Working Holiday?
I'm off today, but sorta working from home. This song is sooo happy, it (almost) makes it OK.
The Coctails
Working Holiday compilation 2xCD (buy)
Simple Machines 1994
This is from a compilation of a series of split 7" Simple Machines put out monthly in 93. Each song was to be dedicated to a holiday that corresponded to the month it was released. Someone was bound to flake, so Simple Machines had the Coctails record a song that:
...wasn't holiday-specific, one that could be slipped into any month if need be...Need did be and the song soon became the toe tappin', whistlin' theme for March!
On Liz Phair (the flake):
Liz Phair, what can we say? Initially she promised to do the series through a mutual friend who said she wanted to do a song about some Icelandic holiday where kids demand treats and if they don't get them they hit you with colorful sticks. As the deadline approached, we tried to contact her directly but she was phoneless. We left messages at her studio, her job, her parents. When we finally found her she denied having ever heard of the project, but she liked the idea and hung up promising a track. That was the last we heard from her.
(Both quotes from the liner notes)
I didn't care, I was never into her anyway and the Coctails's song is the best on the CD. Great stuff also from Codeine, Scrawl, Lois, Small Factory, Versus, Nothing Painted Blue, Lungfish, Caterpillar... The early pressings also came with a live CD recorded of the Working Holiday show commemorating the end of the series. Worth it alone for MC Jason Nobles's hilarious band introductions. Plus an unreleased Rodan tune.
Endnotes
1. The Coctail's Trouser Press page here.
2. Though no longer an active label, go here for more Simple Machines info.
3. One more thing,
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