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Wonderland is the seventh album by the British alternative rock band the Charlatans, released on 10 September 2001.

Wonderland
Studio album by the Charlatans
Released	10 September 2001
Recorded	February – June 2001
Genre	Alternative rock
Length	57:31
Label	Universal
Producer	The Charlatans Danny Saber James Spencer
The Charlatans chronology
Us and Us Only (1999) Wonderland (2001) Up at the Lake (2004)
Singles from Wonderland
"Love Is The Key" Released: 27 August 2001 "A Man Needs to Be Told" Released: 19 November 2001 "You're So Pretty – We're So Pretty" Released: (withdrawn)

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	75/100[1]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
Blender	[3]
Dotmusic	4.5/5[4]
Drowned in Sound	8/10[5]
NME	8/10[6]
Pitchfork	7.8/10[7]
Playlouder	[8]
RTÉ.ie	[9]
Stylus Magazine	6.7/10[10]
Under the Radar	8/10[11]

At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, Wonderland received an average score of 75, based on 17 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[1] NME[12] and Q[13] listed Wonderland as one of the best 50 albums of 2001.

Track listing

All songs by Blunt/Brookes/Burgess/M. Collins/Rogers

1. "You're So Pretty – We're So Pretty" – 4:44
2. "Judas" – 4:04
3. "Love Is the Key" – 4:28
4. "A Man Needs to Be Told" – 4:33
5. "I Just Can't Get Over Losing You" – 4:54
6. "The Bell and the Butterfly" – 4:17
7. "And If I Fall" – 5:18
8. "Wake Up" – 5:10
9. "Is It in You?" – 4:45
10. "Ballad of the Band" – 5:56
11. "Right On" – 4:22
12. "Love to You" – 4:54

    UK release only. Rest of the world release does not include "Right On" and "Love To You". Japanese release includes "Right On" and "Love To You" as well as the following:

13. "It's About Time" – 3:53
14. "Shotgun" – 3:20
15. "Viva la Sociale" – 3:20

• "It's About Time" and "Viva la Sociale" are featured as B-sides on the UK single release of "Love Is the Key".
• "Shotgun" is featured as the B-side on the UK single release of "A Man Needs to Be Told".

Personnel

The Charlatans

• Tim Burgess – lead vocals, harmonica
• Mark Collins – guitars
• Tony Rogers – Mellotron, organ, piano, backing vocals
• Martin Blunt – bass
• Jon Brookes – drums

with:

• Ged Lynch – percussion (2,3,8,10)
• Stacy Plunk – backing vocals (3,4,9)
• Yvonne Marx – backing vocals (3,10)
• Daniel Lanois – pedal steel (4)
• Jim Keltner – percussion (4,12)

References

External links

• Wonderland at YouTube (streamed copy where licensed)

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