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Picky Picnic

Picky Picnic has been played on NTS in shows including samb_rules, featured first on 1 February 2018. Songs played include Aischu No Melody (The Setting Sun In Africa), Hontokana? (Really?) and Someday-いつか-.

Picky Picnic is a Japanese band from the 80s, part of that same movement that musically united The Residents, Renaldo & The Loaf, Der Plan, and Ptôse over the distances. They made a specialty of "family" choruses, as if recorded in their kitchen at lunch time. A visual equivalent could be the "My Neighbours The Yamada" anime, which brings as much poetry through false simplicity.

The band only released one LP. A few cassettes (generally…

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Aischu No Melody (The Setting Sun In Africa)
Picky Picnic
Ata Tak1985
Aischu No Melody (The Setting Sun In Africa)
Picky PicnicAta Tak1985
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Hontokana? (Really?)
Picky Picnic
Ata Tak1985
Hontokana? (Really?)
Picky PicnicAta Tak1985
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Someday-いつか-
Picky Picnic
CBS/Sony1990
Someday-いつか-
Picky PicnicCBS/Sony1990
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Anima
Picky Picnic
Panic1982
Anima
Picky PicnicPanic1982
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My Toast Time
Picky Picnic
Ata Tak1985
My Toast Time
Picky PicnicAta Tak1985
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