PropagandaWishful Thinking

Label:

Island Records – I 207.408

Format:

Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo

Country:

Spain

Released:

Genre:

Electronic

Style:

New Wave, Industrial, Synth-pop

Tracklist

A1Abuse
A2Machined
A3Laughed
A4Loving
B1Jewelled
B2Loved
B3Abuse
B4Thought

Companies, etc.

  • Record CompanyAriola Eurodisc S.A.
  • Distributed ByAriola Eurodisc S.A.
  • Printed ByIndugraf Madrid, S.A.
  • Manufactured ByIberofon, S.A.

Credits

  • PercussionMichael Mertens
  • PhotographyJohn Stoddart, Peter Brown
  • Producer [Original Material]Stephen Lipson, Trevor Horn
  • RemixBob Kraushaar, Paul Morley
  • Technician [Tape Operator]Paul Wright
  • VocalsClaudia Brücken, Susanne Freytag

Notes

Front record cover text:
(For the footsteps and heartbeats of the connoisseur)
Is Disturbdances Of Five Songs
Back record cover text:
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 automn 1985 outside world "Tour".

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

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

Side A labelled as "Here"
Side B labelled as "There"

Barcode and Other Identifiers

  • Rights Society: S.G.A.E.
  • Other (Depósito Lega): M-1180-1986
  • Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, etched): I 207408·A·IN3 DM
  • Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, etched): I 207408·B·IN3 DM

Other Versions (5 of 42)

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Title (Format)LabelCat#CountryYear
Recently Edited
Wishful Thinking (LP, Album, Limited Edition)ZTTZAS 20UK1985
Wishful Thinking (CD, Album)ZTT, ZTTZCID Q20, ZCIDQ 20UK1985
Recently Edited
Wishful Thinking (Cassette, Album, White Cassette)ZTTCZAS 20UK1985
Recently Edited
Wishful Thinking (LP, Album)Festival RecordsL 18005New Zealand1985
Recently Edited
Wishful Thinking (LP, Album, Limited Edition, Stereo, DMM)Island Records, Island Records, ZTT, ZTT207 439, 207 439-273Europe1985

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