NOTES

This reissue of OMD's debut album featured a completely new sleeve design and coincided with the release of their first US album. The US album, also called Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark, used the same sleeve design and featured a compilation of tracks from the debut album and also Organisation (the US album also featured a slightly different mix of 'Bunker Soldiers').

'Bunker Soldiers' features a chorus that actually spells out the title 'BUNKER SOLDIERS' as random letters and the same letters translated into numbers.

'Almost' also featured as the B-Side to the single 'Electricity' and the album version was used on the third release of the single.

'Mystereality' features saxophone by Martin Cooper.

'Electricity' is the same version featured on the third single release.

'The Messerschmitt Twins' takes its title from a nickname for Andy and Paul. The phrase popped into Andy's head during the night prompting him to write a song about it. It was actually while researching Messerschmitts that Andy spotted a reference to the Enola Gay leading to fresh inspiration.

'Messages' is the original version and not the Mike Howlett produced single version.

'Julia's Song' dates back to Andy and Paul's time in The Id and features lyrics by Julia Kneale who was also in The Id at the time.

'Red Frame/White Light' was inspired by a telephone box used by the band outside The Railway Inn public house on the Wirral.

'Dancing' is an experimental piece whose unusual sound was created using Dalek I Love You's Kawai synth.

'Pretending To See The Future' was written about being in the music industry and specifically about signing a record deal.

TRIVIA

Chester Valentino was a pseudonym for OMD's then-manager Paul Collister.

There appears to be two different pressings in circulation. Some of them have been pressed on side one with the original masters. The run-out grooves state: "DID2 A1" and also: "Easy on the white noise". But side two appears to have been pressed with a new master as the run-out grooves state: "DID2 B2" and repeats "Easy on the white noise".

But other pressings state "DID2 A2" and "The words were on the ceiling" on side one and "DID2 B2" and "Easy on the white noise" on side two.

The run-out grooves on the reissues also have the signature of the person pressing the records, as on the original release, but they now read "A porky prime cut 2".