Product Description

'We Started Nothing' is the debut album from The Ting Tings. Mixing pop and indie without diluting the power of either is no mean feat, but this album succeeds in spectacular style. Includes the singles 'Great DJ' and 'That's Not My Name'.

Track Listing

1. Great DJ
2. That's Not My Name
3. Fruit Machine
4. Traffic Light
5. Shut Up And Let Me Go
6. Keep Your Head
7. We Walk
8. Be The One
9. Impacilla Carpisung
10. We Started Nothing

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #21 in Music
• Released on: 2008-05-19
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.co.uk Review
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

Customer Reviews

punky!!!!
On first listen this reminded me of very early 80's Culture Club beats with early Kim Wilde vocals mixed with loads of funk!! Then it hit me, that The Ting Tings are a reincarnated Transvision Vamp, with the punky / rocky edge!! It's gonna take a few listens to get me hooked but the tracks Great DJ, the huge No.1 single That's Not My Name and Shut Up And Let Me Go are so full of attitude and funk they over-power everything else what's on the cd - worth a listen definately - not a bad cd, and they sound like nothing else around at this moment in time.

Marmite
This is one of those pop groups that divide opinion along pre-determined lines. For some, this group's work is a dreadful indictment of everything wrong with pop music. For others, it is the greatest record of the decade. Well, it's not THAT good, but anyone who dislikes it so vehemently as some reviewers here must not have a cheerful atom in their body. The first two songs are basically perfect. The rest of the record can be judged by how you view these two singles. If you like these, you'll like the rest. Shut Up and Let Me Go is also pop genius. Traffic Light is floaty enough to be inoffensive. Keep Your Head is buoyed by a nice chorus. My favourite song on the whole album is Impacilla Carpsung, a tune with few discernible lyrics, but, rather like the work of the Cocteau Twins, manages to be remarkable anyway.

Lauren Laverne of the Culture Show has the idea that the best pop songs are ones designed for a guy to be able to dance to with a girl. Every song hear fits that criterium perfectly. It's not emotionally engaging - in fact, at times, it feels cold and efficient. But these guys are veterans of pop. It is a clean, shiny, piece of perfect pop. It may not stand the test of time, but then, in pop music, what does?

another annoying band for wannabe indie kids to rave about
the album was playing whilst i was in hmv i had to walk out the store it pissed me off so much
and to be honest i dont care if people leave bad comments about this review because i will never value an opinion from the type of person who defends the ting tings