1234 [Extra tracks, Import]

Propaganda | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 2, 1994)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Extra tracks, Import
• Label: EMI Europe Generic
• ASIN: B00000733B
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #77,356 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Vicious Circle

2. Heaven Give Me Words

3. Your Wildlife

4. Only One Word

5. How Much Love

6. Vicious (Reprise)

7. Ministry Of Fear

8. Wound In My Heart

9. La Carne, La Morte E Il Diavolo

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good, but will the real Propaganda please stand up!, February 19, 2005

By 

Geoff Hall "Geoff Hall" (Borehamwood, UK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 1234 (Audio CD)

If you want to listen to the real essence of the music that Propaganda released, then you should listen to "A Secret Wish" and "Outside World", which demonstrates a very European and idiosyncratic sound. 1234 sounds much more generic pop. This could have been recorded by a lot of other bands! Another point to note, I'm not certain this line-up released a follow-up to this album.

Having said all that, the music is good and after a few listens is really catchy and increasingly pleasing to the ear. It is also very well produced. Instrumentally and vocally, there is nothing wrong with it and I can understand why other reviewers have gone overboard and written such nice things about it. I can also appreciate the one or two exceptions who obviously know !Secret Wish". My (not-so-secret) wish is for new material by the original band, but I'll make do with "Outside World".

However, it could have been produced by a whole bunch of artists and groups, which is exactly my point about the band. Only one member of the original band remained when this was produced - Michael Mertens. Susanne Freytag, Claudia Brucken and Ralf Doerper had all left and been replace by others - American vocalist Betsi Miller and ex-Simple Minds players Derek Forbes (bass) and Brian McGee (drums). Nevertheless, tracks such as "Heaven Give Me Words," "Only One Word" and "Wound in My Heart" are examples of Propaganda doing what it did well, well put-together synth-pop.

In conclusion, if you want to have one Propaganda album in your collection - and I strongly suggest they are so good that everyone should do so - then this isn't the one to choose; get one of the two I've mentioned, both of which are masterpieces.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Stimulating and Intoxicating, November 29, 2001

By 

Jim R. Webb (Alameda, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 1234 (Audio CD)

I took a chance on this without listening to it first since other Propaganda music was soooo good. I thought I'd be disappointed because Claudia Brucken was not in the group any longer. I certainly was not. This was one of the first CDs I bought after converting from tape. I just have to ditto all previous reviews. Now if I could only find more music with Claudia Brucken; I heard she went to another group and I heard her voice on 1 single years ago. What was it??? Does anyone know?

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Unusual, December 29, 2000

A Kid's Review

This review is from: 1234 (Audio CD)

It is the best pop album I have ever heard. Beautiful songs, sophisticated arrangements and great musicians involved. You can hear everything you really love on this album. It was my first album of Propaganda. Now I have all of their recordings and "1234" is still number 1. It is really unusual album. I can recommend it to all the people sensitive to good and beautiful music.