Black Fingernails, Red Wine (song)

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"Black Fingernails, Red Wine"
Eskimo Joe - Balck Fingernails Red Wine Single.PNG
Single by Eskimo Joe
from the album Black Fingernails, Red Wine
Released15 May 2006 (2006-05-15)
Studio The Grove
Length4:09
Label Warner, Mushroom
Songwriter(s) Kavyen Temperley, Stuart MacLeod, Joel Quartermain
Producer(s) Eskimo Joe
Eskimo Joe singles chronology
"Older Than You"
(2004)
"Black Fingernails, Red Wine"
(2006)
"Sarah"
(2006)

"Black Fingernails, Red Wine" is a song by Australian alternative rock band Eskimo Joe, released in May 2006 as the lead single their third studio album of the same name. The song became their first song to peak inside the Australian Singles Chart top 10, peaking at number six. At the ARIA Music Awards of 2006, the song won ARIA Award for Single of the Year and was ranked number two on the Triple J Hottest 100 of 2006. At the 2007 West Australian Music Industry Awards, the song won Most Popular Single/EP. [1]

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Music videos

Two music videos were made for this song. One showed the band members in a car, kidnapping people in the middle of the night. At the end of the video, the kidnapped people were revealed to be Eskimo Joe themselves. When Kavyen Temperley was a guest on The Glass House , he offered that this symbolised that Eskimo Joe had changed, and the kidnapped band were the old Eskimo Joe. The second video shows the band playing in an old building. Due to the criminal theme of the first video, it received an MA15+ classification in Australia, restricting it to night-time airplay. The second promo clip was made to enable the song to be played by daytime music shows.

Track listings

All tracks are written by Eskimo Joe

CD single [2]
No.TitleLength
1."Black Fingernails, Red Wine"4:05
2."Japanese Waitress"2:58
3."Don't Get Me Wrong"4:48
4."From the Sea" (performed live on Rove Live on 8 June 2004)3:25
Limited-edition CD single [3]
No.TitleLength
1."Black Fingernails, Red Wine"4:05
2."Trying to Sleep"2:56
3.Untitled (CDROM feature: Create Your Own Ringtone) 
7-inch single [4]
No.TitleLength
1."Black Fingernails, Red Wine"4:05
2."Trying to Sleep"2:56

Charts

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA) [8] Platinum70,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

Release history

RegionDateFormat(s)Label(s)CatalogueRef.
Australia15 May 2006CD5101137632 [9]
June 20067-inch vinyl5101137630
7 September 2006Limited-edition CD5101138732

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