Pocket Full of Kryptonite | ||||
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Released | August 20, 1991 | |||
Recorded | July–December 1990 | |||
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Length | 50:30 | |||
Label | Epic | |||
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [2] |
Calgary Herald | B [3] |
Chicago Tribune | [4] |
Christgau's Consumer Guide | [5] |
Music Week | [6] |
Q | [7] |
The Rolling Stone Album Guide | [8] |
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. [9] 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. [10]
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.
All tracks are written by Spin Doctors except as noted
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Jimmy Olsen's Blues" | 4:38 | |
2. | "What Time Is It?" | 4:50 | |
3. | "Little Miss Can't Be Wrong" | 3:54 | |
4. | "Forty or Fifty" | 4:23 | |
5. | "Refrigerator Car" | 4:46 | |
6. | "More Than She Knows" | Eric Schenkman, Simon Lambert, Graham Clark, J.P. Fitting | 2:12 |
7. | "Two Princes" | 4:18 | |
8. | "Off My Line" | John David Bell, Spin Doctors | 3:58 |
9. | "How Could You Want Him (When You Know You Could Have Me?)" | 4:59 | |
10. | "Shinbone Alley/Hard to Exist" | Spin Doctors, John Popper | 12:42 |
Total length: | 50:30 |
No. | Title | Length |
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11. | "Yo Mamas a Pajama" (live, 1990-09-27 @ Wetlands Preserve, NY) | 4:03 |
12. | "Sweet Widow" (live, 1990-09-27 @ Wetlands Preserve, NY) | 11:38 |
13. | "Stepped on a Crack" (live, 1990-09-27 @ Wetlands Preserve, NY) | 4:02 |
Total length: | 70:13 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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11. | "Hard to Exist" (B-side of "How Could You Want Him" single) | Barron, Schenkman, Popper, Comess | 4:29 |
Total length: | 54:59 |
Notes
All tracks are written by Spin Doctors except as noted
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Jimmy Olsen's Blues" | 5:13 | |
2. | "Can't Say No" | Schenkman | 2:20 |
3. | "Hard to Exist" | Barron, Schenkman, Popper, Comess | 4:30 |
4. | "At This Hour" | 5:37 | |
5. | "40 or 50" | 4:39 | |
6. | "Big Fat Funky Booty" | 4:00 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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7. | "What Time Is It?" | 4:08 | |
8. | "How Could You Want Him (When You Know You Could Have Me?)" | 5:44 | |
9. | "Hungry Hamed's" | 4:39 | |
10. | "House" | 4:19 | |
11. | "Two Princes" | 4:41 | |
12. | "Refrigerator Car" | 4:05 | |
13. | "Rosetta Stone" | 6:10 | |
14. | "Freeway of the Plains" | Gregg Buscaglia, Barron, Schenkman, Popper, Fogel | 5:48 |
No. | Title | Length |
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15. | "Turn it Upside Down" (Live July 19, 1993, Kingswood Music Theater, Toronto, Canada) | 4:41 |
16. | "Little Miss Can't Be Wrong" (Live September 25, 1990, Continental Divide, New York City) | 4:05 |
Total length: | 75:15 |
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Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Australia (ARIA) [41] | Platinum | 70,000^ |
Europe (IFPI) [42] | Platinum | 1,000,000* |
* Sales figures based on certification alone. |
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