The Workshop is Taboo

Versions
Hirasawa had intended for Jun Togawa to sing the backing vocals in the chorus for the planned Monster recording, using a "Mountain Hag" style performance; live, they were done by Teruo Nakano. The live arrangement wasn't as layered as the one on Water in Time and Space: The intro only has one drum machine pattern and is longer; the verse melodies are completely different, shorter than those of the solo arrangement, structured differently and having different lyrics; Hirasawa's vocals on the transition to the pre-chorus and the end of the chorus were crescendoing chants. No recordings of P-Model performing the songs have been officially released, although audience recordings exist.
 * Monster, 1987

The song's arrangement incorporates percussive elements used by Hirasawa on Shun・4. The chorus vocals are yodeled; this was Hirasawa's second yodeling song (the first being "anothersmell"). As a joke, Hirasawa incorporated elements of Nat King Cole's version of "Quizás, Quizás, Quizás" in "No Workshop": The string parts of both songs share similarities; and ki sasu (着さす), pronounced the same as "quizás" (キサス), is repeated multiple times on the verses. Supposedly, the voice of a woman can be faintly heard in this recording on some copies of the original release of the album.
 * Water in Time and Space, 1989
 * Susumu Hirasawa - vocals, all instruments
 * Jun Togawa (courtesy of Teichiku Records) - backing vocals


 * Error CD, 1990
 * Susumu Hirasawa - vocals, electric guitar
 * Hikaru Kotobuki, Kazuhide Akimoto - keyboards, backing vocals
 * Katsuhiko Akiyama - bass, backing vocals
 * Kazutoki Umezu - wind synthesizer
 * Shingo Tomoda - drums, electronic percussion
 * Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Nurse - strings, horns


 * Making of Tokyo Paranesian, 1994
 * TAKA - keyboards, backing vocals
 * Toshihiko "BOB" Takahashi - fretless bass, backing vocals
 * Wataru Kamiryo - drums
 * Hirasawa Error Engine - Hirasawa Three Acts in Three Hours: Lower, 1994
 * TAKA - keyboards
 * Toshihiko "BOB" Takahashi - fretless bass
 * Jun Togawa - backing vocals
 * Wataru Kamiryo - drums

Togawa's vocals from the Water in Time and Space version are sampled for this one, activated by a MIDI-triggering laser harp. Features a new intro and guitar backing by PEVO 1go (using a modded "Alumini Clear" Talbo, while Hirasawa uses Ice-9).
 * Phonon 2555 Vision, 2012
 * Susumu Hirasawa - lead and backing vocals, keyboard, laser harp
 * Pevo 1go - Misa Kitara, Zeusaphone
 * Yasuhiro Araki - timpani