Spin Doctors celebrate two decades since debut album

Published October 8, 2011 4:00am ET



Don’t get so caught up in the 20th anniversary of Nirvana’s “Nevermind” album that you forget this year also marks two decades since the Spin Doctors released “Pocket Full of Kryptonite.” Looking back, it seems difficult to believe that the Doctors’ debut album was somewhat ignored, even by its own record company, when it was first released. Two years later, the band was staring out from the cover of Rolling Stone magazine as their singles including “Little Miss Can’t Be Wrong” and “Two Princes” were on alt rock music lovers’ heavy rotation lists.

“It’s pretty gratifying for us to have made a record that anyone gives a hoot about 20 years later,” said frontman Chris Barron. “I think we made some good decisions aesthetically about the sounds we used on that record. Nothing about that record ties it to the decade.”

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