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..." 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..." Mojo (Publisher)
(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..." | 
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