Propaganda - Wishful Thinking (UK)
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Propaganda – Wishful Thinking (UK)

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In the ’80s, remix records were usually either solipsistic synth noodling with very little appeal for the average listener or, worse still, crass commercial attempts to eek a few additional dollars from die hard fans. Propaganda was apparently prepared to answer accusations of that sort. The record jacket for Wishful Thinking, their 1985 collection of remixed “disturbdances” of songs from their debut, A Secret Wish, defends the remix concept with a quotation from Goethe: “and refashioning the fashioned/ lest it stiffen into iron/ is a work of endless vital activity.” Somehow Wishful Thinking seems deserving of Goethe’s defense. These remixes are vital and original creations in their own right. At times they even seem to surpass the quality of the original poppier versions. The driving dance beats, mesmerizing gothic chords, and swirling ambient guitars create a melancholic ethos of considerable artistic merit. Perhaps the key is the reduction in emphasis on the sometimes grating sing/shout vocals by Claudia Brucken and Susan Freytag. And though some mixes do begin to get dull when they are reduced to thumping bass and grinding drums, the vast majority of this project is more dynamic than that.

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ZTT ZAS 20 LP, Album, Ltd 1985 UK Pressing

Here: Disturbdances Of Songs By Propaganda 20:07

1. Abuse 3:29
2. Machined 6:54
3. Laughed! 8:54
4. Loving 0:46

There: Disturbdances Of Songs By Propaganda 21:22

1. Jewelled 7:48
2. Loved 6:43
3. Abuse 4:17
4. Thought 2:42

Credits:

Written-By [Propaganda Music Written Up By] – Claudia Brücken
Tape Op [Tape Operator] – Paul Wright
Remix [Reproductions By] – Paul Morley
Remix [Reproductions By] – Bob Kraushaar
Producer [Original Material Produced By] – Trevor Horn
Producer [Original Material Produced By] – Stephen Lipson
Photography By – Peter Brown
Photography By – John Stoddart
Painting [Cover] – Claudia Brücken
Lacquer Cut By – Copperman
Design [Sleeve Designed] – ZTT
Written-By [Propaganda Music Written Up By] – Michael Mertens
Written-By [Propaganda Music Written Up By] – Ralf Dörper
Written-By [Propaganda Music Written Up By] – Susanne Freytag

Media Condition: Mint- (M-)
Sleeve Condition: Mint- (M-)

Front cover:
(for the footsteps and heartbeats of the connoisseur)
❛WISHFUL THINKING❜
is disturbances of five songs
by
PROPAGANDA

Back cover:
Zas twenty: “wishful thinking”: sarm studio disturbances 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 the 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.

Some copies came with fold-out poster.

 

 

 

Barcode and Other Identifiers:

Matrix / Runout ZAS 20 A-1U-1-1 -X1 Copperman D
Matrix / Runout ZAS 20 B-1U-1-1-X1 D
Matrix / Runout ZAS 20 A-1U-1-1 – Copperman D
Matrix / Runout ZAS 20 B-1U-1-1

Additional information

Weight0,5 kg
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