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Pocket Full of Kryptonite
Pocket Full of Kryptonite
Studio album by Spin Doctors
Released	August 20, 1991
Recorded	July–December 1990
Studio	Power Station, New York City, New York; RPM, New York City, New York; ACME Recording, Mamaroneck, New York;
Genre	Funk rock; alternative rock;
Length	50:30
Label	Epic
Producer	Frank Aversa; Peter Denenberg; Frankie LaRocka; Spin Doctors;
Spin Doctors chronology
Singles from Pocket Full of Kryptonite
	"Little Miss Can't Be Wrong"; Released: 1992; "Two Princes"; Released: 1992; "Jimmy Olsen's Blues"; Released: 1993; "What Time Is It?"; Released: 1993; "How Could You Want Him (When You Know You Could Have Me?)"; Released: 1993;

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Pocket Full of Kryptonite

1991 studio album by Spin Doctors

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.^[10] 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.^[11]

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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.

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Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[3]
Calgary Herald	B^[4]
Chicago Tribune	^[5]
Christgau's Consumer Guide	^[6]
Music Week	^[7]
Q	^[8]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	^[9]

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
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
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
11.	"Hard to Exist" (B-side of "How Could You Want Him" single)	Barron, Schenkman, Popper, Comess	4:29
Total length:			54:59

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
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

Pocket_Full_of_Kryptonite

Pocket Full of Kryptonite

Track listing

Original album

2011 anniversary edition disc 2

Personnel

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Decade-end charts

Certifications

References

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No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
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
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

Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA)^[39]	Platinum	70,000^{^}
Europe (IFPI)^[40]	Platinum	1,000,000^*
^* Sales figures based on certification alone. ^{^} Shipments figures based on certification alone.