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| "Working for Vacation" | ||||
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| Single by Cibo Matto | ||||
| from the album Stereo Type A | ||||
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| Released | August 4, 1999 | |||
| Genre | Shibuya-kei, rock | |||
| Length | 3:15 | |||
| Label | Warner Bros. | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Cibo Matto | |||
| Producer(s) | Yuka Honda | |||
| Cibo Matto singles chronology | ||||
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"Working for Vacation" is the first single from Cibo Matto's second album, Stereo Type A , released in 1999. B-side "Vamos a la Playa" was later included on the 2007 compilation Pom Pom: The Essential Cibo Matto .
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