Kono kanji…

As you probably (don’t) know I have been playing guitar and writing songs since I was about 14… F***ed Up was recorded in 1999 and released in 2000… we were listening to lots of crazy music at the time so it’s kind of an eclectic batch of songs. These masters are off the reel-to-reel and not cleaned up and tweaked (and normalized) like the actual album was, but I think it’s worth a listen. If you like it I can probably dig up a copy of the release version of the album  and get you a copy (for a small fee).

Kevin and Jer were not in the band when we recorded this album, but they used to come over and jam on the weekends and give us feedback on our music… As soon as we lost the members of the band that were on this album they joined up in an instant (which got us back to a power trio format which I enjoy). I actually have about 2 and a half albums worth of songs we recorded before I moved to Tempe and when I get motivated I will release them on the Beckament Band site.

I used to work in a digital studio and the lo-fi style is intentional, I was growing tired of the loudness war going on and I prefer the way things were recorded in the late 60′s and early 70′s and was really into bands like Pussy Galore , Boss Hog, 20 Miles, and Honeymoon Killers, so I went for a certain sound that some will like… other’s will not.

I converted them as HQ VBR mp3 and ogg, so they are a bit bigger than a lot of low bitrate mp3′s that you may be used to, but the frequencies are all there… =)

OK, here is the early (pre-release analog) version of the album F***ed Up from 2000 by The Beckament Band. You can get more of our music at the Official Beckament Band site.

1. Y_Ung (mp3 – ogg) – music: Chris and Erik, drums: Terry, lyrics: Chris and Crystal
2. TomTom (mp3 – ogg) – music: Chris and Erik, lyrics: Crystal and Chris, drums: Terry
3. F# (mp3 – ogg) – music: Erik and Chris, lyrics: Chris and Crystal, drums: Chris
4. Highschool (mp3 - ogg) – spoken word: Jaffi Galac, vocals: Chris, Music Chris, drums: Terry
5. Great Escape (mp3 - ogg) – percussion: Chris and Erik, vocals: Chris and Crystal, bass and guitar: Chris
6. Blue (mp3 - ogg) – music and lyrics: Chris
7. HS2 (mp3 – ogg) – spoken word: Jaffi Galac – vocals and music: Chris, drums: Terry
8. Crazy (mp3 – ogg) – vocals: Crystal, music: Chris
9. Ummmmmm (mp3 – ogg) – guitar: Chris, baritone: Erik, drums: Chris, vocals: Chris and Crystal
10. Hodering (mp3 – ogg) – music: Erik and Chris, vocals: Crystal and Erik, drums: Nate
11. Quick5 (mp3 – ogg) – music: Chris and Erik, vocals: Crystal and Erik, drums: Nate
12. Slow (mp3 – ogg) – music: Chris and Erik (keyboards)
13. Longwalk (mp3 – ogg) – music: Chris and Erik (keyboards)

Bonus Tracks:

14. Melon (mp3 – ogg) – vocals: C. Barber, Music: Chris and Erik Dreher
15. White Trash/Blues (mp3 – ogg) – vocals: C. Barber, Music: Chris and Erik
16. Trailer (mp3 – ogg) – vocals: C. Barber, Music: Chris and Erik

The music is and all original content is Copyrighted, but I allow any (independent) internet radio station to stream the songs royalty free until 2011 as long as they credit the band (Beckament) and a link to our website would be greatly appreciated: http://beckament.net. Commercial use, selling, or using for advertising purposes is prohibited. I also do not want to see any of our songs appear on a compilation album, independent film, or commercial without obtaining our permission first (chris@beckament.net).