I often play "Wicked Game" at home, I like to play it in a big company of friends, I close my eyes when I listen to this song on music-player. Quite simple melody and three chords, but this emotionality solves everything.
In the variation of Stone Sour the song is performed on a pair of acoustic guitars, and this sound is the closest to me. This cover is one of those to which I got even more attached than to the original version, although this happens very rarely. Taylor managed to pass some line of suffering trait, which needed in this case. In his voice there sounds a bit of fatigue and worry. You believe that he "does not want to fall in love".
Let's listen:
By the way, covers for this song is many. For example, Daughtry performed his version, which in its own way is not bad. "Wicked Game" played A Perfect Circle, Three Days Grace and even HIM. The version of HIM, by the way, is considered the most famous, but I would fucked up Ville Valo in the ears for such a performance. With his voice, they could make something more interesting and more qualitative than stupidly weight the guitars and speed up the rhythm. Cover HIM is not the worst, but undeservedly lauded.
Many believe that "Wicked Game" is about undivided feelings, but that's not entirely true. It is about a man who is tired of suffering from love, his passion has played a cruel joke with him, she is a burden to him and causes suffering.
Despite the fact that the song was released as a single in 1989, and then was included in Isaac's third album, she was missed by the critics' ears. The studio tape is good and many listeners appreciated it at once, but for some reason it happened that the whole world will speak about it after a year.
The merit in popularization is directed by director David Lynch, who included "Wicked Game" as a soundtrack to the melodrama "Wild at heart" in 1990m. A few months later the composition was on the sixth line of hot hundred from Billboard. Perhaps, over time, the song would have received worthy attention even without Lynch's participation, but it just so happened.
Pleasant listening:
In general, if you like the music of Chris Isaac and his "Wicked Game", know that there are tons of covers on it, and in different styles and for all tastes.