NEW YORK - Anthropology researchers, rock music critics and hackey-sack enthusiasts alike have all reached the same startling conclusion in recent days: In some dorm room, basement apartment or anti-war rally right this minute, some poor schmuck has erroneously concluded that
Pocket Full of Kryptonite, the breakthrough 1991 album by neo-hippie band the Spin Doctors, was in fact really really good.
"I guarantee you," said Dr. Ernst Oden, "that some deluded 26-year-old stoner has managed to convince himself that the record that spawned hits like 'Two Princes' and 'Little Miss Can't Be Wrong' is a lost classic, akin to Nick Drake's
Pink Moon or Gary Numan's
The Pleasure Principle. He doubtlessly believes that, as has happend with those and other seemingly forgotten nuggets of rock history, critical consensus will eventually recognize the genius of this album--its nuanced guitar lines, its whimsical lyrics, and the raspy, Van Morrison-esque vocals of lead singer Chris Barron. And Christ, is this poor loser wrong. That record's for shit."
Oden also determined that the track "Jimmy Olsen's Blues," from which the album's title was taken, will not, in fact, be used as the theme music for
Smallville next season, no matter what this pothead thinks his cousin's friend who's a P.A. on the show told his girlfriend.