Trivia / Music for the Masses

• Breakthrough Hit: The album turned the band into stars in the U.S., allowing them to play stadiums there after years of building a cult following, culminating in their performance at the Rose Bowl captured in 101; this would play a factor in their later breakthrough into international superstardom with Violator in 1990.
• Limited Special Collector's Ultimate Edition: One rare LP release of the album featured it pressed onto clear vinyl rather than the typical black.
• Pop-Culture Urban Legends: Rumors postulated that the Morse Code heard at the end of "Agent Orange" translates to "if anybody can hear this, please help me." In actuality, it translates to the nonsense word "LAXI," which repeats throughout the outro.
• Similarly Named Works: Despite sharing a release year, "Never Let Me Down Again" has nothing to do with the David Bowie album Never Let Me Down nor its Title Track.
• What Could Have Been: The original plan for the album cover was to feature a stylized white-on-orange rendition of a megaphone emitting soundwaves, with a photograph of a megaphone in a barren wasteland wrapping around the bottom-left corner of the front and the bottom-right corner of the back. 135 copies of the album were pressed with this cover before the idea for the cover art was changed at the last minute, to instead feature the megaphone photograph on a canvas-like background. 12 copies of the scrapped release still exist, and one notably became the subject of a high-profile auction back in 2013. Time will tell if the original cover will get its time in the spotlight in a later reissue, but at the very least it still acts as a symbolic motif for the album on the final release.