Fastball

Fastball

Musical Group

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The Profile

Fastball is an American rock band from Austin, Texas, formed in 1995. Core members include Tony Scalzo, Miles Zuniga and Joey Shuffield. They achieved mainstream attention with the 1998 single "The Way" from the album All the Pain Money Can Buy and have released several albums and a best-of compilation.

Notable albums include Make Your Mama Proud (1996), All the Pain Money Can Buy (1998), The Harsh Light of Day (2000) and Keep Your Wig On (2004). A 2002 compilation is Painting The Corners: The Best of Fastball. Reviews note the band's power-pop songwriting and continued work outside mainstream promotion; Keep Your Wig On was released on Rykodisc.

DeBaser publishes two appreciative reviews of Fastball that celebrate their catchy power-pop and songwriting. The coverage focuses on their 1998 hit "The Way" and the albums All the Pain Money Can Buy, The Harsh Light of Day and Keep Your Wig On. Reviewers praise the band's melodic gifts, sincerity and decision to continue outside mainstream opportunism. The overall stance is respectful and nostalgic.

Notable Quotes

❝ quite a few people remember them for "The Way" from 1998, an extremely catchy melody, an incisive and melodic voice just right, a rich and pleasant guitar-oriented pop rock sound, and lyrics that are anything but stupid and banal;