This song is a perfect example of 'less is more'. Slow rhythm, calm voice, beautiful melody. Just magic

Man, every single person involved in this recording did everything absolutely right, perfection.

This is the type of song that is quite literally impossible to get sick of😭🤌

Who’s still here 2024 🙌🤩

I dedicate this beautiful song to my late wife. She was taken from me way too soon. She left me with two amazing sons. God, I miss you Koren! Thank you for the 16 best years of my life.

Congratulations must go to the sound engineers for getting every instrument to sound superb on this recording.

Released in 1989. This song still gives me chills. I’m glad I’ve been able to enjoy this long.

Alguém aí, assim como eu,em pleno 2024,ainda curtindo de montão essa música maravilhosa?💕

THIS is what happens when a song, vocals, musicianship and production are all at the top of their game. Awesome!

30 years later and he still sounds incredible live. Pure talent and one of the best songs ever created.

1989 I was 12 years old this song 🎵 PLAYED it was amazing 👏 Now in 2024...I'm 47 and this version is SPECTACULAR 😢😢❤ 🎶 🎵 🎸

This is a great example of a tight band,every member playing their hearts out ❤

He still got it. There are children born between the years 1990 and 1992 who owe their existence to this particular song. I'm not even joking.

One of the most beautiful songs ever written. Thank you, Chris.

perfect, we played this as a tribute to my wife at our wedding, summed it up perfectly.

Listening to this on balcony after hard day at work while smoking joint🫶🏽❤❤

Just one of the most beautiful songs ever created.

Unbelievable that this recording was made as a song check before a LIVE performance in front of a huge audience! They recorded it just to ensure they were all ready, sound was up to par, etc! It’s so raw but beautifully haunting! I would LOVE to see one of his LIVE performances!

The best Chris Isaak song EVER! It gets more magical every time I hear it. Could play it over and over and over again!

LOVE THIS VERSION ! Sometimes even when there's no public, we see the magic, the artists in their most common place

He is 65 years old! Chris Isaak is eternal!

I’m 31 and just discovered Chris Isaak. Absolutely blown away

This might be the single greatest live performance I've ever seen

I worked years as a Bylaw Enforcement Officer and was called many times over the years to bands playing in backyards. I never shut one down because I always thought of the great music we missed that never made radio play when I was a kid. I'd hang out for a while and listen then ask them to turn it down just a little. I could spend all day in this backyard listening to Nick Stone and the Shifty Hunchbacks.

Man - what a voice. Always loved the song, but this version is so clean.

this is literally the studio version. there is nothing to change or adjust. its just a pure masterpiece

I remember busking in the 80's and playing guitar, to this track, and my mate sang, it always went down an absolute storm, seems like a lifetime ago now, thanks Mr Isaak xx

Beautifully played, sung, recorded, mixed. Magic

I cannot explain why this song hits me everytime. Everytime.

This version sounds amazing. Has to be one of the best songs ever written 🙌

This feels like a piece of lost media inexplicably resurfacing after two decades lost on an archive tape somewhere. Wonderful live performance of a superb track, solid performances from everyone.

Well it's 2024 and I will always listen and feel this incredible song forever in my 💜

The most haunting song I can think of.The opening guitar sets the tone perfectly.The ache in Chris’s voice just says what it feels to lose the one you love.

The guy didn’t change in almost 40 years… The music keeps him young

Pure talent; no need for makeup, no need for explosions, no need for pyrotechnics, etc. Just let the damn talent shine through. Beautiful man.

This song is timeless and Chris' beautiful and distinctive voice is carried by the virtuoso and unmistakable guitar playing of James Calvin Wilsey (RIP) 🍻 This guitarist here did a very good job 🍻

Always in a state of shock over how clean the sound is on this song. On top of superb picking..the people running sound on this are ingenius.The clarity is unsurpassed!

Sound engineer deserves a lot of credit. Mix is perfect.

Touched by grace with this song. It feels like gliding in the sky far beyond the mountains, hanging in the air.

Real talent right there sounds exactly like the recorded version. No autotune or other vocals to enhance his. This song will be a forever classic in my playlist

This is easily the best recording of wicked game on the internet. Even the versions on spotify have NOTHING on this recording. Bravo to Chris, the band and the sound engineer!! Top notch :-)

Incredible how they can record this song with this sound quality...i can hear clearly all the instruments! Amazing!

Fantastic song and voice. Also clarity of sound and voice. Love it.

The very first time I heard this I was hooked!

Boy, oh boy, I've probably listened to tens of thousands of songs on You Tube, and this is by far the sharpest recording of any live song I've listened to on this platform. The sound engineering makes this song sound like you are listening to it live. Every vocal and musical chord is so sharp and clear.

I always assumed some studio magic was involved in the original radio version of this song, specifically pertaining to the lead vocals. Seeing how effortlessly yet perfectly Chris sings it live is beyond impressive.

Piękna ścieżka muzyczna...no i głos wykonawcy.❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

You can see every band member just enjoying the session. Great job and such a hit. Amazing 😮

Being a musician (drummer), I so want to say that the percussionist playing in the live clip has a great sense of orchestration. The sound of shakers along with the bass drum tone and the snare which I believe is played through a brush and not sticks is so soothing and sits just well along the song !

This song was written quite a number of years ago and is still Intoxicating. How is it possible that it still causes one to remaniss . Quite powerful.

Saw him live 12 years ago....believe me, the sound is amazing, and he is so damn entertaining. Don't forget, he has dozens of other hits too. If I get a chance to see him again, I'll go.

61 anos e essa música , traz lembranças de minha juventude e de amor. ❤

A timeless classic, Chris has such a beautiful voice, it pairs so nicely with the guitar.

I don't think anyone can really explain the feelings you get listening to this especially if you're missing someone

The guitar sets the perfect intro f r this song . That voice is haunting my soul . I like to listen to this one when I'm soul searching .

Probably the best song of a generation.

I have always loved this song by Chris Isaak and it never gets old. It is just beautiful.

Songs like this only happen so often in each generation. Truly blessed to hear this magic. Thank you Chris!!!!

What an incredible audio mix. Whoever did it, kudos. My vintage JBL monitors are grinning.

Everything about this song and performance is perfect.

This man’s passion for what he does is so refreshing. I love this man and this band The world needs more of this ❤️

This song is absolutely beautiful. I could listen to it over and over. Never get tired of hearing it. Chris is so gorgeous.

My wife didn't care much for him until we got to see him live at Bridge School concert. Fantastic showman.

I absolutely love this song. The everything is perfect. Instruments, vocals, everything. I’ve never got bored of it.

As a teenager I used to listen to it all the time. A spent all my pocket money of the month to buy the record. I still have it. This song represents for me my melancholic youth. Still love it.

Such a beautiful, haunting, heart breaking song. Chris nails it everytime!! Never get tired of listening to it!!

My late wife loved this song. She said it's the sexiest song ever! I agree!

I enjoy many genres of music and artists, but this song remains my all time favorite. Chris Isaak is really underrated.

When a musician plays it like the original recording is a true musician! No butchering of the song here! That single coil sound of that strat man ! Love it!

One of the most wonderful songs ever written. This performance is absolutely perfect. His voice is just so incredible

After all these years living here in San Francisco it still stuns me that his voice still stuns me! Supernatural countertenor perfect pitch with incomparable reaches and successful grasps! Having had the jewels of good luck of seeing (as well as hearing!) him and his band perform live in and around San Francisco, I count those experiences among my few reminders that I indeed have been one lucky soul!

One of those songs that will reach a 100 years & still be enjoyable to listen to in all weather. Winter, Summer, Spring & Autumn.

This song still gets me emotional... more than 30 years... we still insist on falling in love.... wicked...but needed... to everyone around here, may 2022... God bless you all... beautiful souls

If this doesn’t stir you...you’re dead. What a fantastic performance by everyone involved, especially the dude that mixed it. This is a gem.

Back in the eighties I had just returned from an evening out at a piano and jazz bar in the Atlanta area where I met the most enchanting woman of my life and this was playing on MTV. I had never heard it before and it blew me away. The evening and morning we spent together was something that changed and matured me as a young man in my twenties and she was much older than me. I never saw her again after that chance encounter. I think of her when I hear this and I think of what could've been, but I don't think I could have handled it. Some part of me held out through the years hoping to duplicate that magical chemistry with someone else and it took me many years to realize it was never going to happen..

I have this tune stuck in my head for three weeks

Many have and will continue to cover this beautifully heart breaking track. But nobody will ever perform it better than Chris.

Hands down one of the greatest ballads of all time. I was a 12 year old metal head when this came on MTV and the video stopped me in my tracks every time it came on. I mean sure Helena Christensen was easy on the eyes but the song was beautifully haunting. Stands the test of time.

Beautiful. There's a haunting quality to this song. Isaak's voice, the guitar, instrumentals. It's slow paced but runs deep.

Simply beautiful!❤ I wish we would see and hear more of him, but being who he is has given us this magic🤗👏👏❤

The Way He holds That Note is Insanely Clever! What an amazing sound! This has Got to be the Best Version!Brilliant Song!

I found this song back then when I was going through very difficult time, my mother past away and I had guilt to not being a good son, the same time my Ex left me, this song was the only way for me to cry, because no matter what I do my tears never come out, I'm very hard hearted man I never cry but,,, That time I need to cry and I was alone and I needed to help my self I needed to let out all the pain,, this song was such and excellent medicine for me, everytime when I heard this song my heart just melt, So thank you so much for posting this and thank you for the singer I don't even know his name for singing this excellent song,, I also want to say that life is cruel and sometime thing never change, we hope things will be okay but that never happens you stay alone you stay being treated like shit,, in the end we have to accept that some of us people are not lucky enough to have people in our life who care about us, some of just have to accept that not matter how much we give and how much we love and care and sacrifice but in the end no one care,,,💔

Just amazing. One of the finest songs ever done in my generation.

I remember first hearing this in the early 90s but it wasn't until later that the song grew on me

One of the most beautiful songs EVER. So beautiful that it makes me cry. This live performance sounds better than the recording.

The musicians backing his voice are also tight. This harmony is beautiful.

One of my favorite songs, absolutely perfect in every way.

He looks like Tommy from vice city

Man, that clean tone on the strat! Love the vocals also - just a great song!

I'm 25 years old, just recently discovered this tune, if you can believe it. It's become one of my favorite songs of all time

Господи, какой голос!!! И сам Крис нисколько не поменялся. Бесподобно!!!❤

The harmony on "nobody" at the end gives me chills every time.

My name is also Chris, and if ever I would’ve been a singer/musician-these are the perfect words, melody along with falsetto talent, that I could’ve ever dreamed of. Much respect forever-

2人ともロックシーンに名を馳せる 永遠♾️のレジェンド 存在した事 出会えた事に感謝📣

This is my favorite soing

Same voice, it never fades ♥️

Simply the BEST sound mixing I’ve heard on a live band ,you can hear every individual instrument which absolutely makes a difference instead of a ‘wall of sound’ …great song by a great artist accompanied by great musicians

Beautiful haunting music...one of the greatest songs 😊😊😊

"This world is only gonna break your heart"; TRUTH.

This song involves just about all of the senses. Blows through you like a cool breeze... I'm reading the various comments. All are correct. Music is amazing.