Black Fingernails, Red Wine (song)

Infobox Single
Name = Black Fingernails, Red Wine


Artist = Eskimo Joe
from Album = Black Fingernails, Red Wine
Released = May 13, 2006
B-side = "Japanese Waitress", "Don't Get Me Wrong", "Trying to Sleep"
Format = CD Single/EP, Limited Edition Enhanced CD Single, Digital Download, 7" Vinyl Single, 12" Maxi single
Recorded = The Grove Studios Dec 2005 - Jan 2006
Genre = Rock
Length = 4:05
Label = Warner Music
Certification = Platinum (AUS)
Last single = "Life Is Better with You"
(2004)
This single = "Black Fingernails, Red Wine"
(2006)
Next single = "Sarah"
(2006)

"Black Fingernails, Red Wine" is a song by Eskimo Joe, and the first single to be lifted from the album of the same name. It has been their most successful single to date: their first song to chart in the top ten of the ARIA Singles Chart (peaking at #6); spent 19 weeks in the top 20, and won Single of the Year at the ARIA Music Awards of 2006. It also made #2 on the Triple J Hottest 100, 2006. The single will be released as the bands debut single in the United States and is to be released there in August 2007.

Two music videos were made for this song:
# 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.
# A simple performance video, showing 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

* Black Fingernails, Red Wine EP (Standard Release CD Single)
# "Black Fingernails, Red Wine" - 4:06
# "Japanese Waitress" - 3:00
# "Don't Get Me Wrong" - 4:50
# "From the Sea" (Performed live on "Rove Live" - 8 June 2004) - 3:24

* Black Fingernails, Red Wine (Limited Edition Enhanced CD Single)
# "Black Fingernails, Red Wine" - 4:06
# "Trying to Sleep" - 2:56
# "CDROM: (Create Your Own Ringtone)"

* Black Fingernails, Red Wine (Limited Edition 7" Vinyl Single)
# "Black Fingernails, Red Wine" - 4:06
# "Trying To Sleep" - 2:56

Trivia

* In the second music video, on one of the walls the words 'Kilroy was here' are visible.
* The CDROM on the Limited Edition Enhanced CD Single has the following explanation:

This CD contains software that, for a limited time, enables the consumer to create and buy their very own personalised ringtones, you can choose any part of any track on this CD as your ringtone.

Charts

References

[http://music.download.com/eskimojoe/3600-8592_32-101063689.html?tag=MDL_listing_song_artist] "Black Fingernails, Red Wine" MP3