Shampoo (band)

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Shampoo
Origin Plumstead, London, England
Genres Pop rock, pop punk, bubblegum pop, power pop
Years active1993–2000
LabelsIcerink, Food, Parlophone, EMI [1]
Past membersJacqui Blake
Carrie Askew

Shampoo were an English girl duo in the 1990s, formed by Jacqueline "Jacqui" Blake (born 23 November 1974 in Woolwich) and Caroline "Carrie" Askew (born 4 May 1977 in Plumstead). Their song "Trouble" reached number 11 in the UK Singles Chart.

Woolwich district in South East London, England

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Plumstead district of South East London located in the Royal Borough of Greenwich

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Trouble (Shampoo song) 1994 single by Shampoo

"Trouble" is the first single from Shampoo's 1994 debut album We Are Shampoo. The song was the band's most successful single, reaching No. 11 in the UK and making the top 20 in Australia, Belgium and the Netherlands, while also proving popular in Canada and Japan. Attempting to break into the US market, the song was released as a promotional single for the 1995 film Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie, in anticipation of the release of the US version of We Are Shampoo. A new music video was recorded featuring clips from the Power Rangers film.

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History

Jacqui Blake and Carrie Askew were best friends at Plumstead Manor School, a secondary school for girls in Plumstead, London. In the early nineties they started writing Last Exit, a fanzine for the Manic Street Preachers, and later appeared in the video for "Little Baby Nothing". They also wrote a fanzine for Fabulous.

Plumstead Manor School is a secondary school and sixth form for boys and girls, located next to Plumstead Common in the Plumstead area of the Royal Borough of Greenwich in London, England. It is a community school controlled by Greenwich London Borough Council.

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During this time they formed Shampoo, the name deriving from their schoolyard nickname of 'the shampoo girls', for claiming to be 'washing their hair' when turning down date requests.[ citation needed ]

Their first single "Blisters and Bruises" with the b-sides "Paydirt" and "I Love Little Pussy" was released by Icerink records (a short-lived label created by Saint Etienne's Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs) on 7" pink vinyl in 1993. This and their following single,"Bouffant Headbutt", received favourable reviews in the music press, such as the NME and Melody Maker , but sold few copies.[ citation needed ]

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Whilst their first two singles were typical of the Riot Grrl bands coming to notice, the following year saw the release of "Trouble" and the album We Are Shampoo which displayed a more radio friendly sound, but still with much of their previous abrasiveness: "Dirty Old Love Song" panned Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston (whose "I Will Always Love You" had been the previous year's biggest-selling single in the UK). "Shiny Black Taxi Cab" about a night on the town gone wrong (ending with a spoken section by the 'taxi driver' complaining to a new passenger about two drunken girls who had thrown up all over his cab the previous week). We Are Shampoo sold over a million copies, with the majority of sales in Japan and the rest of Asia. [2]

Mariah Carey American female singer-songwriter

Mariah Carey is an American singer, songwriter, actress, record producer, and entrepreneur. Referred to as the "Songbird Supreme" by the Guinness World Records, she is noted for her five-octave vocal range, power, melismatic style, and signature use of the whistle register. She rose to fame in 1990 after signing to Columbia Records and releasing her eponymous debut album, which topped the US Billboard 200 for 11 consecutive weeks. Soon after, Carey became the first and only artist to have their first five singles reach number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart, from "Vision of Love" to "Emotions".

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"Trouble" reached No. 11 on the UK charts, [3] landing the group on Top of the Pops and the cover of Smash Hits magazine. For the remainder of 1994 Shampoo did well, finding fans in both the mainstream and alternative music scenes – boosted in part by their links to Manic Street Preachers fanscene; However they also attracted scathing comments from those within the small UK Riot Grrrl scene who saw the band as a repeat of We've Got A Fuzzbox And We're Gonna Use It's "sellout" to commercialism – future artist Lucy McKenzie (then in the short lived Riot Grrrl band 'Batfink') wrote in her schoolgirl fanzine Poppy/Violet that "Shampoo = Miss June And July of the Paedophile Calendar".

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The band became moderately successful in Japan. "Trouble" was included in the 1995 film Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie and also appeared on the film's soundtrack. It also appeared in the 1996 film Foxfire . The song "Don't Call Me Babe" was included in the soundtrack of the 1996 film Barb Wire . "Delicious" is played in the 1997 film Casper: A Spirited Beginning .

However, by the time they released their next album Girl Power in 1995, their sales were in decline, and the third Shampoo album Absolute Shampoo was released solely on the internet in 2000, due to an inability to acquire a recording contract. The duo disbanded shortly afterwards.

Shampoo often cited their main influences as being the Sex Pistols, Gary Numan and the Beastie Boys, whilst also claiming to be huge fans of East 17 and Take That. Shampoo covered Numan's song "Cars" on the b-side of their "Girl Power" single, while a cover of East 17's "House of Love" was included on their debut album.

In May 2007 the album We Are Shampoo was re-issued in the UK with bonus tracks of the B-Sides. [4]

Discography

Shampoo discography
Studio albums4
Compilation albums2
Video albums1
Music videos2
Singles10

The discography of Shampoo consists of four studio albums, two compilation albums and ten singles.

Studio albums

YearAlbumChart positions
UK
[3] [5] 		AUS
[6] 		JP
1994We Are Shampoo451378
1995Shampoo Or Nothing
  • Labels: Toshiba EMI Ltd
  • Notes: Japanese Release of Girl Power
–––
1996Girl Power
  • Labels: Food Records, Parlophone
  • Notes: UK Release of Shampoo Or Nothing
–192–
2000Absolute Shampoo
  • Labels: Shampoo Records
  • Notes: Internet only
–––

Compilation albums

YearAlbumChart positions
UK
[3] 		JP
1995Delicious
  • Labels: Toshiba EMI Ltd
  • Notes: Japan only: B-sides/Rare tracks
–6
1998The Greatest
  • Labels: Toshiba EMI Ltd
  • Notes: Japan only
––

Singles

YearSingleChart positions
UK
[3] 		AUS
[6] 		BEL
(FLA)
[7] 		IRE
[8] 		JP NED
[9]
1993"Blisters and Bruises"––––––
"Bouffant Headbutt"––––––
1994"Trouble"111717238116
"Viva La Megababes"279750–––
1995"Delicious"21–––76–
"Trouble" (re-release)36–––––
"War Paint" (Japan only)––––––
1996"Girl Power"25120––22–
"I Know What Boys Like"42131––––
"Yea Yea Yea (Tell Me Baby)" (Japan only)––––95–

Video

Books

Use of audio in other media

Covers by other bands

"Trouble" was covered by Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine, and can be found as a B-side on their "The Young Offenders Mum" single. [13] It was also sung by the cast of the 2007 film St Trinian's and featured on the film's soundtrack. [14] In 2009, Japanese rock band Vamps included a cover of the song as a B-side to their single "I Gotta Kick Start Now". In the same year, Zebrahead also included a version on their 2009 cover album, Panty Raid .

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