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".

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.

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) 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 2 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 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".