design [sleeve designed] ZTT
direct metal mastering by Copperman
painting [cover] Claudia Brücken
photography by John Stoddart
photography by Peter Brown
producer [original material produced by] Stephen Lipson
producer [original material produced by] Trevor Horn
remix [reproductions by] Bob Kraushaar
remix [reproductions by] Paul Morley
tape op [tape operator] Paul Wright
written-by [propaganda music written up by] Claudia Brücken
written-by [propaganda music written up by] Michael Mertens
written-by [propaganda music written up by] Ralf Dörper
written-by [propaganda music written up by] Susanne Freytag
Phonographic Copyright (p) ZTT
Copyright (c) ZTT
Manufactured By Island Records
Distributed By Island Records
Pressed By EMI Records
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.
Matrix / Runout: ZAS 20 A-1U-1-1 - Copperman D (Variant 1, runout side A)
Matrix / Runout: ZAS 20 B-1U-1-1 (Variant 1, runout side B)
Matrix / Runout: ZAS 20 A-1U-1-1 -X1 Copperman D (Variant 2, runout side A)
Matrix / Runout: ZAS 20 B-1U-1-1-X1 D (Variant 2, runout side B)
Matrix / Runout: ZAS 20 A-1U-1-1-1 Copperman. D (Variant 3, runout side A)
Matrix / Runout: ZAS 20 B-1U-1-1-x1 D (Variant 3, runout side B)