Track Listing
1. Little Electric Chair
2. Perverts in the Sun
3. Skull Ring
4. Superblade
5. Loser
6. Private Hell
7. Little Know It All
8. Whatever
9. Dead Rock Star
10. Rock Show
11. Here Comes the Summer
12. Motor Inn
13. Inferiroty Complex
14. Supermarket
15. Til Wrong Feels Right
16. Blood on Your Cool
| Details | | Contributing Artists: | Green Day, Peaches, Sum 41, The Stooges | | Distributor: | Phantom Import Distributi | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
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 16 recordings from punk legend Iggy Pop. The album includes guest appearances by The Trolls, The Stooges, and Sum 41, among others.
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.
Editorial 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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