Wicked Wonderland (album)

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Wicked Wonderland
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Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 2, 2009 (Europe)
October 6, 2009 (US)
Genre
Length65:30
Label earMusic/Edel (Europe)
JLRG Entertainment (US)
Producer Lita Ford, Jim Gillette, Greg Hampton
Lita Ford chronology
Greatest Hits Live!
(2000)
Wicked Wonderland
(2009)
Living Like a Runaway
(2012)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Allmusic (unfavorable) [1]
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Wicked Wonderland is the seventh solo studio album by American rock-musician Lita Ford and her first of new material in almost 15 years.

Contents

Ford said about the album: "Everybody has their own 'Wicked Wonderland'. It's a place where you can do whatever you want and get as freaky as you feel. These songs are my version of that - they're all about my life…well, the parts that happen when the kids are in bed and my husband and I get into the boudoir."(...)"This is definitely the heaviest stuff I’ve ever recorded. I've evolved and matured as a person and so has my music. It’s lyrically very real." [3] In her 2016 memoir, Ford disowned the album. [4]

In October, 2009 the album also was released as limited edition vinyl LP, with modified track listing (without two last songs as well as with different track order) and different artwork. [5] With 15 songs in it, the album is 1 hour and 15 minutes long. [6]

The track "Betrayal" is one of the 108 songs that appear in the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 video game, Brütal Legend , to which Lita also contributed her likeness and voice to the character "Rima, Queen of the Zaulia". [7] The track is featured as background music for one of the cutscenes in the game's story mode, and can be played on the in-game radio once unlocked.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Lita Ford and Greg Hampton

No.TitleLength
1."Crave"3:46
2."Piece (Hell Yeah)"3:41
3."Patriotic S.O.B."4:32
4."Scream 4 Me"3:57
5."Inside"4:12
6."Wicked Wonderland"3:50
7."Indulge"4:42
8."Love"5:31
9."Betrayal"3:58
10."Sacred"4:34
11."Truth"3:55
12."Everything"3:35
13."Bed"6:51
14."Garden"4:06
15."Push"4:16

Personnel

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