Amazon.com review : With his singular retro-rock vision, Chris Isaak had already graduated from cult figure to music-video heartthrob when he delivered this 1995 album. But if all the surface elements are intact, he has assimilated his chief vocal influences, Orbison and Elvis, even further, and Isaak's songs dig even deeper into his favorite subject, heartbreak, to shorten the distance between writer and singer. "Baby Did a Bad, Bad Thing," the set's opener, employs the same growling rock-speak as George Thorogood's notorious "Bad to the Bone," but without a trace of irony--Isaak lashes the listener with the torment of a betrayed lover, telegraphing fear, desire, and anguish as he wheels from rumbling accusations to keening falsetto cries. Elsewhere, he withdraws to the more lyrical croon of his previous work, his band wreathed with the throbbing tremolo and ghostly reverb that are their natural elements. There's a folk-rock jangle to the lovely, forlorn "Somebody's Crying," a disarming directness to the simple but aching title song, and another burst of fevered agony, "Go Walking Down There,"which gallops over a perfect mid-'60s guitar arrangement. For all its letter-perfect allusiveness, though, Forever Blue feels authentically heartbroken, not just cleverly crafted. --Sam Sutherland.

Comments : Baby did a bad bad thing is included on the soundtrack of Eyes wide shut  (Kubrick -1999).

My favorite tune : Probably Graduation Day... But the rest is awesome too !

Click on a song title to see the lyrics :

1. Baby did a bad bad thing

2. Somebody's crying

3. Graduation day

4. Go walking down there

5. Don't leave me on my own

6. Things go wrong

7. Forever blue

8. There she goes

9. Goin' nowhere

10. Changed your mind

11. Shadows in a mirror

12. I believe

13. The end of everything