I Like It Both Ways

"I Like It Both Ways"
Single by Supernaut
from the album Supernaut
Released	May 1976
Genre	Glam rock
Length	3:46
Label	Polydor Records
Songwriter(s)	Chris Burnham Joe Burnham Gary Twinn
Producer(s)	Tony Cohen
Supernaut singles chronology
"I Like It Both Ways" (1976) "Too Hot to Touch" (1976)

"I Like It Both Ways" is a song by Australian glam rock band Supernaut. The song was released in May 1976 as the debut single from the band's debut studio album, Supernaut (1976).

Musically, "I Like It Both Ways" is a tough glam number, with heavy riffing throughout while the lyrics became a theme of bisexuality.[1]

Recording

Producer Cohen said, "We had trouble getting it down and if you listen to it closely you can hear it go in and out of time, all the time. We must have done twenty takes. Finally I gave up as it wasn't going to get any better."[2]

Track listing

7" (Polydor 2079 082)

• Side A "I Like it Both Ways" - 3:46
• Side B "Lightning"

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (1976)	Peak position
Australia (Kent Music Report)[3][4]	16

Year-end charts

Chart (1976)	Position
Australia (Kent Music Report)[3]	66

Cover versions

• Not From There covered the song on the soundtrack Sample People (2000).

References

1. ""I Like It Both Ways": The bisexual anthem by Australian glam band Supernaut shocked the land down under in 1976". Night Flight. 21 December 2015. Retrieved 7 September 2017.
2. Tony Cohen with John Olson (2023). Half Deaf, Completely Mad. Black Inc. Books. p. 40. ISBN 9781760644536.
3. "National Top 100 Singles for 1976". Kent Music Report. 27 December 1976. Retrieved 15 January 2022 – via Imgur.
4. Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. St Ives, NSW: Australian Chart Book. p. 301. ISBN 0-646-11917-6. NOTE: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting from 1970 until ARIA created their own charts in mid-1988.