Description
Adam Ant – Wonderful / EMI United Kingdom Audio CD 1995
UPC 724383033522
Wonderful is Adam Ant's fifth solo studio album and the eighth LP overall of his career. It peaked at #143 on the Billboard 200 chart. The band for this album included Ant's long-time collaborator Marco Pirroni, along with ex-Ruts drummer Dave Ruffy and Morrissey's guitarist Boz Boorer.
This album included more acoustic songs than Ant's previous albums. This album repositioned Adam as a more mature pop-rocker, with crafted songs that featured acoustic guitars as prominently as electrics. The album was a moderate hit in the US and UK, as was the single "Wonderful" which became Ant's third US Top 40 hit single. This was the first Adam Ant album to be released in the US before the UK.
Its working title was Slapdash Eden and 25 tracks had been written for the project, of which eleven appeared on the final product. The Japanese release came with a mini poster. Promotional cards were released, each card related to one of the album's tracks including Ant's real meanings behind the lyrics of the track.
Tracklist:
| 1 | Won't Take That Talk | 4:00 |
| 2 | Beautiful Dream
Written-By – Adam Ant, John Reynolds, Kevin Mooney, Marco Pirroni
Written-By – Adam Ant, John Reynolds, Kevin Mooney, Marco Pirroni
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4:13 |
| 3 | Wonderful
Written-By – Adam Ant, Bonnie Hayes, Marco Pirroni
Written-By – Adam Ant, Bonnie Hayes, Marco Pirroni
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4:23 |
| 4 | 1969 Again | 4:19 |
| 5 | Yin & Yang | 4:34 |
| 6 | Image Of Yourself | 4:02 |
| 7 | Alien | 3:40 |
| 8 | Gotta Be A Sin | 4:14 |
| 9 | Vampires | 4:36 |
| 10 |
Angel | 4:39 |
| 11 | Very Long Ride
Written-By – Adam Ant, John Reynolds, Kevin Mooney, Marco Pirroni
Written-By – Adam Ant, John Reynolds, Kevin Mooney, Marco Pirroni
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4:13 |
- Design – Area (10)
- Engineer – Chris Lawson (2)
- Engineer [Assisted By] – Guy Massey
- Management – Blackball Management Ltd., Grant Black, Kevin Ball (6)
- Mixed By – David Tickle
- Musician [The Players], Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar – Marco Pirroni
- Musician [The Players], Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Backing Vocals – Boz Boorer
- Musician [The Players], Bass, Mellotron, Backing Vocals – Bruce Witkin
- Musician [The Players], Drums – Dave Ruffy* (tracks: 1 to 9)
- Musician [The Players], Drums, Drum Programming – John Reynolds (tracks: 2, 10, 11)
- Musician [The Players], Vocals – Adam Ant
- Photography By – Anton Corbijn
- Photography By [The Players] – David Tickle
- Recorded By, Producer – David Tickle
- Written-By – Adam Ant (tracks: 1, 4 to 10), Boz Boorer (tracks: 1, 4 to 10), Marco Pirroni (tracks: 1, 4 to 10)
