Picnic of Love is the fifth album released by Anal Cunt

Anal Cunt

Anal Cunt, also known as AxCx and A.C., was an American grindcore band that formed in Newton, Massachusetts in 1988. Since its inception, the band underwent a number of line-up changes. Known for its grindcore musical style and controversial lyrics, Anal Cunt released eight full-length studio...

 on July 21, 1998. The album was released as a joke and a parody of love songs, as well as of the band itself. The album is characterized by the opposite of everything that the band represents. While the normal Anal Cunt album consists of forty to fifty tracks (most which are under a minute in length), Picnic of Love contains only eleven comparably long tracks. The typical distorted guitars and loud screaming of Anal Cunt songs is replaced by soft acoustic guitar-playing and vocalist Putnam

Seth Putnam

Seth Edward Putnam was the founder of grindcore band Anal Cunt. He was known for his brutal screaming and lyrics that either shock, offend, or invoke morbid humor...

 singing in falsetto

Falsetto

Falsetto is the vocal register occupying the frequency range just above the modal voice register and overlapping with it by approximately one octave. It is produced by the vibration of the ligamentous edges of the vocal folds, in whole or in part...

. The most apparent change is the lyrical content: all of the songs are about inoffensive, sweet subjects.

Track listing

1. "Picnic of Love" – 2:17
2. "I Respect Your Feelings as a Woman and a Human" – 2:04
3. "I Wanna Grow Old with You" – 2:51
4. "Saving Ourselves for Marriage" – 3:07
5. "Greed Is Something We Don't Need" – 3:13
6. "Sorry I'm Not That Kind of Boy" – 2:38
7. "I Couldn't Afford to Buy You a Present (So I Wrote You This Song)" – 3:27
8. "I'd Love to Have Your Daughter's Hand in Marriage" – 1:51
9. "My Woman, My Lover, My Friend" – 3:29
10. "Waterfall Wishes" – 3:16
11. "In My Heart There's a Star Named After You" – 3:27

Personnel

• "Sensitive" Seth Putnam
  Seth Putnam
  Seth Edward Putnam was the founder of grindcore band Anal Cunt. He was known for his brutal screaming and lyrics that either shock, offend, or invoke morbid humor...
  
   – vocals
• Allison Dunn – vocals (1, 5)
• "Gentle" Josh Martin – acoustic guitar
  Acoustic guitar
  An acoustic guitar is a guitar that uses only an acoustic sound board. The air in this cavity resonates with the vibrational modes of the string and at low frequencies, which depend on the size of the box, the chamber acts like a Helmholtz resonator, increasing or decreasing the volume of the sound...