NY Loose

Fifteen years ago, in a time before Mayor Giuliani, New York City’s Lower East Side was alive with squalid music dives oozing fresh, young and exciting Rock ’N’ Roll bands, the likes of which the world hadn’t seen since the Ramones burst out of the same neighbourhood some twenty years earlier. Amongst this new wave of young, loud and snotty kids stood out a female-fronted band called Loose, who soon became known as The New York Loose after legal proceedings from an unknown band of the same name. Brijitte West, the group’s singer, songwriter and driving force, had cut her Rock ’N’ Roll teeth playing in bands alongside the likes of Dee Dee Ramone. But by the early 90s she was ready to go it alone and was preparing to give the music scene the kick up the arse it needed! NY Loose were true to Rock ’N’ Roll’s uncompromising musical principles mixing up New York City references with their own Lower East Side experiences to create a unique portrait that lay somewhere between the city’s historical collision with violence, tragedy and beauty, and the Ramones’ song book. They sounded like Joan Jett fronting the New York Dolls… or put another way, Blondie (before they discovered disco) updated, fuel injected, asexual and fully equipped to take on the next foreboding millennium with a late 20th Century Punk Rock, cynical, hard-edged attitude.

Year Of The Rat (1996)

01 - Pretty Suicide

02 - Rip Me Up

03 - Broken

04 - Apathy Is Golden

05 - Dragonfly

06 - Sunday Morning

07 - Detonator

08 - Song For Margo

09 - Kiss My Wheels

10 - Hide

11 - Trash The Given Chance

12 - Spit

Born To Loose (2007)

01 - Bitch

02 - Monolith Kids

03 - The Luckiest Girl

04 - Green Light Semaphore

05 - Pretty Suicide (7'' Version)

06 - Spit (7'' Version)

07 - Tailspin

08 - Fade

09 - Loosen Up

10 - The Late 20Th Century Blues

11 - The Desperate Hopeful

12 - James

13 - This Train Terminates Here

14 - The Case Of All Gone

15 - Lord Won't You Send Me A Devil

16 - Rip Me Up (Live)

17 - Pretty Suicide (Live)

18 - Demons

19 - Scene Of The Crime

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