title: Working Holiday!
text: # Working Holiday!
  
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  Working Holiday! is a compilation album released on the Simple Machines label in 1994. It is a collection 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.
  
  ## Track listing
  
  Disc 1 - 7"s on Holiday!
  
  * 11:59 It's January - Scrawl
  * Tin Foil Star - Versus
  * Abraham Lincoln - Lungfish
  * James Brown - The Tinklers
  * Ides - Codeine
  * Working Holiday - The Coctails
  * Roll Away the Stone - Eggs
  * Christmas Trees Everywhere - Jonny Cohen
  * Saints Above - Veronica Lake
  * Where Is Our Reason - My Dad Is Dead
  * Kiss Me - Rastro!
  * Another Child Bride - Nothing Painted Blue
  * Indie - Lois
  * If You Hurt Me - Small Factory
  * Kidding on the Square - Tsunami
  * Falk - Jawbox
  * Back to School - Crackerbash
  * Under the Ground - Grifters
  * Coalmine #666 - Crain
  * A Penny for the Guy - Pitchblende
  * Night of the Chill Blue - Superchunk
  * Winter's Come - Caterpillar
  
  Disc 2 - Live tracks from the Working Holiday Weekend with MC Jason Noble
  
  * Hello!
  * Big Puffy Girl Handwriting - Danielle Howle
  * Fun Fun Fun in the Sun Sun Sun - The Tinklers
  * Not Coe - David Greenberger
  * Whoopsy Daisy - The Coctails
  * Broken Heart of a Neutron Star - Crain
  * Flax - Pitchblende
  * Why am I so tired all the time? - Eggs
  * Might - Archers of Loaf
  * From the Curve - Superchunk
  * Newspaper - Tsunami
  * Rubberman - Jonny Cohen
  * The Girl with the Carrot Skin - Bricks
  * Lady Putney - Caterpillar
  * Big Things, Little Things - Rodan
  * Sleeping through the Jane Pratt Show - Franklin Bruno
  * 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.
  
  