We Started Nothing
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| Studio album by The Ting Tings | ||||
| Released | 16 May 2008 | |||
| Recorded | 2007–08, Salford, Greater Manchester | |||
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| Length | 37:47 | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
| Producer | Jules De Martino | |||
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| Singles from We Started Nothing | ||||
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 64/100 |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   |
| The A.V. Club | B− |
| Robert Christgau |  |
| Drowned in Sound | 5/10 |
| Entertainment Weekly | B+ |
| The Guardian | |
| NME | 6/10 |
| Pitchfork Media | 3.8/10 |
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We Started Nothing is the debut studio album by English indie pop duo The Ting Tings. It was released on 16 May 2008 by Columbia Records. The US edition has a different cover image in several background colours. The album was also released in the UK on red vinyl limited to 2,000 copies. The US vinyl version is a standard black vinyl pressing. As of November 2014, We Started Nothing had sold 639,876 copies in the United Kingdom.
According to vocalist and guitarist of The Ting Tings, Katie White:
The way we write changes with each song. "Keep Your Head" started with Jules [De Martino] on the drums, "We Walk" started with me on piano, "Shut Up and Let Me Go" started with Jules on bass, "That's Not My Name" was me ranting about my frustrations with the record industry. "Great DJ" was me playing a D chord on the guitar for hours, because that's all I could play. And then I put my finger on the wrong string, and got what I discovered was an augmented chord. And that was the riff! The lyrics described the life we were living at the time. It was about getting lost in hedonism, about forgetting that you had bailiffs knocking at your door and just surrendering to the joys of the music in a nightclub for several hours—the boys, the girls, the strings, the drums.
The first single released from the album was a double A-side single consisting of "That's Not My Name" and "Great DJ". It was released on 27 May 2007 on the independent label Switchflicker Records.
The album's second single, "Fruit Machine", was released as a limited 500-copy run, only available for their fans at the band's concerts. Four covers were made: one for Salford, one for Berlin, one for London and one for New York.
The third single released from the album was the re-release of "Great DJ" on 3 March 2008. The song did chart until the re-release of "That's Not My Name", reaching number thirty-three on the UK Singles Chart.
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