This article is about the song by Chris Isaak. For the song by the Weeknd, see Wicked Games. For the compilation album by Chris Isaak, see Wicked Game (Chris Isaak album). For other uses, see Wicked Game (disambiguation).
"Wicked Game"
US commercial cassette single
Single by Chris Isaak
from the album Heart Shaped World
B-side
"Don't Make Me Dream About You"
Released
July 14, 1989 (1989-07-14)[1]
Length
4:46
Label
Reprise
Songwriter(s)
Chris Isaak
Producer(s)
Erik Jacobsen
Chris Isaak singles chronology
"Don't Make Me Dream About You" (1989)
"Wicked Game" (1989)
"Blue Spanish Sky" (1991)
Music video
"Wicked Game" on YouTube
"Wicked Game" is a song by American rock musician Chris Isaak, released from his third album, Heart Shaped World (1989). Released as a single in July 1989, it became a sleeper hit after being featured in the 1990 David Lynch film Wild at Heart, starring Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern. 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. Internationally, the single became a number-one hit in Belgium and reached the top 10 in several other nations.
"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.[2] 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.
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^Moughan, Alaister (May 2, 2017). "Is this the most influential love song in modern music?". Dazed. Retrieved November 5, 2018.
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