Talk:Propaganda (band)

Capitalisation of album titles
I'd added 'The best of Propaganda' using the capitalisation that they had used on the album cover. I note this has been corrected to 'The Best of Propganda'. I haven't changed it back - but wondered whether it's better to be grammatically correct or follow what the record label have done... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Richard nexus4 (talk • contribs) 18:23, 18 July 2018 (UTC)

NPOV
Its fairly obvious that someone sympathetic to the band (or, conversely, with an axe to grind against ZTT) has written large chunks of this article. For someone who's trying to find out about the band's history, to be confronted with long descriptions of who did what to whom, and when, and where, and for how much, is not really salient or helpful information. At the very least put the bilious bits in a separate section. Daen 11:55, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

cleanup tag added
The paragraph that starts with "Interesting enough" is in terrible shape. Joriki 05:54, 2 April 2006 (UTC)


 * I've taken a run at it. If there are furtehr changes needed, please go ahead and make them. Ground Zero | t 18:01, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

'In 1990, Mertens returned with a new Propaganda line-up' Who is Mertens? Why doesn't he get a proper introduction before starting a paragraph about him forming a new line-up? His full name isn't mentioned untill several paragraphs later. stasis101 11:36, 15 June 2006 (GMT + 01:00)

Mertens is covered in the first paragraph.

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NPOV reply
Today I removed the statement that Andreas Thein was forced to leave the band due to Claudia Brucken threatening to leave if he didn't. This is I believe another example of what Daen stated above. As a fan of the band since 1985 there has never been any mention of this in any interview I've read or watched. In fact in a 1985 Melody Maker interview Michael Mertens stated that there were differences between Thein and the rest of Propaganda as to the direction they wanted to take their music. The tonal shift between the singles "Dr. Mabuse" (which Thein co-wrote) and "Duel" should be evidence enough of that.

While I agree with much of what Daen and WilliamC24 have stated I would add that at least the court case between Propaganda and ZTT is relevant as that was the manner that ZTT seemed to regard its artists at that time. The highly-publicised case between the label and former Frankie Goes To Hollywood singer Holly Johnson epitomised this. However Propaganda's court case, which preceded Johnson's, was very low-key in comparison, which may explain why WilliamC24 had heard nothing about it.

But I agree that many more citations are needed - and anything that is nothing more than accusations or finger-pointing should be removed. CynicalNurse (talk) 11:16, 29 December 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Huffy1968 (talk • contribs) 11:06, 29 December 2015 (UTC)

Update December 2019 Interview and translation

This link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_-Yx21faOU&feature=emb_err_watch_on_yt

Interview mit Andreas Thein/Ex-Propaganda, Rififi - Weihnachten

From 0:22 to 0:43

Mostly literal but more a what was expressed translation

Interviewer - Small talk and then the question with the colloquialisms of why did things go in the pants (a childrens' reference to accident in your pants, i.e. in this context why things did not work out or got screwed up) to which Andreas responds that after the first single he could not see any (future) interest and/or searching within oneself to continue (i.e. german intern) working with 'them' and I wanted to see my own projects through. It comes across as a bit condescending, perhaps acrimonious, but given the low key response and no individual finger pointing, it seems like a curt 'don't blame me' answer. And the next question from interviewer is about his (current?) project

FWIW