[1] In particular, "Doubles and Trebles", "Keep Exhaling", "Reinvent Your Second Wheel", "Stealth of a Stork", "Time Lock Fog", "Eels Sang", "Love Bends", "& Much Besides" and "Attractive Space" are reworked versions of "Ally in Exile", "Relationship", "ZEGK HOQP", "Witness to the Fact", "5/10", "Eels Sang Lino", "Piano Tuner (Keep Strumming Those Guitars)", "Eastern Standard" and "Underwater Experiences" respectively, which originally appeared on the 1981 live album Document and Eyewitness; similarly, "B/W Silence", "Magic Bullet" and "As We Go" revise "Lorries", "Over My Head" and "Part of our History", each of which were compiled on Turns and Strokes.

"[13] Newman has stated that there were four main sources for the material: Document and Eyewitness, the Legal Bootleg Series, home demos, and "stuff that came out of my head."

[12] Newman has called recording the album "a slightly absurd and nonsensical exercise," saying, "That was almost the raison d'être: "Let's do this because it's the most stupid thing we could imagine doing."

[13] Change Becomes Us was made available on CD and digital on 25 March, followed by a special edition on vinyl on 20 April 2013 (Record Store Day).

[17] Also released was a special limited-edition of the CD as a hard-backed book featuring documentation of the story of the album with studio photographs and the complete lyrics.