

“He would record part of an acoustic song, go do Tae-Kwon-Do and I’d add a Rammstein ending.” “Dan was a latchkey bandmate,” Tim chimes in. “We would get together once a week, work on music for a few hours and then go get burritos.” “We never had any intention of these songs existing in the flesh” Dan says, voice hoarse after a sold out show at Brooklyn Bazaar. Shortly after the death of Dan's father, they started recording those songs on a shoestring budget, burying their voices under dense layers of distortion. The Connecticut duo are hard to pin down to any one sound, you can hear traces of black metal, shoegaze, post-punk, and emo in equal measure, but none of their music would be a suitable soundtrack to the good life.ĭan Barrett and Tim Macuga formed Have A Nice Life in the mid-2000s and quickly earned a reputation for terrorizing local open mics with morbid acoustic songs.

The punchline to this version of the joke is the band’s music. On the surface the band’s name is dripping with sarcasm, the phrase being the kind of thing you only say to someone you have no plans on ever seeing again. This is different from Art in the sense that Art is fanart or something akin to it while this is for original projects inspired by ELHR, but otherwise have no relation.Though little to nothing about their music is funny, Have A Nice Life’s name is a joke.

Have a Nice Life Compendium a post compiling most of Dan and Tim's content. Memes must be contained to Sundays for Shitpost Sunday. No discussion of piracy support Dan and Tim and buy or stream the music! Self-promotion is prohibited outside of the Monthly Community Content Thread.ĭo not post exclusive Legrand Society material on the subreddit. Posts must be related to Have A Nice Life and affiliated artists (Black Wing, Giles Corey, Consumer, et al.). Whosoever lives, so shall they die and may they die a drowning death, with all of Life inside their mouths, and naught but stones inside their lungs, like David with the skull, dwelling upon it every second, the impossible trials of ceasing, stopping, ending…”

“I am base and I am lever I push the Earth into the water.
