Singer: Propaganda
Title: Wishful Thinking
Label: ZTT ‎– CZAS 20
Series: Action Series – 20
Type: Cassette, Album
Country: UK
Date of released: 1985
Category: Electronic, Pop
Style: Synth-pop
Size MP3 zip: 1654 mb
Size FLAC zip: 1724 mb
Rating: 4.2✭
Format: MP3 MIDI WAV AUD RA TTA DXD DMF FLAC

Tracklist Hide Credits

Where:	20:07
A1	Abuse Written-By – Thein*, Mertens*, Dorper*
A2	Machined Written-By [Propaganda Music Written Up By] – Claudia Brücken, Michael Mertens, Ralf Dorper*, Susanne Freytag
A3	Laughed Written-By [A Piece Originally Written By] – Malcolm Ross, Paul HaigWritten-By [Propaganda Music Written Up By] – Claudia Brücken, Michael Mertens, Ralf Dorper*, Susanne Freytag
A4	Loving Written-By [Propaganda Music Written Up By] – Claudia Brücken, Michael Mertens, Ralf Dorper*, Susanne Freytag
Tear:	21:22
B1	Jewelled Written-By [Propaganda Music Written Up By] – Claudia Brücken, Michael Mertens, Ralf Dorper*, Susanne Freytag
B2	Loved Written-By [Propaganda Music Written Up By] – Claudia Brücken, Michael Mertens, Ralf Dorper*, Susanne Freytag
B3	Abuse Written-By – Thein*, Mertens*, Dorper*
B4	Thought Written-By [Propaganda Music Written Up By] – Claudia Brücken, Michael Mertens, Ralf Dorper*, Susanne Freytag

Companies, etc.

• Phonographic Copyright (p) – ZTT
• Copyright (c) – ZTT
• Published By – Copyright Control
• Published By – Perfect Songs Ltd.
• Produced For – Island Records Inc.

Credits

• Design – Contract 3, ZTT
• Painting [Cover Painting] – Brücken*
• Photography By – John Stoddart , Peter Brown
• Producer [Original Material Produced By] – S.J. Lipson*, T.C. Horn*
• Remix [Reproductions By, Bending, Repeating, Arranging And Editing By] – Bob Kraushaar, Paul Morley
• Tape Op – Paul Wright

Notes

[insert back flap]
Where:
Disturbdances of songs by Propaganda
abuse/machined/laughed/loving: 20'07"
Tear:
jewelled/loved/abuse/thought: 21'22"
[Individual track durations not listed on the release.]

[spine]
Propaganda
Wishful Thinking
Manufactured and distributed by Island [logo]
Dolby System ['Double D' logo]

[front cover]
(for the footsteps and heartbeats of the connoisseur)
'Wishful Thinking'
is disturbdances of five songs
by Propaganda

[insert]
Disturbdances
1 / Abuse
2 / Machined
3 / Laughed!
4 / "Jewelled"
5 / Loved

czas 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.
designed by ZTT and contract 3 at 20 in the action series.
cover painting: brücken

Unauthorised public performance, broadcasting and copying of this cassette phobited. All rights of the manufacturer and the owner of the recorded work reserved.

Propaganda music written up by Michael Mertens, Ralf Dorper, Claudia Brücken and Susanne Freytag and published by Perfect Songs Ltd. ['Mabuse': Dorper/Mertens/Thein] laughed - a piece originally written by Paul Haig + Malcolm Ross, copyright controlled.

Wishful Thinking: reproductions by R. Kraushaar + P. Morley of original material produced by S.J. Lipson + T.C. Horn ℗ + © 1984/5 ZTT

[cassette]
Wishful Thinking – Propaganda
Manufactured and distributed by Island [logo]
℗1985 Z.T.T.
XDR™ Quality System
Dolby System ['Double D' logo + "Dolby System"]

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
ZAS 20	Propaganda	Wishful Thinking ‎(LP, Album)	ZTT	ZAS 20	UK	1985
L 18005	Propaganda	Wishful Thinking ‎(LP, Album)	Island Records	L 18005	Australia	1985
I 207.408	Propaganda	Wishful Thinking ‎(LP, Album)	Island Records	I 207.408	Spain	1986
ZTT 119 CD	Propaganda	Wishful Thinking ‎(CD, Album, RE, RP)	ZTT	ZTT 119 CD	UK	1999
4509-94748-4	Propaganda	Wishful Thinking ‎(Cass, Album, RE)	ZTT	4509-94748-4	Germany	1994

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