| We Started Nothing | 
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Sales Rank: 265
Category: Music
Artist: The Ting Tings
Publisher: Columbia/ Red Ink
Studio: Columbia/ Red Ink
Manufacturer: Columbia/ Red Ink
Label: Columbia/ Red Ink
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.4
MPN: 28925
UPC: 886972892528
EAN: 0886972892528
ASIN: B0018OAPI4
Release Date: June 3, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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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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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.
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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
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 Refreshing!! June 7, 2009
This album takes me back to the eighties style new wave / punk. It is a new take on an old sound. I did enjoy it. The songs get into your head!!
 something!!! June 2, 2009
I really like the variety of songs. The music is great as well as the vocals. Definately a must buy.
Fun May 29, 2009
This album is pure fun! I loved every song on it and it is one of the few albums I can listen to in its entirety on my Ipod.Awesome!
Love the Ting Tings! May 9, 2009
I absolutely love this CD! Even though I have a 6-CD changer in my car I listen to this CD maybe 80% of the time. Can't get enough of it!
Just a fun album! May 3, 2009
I give this album 4 stars on the strength of Great DJ and That's Not My Name alone. It's worth having for those 2 singles. It's a must have if you're creating a time capsule for late 2008 or early 2009, or if you need a song to segue between the New Young Pony Club and Blondie.
Sweet as an alcopop, and sure to get all but the most jaded of ladies dancing.
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