{{Infobox song | name = Apple Shampoo | cover = Apple Shampoo Blink.jpg | alt = | type = single | artist = Blink-182 | album = Dude Ranch | released = April 14, 1997 | recorded = December 1996–January 1997 | studio = Big Fish Studios (Encinitas, California) | venue = | length = 2:52 | label = {{flat list| *Cargo Music *Grilled Cheese *Rapido}} | writer = {{flat list| *Mark Hoppus *Tom DeLonge *Scott Raynor}} | producer = Mark Trombino | prev_title = Wasting Time | prev_year = 1996 | next_title = Dammit | next_year = 1997 }} "'''Apple Shampoo'''" is a song by American rock band Blink-182, released on April 14, 1997, in Australia as the first single from the group's second studio album, ''Dude Ranch'' (1997). The song was released as a single in Australia only, through an exclusive license with Mushroom Records imprint label Rapido.
== Background== The song, which regards a failing relationship,<ref name="lat"/> was inspired by the end of Mark Hoppus' relationship with Elyse Rogers of the ska punk band Dance Hall Crashers, with whom Blink toured in 1996.<ref name=shooman45>Shooman, 2010. p. 45</ref> The song's title came from Rogers' favorite type of shampoo.<ref name="shooman45"/><ref name=lat>{{cite web |url=http://www.latimes.com/wtxx-songs-with-misleading-titles-20121203-003,0,3463002.photo#axzz30A8TirL5 |title=Songs with Misleading Titles |work=Los Angeles Times |accessdate=April 28, 2014 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140505000234/http://www.latimes.com/wtxx-songs-with-misleading-titles-20121203-003,0,3463002.photo#axzz30A8TirL5 |archivedate=May 5, 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Hoppus said, "[Rogers] always smelt like apple shampoo and that's why I named it 'Apple Shampoo' [be]cause it's about her. It would've been really bad form to name the song 'Elyse from Dance Hall Crashers'."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btwfYm1egG0|title=Mark Hoppus on "Apple Shampoo"|via=www.youtube.com}}</ref>
==Composition== The song is composed in the key of C major and is set in time signature of common time with a fast tempo of 216 beats per minute. Hoppus's vocal range spans from G<sub>4</sub> to A<sub>5</sub>.<ref name=sheet>{{cite web|url=http://www.musicnotes.com/sheetmusic/mtdFPE.asp?ppn=MN0083308&|title=Blink-182 Apple Shampoo - Guitar Tab|work=Music Notes|publisher=EMI Music Publishing|accessdate=April 26, 2014}}</ref>
==Release== "Apple Shampoo" was released as the band set out on the Australian leg of the Warped Tour 1997.<ref name="shooman45"/><ref name=ariareport>{{cite web|url=http://i.imgur.com/FmjhxA3.png|title=~New Releases~ Product Available from : 14/4/97 (from The ARIA Report Issue No. 372)|publisher=Imgur.com (original document published by ARIA)|accessdate=April 12, 2017}}</ref> The song was an Australian-only single release celebrating the tour and their fanbase in Australia, which had grown considerably since 1995.<ref name=p53>Hoppus, 2001. p. 53</ref><ref name="linernotes1">{{cite AV media notes | title=Apple Shampoo - Single | year=1997 | others=Blink-182 | type=liner notes | publisher=Cargo Music / MCA Records | location=Australia | id=RAP023}}</ref> The single peaked at number 90 on the Australian singles chart in April 1997.<ref name=ryan/>
== Format and track listing == All songs written by Blink-182, except "Good Times" (D. Grusin, A. Bergman/D.Bergman) ;CD (1997) # "Apple Shampoo" – 2:54 # "Voyeur" – 2:46 # "Good Times" – 1:04
== Personnel == ;Blink-182 * Mark Hoppus – bass, lead vocals * Tom DeLonge – guitar, backing vocals * Scott Raynor – drums
;Production *Mark Trombino – production, recording, mixing *Brian Gardner – mastering
==Chart positions==
=== Weekly charts === {| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;" |- !scope="col"| Chart (1997) !scope="col"| Peak<br>position |- |Australia (ARIA)<ref name=ryan>{{cite book|last=Ryan|first=Gavin|title=Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010|year=2011|publisher=Moonlight Publishing|location=Mt. Martha, VIC, Australia}}</ref> |90 |}
==References== * {{Cite book | last = Hoppus | first = Anne | author-link = | title = Blink-182: Tales from Beneath Your Mom | date = October 1, 2001 | publisher = MTV Books / Pocket Books | isbn = 0-7434-2207-4 }} * {{Cite book | last = Shooman | first = Joe | author-link = | title = Blink-182: The Bands, The Breakdown & The Return | date = June 24, 2010 | publisher = Independent Music Press | isbn = 978-1-90619-110-8 }}
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