SINGLE INFO.

HIM first made a cover of this Chris Isaak song, using it in their demo 'This is Only the Beginning'. With "Wicked Game" on their EP '666 Ways To Love: Prologue' & first album, 'Greatest Love Songs Vol. 666', HIM gained fame in their native Finland.

It was also included on the UK & US versions of their second album 'Razorblade Romance'. The last recording they made of it appeared on their compilation album 'And Love Said No - The Greatest Hits 1997-2004'.

Frontman Ville Valo had this to say about "Wicked Game": "I went to Pasila's library & borrowed the soundtrack- vinyl of 'Wild At Heart' & 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 didn't 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."

This was the second single from the band & was released in 1998.

TRACKLISTING

1998

German Release

1. Wicked Game
2. For You

3. Our Diabolikal Rapture 4. Wicked Game (666-Remix)

Finnish Release

1. Wicked Game
2. For You

2000

UK and Belgium Release

1. Wicked Game 2000 (Radio Edit)
2. When Love And Death Embrace
(Amnt Mix)
3. The Heartless
(Serdlidlim Mix)

Swedish Release

1. Wicked Game 2000 (Radio Edit)
2. When Love And Death Embrace
(Amnt Mix)

Vinyl

Side A:
01. Wicked Game
02. For You

Side B:
03. Our Diabolikal Rapture
04. Wicked Game (666-Remix)

LYRICS

Lyrics can be found on either the '666 Ways To Love: Prologue', 'Greatest Love Songs Vol. 666' & 'Razorblade Romance' pages.