Working Holiday!

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Working Holiday!
Compilation album
Released	12 December 1994
Recorded	1992-1993
Genre	Indie Rock
Language(s)	English
Label	Simple Machines
Compiled by	Jenny Toomey, Kristin Thomson
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Working Holiday! (1994) is a CD album released on the Simple Machines label. It is a compilation of tracks by American indie bands which were originally released on a series of 12 7" singles by Simple Machines as part of the Working Holiday monthly record club starting from December 1992. Each song was intended to commemorate a holiday in the month it was released. Subscribers to the record club were also sent a calendar showing the holidays, and a specially made 7" single carrying box.

A limited edition of the Working Holiday! album contained a second disc of live performances from a three day live music festival held in January 1994 at The Black Cat in Washington D.C. to celebrate the completion of the Working Holiday series. The 20 page CD booklet issued with all editions of the album contains a detailed and illustrated account of the record club project and the live music festival.

[edit] Track Listing

Disc 1 - 7"s on Holiday!

1. 11:59 It's January - Scrawl
2. Tin Foil Star - Versus
3. Abraham Lincoln - Lungfish
4. James Brown - The Tinklers
5. Ides - Codeine
6. Working Holiday - The Coctails
7. Roll Away the Stone - Eggs
8. Christmas Trees Everywhere - Jonny Cohen
9. Saints Above - Veronica Lake
10. Where Is Our Reason - My Dad Is Dead
11. Kiss Me - Rastro
12. Another Child Bride - Nothing Painted Blue
13. Indie - Lois
14. If You Hurt Me - Small Factory
15. Kidding on the Square - Tsunami
16. Falk - Jawbox
17. Back to School - Crackerbash
18. Under the Ground - Grifters
19. Coalmine #666 - Crain
20. A Penny for the Guy - Pitchblende
21. Night of the Chill Blue - Superchunk
22. Winter's Come - Caterpillar

Disc 2 - Live tracks from the Working Holiday Weekend with MC Jason Noble

1. Hello!
2. Big Puffy Girl Handwriting - Danielle Howle
3. Fun Fun Fun in the Sun Sun Sun - The Tinklers
4. Not Coe - David Greenberger
5. Whoopsy Daisy - The Coctails
6. Broken Heart of a Neutron Star - Crain
7. Flax - Pitchblende
8. Why am I so tired all the time? - Eggs
9. Might - Archers of Loaf
10. From the Curve - Superchunk
11. Newspaper - Tsunami
12. Rubberman - Jonny Cohen
13. The Girl with the Carrot Skin - Bricks
14. Lady Putney - Caterpillar
15. Big Things, Little Things - Rodan
16. Sleeping through the Jane Pratt Show - Franklin Bruno
17. Hacienda - Versus

Artwork by Archer Prewitt. Disc 2 recorded January 7, 8, 9 1994 at The Black Cat by Bob Weston, Geoff Turner and Charles Bennington.

[edit] External links

• Working Holiday! page at Simple Machines records