Chris Isaak – Wicked Game versus HIM’s cover and its crazy amount of videos

Do you remember that strange, romantic song by Chris Isaak – Wicked Game ?

It was released in 1989 and had great success.

The band HIM made a cover of this song in 1996, and, once again, had great success with it.

I personally like both versions. The Chris Isaak one is more suprarealistic, more arty, more alien. The HIM version is more commercial and somehow I think I liked it better.

But, the point of this post is that I was surprised to find out that HIM released two different videos for Wicked Game: one for Germany and one for the rest of the world.

Here is the one for the rest of the world (release in 1997):

Kind of lame if you ask me…

Anyhow, and here is the real German sh*t (released in 1998):

Oh, and yeah, first there was this video… from 1996!

Soooo, which one do you prefer?

I definitely prefer the German version. It is bold and funny, definitely worth it!