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What's the best CD to wake up to?

mordecaimordecai 2,204 Posts
edited September 2007 in Strut Central
I think we may have done this before, so if you got a link... post it and we'll dead this.I finally got a CD alarm clock that will play CD-R's, so whats the best album/CD to wake up to??I find old school rap (and revivalists) to be kind of jarring... and downtempo makes for a struggle to get up.
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  • FunkyMmonikerFunkyMmoniker 88 Posts
    anything by Air(electronic) does the trick for me, kind of downtempo, but more mesmerizing than anything. I also would say check out Josh Ritter, excellent song writer with a good mix of upbeat and slower pop/folk songs. Always puts me in a great mood.
  • TabaskoTabasko 1,357 Posts
    I woke up to this one for a while..


    but now I have a kid, no need for an alarm clock anymore
  • vajdaijvajdaij 447 Posts
    For the last month, I've been getting up to that live Trouble Funk cd. It wakes me up w/ a smile on my face, ready to roll.
  • bassiebassie 11,710 Posts


    This was on heavy rotation in the mornings for me when it was so kindly posted. Now I get up too early to put anything on .
  • HonkyFippleHonkyFipple 418 Posts
    i sometimes wake up to phil collins. my grifriend is still cool though. i guess...
  • DB_CooperDB_Cooper Manhatin' 7,823 Posts


    Might be too much for most, though.
  • knewjakknewjak 1,231 Posts
    I woke up to this one for a while..


    but now I have a kid, no need for an alarm clock anymore

    huge

    I have coffee with burrell often. His 'Soul Call' record is another great saturday morning LP.
  • Jonny_PaycheckJonny_Paycheck 17,825 Posts
    WOKE UP
    DIDNT CHOKE UP
    FOUND MY AK
    IT WAS BROKE UP
    PUT IT TOGETHER LIKE A JIGSAW
    GRABBED MY NINE AND MY RAMBO KNIFE OFF THE FLOOR
    WENT TO THE BATHROOM AND BEAT THE RUSH
    YO WHO THE FUCK USED MY TOOTHBRUSH???
    WENT TO MY SISTER'S ROOM, YO BITCH WAKE UP
    YOU STUPID ASS DIRTY ASS NASTY ASS SLUT
    SHOT HER IN HER LEG, SHOT HER IN HER THIGH
    KICKED HER IN THE PUSSY AND PUNCHED HER IN THE EYE
    SLAPPED HER IN THE HEAD, STEPPED ON HER CORN
    DON'T FUCK WITH ME BITCH, WORD IS BOND
    WENT DOWNSTAIRS TO EAT WITH MY FOLKS
    MA!!! YOU BROKE MY FUCKING EGG YOLK!!!



    ahhhh classic shit
  • pjl2000xlpjl2000xl 1,795 Posts
    WOKE UP
    DIDNT CHOKE UP
    FOUND MY AK
    IT WAS BROKE UP
    PUT IT TOGETHER LIKE A JIGSAW
    GRABBED MY NINE AND MY RAMBO KNIFE OFF THE FLOOR
    WENT TO THE BATHROOM AND BEAT THE RUSH
    YO WHO THE FUCK USED MY TOOTHBRUSH???
    WENT TO MY SISTER'S ROOM, YO BITCH WAKE UP
    YOU STUPID ASS DIRTY ASS NASTY ASS SLUT
    SHOT HER IN HER LEG, SHOT HER IN HER THIGH
    KICKED HER IN THE PUSSY AND PUNCHED HER IN THE EYE
    SLAPPED HER IN THE HEAD, STEPPED ON HER CORN
    DON'T FUCK WITH ME BITCH, WORD IS BOND
    WENT DOWNSTAIRS TO EAT WITH MY FOLKS
    MA!!! YOU BROKE MY FUCKING EGG YOLK!!!



    ahhhh classic shit

    hell yeah. I used to bump this before school back in the day.
  • eliseelise 3,252 Posts
    Billie Holiday is always my favorite.
    "I didn???t know what time it was
    Then I met you.
    Oh, what a lovely time it was,
    How sublime it was too!
    I didn???t know what time it was
    You hold my hand.
    Warm like the month of may it was,
    And I???ll say it was grand.

    Grand to be alive, to be young,
    To be mad, to be yours alone!
    Grand to see your face, feel your touch,
    Hear your voice say I???m all your own.

    I didn???t know what time it was
    Live was no prize.
    I wanted love and here it was
    Shining out of your eyes.
    I???m wise,
    And I know what time it is now..."
  • Big_StacksBig_Stacks "I don't worry about hittin' power, cause I don't give 'em nuttin' to hit." 4,670 Posts
    Mine is:

    "Songs of Praise"-The Sensational Nightingales.

    This LP has been movin' me since childhood (thanks Dad!).

    Peace,

    Big Stacks from Kakalak
  • eliseelise 3,252 Posts
    Mine is:

    "Songs of Praise"-The Sensational Nightingales.

    This LP has been movin' me since childhood (thanks Dad!).

    Peace,

    Big Stacks from Kakalak

    sayin. I do miss listening to the occasional gospel here and there. One of my friends grew up in the gospel choir and has such an incredible voice!

    I'm hoping to mix him over something I'm working on. (fingers crossed)

    I will say, I still have a heart for gospel house, and it's best heard live in Chicago. I know, crazy, huh?
  • rocco2nrrocco2nr 530 Posts


    i dont need music to wake up but i would definitely love to hear this shit first thing in the morning.
  • SwayzeSwayze 14,705 Posts
    For me the first side off Donny Hathaway, Extensions of a Man is the perfect way to start the day.
  • Big_StacksBig_Stacks "I don't worry about hittin' power, cause I don't give 'em nuttin' to hit." 4,670 Posts
    Mine is:

    "Songs of Praise"-The Sensational Nightingales.

    This LP has been movin' me since childhood (thanks Dad!).

    Peace,

    Big Stacks from Kakalak

    sayin. I do miss listening to the occasional gospel here and there. One of my friends grew up in the gospel choir and has such an incredible voice!

    I'm hoping to mix him over something I'm working on. (fingers crossed)

    I will say, I still have a heart for gospel house, and it's best heard live in Chicago. I know, crazy, huh?

    Hey Elise,

    I grew up in the church, so Gospel music in the morning was a staple in my home. The highlights include:

    -The Gospel Keynotes.
    -The Gospel Caravans.
    -The Brooklyn All-Stars.
    -The Mighty Clouds of Joy.
    -The Little Wonders.
    -The Highway QC's.
    -Mahalia Jackson.
    -The Williams Brothers.
    -The Jackson Southernaires.
    -The Dixie Humminbirds.
    -The Fantastic Violinaires
    -Rev. C.L. Franklin.
    -The Soul Stirrers.
    -The Swan Silvertones/Rev. Claude Jeter.
    -Sis. Rosetta Thorpe.
    -Inez Andrews.

    ...and too many more to name, so I'll stop.

    Peace,

    Big Stacks from Kakalak
  • yoigotbeatsyoigotbeats 1,667 Posts
    The D.O.C. - Funky Enough or BDP's Blackman's In Effect if you like to wake up to funky fresh rhymes

    Saxon's This Town Rocks or Anthrax' Time is you like to wake up with a lil' Cap't Crunch in your cereal

    Kate Bush's Waking The Witch if you like to slowly get nudged out of bed (it does come with the cure of the snooze button steez)

    what up mord!!!!!! what's been happening round hurr????
  • awallawall 673 Posts
    pharoahe monch - "simon says"
  • CousinLarryCousinLarry 4,618 Posts
    "CD"

    You sound old. I didn't even know people still used those things.
  • bass_feverbass_fever 974 Posts


    This would be nice to wake up to...
  • bassiebassie 11,710 Posts
    Diana Krall? That would make me get up, too - to turn it off!
  • pjl2000xlpjl2000xl 1,795 Posts
    this post just reminded me of this for some reason
  • shitzrshitzr 648 Posts
    never left the cd alarm clock going on 3 years now:



    whatever that sound is in the beginning of "i wanna get high" scares the shit out of me.
  • pjl2000xlpjl2000xl 1,795 Posts
    i actually do wake up to music everyday now that i think of it. I have "its your thing" as my alarm clock tone on my phone. It comes through so loud and trebley it scares me out of bed. Now i actually hate this song.
  • DrJoelDrJoel 932 Posts
    this post just reminded me of this for some reason

    Out of both versions of The Office this is easily my favorite episode yet.

    As a side note. During my freshman year of college my roomate and i both took this mandatory computer class and our professor looked like Jay-Z with a jheri curl. She looked just like dude, seriously. So, every tuesday and thursday for the whole semester we would wake up to a different Jay-Z song. Whoever became conscious first would yell "Jigga" across the room, the other would respond and the day would begin. Those were the days.
  • MjukisMjukis 1,675 Posts


    I usually wake up to some Slint. Starting it off nice and easy with Breadcrumb trail, by the time you get to the heavy part in Nosferatu man you're wide awake!
  • BaptBapt 2,503 Posts


    "I didn???t know what time it was
    Then I met you.
    Oh, what a lovely time it was,
    How sublime it was too!
    I didn???t know what time it was
    You hold my hand.
    Warm like the month of may it was,
    And I???ll say it was grand.

    Grand to be alive, to be young,
    To be mad, to be yours alone!
    Grand to see your face, feel your touch,
    Hear your voice say I???m all your own.

    I didn???t know what time it was
    Live was no prize.
    I wanted love and here it was
    Shining out of your eyes.
    I???m wise,
    And I know what time it is now..."

    I like it.
  • GambleGamble 844 Posts
  • holmesholmes 3,532 Posts
    I get up too early to put anything on .
  • mordecaimordecai 2,204 Posts
    what up mord!!!!!! what's been happening round hurr????
    dunno, G******
    i'm not tryna get scared outta bed. but sleeping thru work isn't a good look either.
  • TheBeatGoesTheBeatGoes 711 Posts
    hot buttered soul

    but fuck a CD, put the record on... sip some coffee
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