- Working Holiday!
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Name = Working Holiday!
Type = compilation
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Released =12 December 1994
Recorded = 1992-1993
Genre =Indie rock
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Language = English
Label =Simple Machines
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*Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:7j967ub080jf link]
* "Rolling Stone " (not rated) [http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/268345/working_holiday link]
Compiler =Jenny Toomey ,Kristin Thomson
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Misc =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 monthlyrecord 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 acalendar 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 - CaterpillarDisc 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 - VersusArtwork by
Archer Prewitt . Disc 2 recorded January 7, 8, 9 1994 at The Black Cat byBob Weston , Geoff Turner and Charles Bennington.External links
* [http://www.simplemachines.net/whol.html Working Holiday! page at Simple Machines records]
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