''Peace and Love Inc.'' is an album by the

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. The album received great critical reviews but the label did little to promote it. It was the least successful of the three albums released by Tommy Boy/Reprise and was the last Tommy Boy title to be distributed by major-label channels (

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in this case), although

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owned a stake in the label until 2002. The track "300bps N, 8, 1 (Terminal Mode Or Ascii Download)" is actually a text file encoded as modem tones. When decoded, the content is a tale by Kurt Harland about a bizarre but purportedly true event that took place when the band was playing in the city of

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Track listing

All songs written by Paul Robb except for 5 and 11 written by Kurt Harland. # "Peace & Love, Inc." — 5:00 # "Going, Going, Gone" — 4:53 # "To the City" — 3:30 # "Made to Be Broken" — 4:25 # "Still Here" — 4:48 # "1,000,000 Watts of Love" — 4:22 # "Where Would I Be Without IBM" — 4:28 # "To Be Free" — 3:50 # "If It's Real" — 4:33 # "Crybaby" — 5:10 # "Where the I Divides" — 8:15 # "300bps N, 8, 1 (Terminal Mode or Ascii Download)" — 3:00

Personnel

Paul Robb Paul Jason Robb is a synthesizer player, producer, songwriter and one of the founding members of the band Information Society. Biography Robb was a member of Information Society from its inception in the early 1980s until 1992 (after its thir ...

James Cassidy James Cassidy may refer to: * James Cassidy (musician), American bass and keyboard player * James Edwin Cassidy (1869–1951), American Roman Catholic bishop in Massachusetts * James H. Cassidy (1869–1926), United States Representative from Ohi ...

Kurt Harland Kurt Harland is an American singer, songwriter, and audio engineer and is the lead singer of Information Society. He also works on video game scores, including two of the soundtracks for the ''Legacy of Kain'' video game series ('' Legacy of K ...

External links

Kurt Harland comments on ''Peace & Love, Inc.''

"300bps N, 8, 1 (Terminal Mode Or Ascii Download)" decoded
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