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INFORMATION SOCIETY s/t LP NEW VINYL Tommy Boy What's On Your Mind
Sold Date:
November 12, 2020
Start Date:
October 7, 2020
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Store Categories INFORMATION SOCIETY s/t / LP NEW VINYL / Tommy Boy 1988
cutout (has a small notch cut out of the jacket spine) with some rounded corners, but MINT & STILL SEALED
An infectious update of the classic synth-pop most famous earlier in the decade, Information Society's self-titled debut sounds most similar to British groups like ABC and Pet Shop Boys, though hits like "What's on Your Mind," "Walking Away," and the cover of "Lay All Your Love on Me" manage to inject the affair with elements of industrial dance and hip-hop. All in all, it's a much better album than expected from the group many dismissed as mere one-hit wonders.
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.
Software
A1 What's On Your Mind (Pure Energy) 4:33
A2 Tomorrow 4:08
A3 Lay All Your Love On Me 3:39
A4 Repetition 4:32
A5 Walking Away 5:01
Hardware
B1 Over The Sea 3:53
B2 Attitude 4:11
B3 Something In The Air 4:53
B4 Running 7:41
B5 Make It Funky 1:11
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