Radio Prague is a radio recording from the Czechoslovakian radio station Radio Prague.

Genetic Engineering was the first single released from the album.

ABC Auto-Industry features a recording from Czechoslovakian radio, actually by a presenter called Vladimir who presented a weekly economic talk on Radio Prague. The theme was the use of robots in Czechoslovakian industry. The 'ABC' and '123' are by Paul Humphreys.

Telegraph was the second single released from the album but had originally been considered as the first release. 

This Is Helena uses a recorded broadcast by a presenter from Radio Prague.

International was originally a much more specific song about international politics. It was to have featured a lot more radio samples. The theme was to have reflected Andy's distaste at the time for the stupid things done by different countries due to differing political attitudes. The opening radio intro is the only remnant of that original idea. "I think that countries are a very inefficient way of organising the world" Andy (1983)

Dazzle Ships (Parts II, III and VII) was a sound collage designed to give the impression of ships in war. Most of the sound effects of ships and submarines were taken from a company that specialises in film soundtracks. The break in the middle, punctuated by a lone bass sound is actually Andy saying "Blue" but the sound has been fed into an Emulator.

The Romance Of The Telescope and Of All The Things We've Made were 'rescued' as the band considered them too good to leave as B-Sides.

The Romance Of The Telescope had been remixed from the original recording.

Silent Running was originally called Walking On Air. It takes its title from the science fiction film Silent Running (1971) which starred Bruce Dern. The film dealt with a fleet of spaceships preserving the last remaining forests of Earth and deals with Bruce Dern's actions when the order comes through to destroy them. The song itself has nothing to do with the theme of the film but the band simply liked the title.

Radio Waves is a reworked version of an early song by The Id, hence the credit for former Id member John Floyd who wrote some of the lyrics. The opening intro is actually a short wave radio digitally scanning radio frequencies. Radio Waves was considered as a possible single.

Time Zones uses a collection of telephone 'speaking clocks' from around the world.

This reissue was on Virgin's reissue label VIP, hence the catalogue number change. There are subtle changes on the back of the CD where Virgin's new catalogue details have been printed. The inner sleeve is printed white on black (where the original is black on white). The layout and design on the CD itself are also different from the original release.

Peter Saville had seen the painting Dazzle Ships In Drydock At Liverpool (1919) by the painter Edward Wadsworth and was struck by the image. Dazzle Ships were World War 1 warships that had been painted in fractured and disjointed lines to confuse the enemy as to their exact size and distance. Wadsworth himself supervised the dazzle painting of many ships.

After suggesting the idea and title to Andy, Saville carried the theme over to the sleeve design.

Although OMD had now switched to parent company Virgin following the collapse of the DinDisc subsidary, there was a general feeling that OMD might benefit from appearing to maintain an independent position. This led to Dazzle Ships (and the subsequent singles) being issued on a made-up subsidiary label called Telegraph.