Working Holiday!

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