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Though former Runaways guitarist Lita Ford has been absent from the recording industry since 1997, she hasn't exactly been idle. After releasing Kiss Me Deadly, her final album after a string of them in the '80s and '90s, the music scene -- and the industry with it -- changed, and alternative ruled the airwaves. Ford got married to Jim Gillette, former vocalist with hair metal rockers Nitro, and started a family. In addition, she relocated to the Caribbean. Wicked Wonderland is uncharacteristic of the pop-metal she released a decade ago. It's an in-your-face metal record, but ultimately it's a very studied and calculated 21st century pop-metal record. It's an album with explicit sexual content, examining S&M, bondage, power exchanges, and all manner of kink and crave in lyrics, words, and sleeve images. Ford wrote all of these songs with her co-producers Greg Hampton and Gillette. Gillette is also either a duet partner or backing vocalist on every track here. Hampton handles bass, keyboard, and other sonic duties, and there are a pair of drummers who alternate in Chris Collier and Stet Howland. The album's first single (and longest track), "Bed," was released exclusively to Stockroom.com, one of the leading suppliers of S&M and bondage gear on the internet. Ford claims that she and her husband have carved out a path to a happy family life, and it does seem that they detail it on this recording. Musically, while Wicked Wonderland is harder, edgier, darker, and more visceral than anything she's released in the past, this is still a very pop-oriented heavy music recording. The songs have hooks as well as blazing guitars and triple-time drumbeats, and they're saturated in keyboards and samplers. Metal has morphed and changed so radically in the last decade, this record sounds more like a late White Zombie tribute album than it does a contemporary metal recording. Check out the hooks in tracks like "Indulge," or the post-'80s metallic musical architecture of "Scream 4 Me," or even the industrial keyboard sounds combined with growling death metal vocals, and Ford's own almost-nostalgic balladic style, all of which make for something that feels not quite of the moment and something not quite dated, either. It also provides a link, however thinly disguised, of the persona she displayed on her earlier recordings. With the proper marketing strategy it will get some play and push in certain quarters of the music world, and perhaps in some markets not even normally associated with music. ~ Thom Jurek
Though former Runaways guitarist Lita Ford has been absent from the recording industry since 1997, she hasn't exactly been idle. After releasing Kiss Me Deadly, her final album after a string of them in the '80s and '90s, the music scene -- and the industry with it -- changed, and alternative ruled the airwaves. Ford got married to Jim Gillette, former vocalist with hair metal rockers Nitro, and started a family. In addition, she relocated to the Caribbean. Wicked Wonderland is uncharacteristic of the pop-metal she released a decade ago. It's an in-your-face metal record, but ultimately it's a very studied and calculated 21st century pop-metal record. It's an album with explicit sexual content, examining S&M, bondage, power exchanges, and all manner of kink and crave in lyrics, words, and sleeve images. Ford wrote all of these songs with her co-producers Greg Hampton and Gillette. Gillette is also either a duet partner or backing vocalist on every track here. Hampton handles bass, keyboard, and other sonic duties, and there are a pair of drummers who alternate in Chris Collier and Stet Howland. The album's first single (and longest track), "Bed," was released exclusively to Stockroom.com, one of the leading suppliers of S&M and bondage gear on the internet. Ford claims that she and her husband have carved out a path to a happ
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Personnel: Lita Ford (vocals, guitar); Stet Howland (drums).
Audio Mixer: Jeremy Mackenzie. Lita Ford Wicked Wonderland Songs Wicked Wonderland Music Review Average Rating: (2.5 out of 5 stars)    List All Reviews Fake Amazon.com Reviews While legitimate reviewers seek to help potential buyers by evaluating the product, some self-promoting impostors seem to get off by inflating the results.
Take a good look at Amazon's reviews of this album. Does anyone really believe there are 146 legitimate reviews of this cd? - How desperate!
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Wicked Lita?? Not quite sure what to make of this album. It's bang up to date - what do you expect after 15 years? It's strippped down (How I'd like to see Lita) and quite raw. If you're expecting "Back To The Cave" forget it. Her voice is still spot on and the production pretty good too. I'd like to have heard a bit more variation as a lot of the songs sound VERY similar.
Hmmmm........... Submitted by peter.cochrane (N Ireland) Was This Review Helpful? Yes No
15 years is too long for a new Lita CD... The last full length CD from Lita was "Black" back in 1994.
Since then, she has sporadically put out Greatest Hits, Best Of, and Live compliations.
I wasn't sure to what to make of a new Lita CD.
Her sound is not the same as it was back in the 80's, but it is close to the "Black" album.
Her voice is just as good as it has ever been.
It's hard to pick out any of the guitar shredding she was known for on this new CD.
I would have to say out of the 15 songs on this new album, 8 of them are really great.
Check out: Crave, Piece (Hell Yeah), Scream 4 Me, Wicked Wonderland, Love, Sacred, Truth, and Garden. Submitted by TheGreeneMann (Florida) Was This Review Helpful? Yes No
not bad great guitar playing, good drumming so so lyrics...over all worth exploring Submitted by noprob420 (berlin, nh, usa) Was This Review Helpful? Yes No
hugely disappointed if you like the old lita ford then dun buy this album. you will be hugely disappointed. it is an alertnative alubm. all the songs sound almost the same and boring. not catchy at all. Submitted by eric (toronto, canada) Was This Review Helpful? Yes No
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