Record Details

Artist:	Propaganda
Title:	Wishful Thinking
Format:	12"
Label:	ZTT
Cat No:	ZAS 20
Released:	17 Nov 1985
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Genres:	Synth-pop
Status	Have
Added To List	11th October 2020

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Front cover: (for the footsteps and heartbeats of the connoisseur) ❛WISHFUL THINKING❜ is disturbdances of five songs by PROPAGANDA 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 and 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" photography: john stoddart, peter brown. sleeve designed by ZTT and contract 3 at 20 in the action series. cover painting: brücken Individual track durations not listed on release. Labels: ℗ + © 1984/5 ZTT Spine: ℗ + © ZTT 1985 The stamped D shown in runouts stands for DMM, and indicates that EMI Records received a copper plate not a lacquer.

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