My Top Five… Songs to Wake Up to. Complete!
What helps you shake the cobwebs out in the morning? Is there something which makes that half asleep commute to work quicker? Do you need a rhythm to brush your teeth to? Here’s my top 5 songs to wake up to.
EDIT 5. Junior Kickstart, The Go Team!
4. Good morning Good morning, The Beatles
3. Wake Up, Arcade Fire
2. Sabotage, The Beastie Boys
1. In The Mood, The Glenn Miller Orchestra
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Mine, in no particular order:
Walking on Sunshine, Katrina and the Waves
Sugarhigh, Coyote Shivers
I will survive, Gloria Gaynor
I don’t like Mondays, The Boomtown Rats
Build me up buttercup, The Foundations
Also no particular order, my fave wake up songs at the moment are…..
1. 2manydjs: Dolly Parton 9/5 / Royskopp
2. Delorentos: Eustace Street
3. The Cure: Boys don’t cry
4. Wannadies: You and Me Song
5. Muse: Plug in Baby
1. La Noyee - Yann Tiersen
2. Scenic World - Beirut
3. I Get Around - The Beach Boys
4. Lady Madonna - The Beatles
5. Ice Cream Man - Tom Waits
I’d probably include In The Mood too, but it’s already there so I won’t.
1. Dear Prudence - The Beatles (Listen to it!)
*goes to ipod*…
2. Radiohead - Everything in the right place (a la Vanilla Sky)
3. The Arcade Fire - Wake Up
4. Snow Patrol - Open your eyes
5. The Stone Roses - Waterfall
yes, quite happy with that list….
Top Five ‘Hello world, it’s me!’ songs!!!
1. Final Countdown - Europe
2. Diner - Martin Sexton
3. Money For Nothing - Dire Straits
4. Get Back - The Beatles
5. Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
(I would like to give ‘Walking on Sunshine’ an honourable mention…and the songs I’ve put up here are there because they combine great energy with quiet-to-loud build-ups, which i consider quite important in my wake up routine!)
Top 5:
1. Cathy Davey - Reuben
2. Violent Femmes - anything off their debut
3. Queens of the Stone Age - Little Sister
4. Iron and Wine - Woman King
5. Paul Simon - Me and Julio Down By the Schoolyard
Some cool stuff! I made an edit to my number 5. It was Bottle Rocket but Junior Kickstart is much better.
Also, feel free to argue and debate. Someone told me they thought Sabotage isn’t a good morning song. I beg to differ.
Top 7 cos I couldn’t pick 5
1. Newton Faulkner - All I got
2. Snow Patrol - Open your eyes
3. Kaiser Chiefs - Ruby
4. Arcade Fire - Wake Up
5. Delorentos - I cant remember the name of the song (loads of good ones tho)
6. Duke Special - Freewheel
7. Rolf Harris - Six White Boomers
In no particular order:
1. Bittersweet Symphony - The Verve
2. Lamposts - Belli X1
3. Express yourself - NWA
4. Corpus Christi - Jeff Buckley
5. The Sweater Song - Weezer
Not cos they’re particularly morning songs…. just cos they’re particularly good songs and who doesn’t want to hear great songs when they’re waking up.
oh, oh and
6. King without a Crown - Matisyahu
and
7. Somthing Outta Nothing - Messiah J and The Expert (cos you have to acknowledge such great homegrown hip-hop talent)
1. Telephone line - ELO
2. Reaching Out / Tie Your Mother Down (from Return of the Champions CD1) - Queen + Paul Rodgers
3. Solisbury Hill - Peter Gabriel
4. Doobie Wah - Peter Frampton
5. Crazy Train - Ozzy
You guys have some weird wake up music. Where’s James Brown in all this? Completely forgot about “Get up!” Does anyone have any interesting stories behind some of the more unusual choices?
Loads of great wake up songs here! Here are a few in no particular order:
1. Obla di Obla da - The Beatles
2. Sunday Morning - The Velvet Underground (well, the whole album really)
3. Fujiya & Miyagi - The Jazzmag song, can’t remember the name
4. Bob Dylan - Subterranean Homesick Blues
5. Joanna Newsom - Sprout and the Bean (for Sunday)
Great blog Tom, looking forward to more top5!
All I can deal with in the morning is rather shallow singsang - so here’s my top five:
Travis - Why does it always rain on me
U2 - It’s a beautiful day
Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars
Coldplay - In my place
Duke Special - Our love goes deeper than this
(Sorry for gringing U2 up…)
modest mouse - the view
the raconteurs - level
adam green - bluebirds
the strokes - juicebox
fight like apes - jake summer
o soauve fanciulla - la bohéme
wake-up bomb - r.e.m.
any other way - delorentos
i don’t feel like dancing - scissor sisters
bottle rocket - the go! team
Here few more! Also no particular order:
Good morning, good morning - The Beatles
Get off my cloud - rolling Stones
Mr. Brigtside - The Killers
Concrete Jungle - Bob marley & The wailers
There she goes again - Velvet Undergroud
Here are my current morning melodies:
1. Chips Ahoy - The Hold Steady
2. We Used to Vacation - Cold War Kids
3. Snakes and Snakes - Bell X1
4. Ragdoll - David Geraghty
5. Girls who play guitars - Maximo Park
I’m late to the game, as usual, but I’ve got a few tracks that get my toes moving under the covers in the morning.
The Lifting - R.E.M.
Dizzy - Luna
Such Great Heights - The Postal Service
Valley Winter Song - Fountains of Wayne
Cerulean - The Ocean Blue
Delerium - Heaven’s Earth (Matt Darey Remix)
Porcupine Tree - Blackest Eyes
Jack Johnson - Staple It Together
Stefy - Chelsea (Morgan Page Club Mix)
Zoë Keating - Tetrishead.mp3
Imogen Heap - Can’t Take It In
1. Take On Me, by Ah-Ha or by Vision Divine
2. Walking on Sunshine
3. Just Can’t Get Enough - Depeche Mode
4. Jump - Van Halen
5. New Sensation - INXS
1.Walking On Sunshine - Katrina and the Waves
2.Bad Day - Alvin and the Chipmunks
3.Bonnie Taylor Shakedown 2K1 - Hellogoodbye
4.A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes - Disney Channel Stars
and then if those 4 song haven’t woken you up yet…
5.Wake Up - Story Of The Year
As a playlist…
Breakfast At Tiffany’s- Deep Blue Something
Under the Bridge- Red Hot Chili Peppers
Flower- Moby
American Woman- Lenny Kravitz
I’m Shipping Up to Boston- Dropkick Murphys
Ten Thousand Fists- Disturbed
Wake up song, wow i have a lot this is tough
in this order works best for me
1.Viva la Vida- Coldplay (you might have heard this one too much lately)
2.Good Day- Tally Hall (not many people know about these guys they’re really good though)
3.Float On- Modest Mouse (Favorite song ever)
4.NoseBleed Section- Hilltop Hoods (not even on itunes, you would have to download of the internet,but its a good hip hop song where they actually sing)
5. Ob la Di Ob La Da- this is such a fun lively song and i hope by this time youre up