https://crappymusic.pages.dev/ Royalty free garbage for low budget podcasts, video games, movies, or whatever... en-us https://crappymusic.pages.dev/music/sno1/ https://crappymusic.pages.dev/music/sno1/ This little nugget of absolute garbage was written half in Fruity Loops while the other half was recorded with an acoustic guitar using the onboard mic of a Powerbook (yeah, before Macbooks were a thing). Listen for the soothing tones of the computer fan running full tilt with distortion and my stepdad wishing me a good night. https://crappymusic.pages.dev/music/nintendo-rap/ https://crappymusic.pages.dev/music/nintendo-rap/ Whoa, Zach, you wrote something cool about gaming? Allow me to write you a little “rap” beat and we’ll record it. I promise I won’t ruin it (famous last words). Heck, let’s give it a decade or so and then make a music video for it, that’ll definitely go viral! Nearly another decade later and not even 5,000 views… https://crappymusic.pages.dev/music/sorrow-of-a-broken-child/ https://crappymusic.pages.dev/music/sorrow-of-a-broken-child/ Hey look, Joel wrote a great song for our band! I’ll mix it on cheap dollar store headphones. I still can’t hear the bass, let’s turn it up a little more. This could have been a masterpiece, but I’ll make sure that never happens! https://crappymusic.pages.dev/music/lets-do-today/ https://crappymusic.pages.dev/music/lets-do-today/ Such a great song. If only I knew what I was doing in production… “wHaT’S clIpPINg?” https://crappymusic.pages.dev/music/distance/ https://crappymusic.pages.dev/music/distance/ My magnum opus as a guitarist… just throw a few more sloppy effects on that bad boy and let’s see if we can change tempo at least three more times. Seriously, I used to play this to my little sister at night to help her sleep, pretty sure she would pretend to pass out ASAP just to get me to stop. And apparently I convinced my friend to play the flute for part of this – its only redeeming quality. You’ll never be able to listen to this long enough to find it though! https://crappymusic.pages.dev/music/nintendo-beat/ https://crappymusic.pages.dev/music/nintendo-beat/ Yeah, this seemed like a good idea at the time. Only old people even know what Perfect Dark was. I was far too proud of myself for working out that little ditty. Don’t worry though, there’s enough random noise in here that you won’t be able to hear the world burning down around you. https://crappymusic.pages.dev/music/stranger/ https://crappymusic.pages.dev/music/stranger/ Hey, you know what you should do when you’ve run out of ideas for a piece of music you’re writing, but it’s only 25 seconds long? Just copy and paste everything you’ve written so far at the end and tag it with some random notes with an instrument that you didn’t use the entire time. If you have to use this piece in any sort of media you’re producing I owe you an apology. And probably a strong drink. Only, if this music is any indication, I’ll never be affording that drink, so how’s two apologies? https://crappymusic.pages.dev/music/fly-away/ https://crappymusic.pages.dev/music/fly-away/ This song is way too positive in it’s message for this site, but here it sits. In absolute defiance. Go, live your dream. https://crappymusic.pages.dev/music/mid-teen-crisis/ https://crappymusic.pages.dev/music/mid-teen-crisis/ This is what you get when you confront Papa Roach with teenage angst and a rebellion against suicide culture. It’s not the song you needed, but it’s the song you deserved. https://crappymusic.pages.dev/music/movie-techno-theme/ https://crappymusic.pages.dev/music/movie-techno-theme/ No movie should use this. Ever. I think I named it this way because my best friend and I were going to make a movie and this was going to be the theme music. Not because it fit the mood or had any real connection to the movie at all. No, because it was the best I could come up with. You people don’t even know how good you have it with both John Williams and Danny Elfman making film scores in your lifetime. https://crappymusic.pages.dev/music/toms-requiem/ https://crappymusic.pages.dev/music/toms-requiem/ If you don’t know, a requiem in music is usually somber because it’s written for the dead. I didn’t. In fact, I just thought it sounded cool and wrote it for my brother. Shockingly, his name is Tom and he’s very. much. alive. https://crappymusic.pages.dev/music/cool-beat/ https://crappymusic.pages.dev/music/cool-beat/ What a clever name. Like Greenland. https://crappymusic.pages.dev/music/boots/ https://crappymusic.pages.dev/music/boots/ I took zero effort in naming this track. It’s an export of a MIDI file I was sending for to a friend who played the flute part in “Distance” and I just named the file based on her email address, which had something to do with winter footwear. Well, now you’re stuck with my bad choices from two decades ago. Also, this was supposed to be for my mom, so show some support. Or don’t, she won’t hold it against you. She’s cool like that. https://crappymusic.pages.dev/music/one-jill-army/ https://crappymusic.pages.dev/music/one-jill-army/ I used to have a friend named Jill. One day she was feeling down, so my step brother and I put together this little piece. I have no idea where Jill is these days… I wonder why… https://crappymusic.pages.dev/music/massage-oil-medley/ https://crappymusic.pages.dev/music/massage-oil-medley/ My mom was once a massage therapist and I wrote this for her to use to help her clients relax. She’s no longer a massage therapist. Pretty sure she developed rheumatoid arthritis on purpose so she wouldn’t have to tell me there was no way she could play this for her clients. Use at your own risk. https://crappymusic.pages.dev/music/the-end/ https://crappymusic.pages.dev/music/the-end/ Nothing about this says “the end.” I should rename it to TeH eNd? I can’t even tell you what my musical influences were on this… probably just clicking on the available instruments in FL Studio at random. So go ahead, download it, if you like instrument roulette. https://crappymusic.pages.dev/music/stuffed-cat/ https://crappymusic.pages.dev/music/stuffed-cat/ I guess if you listen closely to a stuffed cat, this is what it sounds like? Nightmare in the toybox? Doesn’t this just make you wish you could afford some composer on fiverr? This is what technology has done to us. https://crappymusic.pages.dev/music/movie-trailer-music/ https://crappymusic.pages.dev/music/movie-trailer-music/ You want some Inception “bwaaas”!? Too bad. This is literally a cheap imitation. And the more I added to this track the more muted everything got, so it’s more like deception “booos.” Aside from making crappy music, I also make crappy jokes! https://crappymusic.pages.dev/music/the-bard-in-vegas/ https://crappymusic.pages.dev/music/the-bard-in-vegas/ I should be punished for this. Somehow I convinced my English teacher to let me write a piece of music based on the time period we had studied in a book we were reading or something. I think she passed me so she wouldn’t have to suffer through this kind of nonsense again. https://crappymusic.pages.dev/music/thanksgiving/ https://crappymusic.pages.dev/music/thanksgiving/ The winner of all creative names goes to this one, which I started writing at my dad’s house on the day before Black Friday. I poured all my teenage angst and sadness into it and got what I deserved. If you listen closely you can hear an endless assortment of instruments because I have a very hard time making up my mind or knowing what I’m doing in the first place. Goals are for losers. https://crappymusic.pages.dev/music/jazz/ https://crappymusic.pages.dev/music/jazz/ I was really excited about this, it showed a lot of promise! So I did what any young man would do with something that shows promise and utterly destroyed it. I was traveling so I just used the onboard mic on my computer to “experiment” for another day when I’d have a decent microphone handy. Well, despite all the free time in the world, that day never came. Enjoy the sound of my computer overheating on 4 layers of awful! https://crappymusic.pages.dev/music/jae/ https://crappymusic.pages.dev/music/jae/ JAE are the initials of a good friend. I was recording this the day he left for college, so I dedicated it to him, and it probably ruined his life. To top it off, I played this around the fire at my uncle’s house and his garage caught fire and burned down. That’s not even sarcastic. Keep this music away from your garage. https://crappymusic.pages.dev/music/be-still-my-soul/ https://crappymusic.pages.dev/music/be-still-my-soul/ This is actually really soothing to listen to. Joel Eaton rocking layered harmonies and playing some sort of djembe. This probably doesn’t belong on this site, but he’s allowed it for free distribution. Maybe there still is hope for humanity… https://crappymusic.pages.dev/music/surprised-by-joy/ https://crappymusic.pages.dev/music/surprised-by-joy/ You know, this one isn’t so bad, but that’s because it was all Joel Eaton. Every sound you hear is this guy. The person responsible for messing up the mix – that was yours truly. https://crappymusic.pages.dev/music/pacific-serenity/ https://crappymusic.pages.dev/music/pacific-serenity/ This was a great song until I got my hands on it. How would you like your vocals, Joel? Buried? Perfect. How about some cheap wave effects from the keyboard I got at a yard sale for 5 dollars? Done. You know what else? Right in the middle of the song I’m going to throw some awful distortion on your acoustic guitar. Joel, why do you still talk to me? https://crappymusic.pages.dev/music/be-thou-my-vision/ https://crappymusic.pages.dev/music/be-thou-my-vision/ This is basically a lullaby. If only I had actually mastered it using something other than cheap headphones. https://crappymusic.pages.dev/music/song-of-the-orange-cat/ https://crappymusic.pages.dev/music/song-of-the-orange-cat/ Song of the orange cat? What even was my life at 15?? This is some weird Fruity Loops beat so I probably named it after one of my mom’s cats, given that we only had that program on the computer at her house. This beat would probably do well in the opening to the next Marvel movie so we can finally kill the franchise. https://crappymusic.pages.dev/music/savior-like-a-shepherd-lead-us/ https://crappymusic.pages.dev/music/savior-like-a-shepherd-lead-us/ It’s amazing when you put a good musician in the “studio” (probably my living room) with a terrible producer the things that will happen. If only Joel had recorded with someone who knew what they were doing…