The Ting Tings

'That's Not My Name' really is super duper. Look forward to an album.

They used to be Dear Eskiimo who weren't quite as good but their song 'Patient' is nice. There's an interview online with DE on the woeful Designer Magazine website but I can't bring myself to link to it because the writing and design of that site is just rotten.

'that's not my name' is ace. anyone seen them live?

By all accounts, Thats Not My Name is their only good song.

The new single GREAT DJ is ace too. Ditto the Calvin Harris remixx.

I don't believe you about the Calvin Harris remix.

terrible band. the next in a long line of empty rubbish fashion punk bands that manchester hammers out. they used to be nylon pylon as well for christ sake. the singer is super hot though, i occasionally try and smell her when shes sashaying around the ponce factorys of manc's NQ

^new favourite poster

no silly, nylon pylon became the whip. who are part of manchester's woeful lineage of blokey dreary grey JD/NO knock-offs. and shit.

Wither Superstring/Alpinestars/Performance/Megarider (I'm not sure they really existed though)? And Haven, who are part of Joe Moss's woeful lineage of bands not as good as the Smiths.

hmm these ere NQ ponce factories get some dissin locally, but which ones do you mean straight? i mean specifically? and which 'fashion punk' bands do you mean?

oh they all existed alright. i spent most of the early 00's in scuzzy clubs being underwhelmed by each and every one of them. i hold my hands up to the NP mixup, i'll just have to dislike the tings solely on the basis of their music then.

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i diss the NQ loads but i live there and am a flat out ponce myself so i cant really take the piss that much. its more the post club suicide indie/electro folk that turn out the worst, and they tend to get signed due to a fit girl on one finger synths. the worst offenders have been mentioned above. the ting tings didnt really come from that scene but the same sort of 'next big thing' watchers lap them up cos of the sexy girl. apparently she used to be in a serious endsleigh league girl band that toured with girls aloud etc so i doubt their motives a little.

Why the fuck would anyone willingly listen to this shit?

u mad, doggie

Its been a while since i've been to to Manc - what's is/ are NQ?

I thought Ms Ting Ting looked somewhat hawt in a photograph, but I am not so shallow that I would like a band on that basis. Unless they were Ladytron.

NQ = Northern Quarter, with lots of bars, record shops and the like. Hipster haven.

The bit around Oldham St basically.

Oh and the Ting Tings are rubbish.

I sort of think her gammy teeth are cute, but obvs that doesn't make up for them being cack.

the ting tings = great breezy summer pop, cute smart fun female-fronted, just what manchester needs to wash away all this FUCKAWFUL £££-in ian curtis revivalism of the past few months.

the real villains of modern manchester are the the courteeners. angry little-england conservatism wrapped up in union jack guitars and delia smith hairstyles. complete with archetypal frontman masquerading as downtrodden working-class voice of the common man while he's the son of teachers from a middle class suburb.

ting tings = ecstacy + summer. courteeners = cocaine + casual misogyny

ting tings = ecstacy + summer. courteeners = cocaine + casual misogyny

-- s.rose, Monday, 12 May 2008 15:54 (6 seconds ago) Bookmark Link

The latter clearly wins.

The former: hay fever and being unable to sleep with the window shut. The latter: NWA and Fleetwood Mac. What's WRONG with you man.

oh passantino you are a one

the mac werent doing 50% speed 30% salt 10% flour silly

I think the last thing anyone wants to hear on ecstacy in the summer is a schmindie group with "observational" lyrics that just bought a keyboard.

Fat dude hating on summer shocker.

History will probably prove max r wrong but I still got his back here

xpost

http://www.thequietus.com/2008/05/black-sky-thinking-tinging-outside-the-box

runs out of steam at the end, but thru track 8 it's great

So empty it makes Santogold sound full of substance.

I liked hearing "Great DJ" once but never ever ever ever want to hear it again.

the drums the drums the drums the drums the drums the drums the drums the drums the drums the drums the drums the drums the drums the drums the drums the drums the drums the drums the drums the drums the drums the drums

WHAT DID I JUST SAY

^ easily one of the less good songs on their (pretty good) album, as far as i can tell

http://www.gay.hr/slike/attachmenti/00.WhitneyHoustonMyNameIsNotSusanUK.jpg

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZOgTVJOdFVU

ay ya ya people actually like this shit???

reposting from uk chart thread:

the ting tings may actually be the ~worst band~ i have heard this year. her stupid voice makes me want to kill. if this is the closest these boring hos can get to dance music they shouldn't have bothered. "and the drums and the drums and the drums" ad nauseam may actually be the worst pop moment in, like, a decade or something (or maybe "EEE-EEE-EE" is worse?). also THEIR NAME WTF

srsly her voice makes me all killy. and in the video she does that lame pose to go with her lame mannered accent. this shit is ~not fun~~

i guess she doesn't sound british enough

too british if anything

too STUPID is more to the point though

The mannered posing stuff made the video work, I thought.

I can't imagine ever willingly listening to this song again, even though I enjoyed watching the video.

"The drums the drums the drums the drums etc" just sounds like detached electroclash bullshit to me, but she really doesn't spend the rest of the album doing that, fortunately. Honestly, I think "Great DJ" might be its worst song; there are only a couple others that I don't like. Haven't seen the video.

I hate them so much I'm actually plotting things against them that I can't really talk about on here. Its not just the singer its the drummer, they are asinine.
Ah screw it, I'm just going to heckle them if I have the misfortune to bump into them at a festival.

you can only get away with mannered posiness if you look good or sound good though

when not making me want to tear my eardrums out/rip her vocal cords out she manages to be both really characterless AND really annoying. like, so stacey's not your name but why should i care what your name is?

xp Or, I should say, "only a couple others that I accurately dis-like." Can't say they have any songs I absolutely love either, but the Altered Images/Blondie/Bangles parts seem kind of fun to me.

I think I liked their concept more than their execution.

Ah screw it, I'm just going to heckle them if I have the misfortune to bump into them at a festival.

-- VeronaInTheClub, Tuesday, June 17, 2008 12:58 PM (Tuesday, June 17, 2008 12:58 PM) Bookmark Link

read this as you would heckle them if you had the misfortune to bump into them at a funeral

They sort of remind me of that 'Addicted to Bass' song from a few years back (who sang that anyhow?).

They're both, fairly plain, mouth breathers, sans tunes. I not get it.
thanks

They sort of remind me of that 'Addicted to Bass' song from a few years back (who sang that anyhow?).

Amiel Daemon.

That's Not My Name sounds pretty good when coming from an unobtrusive quiet little sound system in a bar, pretty much horrible when you actually come home and google the chorus and check out the song.

In my experience.

she manages to be both really characterless AND really annoying

bingo.

Fun!

Don't fancy the girl at all but I think "That's Not My Name" is a really fun song - heard it at a club a few weeks ago at just the right time in my personal dance buzz and it really nailed me somehow. Just got me all skittery. I like how they marshal all this production drama as the song goes on, even though there's absolutely no content to back it up - it really works, IMO.

I saw them live a few weeks ago (the first band of an 8-band festival with the likes of Dan Deacon, Crystal Castles, and Vampire Weekend) and it was quite silly. All their songs consist of taking some word or phrase and repeating it several times over and over. And at one point the singer, in a most arrogant and self-absorbed fashion, threw her used guitar pick into the audience, as if someone would actually want a used Ting Ting's guitar pick.

This is basically Andrew W2K8

i thought 'Shut Up...' was a new CSS joint, but she sounds more like New Young Pony Club woman. it is was too reminiscent of 'Take Me Out' but i don't really mind

This is basically Andrew W2K8

This is deeply unfair both to Andrew WK's music and to the scale of his hype machine. How quickly we forget!

lex OTM esp. re: the "ee-ee-ee-ee" part in "great DJ", godawful

Liking this band would get you beaten up by twee kids, surely.

no, i don't care, i still think they're harmless and fun. i'd listen to their songs over anything NYPC (whom they really remind me of, actually, far more than they remind me of CSS) in a heartbeat.

They're the British New Young Pony Club. Only people hate the Ting Tings far too much as a knee-jerk reaction, and apologists liked NYPC far too much. At least Metacritic ratings seem that way.

They both seem like "modern" lifestyle music - I feel they're the kind of acts that major labels don't really understand but see that the young kids who dress funny on their MySpaces will listen to them. Up next - NME hype, and hate from ILM! Which, actually, is fine by me.

nypc are british.

ting tings were a neat idea at first but that album is one super-rushed cash-in.

i fucking hate that not my name song.

heard a snippet of dizzee on the ahem radio 1 live lounge doing "that's not my name", actually sounded pretty worthwhile. radio 1 live lounge covers of course usually vomit worthy, cf. the other snippet i heard of the ting tings themselves doing "standing in the way of control" horrendously mashed up with snap's "the power", it was worse than you could possibly imagine.

I just listened to the whole album all the way through. This is possibly the worst record I have ever done this to. Everything is so thin - the writing goes nowhere, nothing's happening in the arrangements, it's all treble... gah.

grow up, or down, whatever, all of you

I don't imagine the album is great, but that's not my name is one of those perfect pop songs that taps into the soft spot between incredibly irritating and abrasively brilliant. It fits into that lineage of cartoonish British pop songs that you hear on the radio or see on TOTP2 sometime. It also doesn't really have anything to do with anything else in the charts. Its spiritual forebear is "Wannabe".

Girl kinda reminds me of Janet Street Porter

so wait people think the girl's hot? I mean, by British standards, I guess.

Yeah, I'm still lost on that one.

so edgy the bbc is using them as background music for the golf

Greg won't be happy

He's more a Glasvegas kinda dude.

Amber yesterday was saying her three favourite songs were "That's not my name", "Goodbye Mr A" and "Nellie the Elephant" as by the Toy Dolls.

Srsly tho, if you do not like the Ting Tings, chances are they are actually not meant for you.

(Although I have not heard the album)

Its spiritual forebear is "Wannabe".

Its American equivalent is "Hollaback Girl."

my nine-year-old nephew has the album (he went from "i hate the ting tings" to "i love the ting tings" in the space of a week) and from what i've heard of it, it's surprisingly OK. i love "that's not my name" and it will almost certainly be in my 2008 top-20.

All their songs consist of taking some word or phrase and repeating it several times over and over

what? pop music? repeating some word or phrase several times over and over? well i never.

DG griping that they're not edgy (did they ever claim to be?), a dash of misogyny from 'some dude' and (as grimly just pointed out) some other moron hating pop music for being pop music. sterling work ILX08.

i mean the ting tings certainly aren't a great band but not for the maconie/harris/daily mail-lite reasons given here.

Its American equivalent is "Hollaback Girl."

This is so unfair on Hollaback Girl

But I actually like both songs!! It was supposed to be a compliment!

ting tings = ecstacy + summer.

s.rose you need better drugs

i need a job as a tube driver :(

but no, i stand by that. you wouldn't understand cos you're a grumpy old sod

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ecstasy is really great for hay fever! clears it up a ~treat~~

the idea that 'that's not my name' is in the same lineage as 'wannabe' and 'hollaback girl' holds water until you remember what 'that's not my name' sounds like. the ting tings sound like they've heard people do tracks like 'hollaback girl' and thought, OOH THAT'S EASY, WE CAN DO IT TOO b/c we have no skillz to actually make good music.

...it's not easy, they fall flat on their faces.

s.rose will hate you now :(

tearz

I really dislike Hollaback Girl, Wannabe AND That's Not My Name. I win some kind of grumpy old git prize. HOWEVER if That's Not My Name is in any lineage its in that of Daydreamer by Menswear.

really?

like this is what this hot new band sounds like?

like fucking really?

wow dudes.

matt pay not attention to the candybrains

HOWEVER if That's Not My Name is in any lineage its in that of Daydreamer by Menswear.

-- Matt DC, Monday, 21 July 2008 20:46 (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

No, it's just "Mickey" devoid of all sense of fun

you don't listen to the words, rite?

Is some great secret of the universe revealed to me within it?

AND THE DRUMS AND THE DRUMS AND THE DRUMS AND THE DRUMS

a dash of misogyny from 'some dude'

I call bullshit on this, SD is clearly responding to posts further upthread to the effect that the singer is sorta hot but the music sucks.

re: the lyrics -

Is some great secret of the universe revealed to me within it?

No, but I would say the demanded "sense of fun" is right there.

i just can't believe ppl think this is good pop music.

it's like when you meet kids that were home school by born again christian parents and they have this weird skewed view of the world cuz they weren't exposed to anything. like they don't know any TV shows that everyone knows, so everything seems pretty mindblowing to them.

ha, i heard these guys on an NPR story about how they caught their break. i figured it was some human interest bullshit like "aw look at this cute band releasing their music and having some success" and i'd never hear of them again.

"Hollaback Girl"'s a good comparison - there aren't too many of those songs like that one and "Shut Up and Let Me Go", tracks that are so compulsively listenable and entertaining, even as they irritate the hell outta me. ("Wannabe" didn't irritate me in the least.) Plus it's always nice to hear that "Good Times" guitar lick recycled yet again. Is this stuff popular with the young kiddies? Next time I see my 11-year old niece, I'll have to ask her opinion.

yeah, what Casino said. if anything my post was Britishes-hating, not woman-hating.

all 58 million of us took it to heart

Given the visceral reaction these guys seem to engender, I feel like we're looking at the next Coldplay or something.

Should I bother typing "ting tings" into the youtube search box, or not?

nah just one ting

and maybe one ting more, to be sure

begorrah these fellas are shoite

I'm listening to "That's Not My Name" now inspired by Matt H's truth bomb above, and THIS:

Its spiritual forebear is "Wannabe".

is the least OTM statement ever.

But THIS:

No, it's just "Mickey" devoid of all sense of fun

is unfortunately spot-on. Add "recorded in GarageBand" and you are good to go.

yeah that totally explains why i loathe "Mickey" and just about everything else of its ilk and really like these guys

Plus it's always nice to hear that "Good Times" guitar lick recycled yet again.

otm

If anyone else is seeing them at the McCarren Pool in Greenpoint this Sunday, I'll be there.

i'll be there

Yeah, I was gonna say, "Mickey" is kind of a drag, especially compared to this!

I haven't heard anything else, but I like "That's Not My Name."

dizzee's version is tops.
the last single was catchy, for sure. but it was fucking annoying. i eventually took to singing the chorus in the style of a mentally-retarded yorkshireman. much better.

...it's not easy, they fall flat on their faces.

― lex pretend, Monday, July 21, 2008 7:36 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Woah woah woah woah. My friend just told me about this band. I am MAJORLY impressed with what I'm hearing on myspace. Incredible. Are LCD Soundsystem doing any remixes yet? Wow. I totally need to have this album right now.

The vocals on this "That's Not My Name" remind me of Snatch, which is interesting because I was just thinking of Snatch yesterday.

Wow are these guys good live

they say they're moving to En Why Cee in Spring of '09

they're gonna be on Carson Daly's New Years Rockin Eve

they say they're moving to En Why Cee in Spring of '09

so they're our problem now? great.

is "ipod commercial" a genre yet?

THE DROMS THE DROMS THE DROMS T H E D R O M S T H E D R O M S T H E D R O M S

i like when "that's not my name" comes on in the car; i roll down the windows, turn up the volume and it sounds great

Ready. Aim.... Fire!!!

ahahaha 'enry 'iggins!

that's not my name!

I like Mrs. Ting's taste in headwear, but that doesn't make up for how awful their music is.

Their sound is like an untalented teenage girl being inspired by her boyfriend's description of an Art Brut cover band (that he doesn't know is a cover band).

was mystified at simon reynolds' love for this -
http://reynoldsretro.blogspot.com/2008/06/ting-tings-we-started-nothing-word-june.html

I like the album. Sorry, but there it is.

feel proud, ! :)

i like their cover of 'happy birthday' on yo gabba gabba. this is actually my only exposure to them.

the best part of that's not my name is when she says mary jo lisa

Weren't these guys "discovered" at Danny from Embrace's club night?

The chorus could be better imo but, theres plenty of goodness in this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAUK0tdvDTA

why everyone trying to get all the knife on me this year?
chorus is totally aimed at 20/30something office girls out on a friday night in bridgewater whetherspoons

so I know everyone hates them and whatever but their new album seems to be a ton of fun three songs in

Really? Even the couple people I knew who loved their first one said this new one was terrible.

well it basically sounds like LCD Soundsystem-pastiche with M.I.A. as a vocalist until the fifth track

okay yeah the middle of this peters out DRAMATICALLY

these guys were abysmal on fallon last night

my favorite part was when the guitarist switched to drums just so a more talented musician could play the guitar solo

New single is basically drum and bass c.1998. Only they know why.