![]() ![]() Later in 1993 Chris Isaak appeared in the film Little Buddha. The track “Two Hearts” was featured in the 1993 film True Romance. But, in Chris Isaak’s hands the lyrics are transformed from self-pity to epic resignation. In addition, one of the tracks from San Francisco Days was a cover of the Neil Diamond hit “Solitary Man”. “Can’t Do A Thing” peaked at #15 in Vancouver (BC), one of the few radio markets where the song got airplay. The lyrics are also suggestive of an erotic dream state, though Isaak sings “night dreams come true.” Are his dreams at night a catalyst for finding sexual fulfillment in his waking hours? Instead he’s “making love with somebody exactly like you.” It seems that his remedy for having his lover on his mind – who is not available – is to find someone who physically resembles them and have a casual encounter. In “Can’t Do A Thing (To Stop Me)” the singer is not with their lover. Add to that the tension between Isaak’s insistent delivery and the cool reserve of the backing vocals, and you’re left with an arrangement that tells this song’s story as vividly as any lyric ever could.” Start with the beat, a sort of funky samba that plays a lazily prodding bassline against a quietly percolating swirl of high-hat and snare drum not only does it deftly propel the tune, it also neatly imparts the itchy intensity of the singer’s carnal desire. What ultimately seduces the listener, though, are the subtleties beneath that surface. Then there’s the way his band uses lonesome guitar moans or a torpid, reverb-soaked pulse to suggest the repressed menace of ’50s film noir.” Considine judged that San Francisco Days was Chris Isaak’s “most interesting and accessible album to date.” And that assessment was due in part to “Can’t Do A Thing (To Stop Me)”.Ĭonsidine writes “It’s easy to hear why this love song was chosen as the album’s first single not only does mournful guitar glissando in the introduction recall the heartbreak twang of “Wicked Game,” but the way Isaak slides from a whispering croon on the verse to a sweet, soaring falsetto on the chorus communicates the romantic yearning Isaak has made his specialty. Considine writing in the Baltimore Sun said of Isaak’s San Francisco Days, “His voice, for example, manages to capture both the purring sexuality of Presley’s throaty murmur and the forlorn intensity of Roy Orbison’s falsetto, while infusing both with doomed fatalism of a Chet Baker ballad. In 1993 Chris Isaak released his fourth studio album titled San Francisco Days. The debut single from the album was “Can’t Do A Thing (To Stop Me)”. That year Isaak also appeared as a SWAT commander in the psychological thriller The Silence of the Lambs. “Wicked Game” peaked at number-one on the Belgian pop chart. “Wicked Game” gained attention and airplay from its exposure in Wild at Heart. Eventually, in 1991 the song made the Top Ten national charts in Canada, Finland, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, the United Kingdom and United States. Isaak wrote the song after the phone call ended. Isaak told a reporter that the song was inspired by a telephone call from a woman seeking to arrange a casual sexual liaison and is about “what happens when you have a strong attraction to people that aren’t necessarily good for you”. The single was included in the 1990 film Wild at Heart, starring Nicholas Cage, Laura Dern and Willem Dafoe. Then in 1989 Chris Isaak released his Heart Shaped World album. In 1988 Isaak recorded “Suspicion Of Love” which was included in the film Married to the Mob. In 1989 Isaak appeared in the video for the Elton John song “Sacrifice”. The track “Blue Hotel” was a hit in France. Records and released his debut album Silvertone. Two of the tracks from the album appeared in the neo-noir film Blue Velvet. Isaak released a self-titled second album in 1986 which garnered more attention and positive reviews. Then in 1985 he got a record deal with Warner Bros. ![]() After 1981 he formed a rockabilly band called Silvertone. He graduated from high school in 1974 and while in university was in an exchange program to Japan. ![]() Peak Position on Billboard Hot 100 ~ #105Ĭhristopher Joseph Isaak was born in 1956 in Stockton, California. #1055: Can’t Do A Thing (To Stop Me) by Chris Isaak ![]()
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