13 OF MY FAVORITE SONGS TO WAKE UP TO

Ever since elementary school, I’ve always had difficulty getting up out of bed. I don’t know if it was the wet-dreams of Posh Spice or I just loved the coziness of cotton, but I simply thoroughly enjoy(ed) sleeping. But who doesn’t, right?

Throughout high school and theatre school, and subsequently the rising popularity of the internet and smartphones soon thereafter, I always seeked out new methods of getting my stank ass outta bed, and since I love music so much, why not wake up to it, right?

True. But it’s still not that simple.

You don’t want a song that’s too hard; that’s the whole point of getting away from conventional alarm clocks. You don’t want to be shocked out of bed. Conversely, you don’t want a song that’s too soft; after all, you’re trying to GET UP, not have Shawn Mullins lullaby you further into REM sleep (Shawn Mullins… *shudder*).

Anyway, here are my pick for 13 songs that meet in the middle. They start off soft, and ever so slowly pick up pace as the track progresses. Just enough to wake you up and keep you awake, but not too much so that you don’t freak out, jump out of bed, stab a hooker and eat the paint off the walls.

Alright? Alriiight.



- Marco Pitino

1. U2 - “Where The Streets Have No Name”



2. Led Zeppelin - “Stairway To Heaven”



3. Death Cab For Cutie - “Bixby Canyon Bridge”



4. Death Cab For Cutie - “Soul Meets Body”



5. I Mother Earth - “So Gently We Go”



6. Boston - “More Than A Feeling”



7. Oasis - “Champagne Supernova”



8. The Killers - “All These Things That I’ve Done”



9. Temper Trap - “Soldier On”



10. The Verve - “Bittersweet Symphony”



11. Sea And Cake - “Harps”



12. Foals - “Bad Habit”



13. Lemitrare - “The End”