war paint by shampoo

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• plumstead
• pop
• jacqui
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• carrie
• askew

[stuartshame]

Why oh why wasn't this released in the UK as the second single from "Shampoo Or Nothing"/"Girl Power" rather than the awful "I Know What Boys Like" which is the worst track on that LP!? The mind boggles... This is such a great song and better video!

[marilynshampoo]

@stuartshame AGREE AGREE AGREEE it's in my top 3 favourite Shampoo songs :D

[stuartshame]

@marilynshampoo Thank heavens! Someone agrees with me! Wasn't this the first track off of "Shampoo or Nothing" in Japan in '95? I cannot believe that the bods at Food/EMI decided against releasing it over here or anywhere else for that matter? It was a Japan only release. Shampoo were so fab and wonderful but they were let down and mishandled by their record company. Shame the brill "Absolute Shampoo" faded fast as well...

[marilynshampoo]

@stuartshame The fact that Absolute Shampoo is completely unavailable now is such a crime. So many people that like them have never even heard it. Just thinking about what else must be rattling around the archives makes me weep :-(

[marilynshampoo]

@stuartshame re: their success in general - I'm not sure how much they were let down by their record company, the first two albums got a pretty decent amount of promotion especially considering they came up through the NME etc first.

[marilynshampoo]

@stuartshame I've always thought they were just kind of the right band at the wrong time. People had areally hard time trying to position them as either 'pop' or 'indie' and their audience in this country was pretty niche. It's a shame but I reckon they might do a lot better if they were releasing now..

[edwingoss]

they were under rated but I enjoyed their music a lot... well composed trash...with plenty of energy... thanks for the memories girls

[MrKnowYourRights]

quite hot..

love girls who wear a lot of lipstick and wear it well...

[stuartshame]

And also again so true...right band at wrong time. Like Transvision Vamp, Shakespear's Sister and Fuzzbox before them in the early/mid 90's they appeared in the wrong era, it was all either boybands, Britpop or corporate rock like Bon Jovi and punk girl bands were on the way out. Few years later though...boom! Girl bands (not Grrrrl bands tho) were everywhere...Spice Girls...B*Witched...All Saints...but they were all, "Hi, we're so sweet and R n B..." Shampoo were tougher than that lot!

[stuartshame]

@marilynshampoo The second - or middle - album from Shampoo is in my view the best, but "Absolute Shampoo" rocks because it is so different from the first two...accoustic and electro rather than all out pop punk But still fabulous and shows that Shampoo did it themselves and weren't controlled. Even Halliwell admitted she nicked "Girl Power" from them!.

[stuartshame]

I agree with all your comments 100%! When "Trouble" came out I thought, "Oh what's this, it's quite good" but then the b sides...wow! "School Is Boring" is an anthem! And then "We Are Shampoo"...wow! It just irks that Jacqui and Carrie are 100 times better than GaGa or N-Dubz or whatever is out there now and yet they sank so quickly.

[ariellevonglitz]

love this...never seen this video before....and I do wear a lot of make up too...lol!