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Wicked Wonderland |  | Artist: Lita Ford
Label: JLRG Ent.
Category: Music
List Price: $16.98
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Rating:  78 reviews
Sales Rank: 7797
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.5
MPN: 920530
UPC: 616892053064
EAN: 0616892053064
ASIN: B002F3BPN6
Release Date: October 6, 2009
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Crave | | • | Piece | | • | Patriotic SOB | | • | Scream | | • | Inside | | • | Wicked Wonderland | | • | Indulge | | • | Love | | • | Betrayal | | • | Sacred | | • | Truth | | • | Everything | | • | Bed | | • | Garden (bonus track) | | • | Push (bonus track) |
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Product Description
Whoever said absence makes the heart grow fonder must ve been thinking about the relationship between Lita Ford and rock n roll. The hard rock queen stepped away from her remarkable musical career back in the 1990s to devote herself to family and the surroundings of real life on a surreal Caribbean island, but with the call of the sonic wild getting louder and louder, she made the decision to dive back in at the deep end only to find that she had every bit as much love for the heavy rock grind. And as it turns out, the feeling is mutual.
With Wicked Wonderland , her first full-length offering since 1995 s Black , Lita shows that her flair for sexy, stomping, searing sounds has only gotten more vivid which is mighty impressive, given a history that includes such classics as Kiss Me Deadly and the Ozzy Osbourne duet Close My Eyes Forever. This release, created in tandem with husband Jim Gillette whose own musical history is highlighted by his work with acclaimed metallurgists Nitro is a hard and heavy affirmation of the sensuality and smarts that ve carried her through three decades of action.
The 15 cuts certainly touch on the sort of headbang-inducing riffage that gave Lita her start way back when, but there are also surprises aplenty from the smoking slide guitar that punctuates the bluesy Scream to the psychedelic industrial swirl that envelops Everything. It s a potent blend, propelled by in-your-face drumming and Lita s effortlessly steamy vocals.
With pelvis-pounding rhythms and lascivious lyrics of tunes like the appropriately-titled Indulge and the so-nasty-it s-nice Crave , Lita shows off her trademark ability to purr seductively and deliver a well-placed knockout punch on no-holds-barred songs like Piece (Hell Yeah) . Wicked Wonderland showcases an artist who s clearly got plenty to say and no shortage of ways to say it.
The initial pressing of 25 000 contains two bonus tracks!
Album Description
2009 album from the platinum-selling, Grammy nominated Queen Of Rock (and former Runaway). With Wicked Wonderland, Lita has returned with a vengeance, delivering her heaviest album ever. Following a 14 year break from the Rock 'n' Roll world to raise a family, Lita hit the studio to record Wicked Wonderland. The recordings find her rocking, playing and singing with an amped-up fury and power like never before that's also informed by her personal growth as a wife and mother as well as legendary rocker. The initial 25,000 pressing includes bonus four tracks!
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 Wicked Wonder-FAIL! January 15, 2010
Roy
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
What a heap of garbage this turned out to be. A true waste of plastic.
There is not a memorable song on the entire CD. To make matters even worse,
Lita's husband, Jim Gillette, contributes embarrassingly laughable cookie-monster
vocals throughout the disc in a disastrous attempt to bring Lita into the current
nu-metal genre. A bad, bad idea, and a slap in the face to her fans of old.
Hey, Lita! Thanks for the coaster!
Worse than one star January 15, 2010
C. Mitchell (East Coast, USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Time has not been good to Lita Ford. After more than 20 years out of the limelight -- that's 20 years she could have spent writing new songs -- she makes her comeback, not with a bang but with a lifeless fizzle. This album should only be for the diehards, the few fans she has left. Curious onlookers need not apply. Consider classic Lita for your introduction.
The most disappointing comeback album of the last 20 years January 15, 2010
Jeffrey D. Miller (Seattle, WA)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Who would have guessed that Lita Ford's new rock album would not feature rock or Lita Ford?
Samples, boring quasi-metal guitaring, poor mixing and muffled vocals run rampant on this album. How she was convinced to attempt covering up poor songwriting with downtuned guitars and random noise is beyond me. Lita's vocals are often spoken instead of sung, but most of the singing is handled (poorly) by her husband, Jim Gillette (of the hilariously bad D-list hair band Nitro). On many of the tracks, Lita is barely present vocally. Lyrically, this is a sad attempt by two borderline elderly people trying to be sexy and shocking. While the Lita Ford of the 1980's might have gotten away with this if it was done with more talent, the turkey necked, grey haired Lita of 2010 only serves to make these lyrics more revolting. And young or old, the thought of Jim Gillette having sex is enough to turn the stomach of even Gerri Miller, and she sustains herself on a diet of grubs and ants picked off the bark of felled trees in the forests of the Pacific Northwest, so that's saying something.
Listening to this album makes you embarrassed for poor Lita. Old school rock fans will be disappointed that the album is a complete departure from anything she has done. Modern metal fans can only be enraged by what sounds like a parody of their genre of music.
The only way I can see anyone enjoying this album is in a Mystery Science Theater 3000, so-bad-it's-good comedic sense. As a longtime fan of her, I find this abomination too painful to laugh at.
Lita's legacy as a rock icon is forever destroyed.
After all this time ...... January 15, 2010
Davidm (marlboro, ma. USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is what we get ?? Mostly Garbage & it's too bad as some of these songs sound like they could have been cool if Gillette would stay out of them ! I am buying a Lita ford album not a jim & Lita album .
That said , i have been buying lita's solo album since "out for blood" hit stores , i was hoping for a good rock n roll album & that is not what it is ,lita needs to get into a studio , Leave Jim at home & get a producer on the job .
This cd is average at best , what a bummer after such a long wait .
Wanna Take Lessons On How To Suck ? Listen To This BEFORE You Buy January 2, 2010
MI_Central Dave (Ypsilanti, MI United States)
4 out of 34 found this review helpful
I was tempted to purchase this since I've been a huge fan for years. All the 5 star ratings had me leaning in that direction and then I caught a disproportionate amount of 1 star reviews. I read what the 1 star reviews said, and I listened and laughed at the "music" and the reviews together. If I wanted to listen to adolescent, hormonal lyrics through a speed metal song with a male screeching and screaming, why in the Hell would I not buy a Nitro album or something similar. Seems this is supposed to be a Lita Ford album, but her husband has taken over the production, song writing, and attempted singing (!?)This travesty should've been credited to Jim Gillette, not Lita Ford; seems like a marketing ploy to lure people that expect great Lita Ford songs to have this rubbish unknowingly passed off as such. I concur with D. Kellems statement that seems to summarize this up quite concisely; "This CD has NOTHING that comes close to being her best work and really sounds like an experimental Jim Gillette project with Lita as a guest rather than her own solo CD."
BTW, after listening to the samples, I passed on EVER purchasing this CD...even if it free and all I had to pay was the shipping !
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