HIM - Wicked Game (2000 Edit)

[HIM - Wicked Game (2000 Edit) CD Maxi Single]. The Finnish band HIM remade this Chris Isaak 1989 song, first using it in their demo This Is Only the Beginning (1995), then on their EP 666 Ways To Love: Prologue (1996), followed by another recording of it on their first album Greatest Love Songs Vol. 666 (1997), and lastly on the British and American versions of their second album Razorblade Romance (1999). The last recording they made of it then reappeared on their compilation album And Love Said No: The Greatest Hits 1997–2004 (2004). With "Wicked Game" on their EP and first album, HIM gained fame in their native Finland. HIM frontman Ville Valo had this to say about "Wicked Game": "I went to Pasila's library and borrowed the soundtrack-vinyl of Wild At Heart (1990) and recorded it on tape. So with Linde we tried to 'learn' the song from the tape. It was kind of funny, that we learnt the song a bit wrong. We did not hear the guitar parts well enough from that 'bad quality' tape. We also heard the lyrics wrong, and when the song was later recorded to our first EP, there were a few funny mistakes in the lyrics." (Wikipedia)