The Workshop is Taboo

=Lyrics=

=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. 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. 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).
 * Monster, 1987
 * 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
 * Phonon 2555 Vision, 2012
 * Susumu Hirasawa - lead and backing vocals, keyboard, laser harp
 * Pevo 1go - Misa Kitara, Zeusaphone
 * Yasuhiro Araki - timpani

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