The Toilet Bowl Cleaners

**The Toilet Bowl Cleaners** is a band created by Matt Farley that has released 14 albums as of 2022. It is one of the most popular of his 70+ bands.

## History

The band's song output is almost exclusively songs about poop, pee, and other such bodily functions. When people search for "poop" on Spotify or ask Alexa about it, it usually plays a band from this artist or its main competitor The Odd Man Who Sings About Poop, Puke and Pee. "The Poop Song" has over 5.4 million streams on Spotify as of April 2003, and "Poop in My Fingernails" has 3.6 million streams.

Billie Eilish positively referred to the Toilet Bowl Cleaners in a 2018 Instagram post.[1] Many of the Toilet Bowl Cleaners' songs have been recognized to be surprisingly good, even by critics. "Poop Into a Wormhole" has even been called a "real peak in Farley's creativity". On the band's 10th album, *Never Gonna Flush Again* (2014), the album concluded with a song claiming the band was quitting the poop song business. The next month the band released *Mature Love Songs*, which contains 13 songs, none of which are about poop, see No Jokes. *Mature Love Songs* was released on "Singing Animal Lover Music" instead of Motern Media, as part of an elaborate backstory where The Singing Animal Lover left Motern Music. The album was a flop. The band returned to the Motern Media fold in 2016 with their 12th album, *Poop Oh Yeah! Poop Yes! Uh Huh! Poop!*.

The frontman of the band is also The Odd Man Who Sings About Poop, Puke and Pee. The Odd Man has been creating solo poop albums since 2013, starting a "Name Poop Song" series in 2018, inspired by The Guy Who Sings Your Name Over and Over.

    After releasing *Emergency Poop* in 2018, the band did not release any new songs for over 2.5 years, until the single "Poop Fields Forever" came out in January 2021. Reportedly, the band had started a new album around 2020 that was shelved when Name Poop songs took off, and eventually decided to release these tracks as singles. This 2020 album the band was working on was intended to be their final, though sources report the Toilet Bowl Cleaners are working on a vinyl-only album of their 15 best tracks with a full band and revised music. Time will tell. In October 2021, another single was released titled "This Poo Kinda Smells Like Stew". The tracks that had been written for the new album were hastily released in 2022 with the name "The Toilet Seat Boys", because former NFL Player AJ Hawk had recently talked about the band on a popular show, thinking that was the band's name.[2]

Around 2011, the band distributed some promo CDs titled "Greatest Poop, Puke, and Pee Songs!" No known copies are available.

## Books

In 2023, the band released a book of their lyrics, "The Selected Works of The Toilet Bowl Cleaners", see Bibliography. You can buy it on Amazon[3], and it makes an amazing present for birthdays, holidays, and everyday expressions of love for the special people in your life.

## Discography

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

## References

1. ↑ The Toilet Bowl Cleaners! Poop Songs, and More! (September 6, 2011
2. ↑ Inglis, Jeff. More music isn't always better music, *The Portland Phoenix* (April 13, 2011)