We'd like to take this opportunity to give the Ting Tings' album a solid score of 90% Amazing

Like so:



Normally we're against spending money on new pop music when we can get perfectly good promotional CDs from record labels, but we saw the whole "Buy our vinyl and we'll give you downloads" deal with the Ting Tings album and we thought what the hell, it's only $11.99 (on sale?!?!?!??!!??!). Anyway we bought it (along with a Cocteau Twins record and one of those Hacienda "OMG Manchester in the early '90s was brilliant" compilations that rears it's head every couple of years) and we must say, if we've ever been confronted with a 90% Amazing pop album, We Started Nothing is it. Frankly we sort of expected a mathematical equation similar to "That's Not My Name" + "Great DJ" + some other songs = 60% Amazing pop album, but in fact almost every song is brilliant in some way that's different from "30-somethings on drums and vocals and some sampling".* "Be The One" is like the GoGo's produced by Vince Clarke (WE KNOW) and "Shut Up and Let Me Go" might actually make us give a shit about iPods for the first time since 2003. It's fucking AMAZING. Possibly single of the year (it's not, but you know what we mean).

So yeah, the Ting Tings are officially amazing. Good on them.

*This post is kind of all over the place writing** wise, we apologize.
**"Writing".

Here are the Ting Tings

...again.



Despite slipping slightly off of the Ting Tings bandwagon this week due to their new single "Great DJ" not being QUITE as amazing as we first thought upon multiple listens, when we heard Sir Calvin of the Harrisons (no relation to Her Majesty Sophia von Bextovilles) was doing a remix of "Great DJ" our interest was, shall we say, "re-piqued". The remix is FUCKING BRILLIANT and definitely restores "Great DJ"'s status as a song that's OK to listen to sometimes, when one feels a little dance-y.

The Ting Tings - "Great DJ (Calvin Harris remix)" [zShare] [YSI]

The remix is 100% amazing until the 1:30-minute mark, where it brutally and suddenly drops to approximately 94% amazing. Then when the verse picks up again, it's back to 100%. Magical.

PS: We want to make "The drums the drums the drums the drums etc" the "Umbrella-ella-ella" of 2008. I.e.: "What does Ross Jarman play in the Cribs again?" "The drums the drums the drums the drums etc".

PPS: THE TING TINGS JOKE OF THE DAY:

Q: What are the Ting Tings always careful to tidy up after they've eaten a box of cookies?
A: The crumbs, the crumbs, the crumbs, the crumbs, the crumbs, etc.

The drums, the drums, the drums etc etc

After being the last blog on the face of the Earth to bring you The Ting Tings' 2007 hit "That's Not My Name", we'd like to be at least the 12th to post the video for their new single. From 2,309,098,293,294,234 to 12, we think that is definitely a "Hot Trend Setter". The video is called "Great DJ" and it has the best chorus since "Potential Break Up Song".



It seems like we have gotten ourselves into one of those annoying Weird YouTube Ruts again. The perils of journalism, arewerite.

EDIT: We just realized that the "Great DJ" video is basically the "Stay Up Forever" video, without the awesome "FOREVER" and "LOVE IT LOVE IT" parts. We're kind of tempted to believe that Chungking > Ting Tings, readers? Your verdict.

Bandwagon-jumping with the Disconappers, part 1,374

If you've been an avid reader of Disconap for more than a couple of weeks, you'll have noticed that we take the refined art of hearing about a band, ignoring them, finally getting around to listening to them and jumping on their already bursting-at-the-seams bandwagon to uncharted levels. We were categorically the last people to confess to liking the Scissor Sisters, and proud. Well, we've done it again: we fucking love the Ting Tings roughly 25 years after the rest of the entire planet. They were even like #3 in the NME's top singles of 2007. Yeah. That bad.

Anyway, they have a song (wow, really?) called "That's Not My Name", and it's fun, catchy, totally dancey and we love it. Frankly, we get too hung up on band names, but can you really blame us, readers? The fucking TING TINGS? It's like "Shiny Toy Guns" all over again.

Anyway, "That's Not My Name" is here and now.

The Ting Tings - That's Not My Name [alt link]

Lovely.