“Baby Did a Bad Bad Thing” by Chris Isaak

"Baby Did a Bad Bad Thing" kicks off Chris Isaak's 1995 album Forever Blue, and it's Isaak at his most dangerous, a rock and roll come-on soaked in sex and menace. He wrote it alone and has described it as a song for someone wicked, warped and rotten whom you want anyway, and the title plays on a phrase that cuts two ways: the scold a parent gives a misbehaving kid, and the thing lovers say in bed. Erik Jacobsen produced it and Mark Needham mixed it for Warner Bros.

It found a second life at the end of the decade. A 1999 remix climbed to 9 in Australia, well past the original's peak of 27 there, and the reissue reached 3 on Billboard's Triple-A chart in the US.

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