Compiled By [Deluxe Edition Compiled And Curated By], Curated By [Deluxe Edition Compiled And Curated By] – Ian Peel A few years later the band also appeared exclusively on a German TV show celebrating the best songs of the 1980s.

The other exclusives... "Testament One" is a new but irrelevant interlude and "Testament Three" is simply the intro to the mix of "Murder of Love" on "Wishful Thinking". The 'Goodnight' mixes of "p:Machinery"&"The Chase" are very close to the finished album versions but well worth having for the subtle differences, particularly in the intro to the former and the verse of the latter. to 1-9 originally released as CD version of A Secret Wish (September 1985). Some of these versions differ from the original vinyl/cassette edition.The Morning Call, 29 Mar 1986". The Morning Call. 29 March 1986. p.59 . Retrieved 23 December 2020. Sleeve [Original Sleeve First Cut], Photography By [A Secret Wish Photography At Ze Famous] – Anton Corbijn In early 2005, Propaganda, now comprising Susanne Freytag and Michael Mertens, started to release new material on the German independent label Amontillado Music. [7] The limited edition 12" vinyl release "Valley of the Machine Gods" was sold out within two weeks. [ citation needed] The drummachine is bloody rudimentary. Boaaah... It was always the weakest point of the ZTT but on the FGTH albums it was still excuseable.

I didn’t gain any new perspective about Propaganda’s music from this MC mix, but on the other hand I am again and again reassured what a great band they were, or should I said what a great job Trevor Horn did with them. This issue also benefits from a very informative essay about the group, if you are new to Propaganda you’ll learn all you need to know. This used to be my most played non-classical CD, and it still has a very special place now on our SACD shelf.

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The first week of July 1985 finally saw the release of the band's debut album, A Secret Wish. [2] which was written by Mertens and Dörper. After receiving considerable critical acclaim and some commercial success, it reached number 16 on the UK Albums Chart. The album was followed by another single, " p:Machinery", in August 1985, [2] which only reached number 50 in the UK, but becoming a bigger hit in Italy, France, the Netherlands, Germany and Switzerland and even being used in the hit US TV Show Miami Vice (1986 episode: The Fix). [5] The 12-inch version of this release caused controversy (even within the group) as Paul Morley thought it was a good idea to have the sleeve feature a quote by writer J. G. Ballard, praising the activities of the German extremist group Red Army Faction. Ariola, who distributed ZTT's releases in Germany, refused to carry the 12" as a result, so the quote was changed on the German release to another by Ballard, on the aesthetic perfection of German suburbs. [ citation needed]

Before the year was out, Thein was asked to leave the band due to musical differences. With Mertens now filling the gap left by his departure, the band forged ahead with recording its follow-up single and debut album. However both of these were to be delayed as a result of the unexpectedly huge success of ZTT's most famous signing, Frankie Goes to Hollywood. [2] As the label was still in its infancy, ZTT was forced to spend all its limited resources on promoting and marketing Frankie Goes to Hollywood, and this also meant that Trevor Horn was not available to produce Propaganda's album. [2] Stephen Lipson, one of Horn's established studio engineers, took his place along with Andy Richards playing keyboards, but the delay meant that Propaganda's second single, the more pop-oriented " Duel", did not surface until April 1985. [2] Perhaps the band's most recognisable release, it was also their highest-charting single in the UK, reaching number 21. The band made its single appearance on the flagship BBC music programme Top of the Pops in June of that year. Employing about every Weimar Republic and Wagnerian reference in the book, ZTT created something as grand and illusory as anything they had put together. The concept was so high, the music they assembled could have been almost incidental were it not so inventive, and at times brilliant. I wish (a secret wish perhaps?) that people were able to hear Propaganda's original demos which were like hearing Propaganda as done by The Fall or someone. The bore no resemblance at all to what became their first album. Working for Sarm in 1983 was my first job in a UK recording studio (Sarm West studio 2). I wish I would have had an idea how big they'd become, and that I could listen to those demos now. Even though demos can and do frequently change shape on the journey to their finished form, the early demos (I believe that they were Ralf Dörper's early experimental recordings from Dusseldorf) sounded so different as to be unrecognisable. RECORDING DATA: CD.01.01-09: the original album. CD.01.10-15: the analogue variations. CD.02.01: Duel singlette. CD.02.02-11: mutations, exploitations and disturbdances where *** [2-2 to 2-4, 2-7, 2-8, 2-11] = previously unreleased and ** [2-1] = previously unreleased on compact disc. THERE IS NO CAUSE FOR CONCERN! xPropaganda / The Heart Is Strange: 'all formats' unboxing". SuperDeluxeEdition. 20 May 2022 . Retrieved 23 March 2023.