“Suddenly we had stations everywhere getting results,” said Gary Briggs, Reprise’s national album promotion manager. Thanks to the success of “Wicked Game,” Isaak’s album, “Heart Shaped World,” which had barely cracked the charts in the summer of 1989, was speeding up the Hot 100. By November, so many radio stations were playing it that Isaak’s record label, Warner/Reprise Records, rushed out a promotional CD single. Convinced the song was a hit, Chesnut began calling stations in Tucson, Memphis and Seattle, encouraging his radio pals to play the track. So watch it in all its Lynchian glory below.The first time Power 99 played the song, the station’s phones lit up like crazy. The video hasn’t really surfaced since the VHS release…until now. Well, in Lynch’s version - made as an extra for the VHS release of “Wild At Heart” - he keeps the black-and-white motif for Isaak and his band, and throws in some clips from the movie. You remember the original right? It was the Herbs Ritts directed black-and-white spot that featured Isaak and supermodel Helena Christensen sexily frolicking around a beach, while Isaak’s falsetto shattered your glassware. I just haven’t.” And while that’s a bummer, it seems there are still bits of pieces of the director’s work that are worth revisiting.ĭangerous Minds (via Flavorwire) has dug up an alternate video to Chris Isaak‘s “Wicked Game” directed by Lynch himself. ![]() “I’ve got some fragments that are coming, but not the big idea…If I got an idea that I fell in love with, I’d go to work tomorrow. “I haven’t gotten the big idea,” David Lynch recently told 24 Frames about the prospect of future movies from the helmer.
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