Matt Farley

Farley grew up in Massachusetts and graduated from Providence College in Rhode Island. Around 2008, he discovered that songs with silly titles from his band "Moes Haven" (which he had streaming on Spotify) were the only ones generating revenue. He soon began writing and recording songs about everything and anything that he thought people might search for.[3]

His band names, which exceed 70, often correlate to the subject matter of their songs. For example, "Papa Razzi and the Photogs" release albums filled with songs about celebrities, and "The Hungry Food Band" releases songs about food. Thousands of songs celebrate birthdays with different names. Over 500 songs are "prom proposals" songs each sung with a different name. Yet another series of albums are composed completely of songs about towns within a U.S. state or other country, with lyrics derived from reading Wikipedia articles on each town. However, his most lucrative band is likely the "Toilet Bowl Cleaners", who sing songs about fecal matter. According to Farley, one song that contains only the word "poop" repeated over and over generates $500 in streaming revenue every month as of 2018, likely in part because children request it from Alexa or other devices.[4][5][6] Farley earned over $23,000 in 2013 from his song catalog.[3][4][7]

Farley also writes custom songs, generating $2,000 or more in revenue per month.[8][9][10][11] The Reply All podcast has featured Farley multiple times and used his custom songs.[12]

Much of Farley's output is piano-and-vocals compositions.[13] Albums can run to 100 songs in length.[14][15] Some of his albums, even from a band such as The Toilet Bowl Cleaners, contain more serious output; that band's 11th album is titled Mature Love Songs, none of which are about fecal matter. Farley's serious and non-lucrative albums are called "no jokes" albums.[16][17]

In 2016, Farley performed "Used to Be a Pizza Hut", a song topic derived from internet traffic about how re-purposed locations of the American chain restaurant still retain their distinctive roof style, on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.[8]

Moes Haven Period (2004–2009)

• Moes Haven – Out with the Old (2004)
• Moes Haven – Dislocated Songs (2004)
• The Spoiled Chefs – Songs About Food (2004)
• The Spoiled Chefs – Songs About Holidays and Other Things (2005)
• Moes Haven – Svetlana Finds Solace in the Arms of English Men of Letters (2005)
• Moes Haven – Someone Else (2005)
• Moes Haven – Explorations in Madness (2005)
• Moes Haven – Moe's Haven (2005)
• Moes Haven – Sir Paul Made Ram. We Made This (2005)
• Moes Haven – Down With Memories (2005)
• Moes Haven – January (2006)
• Moes Haven – February: From the Bayou to the Barnyard and Back (2006)
• Moes Haven – March: of the Aliens (2006)
• Moes Haven – April: What A Cruel Month! (2006)
• Moes Haven – May: I Buy you a Sandwich? (2006)
• Moes Haven – June (2006)
• Moes Haven – July: In The Sun With Me? (2006)
• Moes Haven – August: of Temporal Inconsistency (2006)
• Moes Haven – (SH)OC(K)TOBER (2006)
• Moes Haven – November the Tar! (2006)
• Moes Haven – December (2007)
• Moes Haven – Victory is Ours! (For Now) (2007)
• The Boston Baseball Band – Go Red Sox! (2007)
• Papa Razzi and the Photogs – Dream Girls (2007)
• Moes Haven – If Not Us, Who? (2007)
• The Boston Baseball Band – 11 in 10: Celebrating 11 Red Sox Victories in October 2007 (2007)
• Papa Razzi and the Photogs – Get Political (2007)
• The New England Football Band – Go Patriots! (2007)
• Moes Haven – This is My Millennium (2007)
• The Athletic Sports Band – Traded (2007)
• The Athletic Sports Band – Playoff Excitement (2007)
• The Boston Basketball Band – Go Green! (2008)
• The Toilet Bowl Cleaners – Songs About Poop, Puke & Pee (2008)
• The Boston Baseball Band – Extra Innings (2008)

Current Period (2007–present)

• The Passionate & Objective Jokerfan – I Love Bob Dylan! (2008)
• The Passionate & Objective Jokerfan – Songs About Singers (2009 )
• The Passionate & Objective Jokerfan – More Songs About Singers (2009)
• The Passionate & Objective Jokerfan – Unofficial Tributes to Officially Awesome Music People (2010)
• Moes Haven – Stromboli's Alarm Clock (2010)
• The Passionate & Objective Jokerfan – Unexpected Songs of Joy, & Celebrations of Music Stars (2011)
• The Passionate & Objective Jokerfan – Songs About Albums: Record Reviews & Ruminations (2011)
• The Passionate & Objective Jokerfan – Songs Song Sings Songs Onion Lama (2012)
• The Passionate & Objective Jokerfan – Nice Man Sings Songs For The People Songs Yes, Now Cover Up (2012)
• The Passionate & Objective Jokerfan – The People Love This Guy Because He Makes Great Songs Like These Ones (2012)
• The Passionate & Objective Jokerfan – Good Songs About Good People Who Make Good Songs Always (2012)
• The Passionate & Objective Jokerfan – Songs, Singers, Goats, Writers, Critics... All Sorts of Stuff! (2013)
• The Passionate & Objective Jokerfan – People Who Like These Songs Are Correct (2013)
• The Passionate & Objective Jokerfan – Intensely Personal Songs (2014)
• The Passionate & Objective Jokerfan – Not Sure What to Make of This (2014)
• The Passionate & Objective Jokerfan – Here's Another Brilliant Album for you to Misunderstand (2014)
• The Passionate & Objective Jokerfan – Stupid People Hate These Songs Because They're Dumb (2015)
• The Passionate & Objective Jokerfan – I Quite Enjoy Making Good Songs (2016)[18]

Farley's output is released under the label Motern Media, and he is rarely identified directly by name. Farley often includes his personal phone number in his lyrics, which yields calls and texts from fans surprised to find the number is real.[13][19]

Farley has made several low-budget comedy-horror films, primarily starring his family and friends, with titles such as Freaky Farley (2007), Don't Let the Riverbeast Get You (2012), Slingshot Cops (2016).[19][20] He is the subject of a 2018 Australian documentary, Lessons from a Middle Class Artist.[5]

His film work has been chronicled in the interview book Motern on Motern: Conversations with Matt Farley and Charles Roxburgh[21] by Will Sloan and Justin Decloux.

He performs an annual five-and-a-half-hour concert "extravaganza" in Danvers, Massachusetts.[5]

• Official website
• Matt Farley at IMDb