The Harsh Light of Day

The Harsh Light of Day is the third studio album by pop-rock band Fastball, released in September 2000 by Hollywood Records. It contained the single release "You're an Ocean," which spent eight weeks on the Billboard Bubbling Under chart and peaked at #101 during the fall of 2000.[6] It also reached #25 on Radio & Records.

For the 1999 television episode, see The Harsh Light of Day (Buffy the Vampire Slayer).

The Harsh Light of Day
Studio album by
Fastball
ReleasedSeptember 19, 2000
StudioA&M Studios, Hollywood
GenreRock, pop rock, power pop
Length42:21
LabelHollywood
ProducerJulian Raymond, Fastball
Fastball chronology
All the Pain Money Can Buy
(1998)		 The Harsh Light of Day
(2000)		 Painting the Corners: The Best of Fastball
(2002)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic64/100[1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
Entertainment WeeklyB−[3]
Rolling Stone[4]
Spin6/10[1]
Wall of Sound68/100[5]

The album had a distinctly more layered and glossier sound than past albums, and featured guest appearances by Billy Preston, Brian Setzer and Michael Ward. However, despite positive reviews and extensive touring and promotional activity, the album failed to match the success of its predecessor, and would be the band's last studio effort for Hollywood Records.

Miles Zuniga left the band briefly following the completion of promotional duties for The Harsh Light of Day, and moved to Nashville, Tennessee, but re-joined the band soon afterwards.[7]

Fastball appeared on an episode of Charmed, where "You're an Ocean" played at Piper's night club.

As of January 2004, sales for this album were at 85,000.[8]

The song "Morning Star" is played in the title sequence of the video game Triple Play Baseball.

Track listing
  1. "This Is Not My Life" (Miles Zuniga) - 3:00
  2. "You're an Ocean" (Tony Scalzo) - 3:17
  3. "Goodbye" (Zuniga) - 3:13
  4. "Love Is Expensive and Free" (Scalzo) - 3:02
  5. "Vampires" (Zuniga) - 3:10
  6. "Wind Me Up" (Scalzo) - 3:59
  7. "Morning Star" (Scalzo) - 3:59
  8. "Time" (Zuniga) - 3:16
  9. "Dark Street" (Zuniga) - 3:28
  10. "Funny How It Fades Away" (Scalzo) - 4:08
  11. "Don't Give Up On Me" (Zuniga) - 3:33
  12. "Whatever Gets You On" (Zuniga, Jeff Groves) - 4:06

Bonus tracks
  1. "The Way" (Scalzo) (live)
  2. "Emotional"(Zuniga)
  3. "Love Doesn’t Kill You" (demo) (Scalzo)

Personnel
Fastball

References
  1. Critic Reviews on Metacritic
  2. Allmusic review
  3. Entertainment Weekly review
  4. Rolling Stone review
  5. Wall of Sound review
  6. Joel Whitburn's Bubbling Under the Billboard Hot 100 1959-2004
  7. Matt Dentler (June 13, 2003). "Another Way: Fastball's third act". Austin Chronicle. Archived from the original on July 8, 2003. Retrieved October 22, 2006.
  8. "Billboard Bits". Retrieved November 3, 2007.


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