Awesome, awesome LP. Wish I had allowed myself to admit it back then already, but for some reason, a lot of people seemed to rather dislike SQUIRT. Originally released on cassette, by the way.
Oh – it was a tape first. It’s great. I will put out the whole on FLAC until there is a reissue release.
Awesome! Never heard Squirt before just experienced it. Want.
A record you have not heard. First time I beat You. Get it for 8 bucks on discogs
They were not from Zürich, the capital of Switzerland, but from Luzern/Lucerne, south of Zürich at the Vierwaldstätter lake.
Same city as the Punk band Crazy, who put out an album and a 12″ep and there is a cd, which contains tracks from these records, but not all, but has a few unreleased demo tracks, too. Anyway, Crazy split up in 1981/1982 and they transformed into NDT, who put out a much sought after album in 1982, a live album in 1983 and a 7″ in 1984, before they disbanded.
The Squirt were not quite popular in Switzerland back then, because the ‘scene’ was in decline and it was not ‘cool’ anymore to like Swiss bands in Switzerland in the 80’s, in opposite to the late 70’s.
There were a bunch of cool Swiss bands in the mid 80’s like Hungry for What with their Clash-style melodic Punk stuff, Chin-Chin or The Squirt, but nearly all of them are totally forgotten now.
Great band from my home country, but hardly ever known.
BTW: “chnebel” is used as a colloquial term for (drum-)stick.
Awesome, awesome LP. Wish I had allowed myself to admit it back then already, but for some reason, a lot of people seemed to rather dislike SQUIRT. Originally released on cassette, by the way.
Oh – it was a tape first. It’s great. I will put out the whole on FLAC until there is a reissue release.
Awesome! Never heard Squirt before just experienced it. Want.
A record you have not heard. First time I beat You. Get it for 8 bucks on discogs
They were not from Zürich, the capital of Switzerland, but from Luzern/Lucerne, south of Zürich at the Vierwaldstätter lake.
Same city as the Punk band Crazy, who put out an album and a 12″ep and there is a cd, which contains tracks from these records, but not all, but has a few unreleased demo tracks, too. Anyway, Crazy split up in 1981/1982 and they transformed into NDT, who put out a much sought after album in 1982, a live album in 1983 and a 7″ in 1984, before they disbanded.
The Squirt were not quite popular in Switzerland back then, because the ‘scene’ was in decline and it was not ‘cool’ anymore to like Swiss bands in Switzerland in the 80’s, in opposite to the late 70’s.
There were a bunch of cool Swiss bands in the mid 80’s like Hungry for What with their Clash-style melodic Punk stuff, Chin-Chin or The Squirt, but nearly all of them are totally forgotten now.
Great band from my home country, but hardly ever known.
BTW: “chnebel” is used as a colloquial term for (drum-)stick.