80s Band RULED in 1988...Then They DISAPPEARED into Thin Air... | Professor Of Rock

It's the story of an underground band called Information Society who came out of nowhere to grab the national spotlight in 1988. Virtually ignored by their label, no one saw these guys coming... not even them. But when their first single What’s Your Mind (Pure Energy) barely missed #1 on the Hot 100, and then their second single Walking Away went Top 10, all of a sudden America was paying attention. And yet, by the time they released their next record, outside of a decent showing of their lead single Think they had completely dropped off the map. From overnight success to commercial extinciton, what led to the demise of this promising band? It’s a bottled lightning mystery just waiting to be revealed. Stick around to find out what went right and what went terribly wrong... NEXT on the Professor of Rock.
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It’s time for another edition of our series Bottled Lightening where we celebrate a song or album that was king for a day. Here honor artists and bands and that rocketed up the charts… but for reasons unknown weren’t able to sustain that success. Called by some ‘one hit wonders’, we celebrate them instead as lightening in a bottle. On previous episodes we have covered Come On Eileen by Dexy’s Midnight Runners, 8675309 Jenny by Tommy Tutone, and She Drives Me Crazy by Fine Young Cannibals.
But today we taking a deep dive in Information Society, a band who barely missed the top of the charts with their hit song ‘What's On Your Mind (Pure Energy)’. And after that they actually had another top 10 hit with their next single ‘Walking Away’. For a short while these guys were actually a global sensation and seemed to have a lot of promise. And yet after their debut album, they all but vanished. We’re going to try and figure out why and where they went.
Information Society was formed in 1982, in Minneapolis, Minnesota by friends Paul Robb and Kurt Harland. During their early years, the band would go through a rotating cast of characters as they tried to nail down a stable lineup. In 1983, Paul and Kurt led the way in putting together ‘The InSoc EP’, a 5-song set along with Pamela Brustman and Kristin Leader on keyboards. Afterwards, the latter two would part ways with the band and be replaced by James (aka Jim) Cassidy who played bass. In 1985, Information Society released a second EP, ‘Creatures Of Influence’. But that record featured a short-lived appearance by Murat Konar on vocals while Kurt took some time off from the band. ‘Creatures of Influence’ contained the underground hit ‘Running’, which gained popularity with Latin audiences in New York and Miami.