We Started Nothing | 
 enlarge | Artist: The Ting Tings
Label: Sony Japan
Category: Music
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Rating:  50 reviews
Sales Rank: 50751
Format: Import
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 | | • | Be the One | | • | We Walk | | • | Impacilla Carpisung | | • | We Started Nothing |
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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
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| Customer Reviews: Read 45 more reviews...
 One word... January 2, 2009
Vulpine2 (Peak District)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Monotonous
Ok, a few more.
I liked the single, it was a breathe of fresh air.
Trouble is they've failed miserably to create much that's any different on the rest of the album.
 Crap - THAT IS YOUR NAME ! November 12, 2008
S. M. RALPH (U.K - KENT)
1 out of 14 found this review helpful
THE WORST POP/PUNK/ROCK ..WHATERVER! BAND IN THE WORLD!
please people grow up and listen to some AC/DC !
Most of all VERY ANNOYING ! id rather listen to an entire CD of a toilet being flushed than this garbage !
Who the hell gave these idiots a record deal? Utter rubbish! October 25, 2008
C. P. Whiting (Ipswich, UK)
3 out of 13 found this review helpful
This has to be one of the worst groups I've ever heard. The woman 'singer' cannot even sing, the songs that I have heard are extremely poor and not even catchy. A feeble attempt at being 'punk' and trying to sound like that one hit wonder from the 80s - Mickey. The punk world will no doubt feel insulted and embarrassed by this group and the woman who sang Mickey (Toni Basil) at least sounded like she could sing a few notes!
There is nothing good to say about this group or any of their songs. I know people trying to make it as musicians in some capacity and they have more talent in a strand of hair than these idiots have between them. Its a complete injustice that this rubbish gets recognised, whilst so much better talent goes unnoticed.
I'm sure whoever likes them will get bored very quickly and hopefully this crap will soon disappear and never be heard of again!
Please go away quickly and don't even dream of any form of comeback!
 not bad but not great either! October 24, 2008
spike (united kingdom)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Katie White sounds like Tony Basil on tracks like "Great DJ", "The Drums", "Thats not my name" while slowing down her act for "Be the one" which are good material which is not backed up even more by some of the duff tracks involved like "Impacilla Carpisung" and "Traffic Lights" which does not lend a great deal to a debut album as of course for every new band or solo act starting debut albums will have the odd one but NME's OTT reviews could come back and haunt them if the Ting Tings fail to come up with a different if winning formual for their second album.
Its not a bad album but its not great either!
 Every 8 year old should have it! October 20, 2008
HGT
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
First heard these early this year, about the same time as I saw the Kills. For me, they are a bit 'candy pop' but it's a great compromise when arguing with my 8 year old daughter about what music is going on the CD player. It's worth it just to catch her doing air guitar and miming the words....very badly! A fun Album.
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