Wonderful (Adam Ant album)

Wonderful is Adam Ant's fifth solo studio album, the eighth LP overall of his career and at present his most recently released album. It peaked at #143 on the Billboard 200 chart. The band for this album included ex-Ruts drummer Dave Ruffy and Morrissey's guitarist Boz Boorer and Marco Pirroni. This album is significant for showcasing more acoustic songs than Adam 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 U.S. and the U.K., as was the single Wonderful which became Ant's third ever 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 11 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 Adam's real meanings behind the lyrics of the track.