We Started Nothing

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Artist: The Ting Tings
Label: Columbia/ Red Ink
Category: Music

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Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars

35 reviews
Sales Rank: 111

Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4

MPN: 28925
UPC: 886972892528
EAN: 0886972892528
ASIN: B0018OAPI4

Release Date: June 3, 2008
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Tracks:

•	Great DJ
•	That's Not My Name
•	Fruit Machine
•	Traffic Light
•	Shut Up And Let Me Go
•	Keep Your Head
•	We Walk
•	Be The One
•	Impacilla Carpisung
•	We Started Nothing

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Editorial Reviews:

Amazon.co.uk
The debut album by Salford's The Ting Tings comes hot on the heels of their No.1 single "That's Not My Name", a nugget of pop gold that comes on like a genetic splicing of Toni Basil's "Micky" and The Knack's "My Sharona". The bulk of We Started Nothing follows a similar formula, navigating a path between the smart, angular indie of CSS, Bonde Do Role, et al and the pop mainstream. Here and there, they pull it off perfectly: the stutter-rap of "Fruit Machine" sees vocalist Katie White leading on some poor sap with sultry charisma and lip-gloss sass, while the excellent "Shut Up and Let Me Go" is snappy dance-punk in the spirit of Blondie's "Rapture" or Tom Tom Club's "Genius of Love". Elsewhere, they branch out with mixed results. "We Walk" builds from quiet flourishes of piano into a surprisingly steely manifesto: "Smash the rest up/Burn it down/Put us in the corner cause we're into ideas", sneers White. Rather less good is "Traffic Light", a light, jazzy number that employs a number of somewhat forced driving metaphors to describe a relationship hit the skids. Still, it's a debut with promise, and a string of good singles is nothing to be sniffed at. --Louis Pattison

Album Description
We Started Nothing is the debut album from The Ting Tings. Tipped in the top three of the BBC's Sound of 2008 poll at the beginning of the year, seemingly they have much to prove. However, The Ting Tings aren't about proving themselves; they are simply here to enjoy it. Making great British pop music - their way - is what they're about. Born of a desire to employ the DIY ethic from day one - Katie White and Jules De Martino escaped the industry trappings they once experienced in a previous band and went back to basics as a duo. They stripped back everything they thought they both knew about making music and the industry that revolved around every note.

We Started Nothing is a debut album brimming with intuitive pop noise. It's pure garage-pop and once heard will in-bed itself into your subconscious for many days, weeks, months to come. Snappy choruses trade off against angular gutar work, whip smart drumming and a succession of loops that they create live with the use of delay pedals.

Album Description
10 tracks. Katie White and Jules De Martino needed a name for the "unintentional band" they'd created in 2007. For the sheer fun of it, Katie (vocals, guitar and bass drum) and Jules (vocals, drums, electronics) had begun writing songs together and doing impromptu shows as a two piece. Suddenly, they were generating massive excitement at a series of house parties at Manchester's Islington Mill, a derelict cotton mill from the Industrial Revolution converted into a thriving underground artist collective housing painters, filmmakers, writers, sculptures, musicians and more.

Customer Reviews: Read 30 more reviews...

4 out of 5 stars

They call me Stacey. January 3, 2009
Jason Stein (Chula Vista, CA United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

What a breath of fresh air it was to listen to The Ting Tings debut cd. Reminding me of Blondie, The Go-Go's and The Waitresses, this English duo really brings the heat on their debut.

What I'm talking about is the catchy, memorable beats, melodies and lyrics. From "Great DJ" to the super-infectious "That's Not My Name" and "Shut Up And Let Me Go", to the more straightforward pop of "Fruit Machine", "Traffic Light" to the electronic undertones of "Keep Your Head", "Be The One" and "We Walk" to the hypnotic chanting and rhythms of the cd closers "Impacilla Carpisung" and "We Started Nothing".

This duo puts life back into pop music and makes it exciting again. Now, the difficult task will be whether they fizzle out after this or whether they can sustain this momentum--or, even better, whether they surpass this four star debut.

5 out of 5 stars

Indie Pop/Rock January 1, 2009
Chloe
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

This is a energetic CD with a lot of creative lyrics and fast background music. I especially love listening to this CD while doing something creative. It really makes you happy as well because its so energetic. I also think this is great dance music. I cannot stop listening to it, its so unique!

4 out of 5 stars

Sassy and Smart Debut December 31, 2008
D. F. Whipple (Bucks County, PA USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

When I first heard a performance by this English duo on MTV's Palladia HD, I immediately thought wow, that's really catchy and different. Are they a one-hit wonder or do they have the talent to play with this unique, off-beat vibe in other ways? Turns out the latter, as evidence by this clunker-free album and the rapid assault onto the UK Singles Chart.

I was concerned, actually, when I heard the opening riff on "That's Not My Name" because it sounded to me like a rehash of Toni Basil, which wouldn't have worked because "Hey Mickey" was never, er, "my thing," but the song goes in a different direction, and for a chart-topping, devil-may-care pop single it has an agreeable level of variety and complexity. It's my least favorite track on the album, but since it's also the most popular one, the band's certainly doing something right here.

The lyrics and videos are what they are, but White and De Martino have gobs of talent, and if they carry their raw, effervescent attitude and musical inventiveness through multiple albums, I think they'll easily find themselves in a position not unlike the B-52s. That is, wildly popular and probably rich. Good luck to them. If you have eclectic tastes and like to manage iPod playlists that range from Beethoven to Rush to, well, this, then I definitely suggest checking it out.

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Dasha

3 out of 5 stars

Islands of awesomeness swimming in Eh December 30, 2008
J. Watson (Landlocked)
I really wanted to love this whole album after dying for the singles (and the band's cover of Happy Birthday, present, of course, on the Yo Gabba Gabba soundtrack). Alas, I can't call this one a play-through.

4 out of 5 stars

Watch out, it's catching! December 16, 2008
Susan Petrone (Cleveland)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful

Somewhere between Toni Basil's "Oh Mickey" and The Beach Boys "Kokomo" (no, seriously), lies what may be the catchiest single of 2008--"That's Not My Name." I figured I needed to get that out of the way right off the bat. The song is kind of the 800-pound glob of goo on the CD--you can't deal with the rest of the album until you've dealt with it. It has all the elements of a great pop song--super catchy, easy-to-remember chorus suitable for shouting along with, a punchy beat suitable for doing a robot dance to, and lyrics that (if you bother to listen to them) are all about being treated poorly as a child. Yeah, it's pretty much a perfect pop song. I was worried when I bought this that it'd be a one-trick pony that would end up in a LaLa trade or at Half Price Books within a month, but the rest of the CD is a lot of fun. It's nine solid tracks of danceable, groovable indie pop. I realize there are 10 tracks on the CD. For me, the only "skip" track is "Impacilla Carpisung," which is too repetitive for my tastes. This is one of those albums that will not change your life, but it's solid pop fun that will give you something to dance to while you're changing your life.

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