2/22/2024 0 Comments Wicked game movie wild at heart![]() "PEEK-A-BOO" SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES (1988) "SKY PILOT" ERIC BURDON & THE ANIMALS (1968) "THE GIRL FROM IPANEMA" STAN GETZ & JOAO GILBERTO (1964) "NOTHING CAN CHANGE THIS LOVE" SAM COOKE (1963) ![]() "QUEENS OF THE BREAKERS" THE BARR BROTHERS (2017) "HEAVEN OR LAS VEGAS" COCTEAU TWINS (1990) "THE SUN ALWAYS SHINES ON T.V." A-HA (1985) "VIDEO KILLED THE RADIO STAR" THE BUGGLES (1980) "THE GREAT COMMANDMENT" CAMOUFLAGE (1988) "THERE MUST BE AN ANGEL" EURYTHMICS (1985) "WISHING (IF I HAD A PHOTOGRAPH OF YOU)" A FLOCK OF SEAGULLS (1983) "SEASONS (WAITING ON YOU)" FUTURE ISLANDS (2014) “What a wicked thing to do, to let me dream of you.” Quietly delicate, yet strangely powerful. ![]() “Wicked Game” also benefits from one of the greatest male vocal performances ever – bearing striking resemblances to Elvis and Roy Orbison. Pushing his rockabilly agenda into the mainstream radio consciousness, the track grips you with these lingering, hanging sliding guitar notes. In under five minutes, Isaak raised the standards for ballads and seduced half of the song’s listeners in the process. “Wicked Game” delivered a single punch in the gut to all the other love songs. A lot of it has to do with the movie Wild At Heart – and the fact that “Wicked Game” is just a really, really good song. But then, just like that, he was almost larger than life. Most of his never heard his music – and many of us didn’t even recognize his name. Things is, before “Wicked Game”, a lot of boys and girls never even knew who Chris Isaak was. And a lot of boys wanted to be like Chris Isaak – to be able to seduce a girl the way he was able to through a song. In 1989, a lot of girls wanted Chris Isaak. Let’s bring on the throwback classics, the grunge, the gangsta rap, and the indie gems. But the focus will still be on the music – as always. ![]() ![]() In many cases, the movies themselves were huge for me as well. The music I’m highlighting are some of my personal favorites. This month, the Mental Jukebox revisits the movie soundtracks of the nineties. ![]()
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