PropagandaWishful Thinking

Label:

ZTT – ZAS 20

Format:

Vinyl , LP, Album

Country:

Portugal

Released:

Genre:

Electronic

Style:

Synth-pop

Tracklist

Here: Disturbdances Of Songs By Propaganda 20:07
A1 Abuse
Written-ByDorper*
3:29
A2 Machined 6:54
A3 Laughed
Written-By [A Piece Originally Written By]Paul Haig
8:54
A4 Loving 0:46
There: Disturbdances Of Songs By Propaganda 21:22
B1 Jewelled 7:48
B2 Loved 6:43
B3 Abuse
Written-ByDorper*
4:17
B4 Thought 2:42

Companies, etc.

  • Manufactured ByDacapo
  • Distributed ByDacapo
  • Phonographic Copyright ℗ZTT
  • Copyright ©ZTT
  • Printed ByNova Força - Artes Gráficas

Credits

  • Artwork By [Cover Painting]Brücken
  • Design [Sleeve Designed]ZTT
  • PhotographyPeter Brown
  • Producer [Original Material Produced By]T.C. Horn*
  • Remix [Reproductions By]P. Morley*
  • Tape Op [Tape Operator]Paul Wright
  • Written-By [Propaganda Music Written Up By]Susanne Freytag

Notes

[sleeve notes front cover]

(for the footsteps and heartbeats of the connoisseur)
'Wishful Thinking'
is disturbdances of five songs

[sleeve notes back cover]

Zas twenty: "Wishful Thinking": sarm studio disturbdances of 5 Propaganda songs.

39 studio hours of bending, repeating, arranging and editing by Robert Kraushaar and Paul Morley from original material produced by S.J. Lipson T.C. Horn for the long player 'A Secret Wish'. Tape operator: Paul Wright.

Produced in a limited edition by Z.T.T. Records and Japes for Island Records U.S.A. and released in Europe as a souvenir of Propaganda's Autumn 1985 outside world "Tour". Propaganda performed by Claudia Brücken (vocals) Susanne Freytag (vocals) and Michael Mertens (percussion) with the assistance of Derek Forbes (bass) Brian McGee (drums) Kevin Armstrong (Guitar). Not in performance: Ralf Dorper.

[this is the line-up of the Outside World tour, not the credits for the Wishful Thinking recordings]

There is a poem of Goethe in which these lines occur:
"Und umzuschaffen das Gesschaffene
Dass sich's nicht zum Starren waffne
Wikt ewiges lebendiges Thun"

Which can be roughly translated:
"And refashioning the fashioned
lest it stiffen into iron
is work of endless vital activity"
_____

℗ + © 1985 ZTT on rear sleeve

(P) 1984/5 ZTT on labels
(C) 1985/ ZTT on labels

Individual tracks durations not listed on release.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

  • Rights Society: SPA
  • Matrix / Runout (A [Etched]): 10.207439.50 - A BgF
  • Matrix / Runout (B [Etched]): 10.207439.50 - B BgF

Other Versions (5 of 42)

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Title (Format) Label Cat# Country Year
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Wishful Thinking (LP, Album, Limited Edition) ZTT ZAS 20 UK 1985
Wishful Thinking (CD, Album) ZTT ZCID Q20, ZCIDQ 20 UK 1985
Recently Edited
Wishful Thinking (Cassette, Album, White Cassette) ZTT CZAS 20 UK 1985
Recently Edited
Wishful Thinking (LP, Album) Festival Records L 18005 New Zealand 1985
Recently Edited
Wishful Thinking (LP, Album, Limited Edition, Stereo, DMM) ZTT 207 439, 207 439-273 Europe 1985

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