Propaganda - Wishful Thinking

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

Some copies came with fold-out poster.