Pocket Full of Kryptonite
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| Studio album by Spin Doctors | |||||
| Released | August 20, 1991 | ||||
| Recorded | August-December. 1990 | ||||
| Genre | Rock | ||||
| Length | 50:30 | ||||
| Label | Epic Records ZK-47461 |
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| Producer | Frank Aversa, Peter Denenberg, Frankie La Rocka, Spin Doctors |
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Back cover with the track listing
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Pocket Full of Kryptonite is the first studio album by American jam band Spin Doctors, released in August 1991. It peaked at #1 and #3 on Billboard's Heatseekers and Billboard 200 albums charts, respectively. The album's title is a reference to Kryptonite, a fictional substance from the Superman mythos, and the phone booth on the cover is a reference to several comic book stories where Clark Kent would duck into a phone booth to change into his Superman costume. The title is a line from the album's first track, "Jimmy Olsen's Blues", which refers to Jimmy Olsen, a supporting character from the same mythos, supposedly being attracted to another character, Lois Lane, and is jealous of Lane's romantic feelings for Superman. The full line, "I've got a pocket full of Kryptonite", is a sexual double entendre.[citation needed] See also: Musical depictions of Superman.
Contents |
[edit] Track listing
all songs by Spin Doctors
- "Jimmy Olsen's Blues" – 4:38
- "What Time Is It?" – 4:50
- "Little Miss Can't Be Wrong" – 3:54
- "Forty or Fifty" – 4:23
- "Refrigerator Car" – 4:46
- "More Than She Knows" – 2:12
- "Two Princes" – 4:18
- "Off My Line" – 3:58
- "How Could You Want Him (When You Know You Could Have Me?)" – 4:59
- "Shinbone Alley/Hard to Exist" – 12:42
[edit] Personnel
- Chris Barron - vocals
- John Bush - conga, tambourine
- Aaron Comess - percussion, conga, drums, Hammond organ, background vocals
- John Popper - harmonica, background vocals
- Eric Schenkman - guitar, piano, vocals
- Mark White - bass
[edit] Production
- Producers: Frank Aversa, Peter Denenberg, Frankie La Rocka, Spin Doctors
- Engineers: Frank Aversa, Peter Denenberg, Marc Schwartz, Spin Doctors
- Assistant engineers: Jeff Lippay, Motley
- Mixing: Peter Denenberg, Frankie La Rocka, Spin Doctors
- Mastering: Ted Jensen
- Production Coordination: Jason J. Richardson
- Guitar technician: Joseph Miselis
- Equipment Manager: John Darren Greene
- Art direction: Francesca Restrepo
- Photography: Paul Aresu, Paul LaRaia
- Cover art: Darrell Greene, Chris Gross, Nicky Lindeman
- Liner notes: Cree McCree
[edit] Charts
Album
| Year | Chart | Position |
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| 1992 | Heatseekers | 1 |
| 1992 | The Billboard 200 | 3 |
| 1993 | UK Album Chart | 2 |
| 1993 | Norweigian Album Chart | 2 |
| 1993 | ARIA Albums Chart | 1 |
Singles
| Year | Single | Mainstream Rock | Hot 100 | Adult Contemporary | Adult Recurrents | UK | Ireland | Norway |
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| 1992 | "Jimmy Olsen's Blues" | 8 | - | - | - | - | - | |
| 1992 | "Little Miss Can't Be Wrong" | 2 | 17 | - | - | 23 | 27 | - |
| 1993 | "How Could You Want Him (When You Know You Could Have Me?)" | 28 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1993 | "Jimmy Olsen's Blues" | 34 | 78 | - | - | 40 | - | 2 |
| 1993 | "Two Princes" | 1 | 7 | 24 | - | 3 | 5 | - |
| 1993 | "What Time Is It?" | 26 | - | - | - | 56 | - | - |
| 1995 | "Two Princes" | - | - | - | 7 | - | - | - |
[edit] References in popular culture
- In the months following the success of the album and the single release of "Jimmy Olsen's Blues", issues of the Superman: The Man of Steel comic (drawn at the time by artist Jon Bogdanove) depicted Jimmy Olsen wearing a Spin Doctors t-shirt as an in-joke.
- The song "Two Princes" can be heard in the 1993 film So I Married an Axe Murderer with Mike Myers.
- The song "Jimmy Olsen's Blues" was featured in the movies Beethoven's 2nd and Bye Bye Love.
- The song "Little Miss Can't Be Wrong" was featured in the movie Son In Law.
- The song "Two Princes" featured prominently in the episode "Maid to Border" of The Sarah Silverman Program, as the only song her friend and neighbor has on his iPod.
- The song "More Than She Knows" was used as the cold open on the Hit TV show Party Of Five and was co-written by JP Fitting, Simon Lambert and Graham Clark.
| Preceded by Breathless by Kenny G |
Australian ARIA Albums Chart number-one album June 6 - June 19, 1993 |
Succeeded by janet. by Janet Jackson |
