"New York" is the third single

Single (music)

In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a recording of fewer tracks than an LP or a CD. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats. In most cases, the single is a song that is released separately from an album, but it can still appear...

 by Eskimo Joe

Eskimo Joe

Eskimo Joe is an Australian alternative rock band formed by Stuart MacLeod on guitars, Joel Quartermain on drums and guitar and Kavyen Temperley on bass guitar and vocals, in East Fremantle, Western Australia in 1997....

, taken from their third studio album Black Fingernails, Red Wine

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. It is their best selling album...

. The band flew to New York

New York City

New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...

 to film the music video for the single. The music video for "New York" debuted on ABC

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly referred to as "the ABC" , is Australia's national public broadcaster...

's all night music program, Rage

Rage (TV program)

Rage is a popular all-night Australian music video program broadcast on ABC1 on Friday nights, Saturday mornings and Saturday nights. It was first screened on the weekend of Friday, 17 April 1987. With Soul Train no longer being produced, it is the oldest music television program currently still...

, as the first clip shown on the 15 December 2006. "New York" was released on 3 February 2007.

Track listing

Release history

Region	Date	Label	Format	Catalogue
Australia Australia Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...	3 February 2007	Mushroom Mushroom Records Mushroom Records is an Australian recoJrd company formed by Michael Gudinski and Ray Evans in Melbourne in 1972. After its sale in 1998, it merged into Festival Mushroom Records. From 2005 to 2009, it is one of the record labels operated by Warner Bros... , Warner Warner Music Australasia Warner Music Australasia is the Australian division of the Warner Music Group. The company's operations also include distribution to New Zealand.-History:In 1969, Warner Bros...	CD CD single A CD single is a music single in the form of a standard size Compact Disc, not to be confused with the 3-inch CD single, which uses a smaller form factor. The format was introduced in the mid-1980s, but did not gain its place in the market until the early 1990s...	5101191052
			Digital download Music download A music download is the transferral of music from an Internet-facing computer or website to a user's local computer. This term encompasses both legal downloads and downloads of copyright material without permission or payment...	-

Music video

The music video is unusual for Eskimo Joe, featuring lead singer Kavyen Temperley changing t-shirts. It is filmed on the streets of New York

New York City

New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...

, whilst Temperley walks backward with smoke coming out of his mouth. It then pans to the band running in Central Park

Central Park

Central Park is a public park in the center of Manhattan in New York City, United States. The park initially opened in 1857, on of city-owned land. In 1858, Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux won a design competition to improve and expand the park with a plan they entitled the Greensward Plan...

 in a similar style to the "Who Sold Her Out" video.

Director Stuart MacLeod has commented.

"The concept basically was going to be a Bob Dylan-esque

Subterranean Homesick Blues

"Subterranean Homesick Blues" is a song by Bob Dylan, originally released in 1965 as a single on Columbia Records, catalogue 43242. It appeared 19 days later as the lead track to the album Bringing It All Back Home. It was Dylan's first Top 40 hit, peaking at #39 on the Billboard Hot 100. It also...

 sort of thing, but instead of placards with key lyrics on, Kav was going to be walking down the street taking off t-shirts," explains MacLeod. "Each new t-shirt underneath had a new key lyric on it."

After a quick mock-up at home, the logistics of donning t-shirts in real time was proving more difficult than anticipated. In frustration, MacLeod hit the rewind button and the sudden flurry of activity saw the concept morph into a music video.

The flash of inspiration meant that Temperley had to learn all the lyrics to New York in reverse and, not only negotiate walking and talking backwards, but work his way through over 50 t-shirts as well.

"He had his hands full that’s for sure," MacLeod laughs. "Me and Joel just pop up in the background now and then. We even added a bit of smoke coming out of his mouth, like the mist coming out of the grates in Manhattan."

Eskimo Joe ran a competition on their website for people to create a remix of the song "New York", with the winning remix being included on the bands next commercial single release "Breaking Up".

Charts

Chart (2007)	Peak position
Australian ARIA Singles Chart	26