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{{Infobox album
| name       = Pocket Full of Kryptonite
| type       = studio
| artist     = [[Spin Doctors]]
| cover      = Spindocs pocket kryptonite.JPG
| alt        =
| released   = {{startdate|1991|8|20}}
| recorded   = July–December 1990
| studio     = {{flatlist|
*[[Power Station (recording 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     = {{duration|m=50|s=30}}
| label      = [[Epic Records|Epic]]
| producer   =
* Frank Aversa
* Peter Denenberg
* [[Frankie LaRocka]]
* Spin Doctors
| prev_title = [[Up for Grabs...Live]]
| prev_year  = 1991
| next_title = [[Homebelly Groove...Live]]
| next_year  = 1992
| misc       = {{Singles
 | name        = Pocket Full of Kryptonite
 | type        = studio
 | single1     = [[Little Miss Can't Be Wrong]]
 | single1date = 1992
 | single2     = [[Two Princes]]
 | single2date = 1992
 | single3     = Jimmy Olsen's Blues
 | single3date = 1993
 | single4     = What Time Is It?
 | single4date = 1993
 | single5     = How Could You Want Him (When You Know You Could Have Me?)
 | single5date = 1993<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOGBcYN1Hu4 | title=Spin Doctors - How Could You Want Him (When You Know You Can Have Me) | website=[[YouTube]] }}</ref>
}}
}}
{{Album ratings
| rev1      = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/pocket-full-of-kryptonite-mw0000674620|title=Pocket Full of Kryptonite – Spin Doctors|last=Erlewine|first=Stephen Thomas|author-link=Stephen Thomas Erlewine|publisher=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=December 27, 2010}}</ref>
| rev2      = ''[[Calgary Herald]]''
| rev2score = B<ref>Alberts, Sheldon (October 6, 1991). "Recent Releases". ''[[Calgary Herald]]''.</ref>
| rev3      = ''[[Chicago Tribune]]''
| rev3score = {{Rating|3.5|4}}<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1991-10-31-9104070907-story.html|title=Spin Doctors: Pocket Full of Kryptonite (Epic)|last=May|first=Mitchell|newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]]|date=October 31, 1991|access-date=December 24, 2018}}</ref>
| rev4      = ''[[Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s|Christgau's Consumer Guide]]''
| rev4score = {{Rating-Christgau|hm1}}<ref>{{cite book|chapter-url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_album.php?id=3866|chapter=The Spin Doctors: Pocket Full of Kryptonite|access-date=December 24, 2018|title=Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|publisher=[[St. Martin's Press]]|year=2000|isbn=0-312-24560-2|title-link=Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s}}</ref>
| rev5      = ''[[Music Week]]''
| rev5score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref>{{cite magazine|first=Alan|last=Jones|title=Market Preview: Mainstream - Albums|magazine=[[Music Week]]|date=March 13, 1993|page=20|accessdate=January 29, 2023|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-Week/1993/Music-Week-1993-03-13.pdf}}</ref>
| rev6      = ''[[Q (magazine)|Q]]''
| rev6score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite journal|title=Spin Doctors: Pocket Full of Kryptonite|journal=[[Q (magazine)|Q]]|issue=79|date=April 1993|page=88}}</ref>
| rev7      = ''[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide]]''
| rev7score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref>{{cite book|chapter=Spin Doctors|last=Sheffield|first=Rob|author-link=Rob Sheffield|title=The New Rolling Stone Album Guide|editor1-last=Brackett|editor1-first=Nathan|editor2-last=Hoard|editor2-first=Christian|publisher=[[Simon & Schuster]]|edition=4th|year=2004|isbn=0-7432-0169-8|page=[https://archive.org/details/newrollingstonea00brac/page/768 768]|title-link=The Rolling Stone Album Guide}}</ref>
| rev8      = ''[[Select (magazine)|Select]]''
| rev8score = {{rating|3|5|full=U+25A0.svg|empty=U+25A1.svg|rating=medal}}<ref>{{cite magazine|first=Danny|last=Scott|url=https://selectmagazinescans.monkeon.co.uk/showpage.php?file=wp-content/uploads/2013/03/albums23.jpg|title=Reviews: New Albums — Sound Bites|work=[[Select (magazine)|Select]]|date=March 1993|page=73|access-date=December 30, 2024}}</ref>
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'''''Pocket Full of Kryptonite''''' is the debut [[studio album]] by the American [[Rock music|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.<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/spin-doctors-miracle-cure-179471/|title = Spin Doctors: Miracle Cure|magazine = [[Rolling Stone]]|date = January 7, 1993}}</ref> 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 charts|Billboard]]'' [[Top Heatseekers]] and [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]] albums charts, respectively. It is currently the band's best selling album, and was certified 5× Platinum by the RIAA.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?resultpage=1&table=SEARCH_RESULTS&action=&title=&artist=spin%20doctors&format=&sort=Artist&perPage=25 |title=RIAA searchable certification database|publisher=[[Recording Industry Association of America]]|access-date=December 27, 2010}}</ref>

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.