Favorite Chris Isaak song?

[Paragon]

Poll question: Favorite Chris Isaak song?

[randr]

1. gone Ridin'

[Paragon]

2. First song of his that radio played, I believe

Good choice.

[madrchsod]

3. quick---

who is his father.....

[Paragon]

I give up.

:shrug:

[BlueEyedSon]

4. Pretty girls don't cry.

[Paragon]

6. OK...

Debut album or Baja Sessions version?

[BlueEyedSon]

9. Ooops, you got me.

I don't have the debut!

[Paragon]

10. Yup

Baja Sessions is sort of a "greatest misses" album, with remakes of some of his old songs, some covers, and a couple of original tunes.

[gator_in_Ontario]

5. Wicked game

has to be one of the sexiest songs ever....

[Scottie72]

7. I have to agree

Wicked Game is just so sensual...

"....and I...want to fall in love, with you"

[Paragon]

8. Misheard lyric

Actually, it's "no, IIIIIIII...don't wanna fall in love...with you."

[gator_in_Ontario]

11. You are right about the lyric

it's about sex not love, though I think. Sex that inadvertenly became love....

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

23. Its mesmerizing.

thats for sure. Hypnotic.

One of the best.

[Kat45]

15. Absolutely. "Wicked Game" is a very sexy song.

I bought the CD just for that song; don't remember if I even listened to the rest of it. I love that song. I first heard it when they used it for one of the couples on my soap (the only song my soap ever used that not only didn't make me retch, but that I actually enjoyed). I had to do a little work to find out what the song was, but I made sure I found out.

[Paragon]

17. Ross & Rachel made love to it in his museum on "Friends"

Where she misinterpreted an accident with a juice box for...;-)

Chris also guested on a post-Super Bowl episode of the show.

[Grassrooter]

31. Was that soap, "General Hospital"? ...

'Cause I bought Isaak's Forever Blue album for "Shadows In The Mirror" after hearing it on GH. And I ended up really loving that CD.

[Kat45]

33. No. It was "Days of Our Lives"

I'm not familiar with that song.

[ProfessorGAC]

12. Other - Always Got Tonight

Love that song.
The Professor

[mac56]

13. "Let Me Down Easy"

It would make Roy Orbison proud.

Okay, who is Chris' dad?

Add on edit: He played "Uncle Bob" in "That Thing You Do". He recorded the Wonders' hit single in the church.

[Paragon]

14. Don't you mean "The Oneders"?

"As in...'I wonder what happened to The Oneders?'" ;-)

[mac56]

26. LOL! The Oh-needers.

Love that movie.

[SOteric]

16. Definitely Wicked Game,

and that's even without all the fascinating associations my mind has built to that song over the years.

[Paragon]

18. Please elaborate.

Please. *le puff...le pant*

[GOPisEvil]

19. Chris Isaak jumped on my friend's foot...

We were at Gruene Hall (www.gruenehall.com) and Isaak jumped off the stage at the end of his show, landing amongst us patrons. When he landed, he landed on my friend's foot. :shrug:

My vote: Somebody's Crying

[Paragon]

20. Somebody's Crying?

Your friend, after he landed on his/her foot, I'm guessing? :silly:

[GOPisEvil]

21. LOL! Actually...

...my friend started screaming "CHRIS ISAAK JUMPED ON MY FOOT!" about 5 times, while jumping like a madman.

This show was back in the early 1990s, so pre-Somebody's Crying. :-)

[paulk]

22. "Kings of the Highway"

if I had to choose - but there's really a lot of good ones.

[fudge stripe cookays]

24. "You Owe Me Some Kinda Love"

Pretty much anything off the green album. It's still my favorite.

[Paragon]

Ever see the video for that song?

He starts it with this trippy poem before the song even starts..."who's daddy's little baby...who's daddy's little baby now?"

See if you can find it on launch.yahoo.com.

[joeybee12]

25. Great photo--what a doll!

[kevinam]

27. Solitary man...

just a great song. Sorry, don't know what else to say :) ...Kevin.

[Paragon]

28. I love his version of that, too...

...but technically, it's a cover of a Neil Diamond song.

[Dogmudgeon]

29. Let Me Down Easy -- whose song?

Isn't that a John Eddie song?

He sounds a lot like Isaak in it.

I'm not familiar with Chris Isaak's full discography. Can someone verify it?

--bkl
Full Disclosure: I know John Eddie. Not as a bosom buddy, but from seeing his concerts here in Philly and hanging out after last call.

[Paragon]

30. Not the same song

Isaak's got the writing credit for it on his album -- it's his song. Your guy might have another song by the same title.

On edit: I checked allmusic.com -- the song title you're referring to by John Eddie is "Let Me Down Hard".

[Dogmudgeon]

32. Sorry!

Pardon my aneyurism! :)

Let Me Down Hard is, indeed, the the name of John Eddie's song.

His album is excellent, by the way. I don't have it, but the local (Philadelphia) AOR and indie stations are playing it. The album is called Who The Hell Is John Eddie?

He had a band in the 1980s called John Eddie and the Young Rumblers. They played pretty good "workingman's rock" (as Springsteen and Mellencamp were supposed to be) but their record company kicked them to the curb in spite of decent national sales.

Eddie's gone indie, and his new sound is a lot better, though it is very Chris-Isaak-like.

--bkl

[Krakowiak]

34. Graduation Day

with Two Hearts (The Baja Sessions version) running a close second.

[Kickin_Donkey]

35. Wicked Game ...

... haunting.

And Chris is a San Joaquin Valley boy.