At the very same time The Art of Noise went from quintet to trio, and decided to leave ZTT and Trevor Horn's sphere of influence to become a real band, ZTT released this compilation on CD.It certainly was a way to gather the band's main ZTT releases on CD as a all-in-one package (less expensive and certainly to maximize the potential 70 minutes of the then-recent digital music format). But, as the delightful liner notes clearly suggests, it was also the expression of Horn & Morley feeling somewhat "betrayed" and wanting to show by comparison (to the trio's "In Visible Silence" LP on China Records) how The Art Of Noise was originally something completely different : a non-band of non-rock-stars, making non-music with a typically British non-sense of humor (hence the compilation's title).This otherwise obsolete release is a testimony of these feelings, now long gone, but yet crucials in the short creative history of this essential act that was The Art Of Noise, that is... a spanner in the work.Note : of course, this wasn't exempt of caveats, like Diversion One's later version replacing the original version of Beatbox from the albumette, and a completely messed-up tracks order, not to mention the useless variant title for Love Beat. (Track 14). And some bizarrely mastered tracks now & then. The Art of Messing Around.