Dear Iggy Pop: stop releasing records

Even street-walking cheetahs with hearts full of napalm get old and desperate to remain relevant. If it wasn't cringe-worthy enough to hear Iggy Pop's 1977 ode to heroin addiction "Lust for Life" used in a Royal Caribbean commercial, perhaps his new album (which features collaborations with Green Day and Sum 41) will succeed at invalidating all of Pop's past credibility, something he's been trying to do since he sang "Candy" with B-52's singer Kate Pierson in 1990.\nIt shouldn't be this way. This is the first Iggy Pop album to feature his former Stooges band mates Scotty and Ron Asheton since the last Stooges album in 1973. \nWhat could have been a comeback fails miserably. The collaboration tracks wind up sounding like the collaborators with Iggy's guitar-mud style seeming faded, rehashed and uninspired. "Here Comes the Summer" is most likely the only tolerable track for those who won't gloss over this album's shortcomings because "Iggy was so hardcore in the '70s." Sure, Iggy used to roll in broken glass on stage until he was blood-soaked (and he liked it), but that doesn't save Skull Ring.\nRemember how Neil Young said "it is better to burn out than to fade away?" See what he meant?