James Calvin Wilsey wrote and played the distinctive guitar lead using a Fender Stratocaster's vibrato arm both the bassline and drums were sampled from previous recordings of the song and looped. ĭuring the sessions for Isaak's third album, many different versions and arrangements of the song were made before the final version was completed. Īlthough it is often interpreted as a ballad about unrequited love, Isaak has said that the song was inspired by a telephone call from a woman seeking to arrange a hook-up and is about "what happens when you have a strong attraction to people that aren't necessarily good for you". The song is in B Dorian, performed in what AllMusic describes as a "brooding, sorrowfully conflicted" tone. It has subsequently received retrospective critical acclaim, being listed in the 2010 book 1001 Songs You Must Hear Before You Die, and noted by Dave Marsh in an updated edition of his 1989 book The Heart of Rock & Soul: The 1001 Greatest Singles Ever Made. "Wicked Game" has been covered by many other artists and been featured in numerous movies and television series and advertisements, so much so that Dazed magazine questioned whether it might be the most influential love song in modern music. Worldwide, the single became a number-one hit in Belgium and reached the top 10 in several other nations. Lee Chesnut, an Atlanta radio station music director who loved David Lynch films, began playing the song, and it quickly became an American top-10 hit in January 1991, reaching number six on the Billboard Hot 100. Despite being released as a single in July 1989, it did not become a hit until it was featured in the 1990 David Lynch film Wild at Heart, starring Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern. " Wicked Game" is a song by American rock musician Chris Isaak, released from his third album, Heart Shaped World (1989).
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