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 Copies Of Copies Also Circulated Over The World From Hand To Hand At A Time When Cassette Switching Was Particularly Developed Within Underground Communities See Thurston Moore's Passionate Article In Wire On Switching Japanese Tapes . It Has Been Alleged That The Band Ceased Its Activities When A Member Was Convicted Of Drug Usage By The Japanese Police And Given A Jail Sentence.