Song of the Day 6/27: Spin Doctors, “How Could You Want Him (When You Know You Can Have Me)”
The Spin Doctors’ lament is really about being friend zoned, but it’s the same question the Biden campaign could ask anyone who’s voting for his felonious opponent.
The Spin Doctors came out of the same early ’90s jam band scene that produced Phish and Blues Traveler. Their debut album, “Pocket Full of Kryptonite,” was released in 1991 but sold slowly until the band appeared on “Saturday Night Live” a year later. Two singles from the LP, “Little Miss Can’t Be Wrong” and “Jimmy Olsen’s Blues,” hit Billboard’s top 20, and the album reached No. 3 in Billboard, No. 2 in the UK, on its way to selling 5 million copies.
This tune, the fifth single released from the album, couldn’t crack the Hot 100, though is did appear on the Mainstream Rock chart, which tracked radio airplay. The band is still working, but it has never come close to matching the commercial success of that first LP.
