It Is Useless to Resist Us

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It Is Useless to Resist Us: 25 Years of Information Society
Information Society It Is Useless To Resist Us DVD cover.jpg
Video by
ReleasedOctober 27, 2009
RecordedJanuary 5, 2008
Genre Synthpop, freestyle
Label Dancing Ferret Discs
Director Jochen Schoberth
It Is Useless to Resist Us: Information Society Live
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Live album by
ReleasedAugust 18, 2013
RecordedJanuary 5, 2008
Genre Synthpop, freestyle
Label Hakatak

It Is Useless to Resist Us: 25 Years of Information Society is a DVD by American electronic band Information Society. It contains the recording of a concert filmed at the Trocadero Theatre in Philadelphia, on January 5, 2008, as well as five of their older music videos. The disc also included the EP Modulator in MP3 format.

The audio of the same concert was later remastered and released as a live album under the title It Is Useless to Resist Us: Information Society Live.

The title refers to a line from Star Trek , that Information Society had sampled in their 1988 song "Walking Away".

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Peace and Love, Inc." 
2."Wrongful Death" 
3."The Seeds of Pain" 
4."Walking Away" 
5."Baby Just Wants" 
6."Burning Bridges" 
7."Think" 
8."Jonestown" 
9."Growing Up with Shiva" 
10."I Like the Way You Werk It" 
11."Run Away" 
12."Back in the Day" 
13."Running" 
14."Are Friends' Electric?" 
15."What's on Your Mind?" 
Studio videos (DVD release only)
No.TitleLength
1."What's on Your Mind?" 
2."Walking Away" 
3."Think" 
4."Repetition" 
5."Peace and Love, Inc." 

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