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Wonderland | 
 enlarge | Artist: Charlatans
Label: Universal / Island
Category: Music
List Price: £7.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  29 reviews
Sales Rank: 11927
Media: Audio CD
Running Time: 57
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 044001491023
EAN: 0044001491023
ASIN: B00005NWLN
Release Date: August 25, 2003
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| Tracks:
| » | You're So Pretty - We're So Pretty | | » | Judas | | » | Love Is The Key | | » | A Man Needs To Be Told | | » | I Just Can't Get Over Losing You | | » | The Bell And The Butterfly | | » | And If I Fall | | » | Wake Up | | » | Is It In You? | | » | Ballad Of The Band | | » | Right On | | » | Love To You |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
As Wonderland illustrates, consistency has never been one of The Charlatans' virtues. Their back catalogue includes one or two albums that sound like they were touched by the hand of the almighty-1997's Tellin' Stories, especially, is something of a classic-and several which struggle to offer a convincing case for their existence. Wonderland sadly falls firmly into the latter category. The tone is set by the opening track, "You're So Pretty--We're So Pretty", an extraordinarily annoying melding of INXS-style white-socked funk and the sort of mannered falsetto vocal that Mick Jagger was insisting upon circa Tattoo You. Indeed, the unfathomable decision of singer Tim Burgess to venture outside his usual limited range is one of the principal deficiencies of Wonderland-it doesn't do single "Love Is The Key" or the otherwise engaging Primal Scream-ish shuffle "I Just Can't Get Over Losing You" any favours, either. There are a couple of points at which The Charlatans lock into the lolloping groove and lightness of touch that made Tellin' Stories such a great album, but these serve mostly as a reminder of what is missing. The Charlatans' Wonderland has been reached via a wrong turning. --Andrew Mueller
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| Customer Reviews: Read 24 more reviews...
 Fantastic March 23, 2007
Borrowed this album from a friend and fell in love with it. My only previous knowledge of Charlatans was The Only One I Know (aka The Only Charlatans Song I Know). Wonderland has redressed the balance and given me a compelling reason to get to know more their other albums.
It took a few listens to really get into, but I've found so many of the tracks have multi-replayability. There's very little filler in this album, the majority of the tracks I could listen to continously.
Pure Class. Buy It.
The best Charlatans album April 25, 2006
With Wonderland the Charlatans came through and released the album Us and Us Only could have been.
Its quite a heavy album with many a chorus that will have you screaming along to Tim Burgess' wails.
Highlights include "Your so Pretty", "Judas", "I Cant Get Over Losing You" and "Ballad of the Band". Also the brilliant instrumental with which they use to open gigs, "The Bell and the Butterfly" is worth a mention
 Funky but is it indie? October 30, 2003
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The Charlatans are a great Mancs band and one of the things I admire the most about them is that they are different!!! This album though I think could have been better. In my opinion the best tracks are "youre so pretty, we're so pretty", the incredible upbeat "Love Is The Key", "A Man Needs To Be Told" and the bouncy "Right On". The tracks that disappointed me were "I Just Cant Get Over Losing You", "Is It In You?" and "Ballad of The Band". Every other tune is a true charlatans tune.This is only what I can describe as funky indie. Its a must for any Charlatans fan!! Despite there being a couple of not so good tracks, I still completely admire the Charlatans for being experimental, not many bands are these days!
 I'd agree with the Amazon reviewer January 15, 2003
1 out of 13 found this review helpful
It can't be easy when a band's been around for 10 years or more, to get a real gague on teh quality of an album. The mainstream fans are gone, only the diehards remain. If the album is a new style, they may not like it, if it retreads old styles, they'll be content.Basically, this is a poor atempt at merging elements form the past. The mroe lightweight pyschadelic aspect of the early hits is gone,r eplaced by some Bob Dylan influences and vocal falsetto (a style he fails to pull off). There isn't enough variation, and most of the songs fail to reach a real melody. I'd say this is the worst effort since Up To Our Hips, and well short of Us & Us Only's magic.
A change in direction but superb February 3, 2002
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
If you read other reviews of this album the recurrent theme is that it was initially dismissed but improved after repreated exposure.
I've loved the Charlatons since day 1 and I thought this was rubbish after the first listen. Tim's falsetto was profoundly irritating and the songs were tedious. However once you've listened to this a few times you start to appreciate where the band are going. Within a few weeks you start to feel that this is probably the best piece of work that the Charlatons have come up with.
I started to type out a list of the album's highlights but then realised I was typing out the track listing.Ballad Of The Band is probably my fave track.
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