Propaganda - Secret Wish
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Track List: Secret Wish
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- Dream Within A Dream
- The Murder Of Love
- Jewel
- Duel
- Frozen Faces
- P-Machinery
- Sorry For Laughing
- Dr. Mabuse
- The Chase
- Strength To Dream
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Album Details: Secret Wish
- Release Date:
- 01/01/1998
- Label:
- Universal
- UPC:
- 601215320725
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| EXPERT RATING: From AMG Reviews With guests including David Sylvian, Heaven 17's Glenn Gregory, and Steve Howe, A Secret Wish is synth-rock with an eye toward orchestrated pop as well as a bit of sampler experimentation in the grand ZTT tradition of Art of Noise. There's a distinct lack of songwriting on the album, and though the synth-grooves are tight enough to keep it flowing for most of its length, A Secret Wish occasionally falls flat from its own weight. - Keith Farley, All Music Guide |
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Propaganda Biography
Synthpop band Propaganda was formed in Germany by vocalist Claudia Brücken and drummer Michael Mertens plus keyboard players Susanne Freytag and Ralf Dorper. The quartet moved to England in 1983 and signed to ZTT Records, also the home of Frankie Go...Full Propaganda Biography
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Lyrics are intelligent, all in English. It is great to dance to. The songs are ALL excellent and fun, of emotions, love, hate, relationsips and imagination. I loved these romantic themes when I was in my 20s and still love to listen to them now and then.(Quote from the album "it is the traditional task of the prophet to denounce systems of rule and life which deny the freedom of the flesh or the imagination).
Female vocalist Claudia Brucken(later on of the group "Act")has a unusually beautiful and penetrating soprano voice used to great effect. P-Machinery (a song about science and techno-machinery becoming the new order), Dr. Mabuse (selling one's soul to an all-powerful man, a kind of Dr. Jekyll), Duel (a lover's quarrel) and The Murder of Love(one lover's verdict of a love affair!)
This album had contributing musicians including David Sylvian, Steve Howe, Andrew Richards. Engineer Trevor Horn's quality work and sound effects helped make this album a big hit in 1985/86, along with other well known artists on his ZTT label in the 1980s including Frankie Goes to Hollywood, and the Art of Noise. ...