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Wicked Game

Love Metal
  • Game
  • Rock
  • Metal
  • Space
  • Soundtrack
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  • 1991
  • 2012
  • 1989
  • 1997
  • 1996

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“Wicked Game” is a 1989 song by Chris Isaak from his third studio album Heart Shaped World. Despite being released as a single in 1989, it did not become a hit until it was later featured in the David Lynch film Wild at Heart. Lee Chesnut, an Atlanta radio station music director who was obsessed with David Lynch films, began playing the song and it quickly became a nationwide top ten hit in January 1991, reaching #6 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, making it the only hit song of his career in the U.S. James Calvin Wilsey played the distinctive lead guitar solo on the song. The song is written in the mode of B Dorian. Through several years, many different versions and arrangements of the song were made before the final version was released. Both the bassline and drums (except the... Read on...

Song lines: ♪ This world is only gonna break your heart ... No, I wanna fall in love ... With you

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More songs by Him (See Charts): You Are The One, Pretending, Solitary Man, Wings Of A Butterfly, and Join Me (In Death).

Popular in Love Metal (See Charts): You Are The One, The Sacrament, and Killing Loneliness.

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