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Spin Doctors – Pocket Full of Kryptonite 20th Anniversary Edition
Legacy
www.legacyrecordings.com

Rating: B

The Spin Doctors were huge twenty years ago. They had two massive hit songs in “Two Princes,” which was the most played song in the world in 1993, and “Little Miss Can’t Be Wrong” which reached #17 on the Billboard Hot 100. The album went on to reach # 3 on Billboards Top 200 Album Chart and was named one of the 100 best selling albums of the decade by Billboard Magazine.

While the Spin Doctors are remembered by the casual fan for their two massive hits, this album reminds us that they were really one of the first jam bands in the world. The album features a ton of instrumental jamming that fit like a glove next to the pop songs. These guys are actually quite talented and this album shows off what they are best at: playing, singing and holding down a killer groove.

There is a second bonus disc on the 20th anniversary version of Pocket Full of Kryptonite which hits shelves this August. The second CD is full of early band demos that were previously available only at Spin Doctors gigs on cassette. Some of the demos appeared on future Spin Doctors albums with different names such as “Homebelly Groove,” “Turn It Upside Down” and “You’ve Got to Believe in Something.”

Classic Rock Revisited strongly suggests that you revisit the Spin Doctors as they don’t do much wrong on this album and the demos are very interesting to long term fans of the band.

By Jeb Wright

 
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