Black Fingernails, Red Wine

Black Fingernails, Red Wine is the third studio album by Eskimo Joe, released on 10 June 2006. The album became their first Australian ARIA Albums Chart #1, debuting at that spot on the chart week of 19 June 2006. The album has been certified 4x Platinum in Australia.^[2] It is their best selling album to date. The album was released as the band's debut album in the United States on 25 September 2007.

In early 2007 a special edition of the album was released featured a bonus remix EP which was originally sold at Eskimo Joe concerts during their Beating like a Drum tour.

1 Production
2 Track listing
3 Release history
4 Charts
5 Cover art
6 References

Production

To record the album the band enlisted sound engineer, Matt Lovell (The Mess Hall, Jebediah, Sleepy Jackson) and also stepped up to the desk and took on production duties themselves for the first time.

The album is noted for being heavily influenced by the production techniques and sound of early 80's rock, with many similarities to vintage Icehouse and INXS. James Law guested on keyboards on the album, and, in Juice Magazine, referred to his contributions as "funkalicous '80s cult of snap jam pumping flavas." This has led to Tony Martin (Get This, Triple M), back-announcing their songs by calling them 'INXSkimo Joe'. Kavyen Temperley explains "I always think of things in a concept-record type of way. So I wanted to make a record as if we were a stadium rock band" "If we were like INXS, what kind of record would I want to write?". Interestingly enough, the band recorded Black Fingernails, Red Wine on the central coast of NSW's "The Grove Studios." The Grove Studios were originally known as "Mangrove Studios" and were formerly owned by INXS bass player Garry Gary Beers.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Eskimo Joe.

Black Fingernails, Red Wine
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Comfort You"	3:20
2.	"New York"	3:52
3.	"Black Fingernails, Red Wine"	4:09
4.	"Breaking Up"	3:23
5.	"Setting Sun" (¹)	3:52
6.	"London Bombs"	3:51
7.	"Sarah"	3:29
8.	"This Is Pressure"	4:09
9.	"Beating like a Drum"	3:03
10.	"Reprise"	1:59
11.	"Suicide Girl"	3:04
12.	"How Does It Feel"	4:29

^1. "Setting Sun" was previously known as "Forever Young".

Beating like a Drum
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Black Nails from the Red Sea" (Nixmix; Remixed by Nick Launay)	6:33
2.	"Beating like a Drum" (Dexter's Raskol Mix; Remixed by G. Mcquilten, A. Ingram, D. Faby & V. Juste-Constant)	5:02
3.	"London Bombs" (Sneaky Sound System Remix; Additional production by Black Angus & Peter Dolso)	5:01
4.	"Comfort You" (P-Money Mix; produced, mixed & arranged by P- Money)	3:57
5.	"New York" (Teenager South of Huston Mix; Mixed by Teenager)	4:52
6.	"Sarah" (The Bumblebeez Rmx; Remixed by the Bumblebeez Produced by Invisibl)	3:37

This EP was released with the special edition of Black Fingernails Red Wine. The EP was to promote the Beating like a Drum tour. It is a remix EP.

Bonus US DVD
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Black Fingernails, Red Wine" (Nash Edgerton Version)
2.	"Sarah"
3.	"New York"
4.	"Breaking Up"

B-sides
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Japanese Waitress"	3:00
2.	"Don't Get Me Wrong"	4:50
3.	"Trying to Sleep"	2:56
4.	"One Little Desire Called Love"	1:43
5.	"Hey"	3:20

Release history

Region	Date	Label	Format	Catalogue
Australia	10 June 2006	Mushroom, Warner	CD, Digital download	5101128442
Australia	5 May 2007	Mushroom, Warner	CD, Digital download	5144204312
USA	25 September 2007	Rykodisc	CD	10922

Charts

Chart (2006)	Peak position
Australian ARIA Albums Chart^[3]	1
Australasian Albums Chart	1

Cover art

The cover art is made up entirely of three cover art pictures from the album. The cover art pictures are from (left to right,) New York, Black Fingernails, Red Wine and Sarah. Cover art by Brisbane artist Dane Lovett www.danelovett.com

References

^ Bolger, Clayton. "Eskimo Joe: Black Fingernails, Red Wine > Review" at Allmusic. Retrieved 28 September 2011.
^ "ARIA Charts - Accreditations - 2007 Albums". Australian Recording Industry Association. 2007. http://www.aria.com.au/pages/httpwww.aria.com.aupagesARIACharts-Accreditations-2007Albums.htm. Retrieved 2008-04-26.
^ "Australian Top 50 Albums Chart". ARIA. http://www.ariacharts.com.au/pages/charts_display.asp?chart=1A50. Retrieved 2006-11-26.

Preceded by Best of Chris Isaak by Chris Isaak	Australian ARIA Albums Chart number-one album 19 June 2006 – 9 July 2006 24 July 2006 – 30 July 2006	Succeeded by Desert Lights by Something for Kate

Eskimo Joe

Kavyen Temperley · Stuart MacLeod · Joel Quartermain

Studio albums	Girl · A Song Is a City · Black Fingernails, Red Wine · Inshalla · Ghosts of the Past

Extended plays	Sweater · Eskimo Joe · Beating Like a Drum

Video albums	Eskimo Joe

Singles	"Wake Up" · "Who Sold Her Out" · "Planet Earth" · "Liar" · "From the Sea" · "Smoke" · "Older Than You" · "Life Is Better with You" · "Black Fingernails, Red Wine" · "Sarah" · "New York" · "Breaking Up" · "London Bombs" · "Foreign Land" · "Losing Friends Over Love" · "Don't Let Me Down" · "When We Were Kids · "Love Is A Drug"

Related articles	Discography