Iggy Pop
Skull Ring

THE REVIEW

56 years old is an age when a normal person usually begins to think about old age and settle down quietly in anticipation of serenely spending the rest of their years. But Iggy Pop is not a normal person, he had already proven that.

The CD released in 2003 is a genuine exercise of energy and pure adrenaline, where the only calm piece is "Til Wrong Feels Right", an acoustic track that Iggy plays suavely towards the end of the album, with just his acoustic guitar.
The rest is one electric jolt after another, not a moment of fatigue, not a moment to breathe.
Because Iggy is like that, take it or leave it.
Remarkably, the decision to reunite the Stooges for four (five? Try listening to the track strangely relegated to "ghost track" and see if you don't have the well-founded suspicion that they're there too) incredibly raw songs; the sound seems the same as "Raw Power" and even Iggy's voice hasn't lost an ounce of that intensity.
The other bands accompanying the Iguana in this new sonic earthquake are the Trolls in five tracks, the Green Day in two songs (notably "Private Hell"), Sum 41 in the most catchy and commercial track of the collection, "Little Know It All", which is indeed the single, Peaches in the least convincing track of all, "Rock Show", and Feedom in "Motor "nn".

I am very happy that Mr. James Jewell Osterberg has learned good manners in private life and no longer indulges in those excesses that made Iggy Pop famous, but I am equally happy that Iggy Pop hasn't learned good manners, both in records and on stage he is still and always THE IGUANA!