Posts Tagged ‘Chris Isaak’

LINGUA IGNOTA – ” Wicked Game “

Posted: August 11, 2020 in MUSIC
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Chris Isaak’s haunted 1989 sex-jam “Wicked Game” must be one of the most-covered songs ever recorded. Over the years, virtually anyone with any interest in Lynchian romanticism has tried out “Wicked Game,” to the point where it’s almost a cliché. In recent years, we’ve run an essay about all those “Wicked Game” covers, and we’ve also spoken with Isaak himself about the phenomenon. Last year, Lana Del Rey sang “Wicked Game” with Isaak at the Hollywood Bowl. That’s a hard spectacle to top, but then we might never have had a “Wicked Game” quite as heavy as the one that we get today.

Kristin M. Hayter, the heavy experimentalist who records as Lingua Ignota, has made some truly dark and entrancing music in the past few years. Most recently, she released the monster track “O Ruthless Great Divine Director” back in March. Today, Lingua Ignota has dropped her cover of “Wicked Game” cover as part of the latest Bandcamp Friday.

There’s no metal in Lingua Ignota’s “Wicked Game” cover. Instead, she’s built it around a soft flourish of piano and a distant, discordant sample of Krzysztof Penderecki’s 1960 work Threnody For The Victims Of Hiroshima. Daughters frontman Alexis Marshall adds deep, portentous backing vocals, while Lingua Ignota turns “Wicked Game” into operatic, miasmic darkness. It’s a really fucking cool cover. Listen below.

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CHRIS ISAAK – ” Wicked Game “

Posted: April 8, 2018 in MUSIC
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This nugget from Chris Isaak has become inescapable, it seems, popping up on commercials, on soundtracks, and set lists and albums of all sorts of different artists through the years. But it’s genuinely cool: so mysterious, moody, sultry, and evocative! More than a few have noted over the years that it sounds like the greatest song Roy Orbison never recorded. “Wicked Game” first turned up on Isaak’s Heart-Shaped World album in 1989, but it was its appearance in the crazy-good 1990 David Lynch film Wild at Heart that turned the song into a worldwide smash hit. After that, the floodgates opened and it’s been covered by such disparate performers as REM, Tangerine Dream, Pink, Maroon 5, Il Divo, the Finnish band HIM, and literally dozens more.

But nobody can sing it quite like Chris Isaak does (still!). Here he is with his crack band on MTV’s Unplugged way back in 1995. Chris and Hershel Yatovitz play a couple of nice Gibson Guitar’s on this one.

JAMES VINCENT McMORROW – ” Wicked Game ” Chris Isaak Cover

Posted: January 29, 2015 in MUSIC
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This was originally sung by Chris Isaak, this version is by James Vincent McMorrow, (JVM) is an Irish singer-songwriter whose name has been thrown around with the likes of Bon Iver and James Blake  who are both amazing artists, but let’s not let JVM get lost in the sea of similarities.  His raspy yet silky smooth falsetto voice that’s full of emotion puts him in a league of his own.  Some have marked  JVM as a folk artist (yes, he has a beard and yes, he plays a guitar), which can largely be attributed to his first album “Early In The Morning”, but JVM consciously moved in a new direction on his second full-length album, “Post Tropical”, introducing electronic instruments such as a Roland TR-808 combined with soulful and hip-hop influences.

Here is his cover of  Chris Isaak’s “Wicked Games.”  This performance is chilling and full of emotion, one that I am sure no one will forget.

TULA – ” Wicked Game ” Chris Isaak Cover

Posted: November 2, 2014 in MUSIC
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Following in the footsteps of London Grammar, James Vincent McMorrow and the original  by Chris Isaak himself, Swedish five piece Tula are not going to be the  the last act to perform ‘Wicked Game’. 

the video matches the near pitch black visuals with the track’s melancholy mood – and showcases precisely why the band hve been getting a lot of attention.