Wicked Game (album)

Infobox Album
Name = Wicked Game
Type = compilation
Artist = Chris Isaak


Released = 1998
Recorded =
Genre = Rock
Length = 45:39
Label = Reprise
Producer = Erik Jacobsen
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:8j27gj4r16i9 link]
Last album = "Baja Sessions" (1996)
This album = "Wicked Game" (1998)
Next album = "Speak of the Devil" (1998)

"Wicked Game" is the name of a compilation album by Chris Isaak, an American singer and songwriter which was released by Warner Bros. Records in 1998. The record contains 10 of his best-known songs from his first 3 albums.

To capitalise on Isaak's growing success, particularly after the song "Wicked Game" went top 10 in both the UK and the US, Warner Bros. Records released "Wicked Game", an album that was essentially highlights of his recording career up to that point. Three of the songs were taken from Isaak's first album "Silvertone" (1985) - "Dancin'", "Voodoo" and "Funeral in the Rain", four from his eponymous 1987 album, "Chris Isaak" - "Blue Hotel", "Lie to Me", "Heart Full of Soul" and "You Owe Me Some Kind of Love" and four from 1989's "Heart Shaped World" album - "Wicked Game", "Nothing's Changed", "Blue Spanish Sky" and "Heart Shaped World". "Blue Hotel" was re-released in support of the album, reaching #17 in the UK, but failing to chart in the US. A bonus track was included in the form of an instrumental version of the song "Wicked Game".

The album was a hit, going top 10 on both sides of the Atlantic, and introduced the highlights of Isaak's back catalogue to his ever-growing body of fans. In addition to the album, a video compilation of 5 of Isaak's songs was released, including the acclaimed "Wicked Game" video (by Herb Ritts), "Dancin'" (Mary Lambert), "You Owe Me Some Kind of Love" (Jean-Baptiste Mondino), "Blue Hotel" and "Don't Make Me Dream About You".

Track listing

# "Wicked Game"
# "You Owe Me Some Kind of Love"
# "Blue Spanish Sky"
# "Heart Shaped World"
# "Heart Full of Soul"
# "Funeral in the Rain"
# "Blue Hotel"
# "Dancin'"
# "Nothing's Changed"
# "Voodoo"
# "Lie to Me"
# "Wicked Game" (Instrumental)