A Secret Wish
Occupation
- Rolf Dörper
- Michael Mertens
- Claudia bridges
- Susanne Freytag
A Secret Wish is the debut album of posts originating from Dusseldorf synthpop band Propaganda. It was released in July 1985, the British music label Zang Tuum Tumb.
Background
After the commercial success of the debut single produced by Trevor Horn Dr. Mabuse (titled after the eponymous film directed by Fritz Lang) from March 1984 Andreas Thein left in the summer the band. Thein had composed the title along with Dörper and Mertens. Ralf Dörper and the Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra classically trained Michael Mertens composed and texteten new songs. The married with music journalist and co-founder of ZTT Records Paul Morley Claudia bridges and trained goldsmith Susanne Freytag contributed additional music. The title Sorry for Laughing derived from Paul Haig (Josef K) and Malcolm Ross (Josef K / Orange Juice ).
Since Horn was bound in the production of Frankie Goes to Hollywood's debut album Welcome to the Pleasuredome, he left the production his former sound engineer Stephen Lipson, who started his career as a music producer with A Secret Wish. The production used " the very latest technology" and cost " a fortune " because many prominent session musicians were committed. As a guest musician, the two producers Trevor Horn and Stephen Lipson are represented on the album with Steve Howe (Yes ), Stewart Copeland ( The Police ), David Sylvian (Japan) and Glenn Gregory ( Heaven 17 ) and other studio musicians.
Even before the album's release a second single was released in April 1985 with Duel. Three months after the LP, the third album in the catalog of ZTT, followed by a version in the then-new compact disc format, with typical for the label alternate versions. The band was at this time with the former rhythm section of Simple Minds ( Derek Forbes and Brian McGee ) on a world tour through Europe, the U.S., Canada and Japan. The third single P. Machinery was coupled out before the end of 1985 with ZTT Whishful Thinking finally published a work based on A Secret Wish Remix album. ZTT Records focused despite the commercial success of propaganda to cover much more successful Frankie Goes to Hollywood, which in 1986 led to the further disintegration of the original cast, in a legal battle with ZTT and finally to the resolution of the record contract.
Title List (Original version on LP )
The text of Dream Within a Dream contains the text of the poem A Dream Within a Dream by Edgar Allan Poe in the year 1849. Duel With Jewel and there are two titles that are, however, called on the album cover as a title. There are two different instrumented versions of the same text. Reynolds Duel referred to as " sugar-sweet and catchy " and Jewel as "crude and metallic as new buildings on Pop ". With The Last Word and Strength to Dream it behaves exactly the opposite, actually a title that is based the instrumental The Last Word on Dr. Mabuse and Strength to Dream Decides to the input line of the first piece of the album.
Reception
Keith Farley of Allmusic assigns an album Pick A Secret Wish and referred to as " synth -rock with an eye toward orchestrated pop as well as a bit of sampler experimentation " ( " synth - rock with an eye toward orchestrated pop as well as a bit of sampler experimentation. ") Dave Thompson reviewed the album in his book alternative Rock with " sophisticated and very European " ( " sophisticated and very European " )