Ting Tings - We Started Nothing
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Artist: Ting TingsBrand: Baker & Taylor
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2008-06-03
Music Label: Columbia/ Red Ink
Soundtracks:
- 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
Free Music Notes for We Started Nothing
Free Music Review: Uninhibited, and Just Plain Fun!
Hit: 5 Stars
I heard "That's not my name" on a movie I was watching, and looked this band up. I got this debut album and first I liked some of the songs. Before long, I liked all of them (all but one, that is).
There's just SOMETHING about this sound that is really, really, really...uh....FUN! The rhythm is hypnotic, and each song's progression is addictive, I guess. The lead singer's voice is sexy, uninhibited and fun-loving. The choice of melody can only be described as uninhibitedly creative. I'm not sure why I like it so much, but I do.
Here's what I feel about the lead singer after listening: She says whatever she wants to say, in whatever way she wants to. If she likes how a sound comes out of her throat, she's going to use that sound. If the sentence doesn't fit, she makes it fit. If the words don't rhyme, she makes them rhyme. If she likes a sound she hears, she adds it to a song.
"Traffic Light" is the only song I don't like. It's tepid and makes me emotionally tired. But "Shut up and let me go!" is fun, with a serious side as the protagonist takes her destiny back. Impacilla Carpisung -- I don't know what the heck it's about, but it's really funny. I'm pretty sure she made up her own language just for the song. "Be the one" is one I like just for its sort-of-serious-singsong and rhythmic beats. It's also my favorite, I think. That might change tomorrow though. I can't stop listening to this album.
I didn't like "We started nothing" until I'd heard it several times. But then it started sounding good too. I know you sometimes have to listen to an album several times to get a taste for more than one or two songs. With this album, I listened straight through on a flight to Europe, and enjoyed most of it. But it took about five times through to become an addict. It's better than drugs though---it just keeps getting better.
I'm going to own everything this band ever puts out. I am really glad I bought this CD.
We Started Nothing Poster
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.
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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