"Wicked Game" (Chris Isaak)

"Wicked Game" (1989, re-released 1990) from the album Heart Shaped World may be the sexiest song ever recorded.  It's not just Chris Isaak's whispered/falsetto vocals.  Or the lonesome slide guitar over a backing track that sounds like its was recorded in a smoky bar in Amarillo, TX, at 1 in the morning, circa 1957.  It's the song's inherent sense of danger and need.
It's a song about all-consuming passion, bordering on obsession.  It's a peek into a man's mind who is wrestling with giving in to animalistic desires versus doing what he knows is best, which is not getting involved in the first place.  He knows he's in for a world of hurt and emotional turmoil, but he can't help himself from falling.
Isaak walks a fine line between agony and ecstasy, peril and refuge, and that's what makes the song so compelling.
And apparently, the song is autobiographical.
It was inspired by a late night call that Isaak received from a female acquaintance, asking him to come over and "talk."  Long story short, he knew this woman was "trouble," yet it didn't stop him from welcoming her to his house.  In the minutes before she arrived, he worked through his wildly mixed emotions by writing both the words and music to "Wicked Game."
As he told Songfacts.com interviewer Dan MacIntosh: "She was probably upset because I was more excited by the song."