Skull Ring is one of the best Iggy Pop albums in my opinion. It's amazing to think how old he was, when this album was made and to put so much energy and power into it is simply phenomenal. Every song on the album just bombs along with raw power! Superbabe, Motor Inn, Little Electric Chair ... Read review
Advantages: Rocks on full of power and enthusiasm with witty lyrics Disadvantages: Lyrics might be a bit repetitive on some of the choruses.
Skull Ring is one of the best Iggy Pop albums in my opinion. It's amazing to think how old he was, when this album was made and to put so much energy and power into it is simply phenomenal. Every song on the album just bombs along with raw power! Superbabe, Motor Inn, Little Electric Chair and Nervous Exhaustion are just legendary anthems. This is probably Iggy's heaviest album ever and he pulls it off easily, some of the songs don't have the same ... more
Skull Ring is one of the best Iggy Pop albums in my opinion. It's amazing to think how old he was, when this album was made and to put so much energy and power into it is simply phenomenal. Every song on the album just bombs along with raw power! Superbabe, Motor Inn, Little Electric Chair and Nervous Exhaustion are just legendary anthems. This is probably Iggy's heaviest album ever and he pulls it off easily, some of the songs don't have the same effect live as on the album, they definitely did a good job on the recording of the songs.
If you just want one Iggy Pop album, I would choose this or Raw Power everytime but this shouldn't undermine his other albums which are also great fun.
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Product details
Title
Skull Ring [PA]
Performer
Iggy Pop
Genre
Rock & Pop
Release Date
29/09/2003
Recomended Retail Price
16.99 GBP
Original Release Year
2003
Label / Distributor
Virgin / EMI Operations/CEVA Logistics
Pieces in Set
1
Studio / Live
Studio
Stereo
Stereo
Format
Performer
EAN
724358077421
Catalogue Number
CDVUS 246
Additional notes
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.
Album Reviews
Rolling Stone (11/27/03, p.93) - 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..." Entertainment Weekly (11/7/03, p.70) - "...When Iggy and the Ashetons buzz through [their tunes, it feels] all right..." - Rating: B Q (01/01/04, p.76) - Ranked #36 in Q's "The 50 Best Albums of 2003" - "Cartoonish, primal and primal..." Mojo (10/03, pp.106-7) - 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..." Uncut (11/03, p.118) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...Rest assured that Iggy's music is as powerfully singular as ever. SKULL RING throbs with ferocious intent..." Magnet (11/03, pp.88-9) - "...This ring is brass - good, solid..." CMJ (10/20/03, p.8) - "...[On] SKULL RING, the 56-year-old wild child looks both forward and back....The obvious standouts are the four Stooges numbers..."
Titles on disc 1
1.
Little Electric Chair
2.
Perverts In The Sun
3.
Skull Rings
4.
Superbabe
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.
Inferiority Complex
14.
Supermarket
15.
Till Wrong Feels Right
16.
Blood On My Cool
17.
Nervous Exhaustion (hidden track)
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