Art Mania

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. He has implied this song was originally in line with Mandrake's output, containing "tedious things" like solos and/or interludes; these discarded sections were ultimately reworked into becoming a song on its own, "Pinky Trick".

Versions

 * demo, 1979


 * In a Model Room, 1979


 * Bitmap 1979-1992, 1980


 * "Be a Jews Kantian"


 * Virtual Live-1, 1999


 * Live Video "Music Industrial Wastes〜P-Model or Die", 1999


 * Magnificent View, 2016

Covers and homages
Polysics have performed the song live.

A cover made using Kagamine Rin is included on the Hatsune Miku sings NEW WAVE cover album.

A cover, arranged by Halmens associate Jiro Yoshida and with keyboards by Sonic Sky member Kenya Hanada, is a B-side of singer Evenyan Roller Coaster's "Paris Texas Lolita" single.

UrbanGarde's "You Are the Person I Met in the Infirmary" (保健室で会った人なの) and iDOLM@STER character Riamu Yumemi1s (voiced by Seena Hoshiki) "OtaHen Anthem" (OTAHENアンセム) both pull clear inspiration, melodically and rhythmically, from "Art Mania" (the latter also pulling from Pachelbel's Canon, a composition Hirasawa's been involved in two variations of).

Connections

 * The figure of the song is a modification of a phrase from the 1952 Poly e Seus Modernistas song "Turista". Hirasawa was familiar with the song through the 1963 cover by The Atlantics, one of his favorite bands when he started to get into music. P-Model would go on to add "Turista" to their setlists beginning in 1984, and Hirasawa covered it solo for the 1989 various artists compilation Les Enfants.
 * The bass and synth lines of "Floor" are extremely similar to those of the song, albeit at a drastically slower tempo.
 * The song's overall arrangement was reused for "No Room".
 * Hirasawa wrote the lyrics of "Be a Jews Kantian" with the same aim as "Bike".
 * The theme of intense love manifesting in violence was tackled by a different lyricist in "I Like You, I Like You, I Love You".
 * The song uses the Roland CR-68's "beguine" rhythm pattern. Since it comes preset in all CR-68/CR-78/CR-800 models, it appears in many other songs. Among the most notable are Blondie's "Heart of Glass", Plastics' "Too Much Information", Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark's "Red Frame/White Light", Roxy Music's "Same Old Scene", Gary Numan's "Remind Me to Smile", Ippu-Do's "Lonely Pilot", David Bowie/Pat Metheny Group's "This is Not America"/"Chris", Uchoten's "Tokyo Fuck Elephants", Long Vacation's cover of Door to Summer (夏の扉) and David Wise's "T.T.'s Theme".