Art Mania

Hirasawa 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".

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 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" and Long Vacation's cover of Door to Summer (夏の扉) (originally by Seiko Matsuda).