I Like It Both Ways

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"I Like It Both Ways"
Single by Supernaut
from the album Supernaut
ReleasedMay 1976
Genre Glam rock
Length3:46
Label Polydor Records
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
Supernaut singles chronology
"I Like It Both Ways"
(1976)
"Too Hot to Touch"
(1976)

"I Like It Both Ways" is a song by Australian glam rock band Supernaut. The song was released in May 1976 as the debut single from the band's debut studio album, Supernaut (1976).

Contents

Musically, "I Like It Both Ways" is a tough glam number, with heavy riffing throughout while the lyrics became a theme of bisexuality. [1]

Track listing

7" (Polydor 2079 082)

Charts

Chart (1976)Peak
position
Australian Kent Music Report Singles Chart [2] 16

Year-end charts

Chart (1976)Position
Kent Music Report 66

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References

  1. ""I Like It Both Ways": The bisexual anthem by Australian glam band Supernaut shocked the land down under in 1976". Night Flight. 21 December 2015. Retrieved 7 September 2017.
  2. Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 . St Ives, NSW: Australian Chart Book. p. 301. ISBN   0-646-11917-6. NOTE: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting from 1970 until ARIA created their own charts in mid-1988.