============================================================================= INFORMATION SOCIETY Discography v3.1 by Mike Brown 18 Aug 94 ============================================================================= Additional contributions by Navid Aziz, Alex Pace, Allen Braunsdorf, Ben Gold, John LaCour, John from Findlay Ohio, Brad Will, an anonymous guy. PERSONNEL 1983-present Kurt Harland (Valaquen, Lawson) 1983-1993 James Cassidy (Richter?) 1983-1993 Paul Robb (Schwitters) 1983 Pamela Tzara 1983 Kaerlin Leader 1985?-1988 Amanda Kramer 1990 Fred Maher 1993 Kris Larson (tour) 1993 Ed Wozniak (tour) 1993 Will Loconto (tour) FAN CLUB/INFO SERVICE Control-Alt-Delete 5822 Green Terrace Houston, TX 77088-5414 C-A-D newsletters are $3.95 each email: thecatalyst@delphi.com (Jeri Beck/::The Cat::) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Information Society 1983 US 12": Information E-1007 -:-- Bachhanale -:-- Fall In Line -:-- Growing Up with Shiva -:-- Get Up (Away From That Thing) -:-- Can You Live As Fast As Me? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Creatures of Influence 198? US 12": Wide Angle -:-- Don't Lose Your Mind -:-- Fall In Line -:-- Signals -:-- Swamp -:-- Running ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Running 1985 US 12": Wide Angle Dance/Twin Tone TTW 8547 8:08 Running 7:44 Running (instrumental) 1986 US 12": Tommy Boy TB 877 * 1993 US CD5: Tommy Boy TBCD 877 7:41 Running (vocal remix) 3:55 Running (percapella) 5:25 Running ("The Nest" remix) 7:42 Running (instrumental) * some copies are mislabeled, showing "The Nest" remix & instrumental as being on the A-side. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- What's On Your Mind (Pure Energy) 1988 US 7": Tommy Boy 9 27826-7 1988 US CSS: Tommy Boy 9 27826-4 3:40 What's On Your Mind (Pure Energy) (Pure Energy radio edit) 3:15 What's On Your Mind (Pure Energy) (Club radio edit) 199? US 7": Tommy Boy 9 21862-7 [Back to Back Hits] 199? US CSS: Tommy Boy 9 21862-4 [BackTrax] 3:40 What's On Your Mind (Pure Energy) (Pure Energy radio edit) 3:58 Walking Away (Radio version) 1988 US 12": Tommy Boy TB 911 PRO [w/l promo] 1988 US CD5: Tommy Boy PRO-CD-3143 [promo] 3:40 What's On Your Mind (Pure Energy) (Pure Energy radio edit) 3:15 What's On Your Mind (Pure Energy) (Club radio edit) 4:33 What's On Your Mind (Pure Energy) (Pure Energy mix) 8:00 What's On Your Mind (Pure Energy) (Club mix) 1988 UK CD5: Tommy Boy/London American Recordings LONCD 211 8:00 What's On Your Mind (Pure Energy) (Club Mix) 4:33 What's On Your Mind (Pure Energy) (Pure energy Mix) 6:22 What's On Your Mind (Pure Energy) (What's On Your Dub Mix) 1988 US 12": Tommy Boy TB 911 1988 US CSS: Tommy Boy TBC 911 1993 US CD5: Tommy Boy TBCD 911 8:00 What's On Your Mind (Pure Energy) (Club mix) 5:12 What's On Your Mind (Pure Energy) (The 54 mix) 4:09 What's On Your Mind (Pure Energy) (Percapella) 4:33 What's On Your Mind (Pure Energy) (Pure Energy mix) 6:22 What's On Your Mind (Pure Energy) (What's On Your Dub mix) The "What's On Your Mind" video was on a promotional Warner video compilation "The Pure Energy List" (Video Show #70). ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Information Society 1988 US LP: Tommy Boy TB 25691 1988 US CS: Tommy Boy TBC 25691 1988 US CD: Tommy Boy 9-25692-2 * 4:33 What's On Your Mind (Pure Energy) [Pure Energy mix] 4:08 Tomorrow 3:39 Lay All Your Love On Me 4:32 Repetition 5:01 Walking Away 3:53 Over The Sea 4:11 Attitude 4:53 Something In The Air 7:41 Running [vocal remix] 1:11 Make It Funky * Contains CD+Graphics data in addition to the audio soundtrack. You can view the CD+G on a Sega Genesis video game machine. Each song begins with a screen that replicates the cover art of the album. Written over it are the song title and writing/production credits. Throughout the album the lyrics (all of them) are written across the bottom of the screen a line at a time. The main part of the screen shows a cartoon of how the band met and became famous. It's fictionalized, but really funny. Basically, they all met at 7-Eleven, went back to Paul's house where he's got a lot of neat toys, and formed a band. They started playing their recording of "Running" in clubs in New York, and they became famous. Throughout the album there are also top ten lists (such as favorite Kiss albums and Star Trek samples), as well as credits for makes and models of their instruments. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Walking Away 1989 US 7": Tommy Boy 9 27659-7 1989 US CSS: Tommy Boy 9 27659-4 -:-- Repetition (edit) -:-- Something in the Air 1989 US CD5: Tommy Boy PRO-CD-3253 [promo] 3:58 Walking Away (radio version) 5:01 Walking Away (LP version) 6:36 Walking Away (Space Age mix) 7:08 Walking Away (S.M.D. mix) 1989 US 12": Tommy Boy TB 919 1989 US 12": Tommy Boy TB 919 [w/l promo] 1989 US 12": Tommy Boy [w/l test pressing "A-list DJ's only"] 1989 US CSS: Tommy Boy TBC 919 6:36 Walking Away (Space Age mix) 7:57 Walking Away (Dub) 2:56 Make It Funkier (Boot It Up vocal) 7:08 Walking Away (S.M.D. mix) 6:09 Walking Away (House Dub) 3:58 Walking Away (radio version) 1989 US CSS: Tommy Boy [?] -:-- Walking Away 2:56 Make It Funkier (Boot It Up vocal) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Repetition 1989 US CD5: Tommy Boy PRO-CD-3333 [promo] 4:00 Repetition (edit) 4:32 Repetition (LP version) 1989 US 12": Tommy Boy TB 928 1989 US 12": Tommy Boy [w/l test pressing "A-list DJ's only"] 1989 US CSS: Tommy Boy TBC 928 4:32 Repetition (LP version) 6:24 Something In The Air (Extended Club Edit) 6:24 Something In The Air (Dub) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Lay All Your Love On Me 1989 US 7": Tommy Boy 9 27534-7 1989 US CSS: Tommy BOy 9 27534-4 3:40 Lay All Your Love On Me (single mix) 4:02 Funky At 45 (The Augusta/Dusseldorf mix) [not a different mix] 1989 US CD5: Tommy Boy PRO-CD-3449 [promo] 3:40 Lay All Your Love On Me (single mix) 4:02 Lay All Your Love On Me (remix/edit) 6:26 Lay All Your Love On Me (Justin Strauss remix) 1989 US 12": Tommy Boy TB 933 1989 US 12": Tommy Boy TB 933 [w/l promo] 1989 US CSS: Tommy Boy TBC 933 6:26 Lay All Your Love On Me (Justin Strauss remix) 6:26 Lay All Your Love On Me (Restricted mix) 6:04 Lay All Your Love On Me (Prohibited Dub) 4:07 Lay All Your Love On Me (Radio Hot mix) 6:33 Lay All Your Love On Me (Phil Harding Metal Mega mix) 6:04 Funky At 45 (vocal) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hit Me Appears on _Earth Girls Are Easy - Original Soundtrack_ 1989 US LP: Sire 9 25835-0 1989 US CD: Sire 9 25835-2 5:08 Hit Me ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- A Knife and a Fork 1990 US 12": Hakattak HA 1000 [actually Tommy Boy]* 7:05 A Knife and a Fork (Massively Parallel mix) [=Downtown mix] 3:22 Hack One (The Internet Worm mix) [=LP version] * The label is listed as Hakattak Records and the band is listed as Think Tank. The only difference between the Hakattak label and a Tommy Boy label is that in the place where "Tommy Boy" is usually written there is a large black star with a personal computer in the middle of it. On the PC's screen is either some sort of cactus or just an interesting bar graph. It might be interesting to note that in the Hack album liner notes, besides the usual programming, songwriting, and vocals credits, there are credits for "MIDI performances". Information Society did some of the tracks, Think Tank did some others, and the rest were apparently not "MIDI performances". ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Think 1990 US 7": Tommy Boy 9 19591-7 1990 US CSS: Tommy Boy 9 19591-4 3:54 Think (Hack radio edit) 4:11 Think (Virtual Reality radio edit) 1990 US CD5: Tommy Boy PRO-CD-4422 [promo] 3:54 Think (Hack radio edit) 3:53 Think (Bluebox radio mix) 4:11 Think (Virtual Reality radio edit) 7:00 Think (Virtual Reality mix) 1990 US 12": Tommy Boy TB 961 1990 US 12": Tommy Boy TB 961 [w/l promo] 1990 US CSS: Tommy Boy TBC 961 4:11 Think (Virtual Reality radio edit) 6:45 Think (Bluebox 2600 mix) 7:00 Think (Virtual Reality mix) 6:18 Think (Phone Phreak mix) 5:23 Think (Virtual Dub) 2:07 Think (a cappella) 1990 US CD5: Tommy Boy TBCD 961 3:54 Think (Hack radio edit) 4:11 Think (Virtual Reality radio edit) 6:45 Think (Bluebox 2600 mix) 7:00 Think (Virtual Reality mix) 6:18 Think (Phone Phreak mix) 5:15 Think (Mindmeld mix) 4:54 Think (Phone Phreak Dub) 1990 US CSS: Tommy Boy TBC 961 [tracks unknown] [includes A Capella and Virtual Dub] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hack 1990 US LP: Tommy Boy TBLP 26258 1990 US CS: Tommy Boy TBC 26258 1990 US CD: Tommy Boy 9 26258-2 1990 US CD: Tommy Boy 9 26258-2 DJ [promo] 1991 UK CD: Columbia 46777-2 3:06 Seek 200 4:05 How Long 4:42 Think 0:26 Wenn Wellen Schwingen * 2:59 A Knife And A Fork 0:20 R.I.P. * 5:04 Now That I Have You 5:39 Fire Tonight 4:43 Can't Slow Down 0:31 T.V. Addicts * 2:34 Hard Currency 3:58 Move Out 0:36 CP Drill KKL * 5:28 Mirrorshades 0:10 We Don't Take * 3:21 Hack 1 0:09 Charlie X * 4:13 If Only 4:15 Come With Me 3:58 Slipping Away 0:14 Here Is Kazmeyer * 2:12 Chemistry * On the US CD, the link tracks are mastered as part of the tracks preceding them. They are indexed, so track 3 index 1 is Wenn Wellen Schwingen, track 3 index 2 is A Knife and a Fork, and so on, such that there are 15 tracks. The UK CD is mastered with no indexing, thus there are 22 tracks. The US promo CD is a picture disc, depicting a view of the innards of the cyberpunk 'Hack' car. It is the same image as on the back of the 'How Long' single. The UK CD itself is silver with black print and a couple of red bars with the copyright on them. The UK disc has a 12 page insert booklet with picture, lyrics etc. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- How Long 1990 US CSS: Tommy Boy 9 19445-4 4:05 How Long (LP version) 4:13 How Long (7" remix/edit) 1990 US CD5: Tommy Boy PRO-CD-4639 [promo] 4:05 How Long (album version) 4:13 How Long (7" remix/edit) 6:56 How Long (12" remix) 1990 US CD5: Tommy Boy TBCD 966 4:05 How Long (LP version) 6:56 How Long (Psycholash mix) 4:13 How Long (Technolash mix) 5:13 How Long (Calculus Eliminatus 2) 7:05 A Knife and a Fork (Downtown Mix) * 1990 US 12": Tommy Boy TB 966 1990 US 12": Tommy Boy TB 966 [w/l promo] 1990 US CSS: Tommy Boy TBC 966 4:05 How Long (LP version) 6:56 How Long (Psycholash mix) 4:13 How Long (Technolash mix) 5:13 How Long (Calculus Eliminatus 2) 1990 US 12": Tommy Boy TB 976 [w/l promo, odd catalog number] 6:27 How Long (Calculatus Eliminatus 1) 5:13 How Long (Calculatus Eliminatus 2) 4:39 How Long (Calculatus Eliminatus 3) 7:05 A Knife and A Fork (Downtown mix) * Not listed on the CD packaging. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Now That I Have You 1991 US 12": Tommy Boy TB 969 [promo] 4:11 Now That I Have You (7" remix) 6:32 Now That I Have You (12" remix) 6:28 Now That I Have You (12" dub) 6:49 Now That I Have You (12" Alternate remix) 4:16 Now That I Have You (12" Alternate dub) 5:26 Now That I Have You (12" House dub) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peace & Love, Inc. 1992 US 12": Tommy Boy TB 544 1992 US 12": Tommy Boy TB 544 [promo; includes free sticker] 5:48 Peace & Love, Inc. (Passion mix) 4:53 Peace & Love, Inc. (Passion dub) 4:18 Peace & Love, Inc. (radio remix) 4:27 Peace & Love, Inc. (Disco Mosh Pit mix) 3:31 To The City 5:01 Peace & Love, Inc. (LP version) 1992 US CD5: Tommy Boy TBCD 544 1992 US CD5: Tommy Boy TBCD 544 [promo; includes free sticker] 5:01 Peace & Love, Inc. (LP version) 5:48 Peace & Love, Inc. (Passion mix) 3:31 To The City 4:27 Peace & Love, Inc. (Disco Mosh Pit mix) 4:18 Peace & Love, Inc. (radio remix) US CSS: Tommy Boy TBC 544 5:01 Peace & Love, Inc. (LP version) 3:31 To The City 2 different sleeve color combinations: blue/orange and green/purple. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peace & Love, Inc. 1992 US CD: Tommy Boy 9 45092-2 1992 US CS: Tommy Boy 9 45092-4 5:00 Peace & Love, Inc. 4:53 Going, Going, Gone 3:30 To The City 4:23 Made To Be Broken 4:48 Still Here 4:22 1,000,000 Watts Of Love 4:27 Where Would I Be Without IBM 3:50 To Be Free 4:36 If It's Real 5:10 Crybaby 4:15 Where The I Divides 2:59 300BPS N,8,1 (terminal mode or ASCII download) * * Not a musical selection, track 12 is meant to be transmitted to a modem. The secret message is as follows, in all caps and with a few typos: So we're supposed to play in Curitiba in 18 hours, but our bus is being held hostage by the local promoters. They've formed some unholy alliance with the Brazilian counterpart of ASCAP: The PRS. Apparently the PRS has the legal power to arrest people, and they want a piece of the national tour promoter's money. The local security force, "Gang Mexicana", has been bought out for 1800 Cruzados and a carton of Marlboros each. The only faction still operating in our defense is "Big John", our personal security man, and he's hiding in his room because a local gang is out for his blood because of a 1982 knifing incident in which he was involved. Our 345-pound road manager, Rick only had this to say: "You wanted the life of a rock star!". Paul, Jim and I realized that this was one situation we were going to have to get out of ourselves. We convened a hasty conference in the hotel lobby. Paul suggested contact- ing our national tour promoter in Sao Paulo, but we remembered that he was in Recife with Faith No More, who had just arrived for their Brazilian tour. We thought about contacting our Brazilian record company in Rio, but they weren't home. Our ever-diligent American manager was arranging help of numerous forms, but he was in New York, and just too far away to get anything moving in time. And there were 6000 kids in Curitiba who just wouldn't understand. We knew it was time for action. Paul went up to the PRS guys and invited them into the bar to discuss it like civilized men over a few Brazilian drinks, offering each of them a cigar on his way. The amused PRS heavies seemed to like the idea of a few free drinks, even if they knew they would never give us our bus back. When Paul winked at Jim and I on his way in, we went into action. I stole off to my room to prepare while Jim went into action. Creeping carefully through a service duct, he managed to gain a vantage point some three meters above the bus, and dropped carefully onto the roof. After using his all-purpose Swiss Army knife (affectionately known as the "skit knife") to jimmy open the roof hatch, he went through the darkened inside of the bus and removed the inside engine service panel. Using some spare electronic parts he found while on an island in the Amazon, he wired the entire bus for remote control, not unlike a remote control toy car. At this point, he asked himself "Now how shall I get out of here?!?" Paul was having difficulties of his own. "Couldn't you see your way clear to letting us fulfill our contractual obligations in Curitiba? Think of the kids!" Through our translator, Fabio, the PRS man, Aldo, said: "No. You Americans think you own the world. Hah! We'll burn down our rain forest if we damn well please. We need room for cows!! We want a McDonald's on every... oh, sorry, yes anyway, no. We need 40% of your concert receipts to give to David Bowie," he said, winking to the local promoter, Phillipe. As Paul continuted this elaborate distraction, Jim effected an escape from the heavily guarded bus by crawling down into the cargo bay, cutting a hole in the floor with the Swiss Army knife's arc-welder, slipping into the manhole cover situated under the bus, and walking up to the hotel's basement from there. Jim called up to me in my room and gave the signal. We were now to meet at the back entrance, with our tech guys. But first, Paul would need some help getting away from his unwelcome guests, as things were getting ugly. "He says he has lost his patience, and that he can think of other ways of extracting payment from you Kurt and Jim physically," our trembling interpreter said. The moment had come. Jim began operating the bus from his back entrance vantage point. As the remote-controlled bus lurched towards the parking lot exit, the superstitious security youths fled in terror. Paul was pulling anxiously on his collar as the PRS man began describing his collection of World War II Nazi ceremonial knives when a sudden crash split the tableau. Jim had purchased me the gift of a complete black ninja stealth assassin outfit in Aracaju. I had been gearing up and crawling through the air conditioning ducts all this time. As I crashed through the cheap imitation-Styrofoam hung ceiling tiles, skates first, I flashed ninja stars all about me. In the ensuing panic, Paul escaped to the pre-arranged bus pick-up point. Unfortunately, my skates were a poor choice of foot gear for escaping over the broken glass of the table I had landed on. Were it not for the confusion and the ninja-star-inflicted-wounds delivered to the bad guys, I would have been set upon while floundering on the glass-strewn carpet. As it happened, however, I leapt through the open door of the careening bus as it departed the city of Maringa forever. If only we had managed to get our equipment in the bus, too . . . Every word of this story is true. - Kurt H ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Going Going Gone 1992 US 7": Tommy Boy TB 9 18601-4 3:50 Going Going Gone (edit) 5:09 Strength 1992 US 12": Tommy Boy TB 555 6:33 Going Going Gone (Mindwarp mix) 6:47 Going Going Gone (Mannequins mix) 6:22 Going Going Gone (Trance mix) 4:13 Going Going Gone (Saber vocal mix) 6:31 Going Going Gone (Strange dub) 5:08 Strength (LP version) 1992 US CD5: Tommy Boy [promo] 4:13 Going Going Gone (Sabre Tooth mix) [=Sabre vocal mix] -:-- Going Going Gone (Mindwarp mix) -:-- Going Going Gone (Mindwarp mix) [two of them?] 1992 US CD5: Tommy Boy TBCD 555 4:54 Going Going Gone (LP version) 6:33 Going Going Gone (Mindwarp mix) 6:47 Going Going Gone (Mannequins mix) 6:22 Going Going Gone (Trance mix) 4:13 Going Going Gone (Saber vocal mix) 6:31 Going Going Gone (Strange dub) 5:08 Strength (LP version)