Pocket Full of Kryptonite

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Pocket Full of Kryptonite
Pocket Full of Kryptonite cover
Studio album by Spin Doctors
Released August 20, 1991
Recorded August-December. 1990
Genre Rock
Length 50:30
Label Epic Records
ZK-47461
Producer(s) Frank Aversa,
Peter Denenberg,
Frankie La Rocka,
Spin Doctors
Professional reviews
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
Back cover with the track listing

Pocket Full of Kryptonite is the first studio album by American jam band Spin Doctors, released in August of 1991. It peaked at #1 and #3 on Billboard's Heatseekers and Billboard 200 albums charts.

Contents

[edit] 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

[edit] Personnel

[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
1992 Heatseekers 1
1992 The Billboard 200 3

Singles

Year Single Chart Position
1992 "Jimmy Olsen's Blues" Mainstream Rock Tracks 8
1992 "Little Miss Can't Be Wrong" Mainstream Rock Tracks 2
1992 "Little Miss Can't Be Wrong" The Billboard Hot 100 17
1992 "Little Miss Can't Be Wrong" Top 40 Mainstream 12
1993 "How Could You Want Him (When You Know You Could Have Me?)" Mainstream Rock Tracks 28
1993 "Jimmy Olsen's Blues" The Billboard Hot 100 78
1993 "Jimmy Olsen's Blues" Top 40 Mainstream 34
1993 "Two Princes" Adult Contemporary 24
1993 "Two Princes" Mainstream Rock Tracks 2
1993 "Two Princes" The Billboard Hot 100 7
1993 "Two Princes" Top 40 Mainstream 1
1993 "What Time Is It?" Mainstream Rock Tracks 26
1995 "Two Princes" Top 40 Adult Recurrents 7
1995 "Two Princes" Top 40 Adult Recurrents 9

[edit] Trivia and references

  • 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. See also: Superman in popular music.
    • 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 movie Beethoven's 2nd.
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org../../../p/o/c/Pocket_Full_of_Kryptonite_c82d.html"