This refashioning of A Secret Wish into a whole new album is a definitive
example of a lost art form, the ’remixalbum’, one of the formats and musical
styles that made the middle of the 1980s quite different from any time before or
since. Other classics of the genre had already been released by the time Wishful
Thinking was created, with Soft Cell’s Non- Stop Ecstatic Dancing, The Human
League’s Love and Dancing and Imagination’s Nightdubbing, all acclaimed
pop- dub masterpieces, all appearing within a matter of months, all remixalbums
(not remix albums) – full length, cohesive, brand new works, not compilations
of disparate mixes.