Heart Shaped World (Chris Isaak album)

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| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/heart-shaped-world-mw0000200421|title=Heart Shaped World – Chris Isaak|publisher=AllMusic|access-date=February 14, 2018|last=Huey|first=Steve}}

| rev2 = Chicago Tribune

| rev2score = {{Rating|3.5|4}}{{cite news|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1989-07-20-8902180957-story.html|title=Chris Isaak: Heart Shaped World (Reprise)|newspaper=Chicago Tribune|date=July 20, 1989|access-date=February 14, 2018|last=Kot|first=Greg|author-link=Greg Kot}}

| rev3 = NME

| rev3score = 8/10{{cite magazine|title=Chris Isaak: Heart Shaped World|magazine=NME|date=June 24, 1989|last=Kirsch|first=Michele|page=37}}

| rev4 = Orlando Sentinel

| rev4score = {{Rating|5|5}}{{cite news|url=https://www.orlandosentinel.com/1989/07/09/chris-isaak-9/|title=Chris Isaak|newspaper=Orlando Sentinel|date=July 9, 1989|access-date=February 14, 2018|last=Gettelman|first=Parry}}

| rev5 = Record Mirror

| rev5score = {{Fraction|4|1|2}}/5{{cite magazine|title=Chris Isaak: Heart Shaped World|magazine=Record Mirror|date=June 17, 1989|last=Murphy|first=Kevin|page=33}}

| rev6 = The Rolling Stone Album Guide

| rev6score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}{{cite book|chapter=Chris Isaak|last=Coleman|first=Mark|title=The Rolling Stone Album Guide|title-link=The Rolling Stone Album Guide|editor1-last=DeCurtis|editor1-first=Anthony|editor1-link=Anthony DeCurtis|editor2-last=Henke|editor2-first=James|editor3-last=George-Warren|editor3-first=Holly|publisher=Random House|edition=3rd|year=1992|isbn=0-679-73729-4|page=346}}

| rev7 = Select

| rev7score = 4/5{{cite magazine|title=Chris Isaak: Silvertone / Chris Isaak / Heart Shaped World|magazine=Select|issue=19|date=January 1992|last=Smith|first=Sue|page=82}}

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When Heart Shaped World was released in the summer of 1989, it was on the Billboard 200 for ten weeks, peaking at number 149; but in October 1990, after Lee Chesnut, music director of WAPW in Atlanta, played the song "Wicked Game" repeatedly over two weeks after hearing an instrumental version on the soundtrack from the 1990 David Lynch film Wild at Heart. "Wicked Game" was released as a single, and the album reached the U.S. Top 10 peaking at number 7 on the Billboard chart by April 1991, garnering sales of more than 500,000 copies.{{cite web | work=The New York Times | url= https://www.nytimes.com/1991/04/17/arts/the-pop-life-834391.html?pagewanted=1 | title=The Pop Life | last=Holden | first=Stephen |author-link=Stephen Holden | date=April 17, 1991 | accessdate=April 23, 2010}} The video for the single, filmed in black and white, featured a topless Helena Christensen and a shirtless Isaak in the surf and on the beach. It was shown in heavy rotation on MTV.

In March 1991, Entertainment Weekly described the scene at the sold-out start of his post-"Wicked Game" release tour:{{cite web | publisher=Entertainment Weekly | url= http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,313554,00.html | archive-url= https://archive.today/20120731060528/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,313554,00.html | url-status= dead | archive-date= July 31, 2012 | title=On Top of His Game | last=Rhodes |first=Joe | date=March 8, 1991 | accessdate=April 23, 2010}}

Reprise staged a gaudy, sold-out gig at L.A.'s Wiltern Theater. Sean Penn was there. So were Eric Roberts, k.d. lang, Dwight Yoakam, and, standing discreetly in a side aisle, Bruce Springsteen and Patti Scialfa. There were lots of young girls, whose screaming Isaak may have to get used to. Afterward came The Hollywood Party, where, amid more dazzling stars, Isaak (decked out in his shiny brocade stage suit) got his first gold record while the waiters passed around goat cheese quesadillas and a Hawaiian band played in the background. It was a lot to handle, but then, as Isaak had said the night before..., "I used to tar-paper roofs for a living. So, as far as I'm concerned, this is a pretty fun job."

At the first of a May 1991 two-night stand at the Beacon Theatre in New York City—the first in that city after "Wicked Game" became a top 10 hit— Isaak's performance was characterized as "consummate showmanship": performances "right on the edge of caricature" yet with the ability to "infuse the ballads "Wicked Game" and "Blue Spanish Sky" ... with a spine-tingling intensity."{{cite web | work=The New York Times | title=Chris Isaak In a Display Of Inspired Silliness | last=Holden | first=Stephen |author-link=Stephen Holden |

url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/05/19/arts/review-pop-chris-isaak-in-a-display-of-inspired-silliness.html?pagewanted=1&pagewanted=print | date=May 19, 1991 | accessdate=April 23, 2010}}

{{tracklist

| all_writing = Chris Isaak except where noted

| title1 = Heart Shaped World

| length1 = 3:30

| title2 = I'm Not Waiting

| length2 = 3:16

| title3 = Don't Make Me Dream About You

| length3 = 3:33

| title4 = Kings of the Highway

| length4 = 4:47

| title5 = Wicked Game

| length5 = 4:49

| title6 = Blue Spanish Sky

| length6 = 3:58

| title7 = Wrong to Love You

| length7 = 4:20

| title8 = Forever Young

| length8 = 3:23

| title9 = Nothing's Changed

| length9 = 4:08

| title10 = In the Heat of the Jungle

| length10 = 6:20

| title11 = Diddley Daddy

| note11 = CD bonus track

| writer11= Bo Diddley, Harvey Fuqua

| length11 = 4:01

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"Diddley Daddy" had been first released on Shag: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1989)

Adapted from Discogs.[http://www.discogs.com/Chris-Isaak-Heart-Shaped-World/release/405168 Additional Personnel as listed at discogs; retrieved November 28, 2011]

;Musicians

• Chris Isaak – vocals, guitar
• James Calvin Wilsey – lead guitar
• Rowland Salley – bass guitar, vocals
• Kenney Dale Johnson – drums, vocals

;Additional personnel

• Prairie Prince - drums, percussion
• Frank Martin - keyboards, piano
• Pete Scaturro - keyboards
• Christine Wall - vocals
• Cynthia Lloyd - vocals
• Chris Solberg - bass
• Joni Haastrup - keyboards

;Production

• Erik Jacobsen – production
• Mark Needham – engineering
• Daniel Levitin – sound design
• Lee Herschberg – mixing assistance
• Greg Fulginiti at Artisan Sound Recorders – mastering
• Lex Van Rossen - front cover photography

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