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{{Infobox album
| name       = All the Pain Money Can Buy
| type       = studio
| artist     = [[Fastball (band)|Fastball]]
| cover      = All the Pain Money Can Buy (Fastball album - cover art).jpg
| alt        =
| released   = {{Start date|1998|03|10}}
| recorded   = 1997
| studio     =
| genre      =
* [[Alternative rock]]
* [[power pop]]
| length     = 42:03
| label      = [[Hollywood Records|Hollywood]]
| producer   =
* [[Julian Raymond]]
* Fastball
| prev_title = [[Make Your Mama Proud]]
| prev_year  = 1996
| next_title = [[The Harsh Light of Day]]
| next_year  = 2000
| misc       = {{Singles
| name        = All the Pain Money Can Buy
| type        = studio
| single1     = [[The Way (Fastball song)|The Way]]
| single1date = January 7, 1998<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Hollywood Has a Hit with Rockers Fastball|last=Reece|first=Doug|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|volume=110|issue=17|page=92|date=April 25, 1998|quote='The Way,' which shipped to modern rock and triple-A stations Jan. 7...}}</ref>
| single2     = Fire Escape
| single2date = July 20, 1998<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Fire Escape|magazine=[[Radio & Records]]|issue=1257|page=146|date=July 17, 1998|quote=Modern Rock, AAA and Rock Radio July 20!}}</ref>
| single3     = [[Out of My Head (Fastball song)|Out of My Head]]
| single3date = January 25, 1999<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Adds for January 25 & 26|magazine=[[Gavin Report]]|issue=2239|page=36|date=January 22, 1999}}</ref>
}}
}}
{{Album ratings
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/all-the-pain-money-can-buy-mw0000034931 |title=All the Pain Money Can Buy – Fastball |work=[[AllMusic]] |accessdate=January 15, 2019 |last=Erlewine |first=Stephen Thomas |author-link=Stephen Thomas Erlewine}}</ref>
| rev2 = ''[[Chicago Tribune]]''
| rev2score = {{Rating|3.5|4}}<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1998-03-06-9803060275-story.html |title=Fastball: All the Pain Money Can Buy (Hollywood) |work=[[Chicago Tribune]] |date=March 6, 1998 |accessdate=January 15, 2019 |last=Kot |first=Greg |author-link=Greg Kot}}</ref>
| rev3 = ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]''
| rev3score = A−<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,282690,00.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130122232354/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,282690,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 22, 2013 |title=All the Pain Money Can Buy |magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]] |date=April 17, 1998 |accessdate=August 22, 2012 |last=Willman |first=Chris}}</ref>
| rev4 = ''[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]''
| rev4score = 5.1/10<ref>{{Cite web |last=Mirov |first=Nick |title=Fastball: All The Pain Money Can Buy: Pitchfork Review |url=http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/f/fastball/all-the-pain-money-can-buy.shtml |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000816172257/http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/f/fastball/all-the-pain-money-can-buy.shtml |archive-date=August 16, 2000 |access-date=February 4, 2023 |website=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]}}</ref>
| rev5 = ''[[Q (magazine)|Q]]''
| rev5score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref>{{cite journal |title=Fastball: All the Pain Money Can Buy |journal=[[Q (magazine)|Q]] |issue=146 |date=November 1998 |page=116}}</ref>
| rev6 = ''[[Rolling Stone]]''
| rev6score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/artists/fastball/albums/album/201871/review/5946761/all_the_pain_money_can_buy |title=Fastball: All The Pain Money Can Buy |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |date=April 16, 1998 |accessdate=August 22, 2012 |last=Randall |first=Mac |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080222191855/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/fastball/albums/album/201871/review/5946761/all_the_pain_money_can_buy |archivedate=February 22, 2008 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
| rev7 = ''[[The Village Voice]]''
| rev7score = C+<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/ts98-98.php |title=Consumer Guide: Turkey Shoot |work=[[The Village Voice]] |date=December 1, 1998 |accessdate=January 15, 2019 |last=Christgau |first=Robert |author-link=Robert Christgau}}</ref>
| noprose = yes
}}
'''''All the Pain Money Can Buy''''' is the second studio album by American rock band [[Fastball (band)|Fastball]], released on March 10, 1998, on [[Hollywood Records]]. The album includes the hit singles "[[The Way (Fastball song)|The Way]]" (1998), "Fire Escape" (1998), and "[[Out of My Head (Fastball song)|Out of My Head]]" (1999). The album was certified gold by the [[Recording Industry Association of America]] (RIAA) in June 1998 and went Platinum in September of the same year, making it Fastball's most successful release.<ref>[https://www.riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?content_selector=gold-platinum-searchable-database RIAA Gold & Platinum Database] [[Recording Industry Association of America]]. Retrieved February 19, 2012.</ref>
== Background ==
The members of Fastball still had side jobs as late as January 1998. Tony Scalzo worked the graveyard shift at The [[Bagel]] Manufactory in Austin. He, Shuffield, and Zuniga would be on ''[[The Tonight Show with Jay Leno]]'' and ''[[Late Night with Conan O'Brien]]'' just four months later. Fastball's second album, ''All the Pain Money Can Buy'', was released on Hollywood Records. Within just six months, it had sold more than a million copies.{{citation needed|date=June 2023}}
The single "[[The Way (Fastball song)|The Way]]" stayed on top of Billboard's [[Modern Rock Tracks chart]] for seven weeks, and was a top-five hit on Billboard's [[Top 40 Mainstream]] chart. Scalzo was inspired to write the song in 1997 after reading a news article about Lela and Raymond Howard, an elderly couple who had disappeared in Texas. Though Lela had [[Alzheimer's]] and Raymond was recovering from brain surgery, the couple had been driving to a local festival.  They were discovered two weeks later, dead, at the bottom of a [[ravine]] near [[Hot Springs, Arkansas]], hundreds of miles off their intended route.<ref>{{cite web |title=Salado couple shared passions for church, each other |url=http://www.texnews.com/texas97/coup071497.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140315061028/http://www.texnews.com/texas97/coup071497.html |archive-date=March 15, 2014 |access-date=October 3, 2016}}</ref> Scalzo chose to imagine that they began reminiscing and decided to become [[Non-physical entity|ethereal beings]] on a permanent romantic trip, the answer to the song's question, "Where were they going without ever knowing the way?"<ref>{{cite web |last1=Staggs |first1=Matt |date=April 23, 2014 |title=Memoir in a Melody: The Tragic Disappearance Behind Fastball's 'The Way' |url=http://www.signature-reads.com/2014/04/memoir-in-a-melody-the-tragic-disappearance-behind-fastballs-the-way/ |access-date=October 3, 2016 |website=signature-reads.com |publisher=[[Penguin Random House]]}}</ref>
Fastball followed up "The Way" with a second single, "[[Fire Escape (song)|Fire Escape]]", and a third single, "[[Out of My Head (Fastball song)|Out of My Head]]", which reached the top ten on Billboard's Top 40 chart and was a top ten hit on the Adult Top 40 chart for 29 weeks. The album's promotional tour featured [[Marcy Playground]] and [[Everclear (band)|Everclear]], after which Fastball moved to the [[H.O.R.D.E. Tour]].
In 1999, Fastball received two [[Grammy Award]] nominations as a result of ''All the Pain Money Can Buy''. One was for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals, and the other was Best Long Form Video for "The Way". They also received an [[MTV Award]] nomination for Best New Artist.
==Track listing==
{{Track listing
| total_length  = 42:03
| title1        = [[The Way (Fastball song)|The Way]]
| writer1       = [[Tony Scalzo]]
| length1       = 4:17
| title2        = Fire Escape
| writer2       = Miles Zuniga
| length2       = 3:21
| title3        = Better Than It Was
| writer3       = Scalzo
| length3       = 2:48
| title4        = Which Way to the Top?
| note4         = featuring [[Poe (singer)|Poe]]
| writer4       = {{hlist|Zuniga|Jeff Groves}}
| length4       = 3:50
| title5        = Sooner or Later
| writer5       = Zuniga
| length5       = 2:39
| title6        = Warm Fuzzy Feeling
| writer6       = Scalzo
| length6       = 1:55
| title7        = Slow Drag
| writer7       = Zuniga
| length7       = 3:37
| title8        = G.O.D. (Good Old Days)
| writer8       = Scalzo
| length8       = 3:31
| title9        = Charlie, the Methadone Man
| writer9       = Zuniga
| length9       = 3:17
| title10       = [[Out of My Head (Fastball song)|Out of My Head]]
| writer10      = Scalzo
| length10      = 2:32
| title11       = Damaged Goods
| writer11      = Zuniga
| length11      = 3:02
| title12       = Nowhere Road
| writer12      = Scalzo
| length12      = 3:25
| title13       = Sweetwater, Texas
| writer13      = Zuniga
| length13      = 3:53
}}
{{Track listing
| headline      = European release bonus tracks
| total_length  = 53:08
| title14       = Freeloader Freddy
| writer14      = Scalzo
| length14      = 3:10
| title15       = [[This Guy's in Love with You]]
| note15        = [[Herb Alpert]] cover
| writer15      = {{hlist|[[Burt Bacharach]]|[[Hal David]]}}
| length15      = 3:33
| title16       = Sweetwater, Texas
| note16        = Live
| writer16      = Zuniga
| length16      = 4:16
}}
{{Track listing
| headline      = Australia limited edition bonus disc
| total_length  =
| title1        = Quit Your Job
| writer1       = Scalzo
| length1       = 2:14
| title2        = The Way
| note2         = Unpaved Acoustic Version
| writer2       = Scalzo
| length2       = 3:43
| title3        = Freeloader Freddy
| writer3       = Scalzo
| length3       = 3:08
| title4        = Fire Escape
| note4         = Live
| writer4       = Zuniga
| length4       = 3:14
| title5        = This Guy's in Love with You
| writer5       = {{hlist|Bacharach|David}}
| length5       = 3:35
}}
{{Track listing
| headline      = 20th Anniversary Edition bonus tracks
| total_length  = 71:23
| title14       = Quit Your Job
| writer14      = Scalzo
| length14      = 2:15
| title15       = Freeloader Freddy
| writer15      = Scalzo
| length15      = 3:09
| title16       = The Way
| note16        = Cassette demo
| writer16      = Scalzo
| length16      = 3:43
| title17       = Fire Escape
| note17        = Demo
| writer17      = Zuniga
| length17      = 3:32
| title18       = Slow Drag
| note18        = Demo
| writer18      = Zuniga
| length18      = 3:43
| title19       = Sweetwater, Texas
| note19        = Demo
| writer19      = Zuniga
| length19      = 3:17
| title20       = [[Androgynous (song)|Androgynous]]
| note20        = [[The Replacements (band)|The Replacements]] cover
| writer20      = [[Paul Westerberg]]
| length20      = 1:51
| title21       = This Guy's in Love with You
| writer21      = {{hlist|Bacharach|David}}
| length21      = 3:33
| title22       = The Way
| note22        = Unpaved Acoustic Version
| writer22      = Scalzo
| length22      = 3:43
}}
==Personnel==
Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes.<ref>{{cite AV media notes|title=All the Pain Money Can Buy|others=[[Fastball]]|publisher=[[Hollywood Records|Hollywood]]|year=1998|id=HR-62130-2|type=liner notes}}</ref>
'''Fastball'''
* [[Tony Scalzo]] – vocals (lead on 1, 3, 6, 8, 12), bass guitar, keyboards
* Miles Zuniga – vocals (lead on 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10, 11, 13), guitar
* Joey Shuffield – drums, percussion
'''Additional musicians'''
* [[Kim Bullard]] – organ, keyboards, programming
* Bennett Salvay – electric piano, horn arrangement
* Poe – vocals on "Which Way to the Top?"
* Walt Vincent – piano on "Sooner or Later"
* Guy Fantasy – background vocals on "Sooner or Later"
* Dennis Farias – trumpet on "G.O.D. (Good Old Days)"
* [[Rick Braun]] – trumpet on "G.O.D. (Good Old Days)"
* Nick Lane – trombone on "G.O.D. (Good Old Days)"
* Doug Norwine – tenor sax on "G.O.D. (Good Old Days)"
* Greg Smith – baritone sax on "G.O.D. (Good Old Days)"
* Erika Duke-Kirkpatrick – cello on "Charlie, the Methadone Man"
'''Production'''
* [[Joe Barresi]] – engineer
* [[Chris Lord-Alge]] – mixing
==Charts==
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"
! scope="col"| Chart (1998)
! scope="col"| Peak<br />position
|-
! scope="row"| Australian Albums ([[ARIA Charts|ARIA]])<ref>{{cite book|last=Ryan|first=Gavin|title=Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010|year=2011|publisher=Moonlight Publishing|location=Mt. Martha, VIC, Australia|edition=pdf}}</ref>
| style="text-align:center;"| 84
|-
{{album chart|BillboardCanada|18|artist=Fastball|rowheader=true|accessdate=September 13, 2020}}
|-
{{album chart|Finland|28|artist=Fastball|album=All the Pain Money Can Buy|rowheader=true|accessdate=September 13, 2020}}
|-
{{album chart|Sweden|22|artist=Fastball|album=All the Pain Money Can Buy|rowheader=true|accessdate=September 13, 2020}}
|-
! scope="row"| UK Albums ([[Official Charts Company|OCC]])<ref>{{cite web |last=Zywietz |first=Tobias |url=http://www.zobbel.de/cluk/CLUK_F.HTM |title=Chart Log UK: Adam F – FYA |website=zobbel.de |accessdate=September 13, 2020}}</ref>
| style="text-align:center;"| 108
|-
{{album chart|Billboard200|29|artist=Fastball|rowheader=true|accessdate=September 13, 2020}}
|}
==Certifications==
{{Certification Table Top}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=Canada|award=Platinum|type=album|artist=Fastball|title=All the Pain Money Can Buy|relyear=1998|certyear=1998|accessdate=September 13, 2020}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=United States|award=Platinum|type=album|artist=Fastball|title=All the Pain Money Can Buy|relyear=1998|certyear=1998|accessdate=September 13, 2020}}
{{Certification Table Bottom | nosales=true}}
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{Fastball}}
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[[Category:1998 albums]]
[[Category:Fastball (band) albums]]
[[Category:Hollywood Records albums]]
[[Category:Albums produced by Julian Raymond]]