What songs have you made that you think are amazing but are ashamed to share? I’m talking about that cringe but fire pop mashup, blatant stolen beats with minor alterations, absolutely nonsensical stuff you can’t stop listening to etc.
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What’s yours?
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I’ll show you mine if you show me yours… 
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kinky
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To be fair, I’m ashamed to share all my music!!
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In 1999 my best mate was lucky enough to own a PlayStation for which his older brother picked up a copy of Music 2000. We wrote a load of utterly crap cheese-laden dance tunes with it using the built in loops and recorded it to cassette on his dad’s hi-fi. Absolutely terrible music but very nostalgic and always makes me smile 
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At some point I was working on some bullshit idea of mine that used a guitar riff I played and recorded, and then had a pretty lengthy cut from a paramore vocal acapella mashed up with a parliament funkadelic break at it’s core.
I was, for some reason, compelled to see it through to completion but my computer crashed and I lost about half of the project which I guess had the double impact of both annoying me into not wanting to backtrack over the cringe I’d already cringed out, and also slapping some sense into me like “what the fuck am I going to ultimately do with a track that has a hugely recognizable sample of a singer who has more lawyers than I have talent AND a cut from one of the most sampled funk groups of all time?”
The stars were just not aligned on that one, but that said, I might open that project back up one day and finish the cringefest because I really wanted load it onto pads of the SP202 and make some kind of terrible lofi performance out of it.
I’m sure you can understand that this guilt which you’ve asked for exists on several cascading levels, perhaps none of which contain the aforementioned pleasure… however, I do love hayley williams AND parliament funkadelic, AND it was a pretty snazzy guitar riff sooo maybe there’s some redemption in there after all?
I tried pretty hard to forget it, apparently, because I haven’t thought about it in quite a while, but I’m glad that you brought this up because now maybe I can waste some more of my life molding that one back into shape 
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I’ll Venmo you $1,000,000,000 if you post the tune here in the next 10 minutes.
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I’ll share two.
First, freshman year of college, my friends and I decided to make a 50s-monster-movie parody, and I was going to score it. I’d never written more than 4 bars of anything, had practically zero production skills or equipment, and only (kind of) knew how to play an acoustic guitar. So naturally I was the perfect fit. This was my first piece of temp score. Poor mixing, poor playing, really noticeable noise removal artifacts, and a couple decades off in horror scoring style, and yet I think there’s a vibe here somewhere.
Second, also freshman year, my best friend told me about a webcomic idea she had about skypirates. (This may be the most 00s sentence you read today.) For the first time, I’m inspired to write an finish a song, and it becomes an informal theme tune. It’s very inspiration-on-its-sleeve, a dorky mix of Jonathan Coulton and Neutral Milk Hotel. I can’t share the original, having lost contact with one of the performers, but I try rerecording it every so often. Here is one re-record.
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Deep cut
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Yes, this somehow feels very nostalgic.
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As a tongue in cheek thing I made a pretend cassette release of a 10 minute EP of dungeon synth adjacent music based on mine and a friend’s love of Weird fiction, and Lovecraft in particular. It’s nonsense, but fun nonsense:
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This one of many 
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So…. I really don’t like trance. I mean, there are some techy psy sub genres that I like, but I really can’t stand happy inspirational 90s style trance.
Anyway, my friend was disagreeing with me.
I then took it upon myself to make a track with every trance cliche of the time period (I think this was circa ‘98 ‘99) and gave it to him.
He loved it.
The reason it was a guilty pleasure is that I had a ridiculous amount of fun making it, and was giggling with glee the entire time. Like laughing unapologetically at my own musical trance jokes.
It was fun.
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That guitar bit was delicious.
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I had a similar situation back in the 90ies but with a sample from destiny‘s child and an Amenbreak. Dude I shared the place with erased my Sampler‘s Harddrive. Until today this randomly pops into my mind and I feel a sense of loss, brains are so weird 
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Absolutely brains are weird. Sometimes I think back to stuff from 25 years ago and assign value that didn’t exist, other times I think something was garbage then I find a cassette tape recording and I’m like oh shit that was pretty good.
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These are great!
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I like literally every single thing that has been posted in this thread. Am I broken?
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