The Ting Tings-We Started Nothing-2008-DDZ INT

ARTIST.....: The Ting Tings

ALBUM......: We Started Nothing

YEAR.......: 2008

LABEL......: Sony BMG Music Entertainment



RLZ-DATE...: 03/08/2010 STREET-DATE...: 05/16/2008

RIPPER.....: Team-DDZ SUPPLIER......: Team-DDZ

TYPE.......: Album GENRE.........: Indie Pop

TRACKS.....: 10 SIZE..........: 67,4 MB



SOURCE.....: CDDA

QUALITY....: VBRkbps / 44,1kHz / Joint-Stereo

GRABBER....: EAC 0.95b3

ENCODER....: LAME 3.98



NB. TRACKNAME TIME



01 Great DJ [03:23]

02 Thats Not My Name [05:12]

03 Fruit Machine [02:55]

04 Traffic Light [03:00]

05 Shut Up And Let Me Go [02:52]

06 Keep Your Head [03:24]

07 Be The One [02:58]

08 We Walk [04:05]

09 Impacilla Carpisung [03:42]

10 We Started Nothing [06:22]



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37:53 min



AMG Review :

In pop music, catchiness and obnoxiousness often go hand

in hand, but on the Ting Tings debut album, We Started

Nothing, theyre locked in a death grip. The duos new

wave-worshiping mix of dance and indie pop which

grafts chugging guitar and bashed drums onto looping

structures and proudly plastic keyboards is polished,

but far from polite. In fact, the way the Ting Tings

repeat their cheap and cheerful hooks until their

listeners ears are about to break often borders on

annoying. Singer/guitarist Katie Whites snotty, singsong

vocal delivery and flat rhymes are part cheerleader, part

playground chant, and a tiny bit of punk snarl; Thats

Not My Name, on which White sneers Are you calling me

darling? Are you calling me bird?, even sounds a little

like riot grrrl sloganeering filtered through a decades

worth of pop. Even when White sings more melodically, as

on Traffic Light and We Walk, the energy, attitude,

and above all the repetition can still grate, even

if youre tapping your foot to the songs. However, the

Ting Tings manage to stay on the catchy side with Fruit

Machine, a Lily Allen-ish bit of cheeky bordering on

vindictive pop, and on Keep Your Head and Be The One,

which tone down the Ting Tings energy to more manageable

but still lively levels. Great DJ and Shut Up And Let

Me Go (which sounds like a Yeah Yeah Yeahs parody/

tribute) are also standouts, and its no surprise theyve

been used in commercials theyre so short and

memorable, they feel like jingles waiting for products to

endorse. Since theyve got a real knack for writing songs

that stick in your head whether you want them to or not,

the Ting Tings songs are fun in very small doses.

Theyre a singles band at heart, though, and they wear

out their welcome all too quickly on We Started Nothing.



URL........: http://www.thetingtings.com/