| "Wicked Game" | ||||
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 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[1] | |||
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| Length | 4:46 | |||
| Label | Reprise | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Chris Isaak | |||
| Producer(s) | Erik Jacobsen | |||
| Chris Isaak singles chronology | ||||
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| 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 March 1991,[2] 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.[3] 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.