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 in 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 with all album editions 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.
References
External links Working Holiday! page at Simple Machines records