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Skull Ring: contains four Iggy Pop and the Stooges compositions which is the first new music in 30 ye ars from Iggy Pop and his original bandmates; Ron Asheton & Scott Asheton of the Stooges. Skull Ring also features collaborations with Green Day, Peach es and Iggy with his band, the Trolls.Reviews:
''Skull Ring'' is a 2003 album by Iggy Pop with backing collaborations by bands including The Stooges, The Trolls, Green Day, Sum 41, and Peaches.
The performers on most of the tracks on the album are The Trolls, Iggy's backing band from the Beat 'Em Up era, although members of his original band The Stooges also appear on some of the tracks.
One single, "Little Know It All," was released from the album and featured Sum 41. A music video for the song received significant airplay. - Wikipedia
It's hard to decide which aspect of Iggy Pop's latest display of raw power to get excited about first. Is it Skull Ring's team-up with Canadian youngsters Sum 41 on the album's first single, "Little Know It All"? Or the two songs each with Green Day and with rapper Peaches? Then there's the trump card-four songs that reunite Pop with Ron and Scott Asheton, his erstwhile partners in the seminal Stooges, marking the first time the trio has created music together since 1973's (moment of silence) Raw Power. All of this makes Skull Ring a passel of Pop that keeps your head spinning and eardrums pounding, with enough terrific moments to mitigate the few moments of chaff that pad the 17-track album. The Stooges' four songs find Pop and the Ashetons in fine form three decades later, charging through the lo-fi grit of "Little Electric Chair" and "Loser," the Bowie-with-balls dynamics of "Dead Rock Star" and the Peter Gunn-style stomp of "Skull Rings." Pop and Green Day make a fine pairing on "Private Hell," which loosely recalls 1977's "The Passenger," and the crackling "Supermarket," while "Little Know It All" brings a complementary Pop edge to Sum 41's radio-friendly brand of energetic punk. His teaming with Peaches works on the 2:08 crank of "Rock Show," but "Motor Inn," like the lumbering "Inferiority Complex," cries for some judicious editing. But the best news on Skull Ring is that all these guests enhance rather than define the album; Pop is still a force on his own, as evidenced by blazing tracks such as "Perverts in the Sun," "Whatever," "Blood on My Cool" and "Nervous Exhaustion"-all recorded with his regular band, the Trolls-as well as "Till Wrong Feels Right," a stripped-down change of pace which shows that in Pop's hands, raw can be powerful when it's quiet, too.
