Pocket Full of Kryptonite

Pocket Full of Kryptonite
Studio album by Spin Doctors
Released	August 20, 1991
Recorded	August-December. 1990
Genre	Rock, funk rock
Length	50:30
Label	Epic Records ZK-47461
Producer	Frank Aversa, Peter Denenberg, Frankie La Rocka, Spin Doctors
Professional reviews
Allmusic link
Spin Doctors chronology
Up for Grabs...Live (1991) Pocket Full of Kryptonite (1991) Homebelly Groove...Live (1992)
Back cover
Back cover with the track listing

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.

Track listing

all songs by Spin Doctors

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" – 2:12
7. "Two Princes" – 4:18
8. "Off My Line" – 3:58
9. "How Could You Want Him (When You Know You Could Have Me?)" – 4:59
10. "Shinbone Alley/Hard to Exist" – 12:42

• Note: The track listing for the cassette release can be found inside the tape's inlay. Unlike the CD release of Pocket Full of Kryptonite, the cassettes did not feature a track listing on the back cover -- only the black & white photography (as seen on the vinyl and CD releases) is depicted. The digital cassette release of Pocket Full of Kryptonite, however, featured a black & white photograph of the band instead (sans the track listing, of course).

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 in Off My Line
• Mark White - bass

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: Darren Greene, Chris Gross, Nicky Lindeman
• Liner notes: Cree McCree

Charts

Album

Singles

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.