Paal Flaata - Wicked Game (Chris Isaak)

[boehzeminkafee]

who is this man with such a beautifull feeling in his voice???

[SearchingSunset]

I love that guy with the guitar. :D

[arntpa]

Helt fantastisk flott cover! PUNKTUM!

[marinos3flash]

best cover from this song is from three days grace..however this guys does fine also

[SuperMetallicaGuy]

I was looking for the death metal band Paal. ummmm...

[ChakGuitar]

The original of Chris Isaak is the BEST !!!

[kbstone]

Bill Compton?! hehe

[thinkpad30]

Very nice job!! Chris Isaak has a lot of competition for his song. This is one of the best!

[I000II0I0I]

@thinkpad30 I've seen Chris Isaak twice, nobody can touch his performance. I've watched most of the covers on the net, and although most are good, the energy Chris brings to the stage is untouchable. He invites the crowd on stage usually near the end of his set and it turns into one big dance party orgy...

[TheAdeSings]

Nice version I think! He looks the part too. I did a cover of this today, take a look if you get time :)

[amazingMpampis007]

hi fron Greece...we love paal flaata !!!!!!!

[clyo72]

excelente versión y me gusto mucho al igual que la versión mas rockera de H.I.M. que es un poco menos melodica pero igual de bien lograda por V. VALO

[riguzto21]

The best song... the best cover of this song.

[LindyXY]

I love Chris Isaak, but this is one of the best covers I´ve heard of this song, definitely up there with the original. A beautiful voice.

[MrRATUSA]

BEAUTIFUL COVER.. GREAT JOB ON A GREAT SONG

[holywells]

He did an ok job on this song, but he doesn't have the depth, the conviction, and the soul that Chris Isaak puts into it.

[benedikteflataker95]

I totally love his voice, and his version of this song !

And even though he sings sad music he has a great taste of humor! :)

He visited our school today - He is really amazing live !

I was lucky, and got the chance to interview him… he's on Spotify, and hopefully he'll be out with a new record soon :)

This man is amazing, in all ways :)

[fuzzypige222]

Slower tempo is nice... Chris is a local boy here but this guy is right there !!! Since the mercenary you tube has banished the original by Chris Isaak ( dont believe me ? try and find it, lol) maybe this is a 99% replacement anyway

[zuss10r]

@fuzzypige222 Well there are plenty of clips of the original here....maybe you need to shift out of the US..;_)))

[kaythesnake]

youtube.com/watch?v=6jTk7SQlSz­w&feature=related

[LiminalLady90]

He seems to try too hard to reach notes out of his own range to match that of Isaak. His voice could be better. This cover is an interesting listen but nothing to swoon over-but that's just my own personal taste

[bluesman7475]

Sorry, nice try. But this artist does not have the vocal range that Isaak does. Then then, I don't think anyone has his vocal range.

[kingj0n]

@bluesman7475 It isn't that hard and I believe most people in the world can get to that range he does. They just have to learn how to do it, which takes a couple minutes.

[sustainf]

the closest one to the original

[fairfaxwoods]

hes ok, not great, but not many can pull off Isaak's vocal range. Still love Chris the best

[peterpetersnbg]

he´s excellant but i would push him out of the boat straight away if Chris Isaak swam along

[sodimite]

This guy is good, no, he's really good...,Spot On!

[seamouseone]

he just sounds like isaak but he looks slightly more gay.

[TheTorluc]

Almost better than Chris ISaak, lovely...

[gunnerasch2]

Very very well done. And Im a big! Isaaks fan. This is nearly as good as the original

[ColumbiaCondor]

Paal Flaata is so wonderfully talented and beautiful

[Mortthemoose]

Big Chris Isaak fan...and thought this version was really good!!!

Well done! A difficult song to sing

[getora]

LOVELY VOICE, DELICIOUS SINGER.

[tb2arvd]

The girls on stage are completly paralyzed by his voice, i bet they would do him or is doing him already, hehe :)

[hura49]

BDP20PBC-you are an ignorant idiot; you would not know good music if it hit you in the head; that would be a feat conc. such a small head!!!!!

[speechpessi]

if you don't know this guy go look for Midnight Choir. They use to make amazing music. Talk to me, don't turn out the lights, mercy of maria, long hard night, sistery of mercy,violence of the world, muddy river of loneliness, Jeff Bridges and many other fantastic songs.

[eyetolduso]

Great cover! 

[DaDawg4real]

beautifull.. reminds me of love..

[BDP20PBC]

chris is the only one this is shit

[monkybizzness2u]

@BDP20PBC troll more?

[folerx]

O man, I always cry on this songs!!!!!!!!!!

[foley62380]

Tout simplement excellent !!!!!! 

[besamemucho5]

just as good as chris isaak.....just as much feeling.....beautiful!!!!

[bitquique]

Very Good!

[ArtyomShipoff]

The woman sitting nest to him is so cute

[ZangerRBourquin]

He sounds like a country singer :D

[mixetta88]

dios.. k bien la canta!! de todas las versiones que he eschado.. sin contar la original y la de HIM,este hombre la canta perfectamente!!! y transmite la cancion que es lo importante!!

preciosa!! ;)

[mixetta88]

dios.. k bien la canta!! de todas las versiones que he eschado.. sin contar la original y la de HIM,este hombre la canta perfectamente!!! y transmite la cancion que es lo importante!!

preciosa!! ;)

[mixetta88]

dios.. k bien la canta!! de todas las versiones que he eschado.. sin contar la original y la de HIM,este hombre la canta perfectamente!!! y transmite la cancion que es lo importante!!

preciosa!! ;)

[fuzzypige222]

love it, do the back-up singers ever sing???

[LLuuiizzaa]

i met a germany guy listening to that song hahaha

[ArtyomShipoff]

Perfectly done! Great!

[esnola]

Precioso tema de Cris Isaak

[958gs]

esta canción es de las que me gustan

[mcrouble]

i love this cover...

[TheSeekone]

What a CLONING.....Paal Flaata & Chris Issac. Weird way to put it. Excellently

sung by P.F.

[ovegunl]

Bedre enn orginalen!!!!

[shuichiLUVR314]

i've never heard this cover...and i love it! he did a great job

[lbhurt]

I've sent this video around quite a bit. Great job.

[BmArthas]

Smoothly...

[Franklen9]

best version

[macomberproductions]

perfecto! and kickass band too!

[LH98000]

Pål is still going strong!! Cheers everybody:-)

[niloxfreak]

great cover... but I dont like the solo guitar player that much.

[fuzzypige222]

wow, never heard of this guy, but wow, Ive never seen anyonedo this song like this, beautiful...best cover of this song...not likely to happen often

[LH98000]

Serious!! He did!! Don't give me thumb down for saying the truth!!

[mat5471]

I must say this is absolutely fantastic...does an excellent job!!

[tb2arvd]

Best cover i ever heard of this song, really really great voice!! =) Me like Alot!!

[daviddango91]

very nice cover, i like the way he sings this, great version. :)

[LH98000]

Paal sang this Isaac tune just for the fun;-) Cheers Pål and the rest of the world;-)

[krowli79]

BRAVO!!!!!!!!!

[VaMpIrEGiRlToBi1994]

it's good. but i think adam gontier's cover from this song is so much better.

[buckley23]

Great cover. Its evident that even before hearing paal flaata doing a chris isaac cover, you can hear in his style of singing with his band 'midnight choir' that he takes a big influence from the chris's style of singing.

[desturtz]

fantastic cover, first time i heard it, i'll probably listen to it again. attempts at outdoing Chris on this song however are futile. it's a great cover but it ain't the original.

[0yztein]

This is so much better than the original tune.

[mykeawja]

GREAT INDEED!!!.

Big Thanks to Lunee78.

[LaGoonch]

This cover kicks ass. I think this can be compared to the original.

[KokaKolacid]

is it live or is it memorex

[LH98000]

@KokaKolacid If you can't see or listen so DON'T!!

[Grinvon]

awesome cover!

so beautiful.

[ahz123]

Nice cover.

[ba5ti77]

nice

[juanvalencia13]

stone sour version is better

[HaggiZ]

How can u say that. Stonesour's version wasnt good at all.

[Goldenlaser92]

amazing

[destiny6666]

gee thats a cover down to the last note ... wow ... if I wasnt watching the video I'd think it was Chirs Isaak

[rtypedelta1]

Perfect....beautifull

[Ermac6195]

WOW I'm Speechless.....

[Gons4ik]

Лучший ковер, который я слышал на эту песню. Помоему даже лучше Айзека. Просто супер)

[mazyooona100]

WooW..COOL voice and song...Im getting goose bumps...Im 31 yrs old and still didnt find Mr. Right and this song makes me wana fall in love although the words say the opposite!!hehe

[LH98000]

Mr Right wil meet You soom;o) Believe me!!;o)

[MoonlitJake]

damn i loveit !=]

[angelprotector1]

genialll

[Prissie28]

I like this vocalist much better than Chris Isaak!! Paal Flaata rocks!

[ThreeDaysGraceGurl13]

I like it when Three Days Grace does it better.But either way,it's still a good song.

[showbizfrank]

Very cool I wanted to here a couple of live versions. I did a karaoke version and not finding others like mine but this was great...Frank

[AMANI52]

I love this version, but Isaak still the great maybe because the first time I heared it from him

[zoso0987]

what a great lead guitarist. SUCH a tasteful solo!

[zoso0987]

2:32 :)

[tubebender1]

Best remake I have ever heard!!

[wiredhatred]

Best cover of this song I have heard yet. Not too far from the original, keeping the same tones and effects but definitely adding their own flare and spices to the pot. Awesome jon, and Phych101 you fag he is singing this song. To think he isnt actually singing this song should be grounds for you to be banned from the internet forever....or at least upgrade to high speed internet. You suck, this band is bad and 2nd in line to the one and only Chris Isaak himself.

[eflesh21]

This guy is definately singing this song. Some parts he sings better then Chris, but only because he has some real soul in it. If you look hard enough you'll find where Chris really got into his song and it's better then most of his performances.

[dobomodobomo]

yeah-...........

[Wenautia]

I've listened to many, many covers of this song. All are very good. I guess only the best of the best cover this song.

[aktorod]

the best cover of this song :)

[Phych101]

No way. Nobody can out sing Chris Issac.. He can't be singing this. He would be is better but look at his lips. I think it is a fake. Mo human is that good.

[DarkAlessa21]

This cover is pretty good!

To be honest, I like it much than the HIM-version.

Although Chris Isaak is still my number one.

[heavypearls]

Great cover really where are those guys from

[wwSusanne]

They`re from Norway. They are not a band, but this is from a show that went on tv with many diferent artist. The singer is former vokalist in the band Midnight Choir.

[lightningstrike92]

BLOODY HELL this is an AWESOME version...!!!

[Philtration]

I have a strat just like that. The same color and everything and the first thing that I played on it was this song just because of that cool "In a cave" sound

[chipnh2]

awesome delivery

[therealkallajimon]

Beautiful voice and delivery! Gorgeous!! :)))

[smile0555]

woow this is great

[sofprent]

nuestra cancionnnnn verdad , yo si soy la mujer con la que soñaste ,lo que pasa es ke te da miedo seguir soñando .

[jmitch07]

Of all the artists that do this amazing song Paal would be ranked tied for 2nd

1st -Chirs Isaak

2nd - Paola Ricardo tie with Paal Flaata

3rd - Paul Parker

Worst - HIM

[Jasn1111]

I think the 3days Grace version is worse than HIM's.

[sofprent]

te kiero muchoooooo  mongooo

[savanette]

that was amazing!

[SantinoC7]

great !

[EricUSnavY]

He's not quite Chris Isaak, but I'll say he's pretty damn good!

[alessandropuntorno]

non ci possono essere commenti su questo video.... basta ascoltare in silenzio....

[ttvazquez]

He's great!

[fezzik123]

This guy is incredible!

[arturopalominod]

muy buena cancion es historica

[bigchappy1970]

brilliant-i bet a few wenches wanted pillaged by a viking like this !

[danje10]

Amazing! Absolutely the BEST cover of Chris Isaak's song!

Where can we find Paal? What country? When was this show and where?

Does he have two a's because Isaak does?

[cocazulu]

He's norwegian. I think this show was airing in norwegian telly some years ago. He's formerly been a lead singer in the group Midnight Choir. Would guess you can find his/their CDs by doing a search. :)

[danje10]

Thanks. Does everyone in Norway speak English as well? I thought he was an American!

[warlin555]

yeah we do :)

[eckligt]

Paal has a great affinity for American music. A few years ago, some prominent American musicians joined to make a tribute album to the late, great songwriter Mickey Newbury. As the only foreign participants, Midnight Choir opens the album with their version of "American Trilogy".

There's actually a lot of "Americana"-style music coming from Norway. Some names that you might want to check out: Madrugada, Ane Brun, Christel Alsos, Magnet, Helldorado, etc.

[therealkallajimon]

The Norwegian name similar to the English name Paul is spelled Paal or P - a with a circle over it - l. Some spell it one way, some the other, and some even the English way.

[Antphoneigh]

wow. its actually a brilliant cover. thanks!

[XxSternchenxX8]

i´m speechless..just as haunting as chris isaaks´s version..i think this song just has to be done that way..not as a rock song ;)

[honda1386]

excellent vocals, good cover

[macomberproductions]

nice version... smooth vocals. check out my version!

[coutxxStatix]

haha, nice, almost sounds the same!

[Hollywoodillyrian]

This is awesome.

[cherilyndia]

Wow! Great song and singer!!!

[blondemandy]

Wow this is scary how similar he sounds to Chris.

[sweetness1019]

Amazing cover. Almost as good as Chris Isaak's

[Titan752]

Wow! Just as haunting as Chris Isaak's original! Great cover!!!

[sickanimal]

great cover! if you get chance check out my version! cheers

[ValosDemon]

Go Ville!

[unplugtheplug]

GREAT cover, amazing.

[lbhurt]

Beautiful cover. I think the "twang" in Flaata's voice is perfect for this song. A lot of people have covered this tune lately but this is the only one I prefer to Chris Isaac's orginal.

[nokos39]

voice is to deap for the song, cant get that false seto right mate,

[TheAcriNom]

Falsetto is the term you're looking for, though I have to agree. His voice is lovely but no one really hits that high-note the way Chris Isaak does. All the covers are nice, but...that note is key.

[phelsior]

Nobody sings in the exact same way. You add a personal touch to any cover, and thats what happened here as well.

[AtlanticaNor]

Noen som vet hva gitaristen heter...?

[fiskemannen32]

det er jo han gitaristen i beat for beat, han heiter Jørn Fodnestøl.

[AtlanticaNor]

ja, har sett han der ja :p takker.

[payesita]

yaa esta buena el video de la cancion

[AnonymeKnut]

Good cover, but i like HIM's version better, maybe because i heard that first =P

[mrsferkingstad]

digge paal flaata=) nydlige stemme.... elske sangane hans heaven help the child å laura mills..... nyyyyyyyyydlige....

å denna sangen sang han kjempe bra....veldig imponert=)

[HeeroYuy911]

To be honest i did not like this.

The guy can sing sure but i don't think it was the right voice for it, just seems wrong in some way. Maybe I'm just used to hearing Chris Isaak singing it.

[AtlanticaNor]

"they" = the girls btw

[AtlanticaNor]

Faktisk jævli imponert.

[ZangerRBourquin]

it's a country-music voice

[simpson30]

Surprisingly good, in fact very good. Nicely covered.

[postoncita]

what about those girls there?

they sing or something?

[AtlanticaNor]

This show called "retro" is on norwegian television and they are playing and singing many songs from "the old days". The reason they are sitting there is simply because they either lead the show and/or are singing on other songs :)

[berswin]

This is only one of several songs he played during that show, so I guess they were singing on some of the other songs

[kaspukas]

...strange world desired...make polish people in UK do....

[BluesBoyJonny]

lol kaspukus!

[SIMITZO]

they guy is good but he is trying so hard to copy the tone of isaak's voice and he loses it..

[Glasya]

the accent gives is an extra touch, verry nice

[RunRig75]

*sigh* Beautiful!!!

[rosenpenis]

The finest singer in Norway.Great job!

[anidem2000]

belle voix !!