While browsing comments for this video there were some people who commented that the other version was way better; I said to myself "What other version?" Apparently there was a guy named Chris Isaak or something who did this song. Who covered it first? How did one or the other come to want to cover the song in the first place??
2006-06-07 13:13:00 · 6 answers · asked by marielpantera 4 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
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Cover versions
The Finnish band HIM remade this song, first using it in their demo, then their EP 666 Ways To Love: Prologue, then another recording on their first album Greatest Lovesongs, Vol. 666, and lastly on the British and American versions of their sophomore album Razorblade Romance. The last recording they made of it then reappeared on their compilation album And Love Said No - The Greatest Hits 1997-2004. With "Wicked Game" on their EP and first album, HIM gained quite a bit of fame in their native Finland. HIM frontman/singer/songwriter Ville Valo had this to say about "Wicked Game": "I went to Pasila's library and borrowed the soundtrack-vinyl of Wild At Heart and recorded it on tape. So with Linde we tried to 'learn' the song from the tape. It was kind of funny, that we learnt the song a bit wrong. We didn't hear the guitar parts well enough from that 'bad quality' tape. We also heard the lyrics wrong, and when the song was later recorded to our first EP, there were a few funny mistakes in the lyrics."
The video artist Pipilotti Rist also recorded a version of this song and made a video shot in the interior of a European café.
Irish band JJ72 released an acoustic version of the song on their 2003 UK single release 'Always and Forever'
Giant Drag added a cover of the track to the European release of their Hearts and Unicorns album
The German dance/techno-outfit Novaspace recorded a version of the song for their 2004 album Cubes.
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2006-06-07 13:46:44 · answer #1 · answered by wheezer_april_4th_1966 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
wicked game, composed and sung by chris isaak, from the 1989 album heart shaped world.
featured on the soundtrack to david lynch's wild at heart (1990).
billboard hot 100 - no.6 - 1990
uk top 40 - no.10 - nov 1990.
video shows chris having a good time with helena christensen, supermodel.
it's a gorgeous song.
2006-06-07 20:27:34 · answer #2 · answered by sunkenship 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is a Chris Isaak song, I think he was the only other one. And this was back in the early 90's, I guess.
2006-06-07 20:18:29 · answer #3 · answered by deb 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Chris Issak had this hit out in the early 90's (maybe 90, 91, 92)
2006-06-07 20:18:18 · answer #4 · answered by mand 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
chris isaak was the first
2006-06-07 20:19:02 · answer #5 · answered by winterheartsguild 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
chris isaak is the only one i know.
2006-06-07 20:15:23 · answer #6 · answered by malibu29130 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋