This number 40 comes from everyone's 10th favourite band of 1993. Basically at the time a number of rock music fans I knew including myself kept compiling lists of our Top 10 bands and what many lists had in common was Spin Doctors being at number 10 purely based on "Two Princes" which hit the Top 40 in the summer of 1993. Once that record dropped off the radar so did Spin Doctors from peoples lists.
However Spin Doctors weren't a band who burst onto the scene with "Two Princes" on day before promptly disappearing. They formed in 1988 and released their debut album "Pocket Full of Kryptonite" in 1991 which contains "Two Princes". It had already made a brief visit to the UK album chart before "Two Princes" was released as a single.
The next single from the album was "Little Miss Can't Be Wrong" which made number 23 and then came this which is also the opening track to the album.
The album title is a line from this song and Jimmy Olsen is a fictional character from "Superman". On that basis perhaps this record may have fared better if they waiting until early 1994 to release it when "Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman" started broadcasting in the UK.
This wasn't the end for the band though even from a chart perspective. Their final Top 40 hit to date came in 1994 with "Cleopatra's Cat" which made number 29.
The band did split in 1999 but reformed in 2001 and still continue to this day.
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