paranoid void doesn't like to be annoyed :) Sorry, couldn't resist. I don't mind Howard Stern as much as I mind the commercials for the network carrying him.
No kidding. What's wrong with Dr. Laura?
Nothing in my book. Doc Laura is OK with me. She is really heavy on being moral, not shacking up, being responsible. It's a love/hate thang. Nobody half likes her
Yeah, she's pretty hardlined. I think she was on one of the lat night talk shows tonight, but I didn't check.
That's too bad. Someone's got to speak up for responsibility and be heard.
thing is, dr. laura says some incredibly rude/arrogant things to the people who call in. the other day, i heard her tell a caller: "don't argue with me. you can dismiss my opinions later, but you didn't call in to argue with me." nothing wrong with being responsible et cetera, but there's also a *lot* to be said for politeness. i'll stop before this item gets completely hijacked.
True enough. Rush Limbaugh has a real problem himself of hogging airtime and bullying for his opinions. But hey, both their shows ain't public access. Gil Gross is a lot more enjoyable than both those two :) anyway :) I don't listen to talk radio much, but a friend of mine does. What about Art Bell? At least he plays some *music* for his show.
i listen to art bell on slow cab nights. he certainly has had some novel guests and discussions.
No doubt. Did you catch the show about the guy from Manatash Canyon, near Ellensburg, WA (he had that hole that couldn't be filled)? Even if you didn't I am going to school in Ellensburg! My friend has heard about it and understands some T-shirt artist made some T-shirts about it that say basically "I've seen the hole" (although the gov't supposedly owns the property and won't let anyone near it).
The alarm is set about two minutes ahead, so that when it goes off, it will be before the start of the news on WOMC, 104.3fm with Dick Purtan at 6am. Have to get up and cross the room to turn on radio and usually visit bathroom. Then it's back to bed for about 20 minutes while listening. When I tire of Dick Purtan (actaully, his sidekick, Duffas Al), I've recently been tuning in JJ & Morning Crew at 6am (News and talk oppurtunity at about 6:08am). I used to really be into Drew & Mike, on WRIF, 101.1, but that was in the OJ trial days. They seemed to follow the case, while JJ and Dick Purtan seemed to follow it via Lay Jeno or David Letterman's jokes. If all three are on vacation, I just might listen to the local two guys and a news-chick format on WIQB, before tuning into non-local Howard Stern or Don Imus.
I've set my alarm for 5:55 am, and usually try to wake up before the hourly network newscast, hoping and praying that the lead story is not very tragic (such as the death of Princess Diana or something like that there).
For some reason, I've been spontaneously waking up at 6:45 with no alarm or music or anything of late.
I hate you. I really, really hate you. I can't get up spontaneously anything less than 12 hours after i fall asleep.
I think it's the shower running in the next room.
re #27: no, the last time i listened to art bell, he was interviewing some guy who claimed he had made a time machine.
That might explain it, but showers don't make enough noise for me. It's moot, of course, since the closest bathroom to me is a long trek thorugh my basement, upstairs, and down a hall (about 150 feet, I'm thinking) and that isn't equiped with a shower. Those that are are two floors above me.
If I could walk through walls, I'd be about five feet away from the shower. It's right on the other side of a wall from me.
the radio in my alarm clock can be made to go off in the morning, instead of my alarm??? ..........awwwwwwwww.....<all these years!....>
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What is Art Bell's story? And can I find him anywhere on the dial in MI?
Art Bell's nationally syndicated show involves topics dealing with the mysterious, unknown, and supernatural. Actually, pretty much any topic that's considered unusual or that deviates from the norm is fair game on Art's show. I guess he tends to lean a bit more towards the alien/UFO thing as well as the govt. cover up thing (usually the NASA cover-up or Military cover-up). He has a wide range of different guests dealing with a wide range of topics.He takes calls throughout his show. I suggest going to his web page to find out more about him. It's probably something like www.artbell.com.
Thanks!
You're welcome! I take it you're not the original goose, eh?
(I suspect he's the original goose, but with a new login.)
(Chris, write to staff and ask about the "goose" login. Far as I can tell the owner logged in exactly once in early September, so it should be reap bait.)
What came first; the original goose or the original egg? ;->
Yep, I guess I was the original goose. I've been meaning to write staff about it, but am lazy I guess.
I usually wake up to the harsh sounds of my alarm beeping at full blast. But I listen to KRCK (97.1). Howard Stern cracks me up sometimes, and I like the music they play on that station too.
Well, my alarm(brapt brapt bra- I hit the sleeper, than the other one BZZZZZZZTTTT!!!!) always wakes me up, but once I'm finally pottering around the kitchen, I usually listen to Canadian Public radio-- I'll get about 15 minutes of news and 15 minutes of classical.
as of late, I really don't wake up to music, I don't have an alarm, and I don't leave the radio on all night anymore. Usually though, once I do roll out of bed, I turn on the radio, and it pretty much stays on all day.
I've been known to fall asleep to recorded music, the only problem being when the tape recorder doesn't have autostop. Recently, Jon and I now use music for waking up with, too. Jon's clock radio. I'm sure he's probably told you all about it.
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