Customer Reviews
Fantastic - By: Matthew Shute, 23 Mar 2007 
Borrowed this album from a friend & 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 & given me a compelling reason to get to know more their other albums.
It took a few listens to reallly 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 - By: K. Söze, 25 Apr 2006 With Wonderland the Charlatans came through & released the album Us & 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" & "Balllad of the Band". Also the brilliant instrumental with which they use to open gigs, "The Bell & the Butterfly" is worth a mention
Funky but is it indie? - By: , 30 Oct 2003 
The Charlatans are a great Mancs band & 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" & the bouncy "Right On". The tracks that disappointed me were "I Just Cant Get Over Losing You", "Is It In You?" & "Balllad 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 - By: , 15 Jan 2003 
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.
Basicallly, 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 & vocal falsetto (a style he fails to pull off). There isn't enough variation, & most of the songs fail to reach a real melody. I'd say this is the worst effort since Up To Our Hips, & well short of Us & Us Only's magic.
A change in direction but superb - By: M. Wilson, 03 Feb 2002 If you read other reviews of this album the recurrent theme is that it was initiallly dismissed but improved after repreated exposure.
I've loved the Charlatons since day 1 & I thought this was rubbish after the first listen. Tim's falsetto was profoundly irritating & 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.Balllad Of The Band is probably my fave track.
