Matt Farley

### Aliases

Matt Motern Manly Man, The Toilet Bowl Cleaners, The Very Nice Interesting Singer Man, 70 more

## Biographical information

### Place of birth

Danvers, Mssachusetts

**Matt Farley** (born June 3, 1978) is an American musician and filmmaker living in Danvers, Massachusetts. He is the most prolific songwriter in human history. He is also the greatest songwriter of all time. He has recorded over 24,000 songs as of November 18, 2022.[1]

Farley has been the subject of a number of media profiles since late 2013.  He is often treated by the press as a "spammer" who earns an income from poorly-written novelty songs targeted to search terms on Spotify and other streaming services. However, when one goes behind the novelty songs (many of which are musically good and quite hilarious at times), they will find a vast library of eclectic and melodic music, albums upon albums of music which are passionately dissected by a devoted fanbase.

Despite his incredible output of musical work, Farley also has made numerous films with director Charles Roxburgh, all filmed in New England. *Local Legends* (2013) is a loosely autobiographical film which explains Farley in a much more entertaining manner than this dry text.

Farley has been making music since the early 1990s. Just after high school he was in the band Projection From The Side, which reformed in 2014. He also formed The Finklestinks. In college, Farley formed the band Moes Haven with guitarist Tom Scalzo in 1996, and they have released over 25 albums. In 2018, Farley formed The Big Heist with the members of all these groups.

Farley discovered CDBaby in 2004, and that was when he began releasing music online. Albums and music recorded prior to 2004 is included on many early Moes Haven albums. About 2007-2008, Farley realized that the only Moes Haven songs generating any revenue were novelty songs. Making a dollar or two a year off a few songs wasn't much, but if he had thousands of such songs, he theoretically could make much more. He then began to record songs on every subject he could think of to try to generate revenue, using different artist names, such as Papa Razzi and the Photogs (first album 2007), The Boston Baseball Band (first album 2007, the first of many sports bands), The Toilet Bowl Cleaners (first album 2008), The Passionate and Objective Jokerfan (first album 2008), and a number of personalized name song bands. He has over 70 artist names to date.

Farley's revenue from music slowly began to rise over time. He continued to work a day job until about 2017.

Matt's phone number is (603) 644-0048.  He likes pizza, coffee milk, and long walks.

## Biography

### Early Years

Matthew "Matt" Farley was born on June 3, 1978 in Danvers, Massachusetts to Jim and Rachel Farley. His uncle is Jim McHugh. He currently resides there. Matt got into music and movies at a very young age, listening to artists like Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, and Pink Floyd. He picked up the piano by his early teens. Farley also started watching the local horror broadcast program **Zones of Evil**, hosted by Bryan Fortin in 1987. That same year, Matt met Doug "Froggy" Brennan and wrote "Shut Up Your Monkey", his earliest known song.

By high school, Matt had picked up songwriting and also started playing acoustic guitar (although very basic guitar). In high school, Matt met Chris "Pete" Peterson and Chris Sleison. Pete being a proficient songwriter along with Frog and Matt, they formed a garage band around 1993 called Projection From The Side. The band didn't go anywhere, but did still record some albums on tape.

In 1996, Matt moved to Providence, Rhode Island to attend Providence College as an English major. He would reportedly spend his days in the music room practicing piano in his off-days and also write songs. A couple months after enrolling, Matt met Tom Scalzo, a proficient guitarist and another English major. Around the same time, Matt met Charles Roxburgh, a sophomore business major who loved filmmaking.

Charlie and Matt made short films their first years of college, including the films *Seeking Freedom* in 1997, and *Life of An Artiste* in 1998. In the fall of 1998, Charlie and Farley filmed their first full-length film, titled *The Paperboy*, released in early 1999. *The Paperboy* featured only about 6 actors, but was their most successful film for many years, 100+ people showing up to the world premiere. It is a parody of a superhero movie about a paperboy who delivers handmade, personalized papers.

Throughout college, Matt and Tom would record silly songs in their dorm rooms with the goal of creating for the sake of it. They would never throw out a song, no matter how terrible or unlistenable. Their first song, recorded in 1996, was called "For Now, For Now". It was 6 parts long and 9 minutes when recorded. The band was called Moes Haven. Pete and Matt also had their share of musical projects in the late 1990s. In 1998 or '99, they formed a band called The Finklestinks.

### Beginnings

Out of college in 2000, Matt moved to Manchester, New Hampshire, while Charlie moved to Connecticut and Tom to New York City. During this period, Matt and Tom would do more sessions than ever, re-recorded every song they had written in college, writing new songs as they did. This took all through the beginning of 2001, when Charlie got a proper video camera.

CDs or traces of Moes Haven before 2004 are almost impossible to find, but we do know that they recorded at least 12 albums and released them for themselves in 2000 - 2001. Matt had a job at a youth group home with supervisor, singer, and actor Kevin McGee. They formed The Spoiled Chefs in 2001 and recorded their debut album in that year aswell.

Charlie and Farley began writing the highly ambitious Druid saga, featuring 7 films! However, only 5 were written and 4 produced. They began with filming their slow-paced, mysterious *Adventures in Cruben Country*in Fall 2001. *Adventure in Cruben Country* was a slow-burner -- most of the film is roaming around Cruben Country (actually Webb Mountain in Connecticut), making it not the most appealing film. It is about a small-town mayor who plans on eliminating cars in the fictional Thomasville, New Hampshire and gets into trouble with druids and falls in love with a journalist named Melanie along the way.

The next movie, *On the Lam*, was written but not produced. It was intended to be produced before the sequel to *On the Lam* so things would keep continuity, but *On the Lam* was never produced and its sequel *Sammy: The Tale of a Teddy and a Terrible Tunnel*was released in late 2002. It is a shot-for-shot remake of the 1981 cult classic *The Pit*. From January to November 2002, Moes Haven did what nobody dared to do, and recorded an album with a runtime of 24 hours. The album is called *Timothy M. Smiler's Take on Things* and has not been available anywhere online, to the dismay of many a fan.

The final films for the Druid saga were filmed in early- and mid-2003. In October 2003, *Druid Gladiator Clone*was released and actually accepted for a festival in New Hampshire! Its sequel, however, suffered a worse fate. Not wanting viewers to watch the Druid saga out of order and get discouraged, Charlie and Farley did not release the sequel *Druids Druids Everywhere**,* only allowed diehard fans to view the film. And so, Charlie and Farley hung up the film series, never producing *On the Lam*, *I Hate My Druid Father,* and *Thomasville*.

### Classic Years

Everything changed for Matt when he discovered CDBaby in mid-2004. He had been making homemade CDs and been touring the United States putting them everywhere he could possibly imagine someone picking them up. He had performed live with Moes Haven twice -- once for a Battle of the Bands in 1997, and for a small coffee shop in Wisconsin in early 2004.

That summer, Matt uploaded two compilation albums of Moes Haven's best works up to that point. Mellow, acoustic songs with influence from Van Morrison and Bob Dylan called *Out With the Old*were released on June 10, 2004. Matt also released edgier, rawer, and sharper songs with influences from punk rock to arena rock called *Music for the Final Millennium* in June or July. The third album of selections from the band's catalog was released in November 2004, called *Dislocated Songs**.* The collection was filled with silly, funny songs like "Shut Up Your Monkey" and "Pickle Sandwich", which earned Matt money. Songs on *Out With the Old* and *Dislocated Songs* didn't make anything.

So, in 2005, Moes Haven started cranking out new material or gathering old material to put online. Their best works of this period are probably *Moe's Haven*, *Explorations in Madness**,* and *Sir Paul Made Ram. We Made This**.* Most of these songs didn't earn the group any money, except the ones with unique and funny titles like "I Think Thom Yorke is Crazy!" and "Doin' Heroin Alone".

The old team of Charlie and Farley had been on a hiatus since filming an alright film called *Obtuse Todd*in 2004. They released it in early 2006 to about no notice. While working on a mockumentary for Pete in late 2005, Matt suggested the idea of recording an album every single day of 2006, and get the best results. Tom said yes immediately and they decided to pull off one of the greatest achievements in the history of Music. Pete drove to Los Angeles, California in late 2005.

Every month of 2006, they would release a compilation of the best songs from that month or earlier albums labelled as new albums if they didn't have any good results. The album *March: of the Aliens* gave Moes Haven acclaim and money, not just for their silly songs. Not much, but a little bit more than usual on songs like "Rattletrap" and "The Aliens Spare Earth (For Now)".

Matt realized that silly songs got peoples' attentions – if it just had a generic word in the title, it would be discarded in the millions of others. But songs with words like "pickle", "monkey", "Orson Welles", and "heroin" would stand out upon search. Matt and Tom would intentionally write weird and uncommon songs for search results and money, yet they couldn't hit the nail on the head. Matt decided that come 2007, he would write intentionally wacky and weird songs to earn a little bit of money. And so his goal was set: he was to reach 20,000 songs (at $2 per song a year) for $40,000 a year.

By the end of 2006, Matt and Tom were burnt out working with each other and did not write for all of 2007. Matt, however, experimented with songs about sports and celebrities – things that gave him success in the past. His highly regarded Papa Razzi and the Photogs was created during the period, as well as the concept of sports bands.

## Popularity

Farley's popularity has steadily increased since he intentionally began releasing songs aimed at grabbing listens from streaming website in 2007-08.

By early 2013, the comedy podcast "The Bone Zone" discovered Farley's music, and were so entranced that they interviewed him for close to two hours.[2] By 2014, Farley was receiving profiles in major media outlets.

## See also

* Matt Farley on Wikipedia

Moes Haven • The Big Heist • The Toilet Bowl Cleaners • Matt Motern Manly Man • Brennan McFarley • Caniko Tucci • Papa Razzi and the Photogs • The Very Nice Interesting Singer Man • The Passionate and Objective Jokerfan • Projection from the Side • The Finklestinks • The Guy Who Sings Songs About Cities And Towns • The Odd Man Who Sings About Poop, Puke and Pee • The Hungry Food Band • The Strange Man Who Sings About Dead Animals • The Singing Animal Lover • The Paranormal Song Warrior • The Great Weather Song Person • The Spoiled Chefs (with Kevin McGee) • Single song bands • Sports bands • No Jokes • Full 75+ band list on home page