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| Wishful Thinking | ||||
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| Remix album by Propaganda | ||||
| Released | November 1985 | |||
| Genre | Synthpop | |||
| Length | 41:22 | |||
| Label | ZTT | |||
| Producer | Trevor Horn, Stephen Lipson | |||
| Propaganda chronology | ||||
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Wishful Thinking is a 1985 remix album by the synthpop band Propaganda.
Originally released November 1985, Wishful Thinking was initially put together as a promo for the American club market, composed of remixes of tracks from the album A Secret Wish . It was compiled by Paul Morley and tape operator Bob Kraushaar [1] without input from the group themselves, who objected to its release in Europe.
"Abuse" (in two parts) are remixes of "Dr. Mabuse", "Machined" is a remix of "P:Machinery", "Laughed!" is a remix of "Sorry for Laughing", "Loving" and "Loved" are remixes of "The Murder of Love", "Jewelled" is a hybrid remix of "Duel" and "Jewel", and "Thought" is a short instrumental remix of the group's unreleased cover of Throbbing Gristle's "Discipline".
The painting on the cover was created by the group's singer, Claudia Brücken. [1]
The album's liner notes contain a quote by the German writer and philosopher Goethe: "Und umzuschaffen das Geschaffene, Dass sich's nicht zum Starren waffne, Wirkt ewiges lebendiges Thun."[ citation needed ] Which translates as follows: "And refashioning the fashioned, lest it stiffen into iron, is work of endless vital activity."
"Abuse" (in a slightly edited form) was used as the opening titles theme for the 1987 John Hughes film Some Kind of Wonderful . The track is not on the film's soundtrack album.[ citation needed ]
"Jewelled" was used for many years as the theme music for the BBC's Lombard/RAC Rally coverage.[ citation needed ] The Seven Network in Australia also used the piece as the theme music for all of their motor sports coverage in the late 1980s.[ citation needed ]
"Wishful Thinking" was not released on CD in the UK until 1994, when ZTT were reissuing their 1980s back-catalogue to celebrate their 10th anniversary as a label. However, the CD originally made a brief, unpromoted appearance at UK retail in limited quantities in the summer of 1988. Distributed by Island Records, they were marked "For Export Only" and carried the catalogue number ZCIDQ20. [2]
The CD was reissued on the German Repertoire label in 2000 (catalogue number REP 4901), and contained an expanded 6 page booklet featuring an essay by Jerry Ewing on the history of the band.
A remastered CD of Wishful Thinking was released on 4 June 2012, as part of ZTT/Salvo's Element series. It contains six bonus tracks, five of which appear to be "previously unreleased". [3] After the reissue, Superdeluxeedition.com described the original release as "something of a lost synth-pop classic." [4]
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