PropagandaWishful Thinking

Label:

Island Records – I 207.408

Format:

Vinyl , LP, Album, Stereo

Country:

Spain

Released:

Genre:

Electronic

Style:

Synth-pop

Tracklist

A1 Abuse
A2 Machined
A3 Laughed
A4 Loving
B1 Jewelled
B2 Loved
B3 Abuse
B4 Thought

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]Trevor Horn
  • RemixPaul Morley
  • Technician [Tape Operator]Paul Wright
  • VocalsSusanne 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) 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
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Wishful Thinking (Cassette, Album, White Cassette) ZTT CZAS 20 UK 1985
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Wishful Thinking (LP, Album) Festival Records L 18005 New Zealand 1985
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Wishful Thinking (LP, Album, Limited Edition, Stereo, DMM) ZTT 207 439, 207 439-273 Europe 1985

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