What is "wonderland"

Wonderland \Won"der*land`\, n. A land full of wonders, or marvels.
--M. Arnold.

"imaginary realm," 1787, from wonder (n.) + land (n.).

n. An imaginary or real place full of wonder or marvels.

1. n. a place or scene of great or strange beauty or wonder

2. an imaginary realm of marvels or wonders

Wonderland is the debut album by Erasure, recorded in 1985 soon after the duo's formation. It was originally released 1 May 1986 in the United States on Sire Records and 2 June 1986 by Mute Records in the United Kingdom. Not an immediate success, the three singles released from it failed to crack the Top 40 in the UK, nor did any of them enter the Billboard Hot 100. " Who Needs Love Like That" would eventually make the British Top 10 in 1992, and " Oh L'amour" became a UK Top 20 in 2003, both in remixed form promoting their Pop! The First 20 Hits and Hits! compilations respectively. However, the album fared better in both Germany and Sweden, where it was a Top 20 success.

Erasure's initial exposure in the US came via dance clubs, as two singles did hit the top ten on Billboard's Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart.

At the time of its release, Wonderland was considered a failure, especially when comparing it to Clarke's prior successes with Depeche Mode and Yazoo. Early reviews of the album dubbed Bell as 'an Alison Moyet imitator'.

Wonderland is widely revered as a classic example of mid-80s synth pop, by most critics, and is appreciated now as the beginning stages of one of electronic music's most enduring acts.

Wonderland may refer to:

Wonderland is the second studio album by English pop rock band McFly. It was released in the United Kingdom on 29 August 2005, and was a success, being certified platinum, selling over 300,000 copies in the UK. Despite being less of a success in the UK, the album went on to match the worldwide sales of McFly's debut album Room on the 3rd Floor, selling over one million copies.

Wonderland is a rapid transit station on the MBTA Blue Line, located adjacent to Revere Beach in Revere, Massachusetts. It currently serves as the northern terminus of the line, as well as a major bus transfer station for the North Shore area. The station is fully handicapped accessible.

A previous station, Bath House, was open near the site on the Boston, Revere Beach and Lynn Railroad from approximately 1900 to 1940. Wonderland station opened in January 1954. It was rebuilt in 1995, repaired in 2008, and upgraded with a large parking garage and pedestrian bridge in 2012.

The station plays a role in the 1998 film Next Stop Wonderland as the eponymous destination of the main characters.

Wonderland is a 2003 American crime drama film, co-written and directed by James Cox and based on the real-life Wonderland Murders that occurred in 1981. The film stars Val Kilmer, Kate Bosworth, Dylan McDermott, Carrie Fisher, Lisa Kudrow, Josh Lucas, Christina Applegate, Tim Blake Nelson, and Janeane Garofalo. Kilmer plays the role of John Holmes, a pornographic film star and suspected accomplice in four grisly murders committed in an apartment on Wonderland Avenue, in the Laurel Canyon section of Los Angeles.

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

Jamie Oliver named the album in his book Jamie's kitchen as an inspiration for his cooking.

"Wonderland" is a single by XTC released in June 1983, written by Colin Moulding and taken from the album Mummer.

This was the only single issued in the U.S. by Geffen Records from the album.

The promotional music video was directed by Peter Sinclair.

This is one of the songs from the Mummer sessions to feature drummer Terry Chambers prior to his departure from XTC.

Leader Andy Partridge has subsequently described "Wonderland" as one of Moulding's "most beautiful melodies".

Wonderland is an original novella written by Mark Chadbourn and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features the Second Doctor and Ben and Polly. It was released both as a standard edition hardback and a deluxe edition (ISBN 1-903889-15-4) featuring a frontispiece by Dominic Harman. Both editions have a foreword by Graham Joyce.

Wonderland is the debut studio album from the indie rock band Forgive Durden. It was released by Fueled by Ramen on May 9, 2006. The album (or a majority of the songs on it) makes references to the works of Lewis Carroll, including Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, and Jabberwocky as well as works by others such as '' The Wizard of Oz by '' L. Frank Baum and '' Newsies by '' Kenny Ortega.

The album spawned two singles, "Beware the Jubjub Bird and Shun the Frumious Bandersnatch" released in 2006 and "Ants" in 2007.

Wonderland is the ninth studio album by the British singer-songwriter Judie Tzuke, released in 1992.

Though released on a small independent label, it was the last of Tzuke's albums to be released before she founded her own record label, Big Moon Records, which has released all of her subsequent albums.

Wonderland is a 2000 ABC television drama directed by Peter Berg. It depicted daily life in a mental institution, from the perspectives of both the doctors and patients. Only two episodes aired on ABC during its original run in 2000. DirecTV aired all eight episodes on its channel The 101 Network starting January 14, 2009.

The show had many controversial positions on the mental health crisis and its treatment.The fictitious character Dr. Robert Banger, M.D., psychiatrist, says this in a show episode:

"When the pressures of modern society become too great for a person, when one's chemical dynamic becomes such that they are unbalanced, that they cease painting within the lines, they come to us. These are the people that society would prefer just go away -- the shadow people. The shadow people that project upon us their shadow and remind us just how tenuous mental health is. Our worst fears. They remind us how easy it can be to slip."

"Wonderland" is the debut single of German model Heidi Klum. The song was written for a series of television advertisements for the German retailer Douglas. Proceeds from the single were given to a children's charity in her hometown of Bergisch Gladbach. The single was released on iTunes Deutschland and a single released on November 17, 2006 in Germany. The single debuted in Germany at #13 position.

Wonderland is a 1999 drama film about the lives of a London couple, their three adult daughters and absent son. Directed by Michael Winterbottom, the film stars Jack Shepherd, Kika Markham, Shirley Henderson, Gina McKee, Molly Parker, John Simm, and Stuart Townsend. The film was entered into the 1999 Cannes Film Festival.

"Wonderland" is a single-only release from Scottish band Big Country, released in the UK on 9 January 1984 between their first and second albums. It became a Top Ten hit for them in the UK, peaking at number 8, giving the band their third Top 10 entry. The song was included on all the band's subsequent greatest hits collections, although it was never released on any of the band's studio albums. Also released as a 4 song EP in the US in 1984 on Mercury (Mercury 818835-1 M-1) with the A side consisting of Wonderland and All Fall Together and the B side with Angle Park and The Crossing

The music video for the song features the band playing the song in a wooded area.

Wonderland is a computer text-driven adventure game developed by Magnetic Scrolls and published in 1990 by Virgin Games.

Wonderland is a 1971 novel by Joyce Carol Oates, the fourth in the so-called Wonderland Quartet. It was a finalist for the annual U.S. National Book Award for Fiction and it has been called one of the prolific author's best books.

Wonderland follows the character Jesse Vogel from his childhood in the Great Depression to his marriage and career in the late 1960s. Oates later wrote that Jesse is a protagonist who does not have an identity unless he is "deeply involved in meaningful experience", a theme that allowed her to address both what she calls "the phantasmagoria of personality" and the faceless nature of the novelist.

Oates wrote in a 1992 Afterword that Wonderland among her early novels was "the most bizarre and obsessive" and "the most painful to write". Oates continued to think about the novel after its completion, and rewrote the ending for the 1972 paperback edition. She also continued to write about the Vogels: the play Ontological Proof of My Existence is an expansion of Jesse's visit to Toronto in the novel, and she considers the story 'How I Contemplated the World from the Detroit House of Correction, and Began My Life Over Again' "an analogue of Shelley [Vogel]'s experience as a runaway to Toledo."

Wonderland is an album by jazz saxophonist Stanley Turrentine, his second recorded for the Blue Note label following his return to the label in 1984, featuring four performances of tunes associated with Stevie Wonder by Turrentine with Don Grusin, Ronnie Foster, Mike Miller, Abe Laboriel, Harvey Mason, and Paulinho Da Costa with guest appearances by Wonder and Eddie Del Barrio.

Wonderland is a club night concept created and developed by UK-based DJ Pete Tong. In 2007, Wonderland had its debut at London's Ministry of Sound and has remained a resident party at the super club. In 2008, Wonderland was launched at Eden in Ibiza where it has spent three seasons.

Wonderland is the setting for Lewis Carroll's 1865 children's novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

Wonderland is the 38th album release by British composer Michael Nyman and the soundtrack to the 1999 film Wonderland. It is the first of many collaborations of Nyman with director Michael Winterbottom. For Winterbottom, Nyman would later perform excerpts of this score in 9 Songs, provide a score for The Claim, and arrangements and re-used tracks for A Cock and Bull Story. Nyman's daughter, Molly, has continued the family working relationship with Winterbottom, scoring The Road to Guantanamo with Harry Escott.

Nyman has said that the soundtrack to Wonderland is his favourite film score. The New York Times compared the score to that of Stewart Copeland for Rumble Fish and said that "the rhythms are like a clock ticking" and that it is "alternately plaintive and mournful". The Guardian characterized it as "sumptuous, romantic". Senses of Cinema said the music was "heart-wrenching, full of tragic qualities, yet also extremely light".

Wonderland: A New Alice, formerly called Wonderland: Alice's New Musical Adventure, is a musical with a book by Jack Murphy and Gregory Boyd, lyrics by Murphy, and music by Frank Wildhorn. The story, a contemporary version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll, is set in New York City and focuses on writer Alice Cornwinkle and her 10-year-old daughter Chloe.

After various workshops and productions of the musical in Tampa, Florida and Houston, Texas, the show premiered on Broadway on April 17, 2011, closing a month later, on May 15, 2011.

Wonderland is the second studio album by teenage mezzo-soprano Faryl Smith, released by Decca Records on 30 November 2009. Smith became famous after her participation in Britain's Got Talent in 2008, and subsequently, aged 13, signed with Universal Classics and Jazz, releasing her debut album, Faryl. Released only a few months afterwards, Wonderland contains a mix of classical and non-classical songs, which were chosen by both Smith and her record label. A concept album, it is based on Alice in Wonderland, and features a digitally produced "duet" with Luciano Pavarotti, who died in 2007, as well as a song set to "Winter", from Vivaldi's Four Seasons. As with Faryl, Wonderland was produced by Jon Cohen.

Smith promoted the album with appearances on television and radio. For the most part, critics responded positively to the album, with praise for Smith's vocals, the song choice and the musical arrangement, but criticism for "the lack of emotional weight". Further, critics observed that Smith's voice had improved since her appearance on Britain's Got Talent. Despite this, Wonderland appeared in the UK Albums Chart for only one week, peaking at 54, proving less successful than Faryl. Smith later rerecorded " The Prayer", her cover of which was originally released on Wonderland, with 22 other classical artists, with proceeds going to charity.

Wonderland were an Irish girlband, formed by Louis Walsh and Westlife band-member Kian Egan. The band were put together after auditions were held for five females in July 2008. Its five members were Jodi Albert, Sharon Condon, Corrina Durran, Leigh Learmont, and Kasey Smith. Wonderland's debut single " Not a Love Song" was released on 25 February 2011 in Ireland and on 6 March 2011 in the United Kingdom. Their eponymous debut album was released on 6 June 2011, the same day as their second single, "Starlight". Wonderland released their third single, "Nothing Moves Me Anymore", in August 2011. The following month, it was announced the band had been dropped by their record label. The group later decided to split up.

Wonderland is the self-titled debut studio album by Irish girl group Wonderland.

The album debuted at number eight on the UK Albums Chart with sales of over 15,000 copies. While it peaked at number six on the Irish Album Chart. While it first entered at number ten on UK midweeks chart. The album was the highest charting debut album from a girl group in the UK since Girls Aloud in 2002 and tied with Pussycat Dolls' debut album PCD in 2005, until Little Mix's DNA entered at number 3 in November 2012.

"Wonderland" is a song by English recording artist Natalia Kills from her debut studio album, Perfectionist (2011). Written by Kills, Michael Warren and "The-Ron" Feemster, and produced by Feemster, the song was released digitally in the United States and Europe as the album's second single on 12 April 2011. It was featured in the 2011 romantic fantasy film Beastly.

Wonderland is the debut studio album by American DJ and producer Steve Aoki. It was released on January 10, 2012 through Ultra Records and Dim Mak Records. Every song from the album was released as a single with its own remixes (except for "Dangerous" and "Livin' My Love"). The remix album was released five months later on June 10, 2012.

Wonderland is the fifth full-length studio album by English Gothic rock band Nosferatu.It was released in the UK in March 2011 by Dark Fortune Records. It was available on export to Germany, Austria and Switzerland with distribution by Indigo, to USA with distribution by Revelation Records and Italy with distribution by Audioglobe. It is their first album to see the return of vocalist Louis DeWray who rejoined the band in 2003. This album was recorded and mixed at Louis DeWray's Earth Terminal Studios between 2004 and 2011.

Wonderland is the second album by the metalcore band Sea of Treachery, released on December 14, 2010.

On October 7, 2010, the band announced that they had signed to BlkHeart Group and that their second album Wonderland would be released December 14, 2010.

In November of 2010, BlkHeart Group released the album art for Wonderland and on November 16th, the band released the album's first single, "A Lifetime Ago".

On December 3, 2010, the band released a second track from Wonderland, entitled "Who's Winning, You or You?" on their Facebook page.

The digital version of the album was released on January 4, 2011, and includes a bonus track; a re-recorded version of their cover of " Misery Business".

Wonderland is an Australian television romantic comedy drama series. It was first broadcast on Network Ten on 21 August 2013. The series was co-created by Jo Porter and Sarah Walker. The series is set in an apartment building and focuses on four couples as they navigate love, life and friendships. Wonderland features an ensemble cast and is filmed on location in Sydney. Three seasons of Wonderland were broadcast, before it was announced on 26 October 2015 that the show had been cancelled. The series has also aired in Europe and the United States.

Wonderland, also known as The Wonders is an Israeli film directed by Avi Nesher was released in 2013. This is a comic thriller which is a tribute to the film noir genre. In the film stands the figure of a young man known as Bunny, which opens the door to a private investigator for observation The flat opposite.

The first season of the Australian drama television series Wonderland, began airing on 21 August 2013 on Network Ten. The finale aired on 13 November 2013. The season consisted of 13 episodes and aired on Wednesdays at 8:30pm.

The second season of the Australian drama television series Wonderland, began airing on 15 October 2014 on Network Ten and will conclude on 19 November 2014. The season airs on Wednesdays at 8:30pm.

"Wonderland" is a song by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. It was released as the third promotional single on October 20, 2014 from Swift's deluxe version of her fifth studio album, 1989.

The third and final season of the Australian drama television series Wonderland, began airing on 4 February 2015 on Network Ten. The series concluded on 20 May 2015

Wonderland is the debut album by the American singer-songwriter Noosa, released May 21, 2014.
The album was recorded in 2013 by producer Mickey Valen in his apartment, and mixed by Jared Robbins. Wonderland is pressed in vinyl.

Wonderland is a short animated film by Walter Lantz Productions, and part of a long-running short film series featuring Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. Contrary to its title, the film is not an adaptation of Alice in Wonderland but that of Jack and the Beanstalk.

"Wonderland" is the debut song recorded by South Korean girl group Gugudan for their first extended play Act. 1 The Little Mermaid (2016). It was released as the title track from the EP by Jellyfish Entertainment on June 28, 2016. The lyrics were written by ButterFly, Jang Yeonjeong and Kim Inhyeong and the music was composed by ButterFly. To promote the song and the EP, Gugudan performed "Wonderland" on several South Korean music programs, including Music Bank, Show! Music Core and Inkigayo. A music video for the track was also released on June 28.