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}} In a Model Room is the debut album of Japanese band P-Model. In 2007 ''Rolling Stone Japan'' ranked it at number 52 in its list of the 100 Greatest Japanese Rock Albums of All Time and ''Snoozer'' ranked it at number 125 in its list of the 150 Greatest Albums of Japanese Rock’n’Roll. Susumu Hirasawa re-recorded the album (except for "Sophisticated") in the style of the P-Model live shows of 1979 as ''Virtual Live-1 (Live at Roppongi S-Ken Studio 1979 )''. Polysics covered "The Great Brain" for the 2007 album Karate House and have performed "Art Mania" live. Covers of "Art Mania" by Vocaloids are included in dedicated Vocaloid New Wave cover albums. ==Background== By 1978, Susumu Hirasawa, guitarist and vocalist of Mandrake, one of the few Japanese progressive metal bands at the time, was unsatisfied with the style the band worked in, thinking that progressive rock had lost its social link and became just entertainment. By then, Mandrake's had only achieved reception by a niche live show audience for national progressive rock and bit parts on synthesizer-heavy works by Akiro "Kamio" Arishima, Hirasawa's superior at Yamaha who made instrumental music heavily influenced by Wendy Carlos. Hirasawa had discovered punk rock groups like Sex Pistols, 999 and Métal Urbain; and Mandrake discovered the Nylon 100% café bar/live house, where they were introduced to New Wave music and visuals. Feeling that it was the advent of a new era, Hirasawa and keyboardist Yasumi Tanaka started writing songs in the punk/new wave style, and cut their waist-length hair short, alongside drummer Sadatoshi Tainaka.〔http://twilog.org/hirasawa/date-130417〕 Mandrake had turned into a half-hearted band and, after declining an offer from the director of Victor Music Industries, Hirasawa decided to "abort" Mandrake, characterizing it as the defeat of alchemy to commercialism. To that end, the band's final live performance at the Shibuya Jean-Jean, meant to be the symbolic burial of Mandrake's aborted body, was a two-part show that lasted three hours: The first two and a half were the last performances of the progressive rock songs, done inside a large picture frame hung on stage. After the first part ended, the lights went out and Katsuhiko Akiyama (member of the Emerson, Lake & Palmer-influenced keyboardist trio Abikyōkan and Mandrake's only fan) came out of the frame dressed in a white coat and holding a fetus that glowed red, green and blue. The frame was dismantled and Susumu's older brother Yūichi, while running on a treadmill wearing a white coat, counted to four in English. With that, the band played electropunk songs, ending Mandrake. On New Year's Day 1979, the members of the band held a meeting in a house in Kameari〔https://twitter.com/hirasawa/status/530714246339108865〕 to decide how they would reform: Bassist Tohru Akutu, still attached to progressive rock, decided to depart from the band, going on to work on various projects with the members of Shingetsu; Akiyama was later chosen to take his spot. The instruments which emitted a pretentious grandeur (most of them painted in dignified colors like purple, gold and burgundy) were either repainted in bright colors (like yellow, light blue and pink) or sold off to buy ones more adequate for what the band wanted to do (some of the new ones were also painted in bright colors). It was decided that the band's name would be changed to something that evoked the new development of a mass-produced industrial good, a fake product model.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「In a Model Room」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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