Black Fingernails Red Wine (W/ Bonus DVD)

Eskimo Joe | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 25, 2007)
• Original Release Date: 2007
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: Rykodisc
• ASIN: B000SO7J2A
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #237,198 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Comfort You

2. New York

3. Black Fingernails, Red Wine

4. Breaking Up

5. Setting Sun

6. London Bombs

7. Sarah

8. This Is Pressure

9. Beating Like A Drum

10. Reprise

11. Suicide Girl

12. How Does It Feel

Editorial Reviews

About the Artist

Eskimo Joe is Kavyen Temperly (vox/bass), Stuart MacLeod (guitar/backing vocals) and Joel Quartermain (guitar/keys/backing vocals). The trio's formation began in Fremantle in 1997 when the young trio entered the Australian National Campus Band Competition, of which they took home top honors. The grand-prize awarded the band a slot on the annual Livid Festival and time in a recording studio. Out of that recording session came Eskimo Joe's 1998 debut EP Sweater, which received significant airplay at the influential Australian radio outlet Triple J. In 1998 the band released a second self-titled EP which broke the radio hits, "Ruby Wednesday" and "Turn Up Your Stereo." In 2001 Eskimo Joe released their first full-length album titled Girl. The album proved to be a Top 40 hit with the singles "Planet Earth" and "Who Sold Her Out" both charting. 2004 brought the band superstardom with the release of the mega-popular sophomore follow-up A Song Is A City which reached the No. 2 spot on the Top 40 charts and spawned the hit songs "From the Sea," "Smoke" and "Older Than You." Their third album (and Rykodisc U.S. debut) Black Fingernails, Red Wine stayed atop the No. 1 spot for four weeks when it was released in Australia in May 2006. The 12-track recording highlights Temperley's impeccable songwriting and the band's overall expertise with arrangements. From the memorable and haunting keyboard hook of "Comfort You" to the closing piano-tinged melancholy of "How Does It Feel," Black Fingernails, Red Wine is a complete listen from start to finish.

Product Description

Eskimo Joe's Black Fingernails Red Wine is an epic, superbly crafted rock album, combining raw sincerity and unpretentious honesty with a huge stadium rock sound. From the haunting keyboard hook of "Comfort You" to the closing pianotinged melancholy of "How Does It Feel," this is the rare album that's a complete listen from start to finish.

Eskimo Joe is one of Australia's most popular bands. Black Fingernails Red Wine (their U.S. debut) is a smash in their homeland that skyrocketed to # 1 upon its release (where it stayed for four weeks) and has since gone quadruple platinum (400,000 copies). The band has won three ARIA Awards including Best Single for the album's title track (and first U.S. single). Eskimo Joe has performed alongside such artists as The Killers, Modest Mouse, Muse, Lily Allen and My Chemical Romance and will be bringing their arena-ready live show to our shores this summer.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Emergency, I think I am falling apart, November 27, 2006

By 

Thoron Dor "mosem" (Western Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Black Fingernails Red Wine (Audio CD)

So what is a old blues jazz man doing listening to a frighteningly good young power rock pop trio from the
port suburb of Fremantle (former home of the America's Cup, and Bon Scott of AC/DC) in the beautiful west coast,
white sandy beach oriented city of Perth, Western Australia?

I was channel hopping one night and got hungry, so I tuned the television to a music programme and went to fix myself a sandwich.
Well, half way through laying down the cheese layer I found myself unconsciously singing to a rock song on the
television. This made me stop and take stock. So I listened a little harder and then found the hairs on the
back of my neck rising, and then I felt like having a beer, and I felt my youth was returning to me (at least the memories of it) with all
the hormonal urgings, and the dreams, and the excitement of discovering girls and surfing - all around this music.

I was shaken momentarily.

How would I describe the music of Eskimo Joe.
Infectious power rock pop with stunning male vocals and spine tingling guitar riffs and hooks.
What also stopped me in my tracks, was watching the 7 song cycle the band played on television and being glued to the screen. These guys have a definite presence, watch them perform if you get the chance.
I sensed I was witnessing something special, a band of enormous talent, perhaps not fully realised (even yet), and hey... they come
from down the road - unbelievable indeed.

I am forever amazed at how this world of ours continues to throw us curve balls, to make life interesting in a myriad of ways.

Listen to Black Fingernails, Red Wine, the "single to make you tingle". This song was picked up by radio
station Triple JJJ in Australia and it immediately took off like a concord - a great song.

The rest of the songs range from power cords with gorgeous guitar hooks and keyboards to gut wrenching power melodies and
achingly beautiful vocals that make one long to re-live life's youthful emotions, and all those urgent feelings and
human desires. The lyrics speak of home and of New York and of London, where we yearn like the singer for a woman who has left
Western Australia and gone home to London, and we worry for her safety from the London Bombs.

I am not sure if young people define this as surf music these days, but it made me want to go surfing again, kind of like the Hoodoo Gurus in the old days.

Each song is an interesting, and often touching story, sometimes enough to cause a strong emotional reaction, and many of these inspiring songs ask you the question in one way or another - "how does it feel?" (life I suppose!).

Well, Eskimo Joe, you have "surprisingly" made an ageing ex-60's/70's baby boomer hippy feel very emotionally good again, very strong.

Is this not what music is indeed supposed to evoke?

Anyway, good on you young fella's.
Let the spinakers out boys, and fly!!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This Aussie group rocks!, November 15, 2007

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Arizona Music Fan (Phoenix, AZ USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Black Fingernails Red Wine (W/ Bonus DVD) (Audio CD)

This group appeared in Tempe several days ago in front of a very small crowd. Unfortunately I wasn't there but a friend was and told me to be sure and check them out. After listening to just a short excerpt from Black Fingernails, Red Wine, I purchased the album, and it has been playing non-stop in my car CD player every since. The group rocks hard and also knows how to put out a great ballad. If asked to compare them to other groups, I would say they were a cross between Tragically Hip and the Moody Blues. I predict a bright future for this terrific band.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Too good for mass consumption., November 9, 2007

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J. Groma "secolo" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Black Fingernails Red Wine (W/ Bonus DVD) (Audio CD)

These guys are the real thing--multi-instrumentalists, great songs. I saw them live at the Bottom Of The Hill, San Francisco playing to a fortunate few. See them while you still can in a club because they'll be playing much larger venues soon. They're definitely better than any of the headliners they've played with in the past. Let's hope the industry doesn't ruin it for these guys. I eagerly await the next album. Thank you Australia!