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Shatner to Record Another Album
s20451 writes "Slashdotters may remember Canadian actor William Shatner from such hit TV shows as T. J. Hooker and Rescue 911; he was also known to dabble in science fiction. Shatner released an album, The Transformed Man, in 1968. Intending the album to be taken seriously, it is now held up as one of the campiest recordings of all time, including the worst Beatles cover ever produced. Now a new album is in the works, featuring joint work with Ben Folds, Henry Rollins, and Brad Paisley. More on Ananova."
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Star Trek was originally supposed to be a show about a bunch of rabbis in a synagogue. He said to the producers, 'instead of a synagogue, how about if the show is in outer space?' They said, 'okay.' And that's pretty much how it happened.
"When we did TJ Hooker I used to tell my co-star Adrian Zmed that he should change his name, like I did - from William Zmed."
"I tell people I have a 34 inch waist, but it's really 35."
"How do I stay so healthy and boyishly handsome? It's simple. I drink the blood of young runaways."
[Compiled from Conan O'Brien]
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The only reason he stayed alive all these years was because he wore a Gold shirt and used the Red shirts as human shields! Bah!
"I am not a Starfleet commander, or T.J. Hooker. I don't live on Starship NCC-170...(some audience members say "one"), or own a phaser. And I don't know anybody named Bones, Sulu, or Spock. And no, I've never had green alien sex, though I'm sure it would be quite an evening. ("Pomp And Circumstances" begins playing) I speak English and French, NOT KLINGON! I drink Labatt's, not Romulan ale! And when someone says to me 'Live long and prosper', I seriously mean it when I say, 'Get a life'. My doctor's name is not McCoy, it's Ginsberg. And Tribbles were PUPPETS, not real animals. PUPPETS! And when I speak, I never, ever talk like every. Word. Is. Its. Own. Sentence. I live in California, but I was raised in Montreal. And yes, I've gone where no man has gone before, but I was in Mexico and her father gave me permission! My name is William Shatner, and I am Canadian!"
let this be one last, desparate effort to capture the Least Tasteful Slashdot Story of 2003 award.
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The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins sung by Leonard Nimoy. i am cold, so very cold...
I don't know. I saw Vanilla Ice live back in 2001 at Northern Lights in Clifton Park, NY, and he covered Strawberry Fields Forever. This was when he was in his nu-metal phase. Shatner's version was hilarious. the Iceman's was sad and only slightly hilarious.
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Take.Much more of this!
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OK, now I lent out my copy to a co-worker years and years ago and never got it back. Anyone who worked the call center at IBM in RTP, NC in '96-'98 who borrowed it... you want to return it? I've solely missed hearing his rendition of "Mister Tambourine Man" and "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" for several years now.
I wonder will he do any covers of songs by Shaka KHAAAAAAAAN!!!
-- I Am Not A Terrorist.
Comic book guy: "Stop right there. I have the only working phaser in existence. It was fired once, to prevent William Shatner from making another album."
What Affleck and J-Lo did for the silver screen, Shatner will do in the record buisness...
Neverhtheless, Shatner is a comedic genius, especially if he is being serious!
Nuclear war would really set back cable. - Ted Turner
See? You Kazaa addicts couldn't quit while you were ahead, could you? Now RIAA's fighting back, and it's fighting dirty. You think those lawsuits on 12-year-olds were their ultimate weapon? They were just the warm-up act.
A new album from William Shatner? What next, Leonard Nimoy following up his musical tribute to Bilbo Baggins with one to the Fellowship? An album of medical-related cover versions (Something's Got A Hold Of My Heart, etc) from DeForest Kelly?
Do you see what Star Trek-related madness you file swappers have unleashed upon us all?
"Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue." - David Brent, Wernham Hogg
That would be G. W. Bush, searching for the WMD and invading Shatner's house. Expect Kofi, France and Germany to go along this time.
Come to think of it, this would be like the Monty Python Joke Weapon sketch, wouldn't it?
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
If Pat Boone singing heavy metal didn't trigger it, then another Shatner album isn't going to hurt anybody (well, probably not permanently, anyway...)
I remember some years back listening to the Howard Stern show, and he played clips of several ST cast members doing song covers. The one I remember the most is Leonard Nimoy doing a cover of Johnny Cash's "I Walk The Line". Yeow.
You people have no one but yourselves to blame!
William Shatner recorded a couple of bad records, what, back in the Sixties? Longer ago than most Slashdotters have been alive. Since then he's done a couple of appearances on SNL and that thing with Fear of Pop, written some bad novels, some priceline commercials... not exactly a man constantly in the public eye, despite, perhaps, his best efforts to the contrary.
And yet, whenever a discussion of Shatner comes up, it seems everyone shouts "Yeah, Captain Kirk, sure, but did you know he recorded Mister Tambourine Man! Mister... Tambourine...Man!" (Doing the wildly exaggerated "Captain Kirk" impression which, despite watching a lot of classic Star Trek, I've never actually seen him do.)
The fact that people can't seem to stop talking about a musical recording he made four decades ago probably gave him the idea that that's what his "fans" wanted. Way to go, guys!
I see one of two things happening here:
1) It will be so bad it will finally kill off the immortal cachet generated by his original recordings back in the 60s.
2) It will be so bad it will make him immortal for another forty years.
Personally, I hope it's the latter. The world would be a more boring place without William Shatner.
Really. It is that bad. I'd listen to an endless loop of RMS quarter-toning "The Free Software Song" before I'd willingly listen to Shatner again, although I'd prefer Leonard Nimoy's "If I Had A Hammer" to either of them.
Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
I for one am stoked. I think I may be the only person that likes Transformed Man on it's own merits (although I do like the camp factor as well). I searched long and hard for one of the original LPs. I also have the Leonard Nimoy records. Now those are truly terrible. Nimoy makes Shatner sound like Andrea Bocelli.
The man is totally devoid of shame, sort of like a fat guy on the beach in a speedo.
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Considering the fact that he starred in one of the greatest all Esperanto movies ever created, I'd have thought that he'd mention the universal language as well.
Shatner: I'm...Slim Shady. Yes. I'm the real Shady. All you other Slim Shady's, are just imitating. So, won't the real Slim Shady ...please stand up ...please stand up ...please stand up.
Koenig: How can you do a spoken word version of a rap song?
Melllvar: He found a way.
Nothing can top Shatner rapping in "Free Enterprise"
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Spock, how many ways are there to be killed on this planet?
Approximately five, Captain.
Very good, Mr. Spock. You, myself, and five security guards will beam down. Um, Wadsworth, you and your men beam down ahead of us and we'll be down in a minute.
You are in error. No-one is screaming. Thank you for your cooperation.
Wait till RIAA uses this as a metric for record sales.
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Is there any limit to what those evil Canadians will do? My guess is no. At least they gave us Jim Carey, wait....
I saw the video for that a few months ago, and your comment made me want to see it again, so... here it is, for posterity:
Leonard Nimoy's "The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins"
Check it out if you have not seen it before... it's very strange. Spock dancing around singing about Bilbo, surrounded by shrugging girls in colored sweatshirts with giant weird buttons on them. Couldn't see what most of them said, but one says "What's a Hobbit?" and another is "Frodo Lives!"... and one on some girl's back was something about Leonard Nimoy in the U.N. Also, at the very end Leonard puts one on that says "What's a Leonard Nimoy?"
Trippy.
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Oh my god! It's another sign of the apocalypse! We're doomed!!!!
I know the apocalypse is coming. The whole world is upside-down. The best rapper is white, the best golfer is black, and Saddam Hussein is a pussy in real life (as opposed to on iraqi tv)!
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