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Album Review

Release date: 16 May 2008

The Ting Tings - We Started Nothing

The Ting Tings

We Started Nothing

When Jules De Martino and Katie White emerged from their Salford art-house commune at the death of 2006 with a 20-minute, five-song live set, they stood out brightly from Manchester’s usual colourless lad-rock. Subsequent showcases at the ’80s power-pop parties they organised made it apparent they were attempting a cross-pollination of bohemian trendiness and ringtone-mainstream ambition....

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  • May 15, 2008

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Really bloody annoying

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They've gone rock, and it's kind of fun

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The Ting Tings News

The Ting Tings: 'We'd rather puke on our own feet than be on the radio with David Guetta'

The Ting Tings: 'We'd rather puke on our own feet than be on the radio with David Guetta'

Duo also say they've avoided 'cheap nasty hit singles' on their second album

The Ting Tings' second album leaks online

The Ting Tings' second album leaks online

The band call for their label to give 'Sounds From Nowheresville' an early release

The Ting Tings cancel tonight's Bristol gig due to illness

The Ting Tings cancel tonight's Bristol gig due to illness

Duo's singer Katie White has bronchitis and is unable to perform

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The Ting Tings - We Started Nothing: Wikipedia Album Entry

We Started Nothing is the debut album from English band The Ting Tings.
It was released by the Columbia Label Group (UK) on 19 May 2008 in the United Kingdom.
The US edition has a different cover image in several background colors.
The album was also released as a limited edition LP on red vinyl limited to 2,000 copies.

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Fed up with your indigestion
You swallow words one by one
Folks got high at a quarter to five
Don’t you feel you’re growing up undone?

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The Ting Tings - Impacilla Carpisung Lyrics

We on me for when it's on
People are there waiting to
Even if you're on it
We aren't everything you do

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The Ting Tings - Be The One Lyrics

You say, it’s not what you do
It’s what you’re thinking of
Well, I think it's just an excuse
It’s what you put across

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The Ting Tings - We Walk Lyrics

You never alter
You’re always you
Everything's breaking
But I don’t care

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The Ting Tings - Keep Your Head Lyrics

The room’s green, it’s got writing on the wall
It’s got one chair, it’s kinda small
Dirty shoes running past the door
And then you go round, beat yourself up

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The Ting Tings - Shut Up And Let Me Go Lyrics

Shut up and let me go
This hurts I tell you so
For the last time you will kiss my lips
Now shut up and let me go

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The Ting Tings - Traffic Light Lyrics

Don't you be a traffic light
Don't you be a traffic light
With all things said you turn to red
Don't you be a traffic light

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The Ting Tings - Fruit Machine Lyrics

You keep playing me like a fruit machine
Putting in change systematically
Winning streak that you had over me
It's turned into your broken tragedy

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The Ting Tings - That's Not My Name Lyrics

Four letter word just to get me along
It's a difficulty and I'm biting on my tongue and uh
I keep stalling, and keeping me together
People around gotta find something to say now

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The Ting Tings - We Started Nothing Lyrics

No one dropped off waiting in despair
Every time I go, there's no one there
So tell me, where's the soul, oh, where's the soul?
Submit it's all locked up, so hard to lose control

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