| Black Fingernails, Red Wine | |
| Cover: | Eskimo Joe - Balck Fingernails Red Wine Single.PNG |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Eskimo Joe |
| Album: | Black Fingernails, Red Wine |
| Studio: | The Grove |
| Length: | 4:09 |
| Label: | Warner, Mushroom |
| Producer: | Eskimo Joe |
| Prev Title: | Older Than You |
| Prev Year: | 2004 |
| Next Title: | Sarah |
| Next Year: | 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 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]
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.
| Region | Date | Format(s) | Label(s) | Catalogue | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Australia | 15 May 2006 | CD | 5101137632 | [3] | |
| June 2006 | 7-inch vinyl | 5101137630 | |||
| 7 September 2006 | Limited-edition CD | 5101138732 |