Wicked Game
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.
