IGGY POP - SKULL RING - 4/5

One of the key rules of rock & roll is there are some artists you can never count out — no matter how many lame records they may make, no matter how misguided their career direction might seem, they always hold the promise that they'll jump back in the loop and deliver the goods again. Iggy Pop delivered a solid one-two punch (for the first time in a while) with Brick by Brick and American Caesar in 1990 and 1993, but after ten years and three major duds in a row (the uninspired Naughty Little Doggie and the strikingly faulty Avenue B and Beat 'Em Up), you just had to wonder if maybe the World's Forgotten Boy had finally lost the magic touch for good. Of course, Iggy's career had always offered plenty of opportunities for such thinking, and just as he had in the past, Iggy came back to shut down the disbelievers with a solid slice of prime rock & roll called Skull Ring. The big news is that, on four cuts, Skull Ring marks Pop's first studio collaboration with the Stooges since Raw Power in 1973, and thankfully Ron Asheton's gloriously primal guitar riffs sound as brilliant as ever, and mix with Iggy's bestial wail like gin and tonic; if "Little Electric Chair" and "Skull Ring" don't quite pick up where Fun House left off, they make it clear the monster that is the Stooges can still shake the Earth when they have a notion. If the rest of Skull Ring doesn't quite reach the same level of solar plexus impact as the Stooges cuts, Iggy flies high enough on the rock juice that this set blasts like an M-80 from start to finish; Iggy's road band, the Trolls, redeem themselves after their cringe-worthy debut on Beat 'Em Up, electro-punk diva Peaches proves she's just libidinous enough to keep up with Iggy (and they goad one another into truly glorious rudeness), Green Day back the godfather of punk with spunk, enthusiasm, and lots of energy, and even Sum 41 give as good as they get (which is a lot more than you might expect from them). Skull Ring doesn't always capture Iggy at his best as a lyricist, but here what he says isn't half as important as how he says it, and he hasn't sounded this right — and had music this potent backing him up — in a decade, and the result is a big, sweaty, high-octane rock & roll session from a guy who practically defined the form. Like I said, you can't ever count Iggy out, and Skull Ring demonstrates why.

from [url]www.allmusic.com[/url]

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That makes me laugh.

come on millwall!!!

Football is stupid

What kind of football?

American football.

Non-American football rules.

i hate a lot of sports including football

i guess its cuz im fat and lazy and all i do is play my bass

i was talking about 'soccer'

Man U won 3-0

No surprise there then

Soccer is lame.
Rugby is fun.

Rugger bugger

To bad Raisethefist.com shut down, aye SketchyJoe?

I don't know what you're talking about?

Your moms hawt, thats what i'm talking about

I like it when it rains.

I tried masturbating in the shower but I've never done it before so it felt uncomfortable and I couldn't ejaculate.

Water is a **** lubricant. That's why shower masturbation sucks.

I was bored so I found the amount of people who posted in the Songs thread that reached 4,000 posts.

rancidpunk 337
kill the swindle 317
EonBlueApcolyps 236
Vietnow 207
AndreTheHyena 189
skatemaster 163
UnknownSoldier 150
-El Hefe- 143
atomic_skin 130
Kaplunk 98
boredom 89
DiEHArD715 79
Sk8SkaNJ 77
RaVen_Bassist 75
sketchyjoe 66
firecrackercheese 65
ThePUnxGoOI!! 62
refuse amen 57
J_Atomic 50
dkfrustrators 49
TigerArmy 47
DFelon204409 45
exploited soup 44
Sick Spirit 43
Catch22man 43
sheenaisapunkrocker 43
superskankinactionhero 42
OPERATIONrancid 42
DrGolovaCroxby 38
ramonesrule 38
thewalrus81 38
DiZtOrTiOn 37
NewKindofArmy03 36
prBAND88 35
warrenpeace 31
Captain_Sensible 31
fu-CKY-ou123 29
marie 29
RHCPdave 28
Clash_City_Rocker 26
JunkieWithAMonkey 24
Ve Das 24
DK44 24
rancidkennedy138 23
Silvermedalmafia 23
Drunk Hobo 21
the_person_u_least_expect 21
Zppln 21
ramones_fkin rock 19
DK_Oi 19
Agnostic Back 19
mole 18
fatmatt51 17
seanix01 17
packerboarding21 16
fugazi_punk 15
psychowaffle 15
marsvolta 14
police story 13
ihatecelebrities 12
The Raz 12
SKA_GUITARist 12
Asselta 12
travis 12
londoncalling 12
mi_nombre 11
Deepsoul 11
DenBez 10

man some people have more posts in that forum than i have overall

[QUOTE=ihatecelebrities]I tried masturbating in the shower but I've never done it before so it felt uncomfortable and I couldn't ejaculate.[/QUOTE]

:lol: :lol: :lol:

Someone should ressurect that thread. It kicked arse. And since it's around a month old you won't get banned for bumping it as the rules only say bringing back threads much over a month to 6 weeks is not allowed.

it was spammed to death on purpose. if it was brought back, it would just be spammed again.

I must say I did my fair share of spamming in that thread

[QUOTE=NewKindofArmy03]it was spammed to death on purpose. if it was brought back, it would just be spammed again.[/QUOTE]
Is that such a bad thing?

I just noticed the Punk forum has passed 300,000 posts. We're catching Rock&Metal with our incessant spamming.

i spammed the hell out of that thread. probably 200+ posts of pure spam..oh how i hated it.

Just another 1500 posts in this thread to overtake the songs thread.

At the end of a song by xCasey Jonesx there is a clip of Family Guy, it was genius.

I'm starting a new band called Watergun Puberty Driveby and we are going to kick a[color=white]s[/color]s.
It's either that name or the Intelectual P[color=white]e[/color]nises.

Um shouldn't it be Intelectual Peni?

I love you big pete

[QUOTE=ihatecelebrities]Um shouldn't it be Intelectual Peni?[/QUOTE]

How about the Intellectual Cocks? No bothersome plurals!

I don't think anyone should bring back the Songs thread. I hate those threads.

Yea, and Watergun Puberty Driveby sounds weird for a band name. Explain.

[QUOTE=JmE]I don't think anyone should bring back the Songs thread. I hate those threads.

Yea, and Watergun Puberty Driveby sounds weird for a band name. Explain.[/QUOTE]

They all came up with the biggest words they could think of.

Am I the only one who uses White as the forum skin? Because whenever I see people trick the censor they use white font. On the White forum skin the font is black...

I use the grey skin, heh I suppose you could use the size to pass the filter, but I forget what number is standard size.

Besides aslong as you can read it, it's fine.

i use the green one. i didnt even notice i could change the colors until 2 days ago. but im used to the green one, so im keeping it

I use white for the simple fact that it makes my avatar look much sexier than any other color. It is all that matters.

Apparently i'm using blue green.