It was the first hit song of Isaak's career, and the single also 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, eventually 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. Since then the song has been used in countless ads, movies and TV shows, and spawned countless cover versions.#Repost - ★ Chris Isaak - Wicked Game ©️Non Copyright Intented Wicked Game" is a song by American rock musician Chris Isaak, released from his third album, Heart Shaped World (1989). Then, the following year, it appeared in Lynch’s film Wild At Heart (with Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern) and a year after that a radio DJ in Atlanta began to play it.īefore long it became a top ten hit on both sides of the Atlantic, aided by an eye-catching video shot by fashion photographer Herb Ritts (below) on a beach in Hawaii, where Isaak frolics with a topless Helena Christensen – and another video shot by David Lynch, using clips of Lula and Sailor on the run in the movie.
Isaak was on his third album by the time this was released as a single in 1989 and it soon disappeared from view like all his others. Chris Isaak’s moody masterpiece being given a dub reggae makeover may not seem like a natural marriage – but it turns out to be a perfect match.īut we might never have heard Chris’s aching vocal or the desolate wail of that ’65 Stratocaster – played by James Calvin Wisley, one-time bassist of San Francisco punk band The Avengers – were it not for David Lynch plucking him from obscurity.
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