In this episode of Cover Age, Mike and Tony take to picking apart Theory of a Deadman's cover of "Wicked Game" by Chris Isaak, which we're pretty sure you've heard, even if you're pretty sure you haven't.
At the end, Mike and Tony discuss a different recording of the original by Chris Isaak, which can be heard here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOjTweUPt3Q
Mike and Tony rate Theory of a Deadman's cover on the CoverAge scale:
-3: You have made the world a worse place by covering this song
-2: You ruined the original of this for me, in a bad way
-1: You tried to or succeeded in accurately recreating the original
0: You played this song in your signature style
1: You brought something new to the song above just playing it in your style.
2: You brought a new meaning or way of looking at the song to it.
3: You stole the song. Your version is now the archetype of the song.
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