The Twilight Zone and V for Vendetta. Jason Heller of Tor.com said the song contains most of the album's geek culture references, while Trouser Press compared the song to "We Love You" by the Psychedelic Furs, itself "a catalog of cool." "Def. Con. One" samples Siouxsie Sioux, Rod Serling, the Beastie Boys, as well as paying homage to the Stooges and "Funkytown by Lipps, Inc. in a "seamless dadaist stew." The song is a "portrayal of armageddon Judge Dredd style." "Not Now James, We're Busy…", described by Raggett as "wickedly bizarre", began as a joke regarding hip hop groups that would continually plagiarise beats and riffs from James Brown's discography, but turned into a song recounting Brown's police capture in 1988 after a car chase. Several months after the album's release, Big Audio Dynamite released "James Brown", a song with the same subject matter on their own sound collage-styled album Megatop Phoenix. Crabb said: "We were really surprised, 'cause some of the lyrics are so similar. We used some press clips to get the lyrics right. Perhaps B.A.D. did the same." "Wake Up! Time to Die…" features feedback and "collapsing inward drones." Artwork The artwork of This Is the Day…This Is the Hour…This Is This! was designed by design agency The Designer's Republic. It was the second project the agency created in terms of "creating worlds, like 'the world of Pop Will Eat Itself'." It incorporates themes of Doomsday imagery, radiation, the eleventh hour and the planet being destroyed. Ian Anderson of the agency reflected: "There were still lots of politics about nuclear weapons, so this was kind of political, but not anything specific, more an entertaining prediction." The studio's tendency to recycle cultural icons is readily established in the album artwork, which parodies several familiar corporate logos and icons "to generate layers of new messages." Anderson called the artwork a mixture of "medieval information technology – digital (Mac and Amiga) vs. mechanical (paste-up and graph paper)." The album packaging also marks the first appearance of the band's popular robot-head logo. Steve Mason of AllMusic felt the packaging was inspired by an earlier Designer's Republic album sleeve, that of Age of Chance's One Thousand Years of Trouble (1987). The agency developed a logo for the band "and then used it like a national emblem." The band's iconic T-shirt of the period featured an edited version of the trademarked Pepsi logo,