Pleasure and Pain (Dr. Hook album)

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{{Infobox album

| name = Pleasure and Pain

| type = studio

| artist = Dr. Hook

| cover = Pleasure_and_Pain_(Dr._Hook_album).jpg

| alt =

| released = October 6, 1978

| recorded = 1978

| venue =

| studio = Muscle Shoals Sound Studio, Sheffield, Alabama

| genre = Country rock, soft rock

| length = 32:45

| label = Capitol

| producer = Ron Haffkine

| chronology = Dr. Hook

| prev_title = Makin' Love and Music

| prev_year = 1977

| next_title = Sometimes You Win

| next_year = 1979

}}

{{Music ratings

|rev1 = AllMusic

|rev1score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=mw0000691327|pure_url=yes}} AllMusic review]

}}

Pleasure and Pain is the seventh album from the country rock band Dr. Hook. It featured two U.S. Top 10 hits, "Sharing the Night Together" and "When You're in Love with a Beautiful Woman." Both songs also became chart hits in the UK, Canada and Australia.

This particular Dr. Hook album was pressed with two different track line-ups. The first pressing, whose track listing is below, didn't include the song "All the Time in the World", as subsequent re-pressings did.{{Cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/release/1672796-Dr-Hook-Pleasure-Pain|title=Dr. Hook – Pleasure & Pain (1978, Jacksonville Press, Vinyl)|access-date=31 December 2021|website=Discogs.com}}

In September 1979 the album was certified Gold by the RIAA.{{cite web|accessdate=January 29, 2024|url=https://www.riaa.com/gold-platinum/?tab_active=default-award&se=dr.+hook#search_section|title=RIAA – Searchable Database: Dr. Hook}}