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Skull Ring
(CD, 2003)
Primary Artist: Iggy Pop
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Format: CD
Jun 2003
Record Label: Virgin Records (Japan)
Recording Type: Studio
UPC: 766482401345 |
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Details
Track Listing
1. Little Electric Chair - (with The Stooges)
2. Perverts in the Sun
3. Skull Ring - (with The Stooges)
4. Superbabe
5. Loser - (with The Stooges)
6. Private Hell - (with Green Day)
7. Little Know It All - (with Sum 41)
8. Whatever
9. Dead Rock Star - (with The Stooges)
10. Rock Show - (with The Peaches)
11. Here Comes the Summer
12. Motor Inn - (with The Peaches)
13. Inferiority Complex
14. Supermarket - (with Green Day)
15. Til Wrong Feels Right
16. Blood on Your Cool
17. Jose the Arab - (bonus track)
18. Rich Musicians - (bonus track)
19. Nervous Exhaustion - (hidden bonus track)
Album Notes
Personnel includes: Iggy Pop (vocals); The Stooges, Peaches, Sum 41, Green Day, The Trolls.
Principally recorded at The Hit Factory Criteria Studios, Miami, Florida.
SKULL RING features 19 songs by the punk legend. Green Day, Sum 41, and the Stooges make guest appearances.
Japanese version includes 3 extra songs.
In terms of sonic fingerprints, 2003's SKULL RING is as close as solo Iggy Pop had come to the classic Stooges sound since the `70s. By this time, Iggy had reunited with the surviving Stooges, who back him on four cuts. Accordingly, those tracks are full of raw, punky fervor, but so are most of the other cuts here. In addition to his regular (non-Stooges) band, Iggy is backed variously by Green Day and Sum 41, who add a fresh punch to the old master's rock & roll drive. Peaches joins in for a couple of duets as well, which turn out to be some of the rawest, most agreeably unhinged moments on the album. SKULL RING would be Iggy's last solo release for some time, as he would soon launch himself into a full-scale Stooges reunion project.
Industry Reviews
...[On] SKULL RING, the 56-year-old wild child looks both forward and back....The obvious standouts are the four Stooges numbers...
CMJ (10/20/2003)
...This ring is brass - good, solid...
Magnet (11/01/2003)
4 stars out of 5 - ...Rest assured that Iggy's music is as powerfully singular as ever. SKULL RING throbs with ferocious intent...
Uncut (11/01/2003)
4 stars out of 5 - ...It confirms Iggy as a man who, after all these years, is still remarkably in love with his first love: rock'n'roll...
Mojo (10/01/2003)
Ranked #36 in Q's The 50 Best Albums of 2003 - Cartoonish, primal and primal...
Q (01/01/2004)
...When Iggy and the Ashetons buzz through [their tunes, it feels] all right... - Rating: B
Entertainment Weekly (11/07/2003)
3 stars out of 5 - ...He's still plenty capable of sounding like the original dead-end kid wriggling out of a straitjacket...[Iggy and the surviving Stooges] still sound like the blue-collar skull-crushers they once were...
Rolling Stone (11/27/2003)
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