Information Society - Information Society

The earliest incarnation of this Minnesota band of tech-geeks was essentially a rock band with a deep love for club music, and their first widely distributed record splits the difference. The hit "What's on Your Mind (Pure Energy)," featuring a Leonard Nimoy sample, is essentially the great lost Duran Duran single, but the rest of the album is pleasingly all over the place. "Walking Away" owes as much to Latin freestyle as it does to mainstream dance-rock, "Lay All Your Love on Me" lights a fire under Abba's tailbone, and the last few tracks slow the tempo way down to an electro crawl. The album is inconsistent and fillery, but it demonstrates a bunch of routes dance music might have gone in the late '80s and didn't quite. --Douglas Wolk Amazon.com

Classic Techno!

I had totally forgotten about this CD until I went to see "Mamma Mia". I heard the song "Lay All Your Love on Me" and remembered that it was redone by a band other than ABBA. A few minutes of web surfing and I found a blast from the past - Information Society's cover of the song. I then remembered how classically techno/funky the band was and ordered the CD. It was as good (if not better) than it was so many years ago. I especially love all of the different layers of sound they put into their music - like audio clips from Star Trek and various synth beats - and with today's technology - you can hear so much more layering than back 20 years (Holy Cow - 20 YEARS?!?) when the original came out. September 16, 2008

One for your collection

For those people who like classic albums instead of "greatest hits" kind of albums this is one of them. I specially preffer the original albums with the classics on it. If you want to have an album part of that age of alternative and electronic reborn this is an acurate purchase. Problably is not a great album with a great sound but have a couple of great songs apart from "What's on your mind" such "over the sea" and tomorrow. For me is part of my first years high school soundtrack. Enjoy!!! April 19, 2007

Great CD

I had this as a cassette tape in the 80's and could not find it anywhere until Amazon.com. The CD has excellent sound quality with great bass response. February 8, 2007

Dynamic dance pop album!

Information Society had a dynamic dance pop album in 1988. They scored two top 10 hits of What's On Your Mind and the rumbling bass heavy Walking Away. They had it together in a very creative chance taking album. The music is very catchy and danceable and the keyboardists play such very interesting sounds. They kind of gave Howard Jones, another successful '80s artist and keyboardist a run for his money with the New Wave themes that dominate this album. They were a little inspired by hip-hop and rap artists as the beats are felt on many tracks. On the second half is the very funky Something in the Air, which samples James Brown's The Payback, but they play their own music along with the sample. At the time I heard this album in early 1992, En Vogue had a hit in My Lovin' that sampled the same James Brown Song. How ironic! Their later albums never matched the success of the debut, but they are still performing in some way out there. Their industrial sounds may have been influential to later groups like Nine Inch Nails , Trent Reznor's band, Filter, and even Radiohead. July 19, 2006

Very good CD

I purchased this cd to hear more of their songs since I was only familiar with What's on your mind. I enjoyed it very much. Lots of catchy tunes. August 24, 2005

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