Spin Doctors - Pocket Full of Kryptonite

Pocket Full of Kryptonite is the debut studio album by the American rock band Spin Doctors, released in August 1991. The album initially sold a respectable 60,000 copies in late 1991 due to its growing hardcore fanbase, before several radio stations (including WEQX in Vermont) started playing the single “Little Miss Can’t Be Wrong” in mid-1992. The combined strength of the single along with the follow-up “Two Princes” led to the album’s peak at Nos. 1 and 3 on the Billboard Top Heatseekers and Billboard 200 albums charts, respectively. It is currently the band’s best selling album, and was certified 5× Platinum by the RIAA. It was remastered and reissued in 2011 as a 20th-anniversary edition, with a bonus track added to the original album and a second disc of demos previously released only on cassette, plus two live tracks. The album’s title is a quote from the opening track, “Jimmy Olsen’s Blues”, a humorous song sung from the point of view of Jimmy Olsen, a character in the Superman comic book series. In the song, Jimmy Olsen tries to woo Lois Lane away from Superman, stating “I got a pocket full of Kryptonite,” referring to a fictional substance that weakens Superman. The album cover, showing a phone booth, refers to Clark Kent frequently ducking into a nearby phone booth to change into his Superman attire.

Tracklisting

Jimmy Olsen’s Blues (4:35)
What Time Is It? (4:49)
Little Miss Cant Be Wrong (3:53)
Forty Or Fifty (4:23)
Refrigerator Car (4:44)
More Than She Knows (2:10)
Two Princes (4:16)
Off My Line (3:57)
How Could You Want Him (When You Know You Could Have Me?) (4:58)
Shinbone Alley
Hard To Exist

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Key	Value
Wikipedia URL	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocket_Full_of_Kryptonite
Format	Vinyl LP Album Repress
Label	Epic
Catalog Number	88875013561
Discogs URL	Spin Doctors - Pocket Full of Kryptonite