Ohayo

This song was an anomaly among Hirasawa's compositions for the first three P-Model albums, as one of a few that came to him suddenly with little effort yet still matched the band's concept. According to him, the song is about alienation and isolation. However, the lyrics are contradictory, something he only noticed during the mixdown of Landsale; he didn't tell anybody about it and hoped no-one would notice. The main melody of the song is a modified quotation of the Ultravox! song "My Sex" (written by John Foxx, Chris Cross and Billy Currie).

Versions
Unique in P-Model's repertoire for its arrangement: Hirasawa's lead and the first lineup's backing vocals, the Roland CR-78 pattern and electric guitar were common elements at the time; but the central parts are done through acoustic piano and a string section. Hirasawa felt the first take of the strings part didn't match his intent, so he asked the players to loosen the tuning of their instruments for the second, which they refused to.
 * Landsale, 1980

Retitled "Ohayo II". Hirasawa remixed this rendition years later for Scuba Recycle.
 * Scuba, 1984


 * Ending Error, 1995


 * Virtual Live-2, 1999

A guest performer of Kera & the Synthesizers (which at the time had Shunichi Miura and Hajime Fukuma, besides Kera himself, as members), Hirasawa handled both vocals and guitar on this live rendition.
 * Keralino Sandorovich Music Hour, 2013

Connections

 * This is one of three early P-Model songs where Hirasawa interpolated others' compositions into his own, alongside "White Cigarettes" and "Film".
 * The situation with the string players brought a bitter smile to Hirasawa's face years later: the exact same sequence of events happened again when recording "Bandiria Travellers".