Pocket Full of Kryptonite

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. 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

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

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

Charts

Album

Year	Chart	Position
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
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	102	-	-	-	-	-
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	-	-	-

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.