SHAMPOO TEARS

I recently took ownership of a brand-new CD, something of a rarity these days as it tends to be vinyl and/or digital.

It was courtesy of Last Night From Glasgow, or to be more accurate, the spin-off label, Past Night From Glasgow.  The latter, as the name suggests, specialises in reissuing records which, in many instances, have been long out-of-print, but with the aim of ensuring that the singers and bands involved are fully financially rewarded as possible from the re-release.

Later this year, the album …Uh! Tears Baby, released on London Records by Win back in 1987, will be made available on vinyl.  In the meantime, a CD version of the album has been produced and distributed to the LNFG patrons and subscribers.  It’s proved to be quite popular, partly because the album was only given a very limited release on CD (which now has an asking price of over £100), but also as it includes eight bonus tracks, including a previously unavailable BBC session.

One of the bonus tracks is the 12″ remix of the band’s second ever 45.   I do have a copy of this on vinyl, but it was one I picked up second-hand, and it proved to be a bit crackly in places.  It’s a real joy to finally have a clean copy:-

mp3: Win – Shampoo Tears (remix)

OK. It does have a very 80s production, but that’s what really makes it for me.  It’s a magnificently crafted piece of pop, full of the sort of instrumentation that can only be from an era when style all too often triumphed over substance. It’s still a head scratcher that Win never dented the pop charts.

JC