Cover versions

HIM cover

The Finnish band HIM remade this song, first using it in their demo This is Only the Beginning, then in their EP 666 Ways To Love: Prologue, then another recording on their first album Greatest Love Songs Vol. 666, and lastly on the British and American versions of their second album Razorblade Romance. The last recording they made of it then reappeared on their compilation album And Love Said No - The Greatest Hits 1997-2004. With "Wicked Game" on their EP and first album, HIM gained fame in their native Finland. HIM frontman Ville Valo had this to say about "Wicked Game": "I went to Pasila's library and borrowed the soundtrack-vinyl of Wild At Heart and recorded it on tape. So with Linde we tried to 'learn' the song from the tape. It was kind of funny, that we learnt the song a bit wrong. We didn't hear the guitar parts well enough from that 'bad quality' tape. We also heard the lyrics wrong, and when the song was later recorded to our first EP, there were a few funny mistakes in the lyrics."

Track listings

German release

• "Wicked Game" – 3:54
• "For You" – 4:00
• "Our Diabolikal Rapture" – 5:20
• "Wicked Game" (666 Remix) – 3:58

• "Wicked Game"
• "For You"

• "Wicked Game" – 3:36
• "When Love and Death Embrace" (Amnt mix) – 3:34
• "The Heartless" (Serdlidlim Mix) – 3:11

• "Wicked Game" 2000
• "When Love and Death Embrace" (Amnt mix) – 3:34