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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."
How many people here like Justin Timberlake? I am 13/f/arizona and I think Justin's hot.
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."
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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!"
Oh my god! It's another sign of the apocalypse! We're doomed!!!!
Play this album across all hailing frequencies and it will rebuff any attack. The enemy ships won't be able to leave fast enough. ;)
Phoenix
This story was posted under the "Music" category. Clearly this is not going to qualify as "music" by any sane standard. I hereby request that Slashdot create a "Sign of the Apocalypse" category for any story that involves William Shatner "singing."
The logo for the "Sign of the Apocalypse" should obviously be a tambourine, man.
"Destroy science and religion. Science would re-emerge exactly the same; but not religion." - Penn Jillette, paraphrased
let this be one last, desparate effort to capture the Least Tasteful Slashdot Story of 2003 award.
Someone you trust is one of us.
Yeah. The 4th link in the article. Hardly insightful.
Nah, you're thinking of Robert Stack.
CAn'T CompreHend SARcaSm?
I've often thought he was self centered, but how blind do you have to be not to see this as a bad venture?
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
I think you are the first to ever notice that.
Congratulations.
I've had enough abrasive sigs. Kittens are cute and fuzzy.
The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins sung by Leonard Nimoy. i am cold, so very cold...
" Now a new album is in the works, featuring joint work with Ben Folds, Henry Rollins, and Brad Paisley. More on Ananova."
Did the editors check the links?
How is the Ananova article "more" than the CBC one?
The surprise isn't how often we make bad choices; the surprise is how seldom they defeat us.
Shatner already did a couple new songs with Ben Folds on Ben's solo "Fear of Pop" release -- which, despite my love of Ben's other work, remains a real clunker of an album. And the Shatner songs were among the more interesting, if I recall correctly. (Can you tell that I didn't play it more than twice?)
Is this story classified as "News for Nerds" or is it "Stuff that matters"?
NNNOOOOoooooOOOOooooOOOOOO!!!!! ANYTHING but Shatner singing again!!
"Klaatu, verada, necktie!" -Ash
I dunno but you know how Rollins shouts. Well, expect him to run screaming from the studio.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Cheesy, or over the top.
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.
I.
Cant.
Take.Much more of this!
Apocalypse .. imminent! Must .. warn .. the world! Somehow .. life .. being drained .. from my body!
A AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA *gasp* AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!
KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
...to do a duet with Ol' Yellow Eyes?
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Star Wars? Star Gate?
I've! Got! To! Buy! This! Album!
</ bad Shatner impression >
In Soviet Russia, Chuck Norris will still kick your ass.
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.
...perhaps he might no be far behind with another of his very successful albums.
Hope against all logic.
Me physicist. Me make rockets.
I wonder will he do any covers of songs by Shaka KHAAAAAAAAN!!!
-- I Am Not A Terrorist.
MIS-ter...tam-bo-RINE MAN!!!!
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
on a BOAT!
on a RIVER!!
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and marmaLADE SKIES!!!!
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From the article:
Shatner has made a living in recent years by spoofing his own overdramatic acting style.
Did you see him on Conan a couple years ago, dancing and worshipping O'Brien? He was making such a fool of himself Conan couldn't get a single slam in.
He's ridiculous... like a fox.
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
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
just about every "cast recording aside from nichelle nicoles and the girl who played the dabo girl who married Nom from ST DS9 who actually are wonderful singers and sang backup for a lot of other singers after their respective shows ends.
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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...)
That would that would be in addition to Fear of Pop that he did with Ben Folds back in 1998. Despite the reviews that you see online, I think this is a gem... and it is available on vinyl to boot.
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I guess I'll add it my collection, which includes these records.
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Dammit Jim! I'm a doctor, not a lounge singer!
The bigotry of the nonbeliever is for me nearly as funny as the bigotry of the believer. - Albert Einstein
I'm a captain, not a singer!
- James Tiberias Kirk
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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.
with Leonard Nimoy... perhaps the Legend of Bilbo Baggins will live on into the coming centuries. But please let it be gone by the time Picard begins telling Number 1 where to go Number 1, I order you to go Number 2. hu hu hu
Ben Folds did a spoken-word album with Shatner on the track "In Love"... the Conan appearance was AWESOME. Just imagine Shatner reciting these lyrics:
At puberty, I was sworn to secrecy
By the international brotherhood of lying, fickle males
I can't tell you anything
And I can't commit!
You're right!
I can't commit... to you.
I'm on a road shaped like a figure eight; I'm going nowhere but I'm guaranteed to be late.
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?
This isn't the first time that Shatner has worked with Ben Folds. He performs a great spoken word track on Folds' side project album, "Fear of Pop: Volume 1".
I hope he does a cover of Lenard Nemoy's "The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins"
It is by the juice of the coffee bean that thoughts acquire speed, the teeth acquire stains. The stains become a warning
He shows up in bit parts in movies. He was in Bad Boys II, for example.
i'd hit it so hard, if you pulled me out you'd be the king of britain [bash.org]
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.
What about Leonard Nemoy's hobbit song about Bilbo Baggins? I saw the music video of that about a year ago and almost wet myself I laughed so hard.
"To hope's end I rode and to heart's breaking: Now for wrath, now for ruin and a red nightfall!"
Ohhh, that one always gets a laugh out of me, even though it's posted on every Lord of the Rings/Star Trek Slashdot thread. You ever wonder what goes through somebody's head when they agree to record something like that? I guess back then they didn't realize it would end up immortalized on the Internet, passed around for generations as a monument to human stupidity.
Scotty... my ears are hurting...
>Someone obviously hasn't heard Tiny Tim's
>rendition of "Hey Jude"!
Sure, but even that is not as bad as Shatner's "Lucy". Neither is as bad as Nimoy's "Mr. Tambourine Man". And NOTHING compares to "Bilbo... Bilbo Baggins... only three feet tall...." Gah.
-fb Everything not expressly forbidden is now mandatory.
The man is totally devoid of shame, sort of like a fat guy on the beach in a speedo.
It is by the juice of the coffee bean that thoughts acquire speed, the teeth acquire stains. The stains become a warning
I watched this a while back, when the Fellowship movie came out. Call me crazy (and yeah, you will by the time I'm done here), but I actually find that video kind of charming in its own stupid, campy way.
I mean, it's bad -- really terrible -- anyone talking about Jackson's interpretation of LotR making Tolkien roll over in his grave really ought to have a gander at this.
But I find a kind of endearing naivete in the way this is put together... "Let's have Leonard Nimoy sing a song about Bilbo Baggins, and put him in a junkyard with a bunch of teenaged girls... and here at the part where he's describing all these battles and adventures, let's just have the kids throw some crap up in the air. That's kind of like re-enacting a battle. Here, take this piece of plastic junk, that looks like a ring... have Leonard toss that around awhile. Yeah, yeah."
And then someone put money into it (granted, not much). And produced it. And shot it. And put it on the air.
If they made something like this today (shudder), it would be awash in irony and campy winks to the audience. I think whomever made this genuinely thought it would be entertaining as presented... which, again, is so innocent I think it's great.
The entertainment media we get these days is, for the most part, slickly produced and well-budgeted, maybe even well-written if you're lucky. This dippy little movie is none of these and still gives it all it's got.
Yeah, I know, I'm weird.
dec 11-2003
I have been in Nashville for a little over a week playing with William Shatner---that guy is amazing...everyday has been a different lineup of people---the main core is Ben Folds-Sebastian Steinberg-John Painter-and me but last night was surreal--I played a improv drum solo to Shatner and Henry Rollins ranting and Adrian Belew freaking on his guitar--wow! a couple of days ago it was Joe Jackson and the group doing some Jazzy improvs to Shatners words-----reality is stranger than fiction---bye---Matt C
There's also an archived Shatner interview at The Onion AV Club where he briefly touches on the original recording he did and why he approached it in that particular fashion.
Dear Lord NOOOoooooooooo! Turn it OFF me Ears are starting to bleed !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Will this include his version of "The Real Slim Shady" done as spoken word? He sang this on the Star Trek episode of Futurama shown on CartoonNetwork last week. Far superior to Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds...
Hey, *WAY* cool, I say!
Was the first one any good?
Yeah, they're all bad. I have a strong tolerance for annoying sounds from listening to myself try to play a piano for so many years and for having three kids under the age of four. That's how I can get away with cranking "Shatner-LSD(WD).mp3" at work when I want to annoy my coworkers without causing myself too much pain.
Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
Shatner's "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", "Mr. Tamborine Man", and "Rocket Man" are some of the funniest things I have ever heard in my life. I was literally hurting from laughter when I heard these for the first time.
The video that goes with Rocket Man (from some 70's Sci Fi awards show) is even better. I felt bad for Bernie Taupin having to introduce that performance. My aunt told me that she saw Shatner on TV performing Mr. Tambourine Man. Apparently, he was hiding behind boxes or something "dramatic" like that. I would love to see that if anyobody has it on tape.
If I use the DaVinci Code correctly, this is the final event predicted by the Bible before Armageddon.
Which is translated as the elusive Red Sox-Cubs World Series.
Mod Karma -1: I sed bad wurds. If I cep my mouf shut, I wud be at riyses.
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.
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I have it, and it is for die-hards only. Most of the 2 lp offering his Billiam talking about himself. Not as funny as Transformed man or "In Love"
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
Oh boy. Thermian Idol promises to be a hoot!
"Derp de derp."
Nothing can top Shatner rapping in "Free Enterprise"
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And it's 4 months till April. Come on, what are we going to do for April Fool's day now???
It's either on the beat or off the beat, it's that easy.
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Wait till RIAA uses this as a metric for record sales.
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My life will be complete when I can finally get this next Shatner album..
</snicker>
they wish to torture everybody?
Or would it be that the labels are losing sales and are desperate?
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
Now, when Nimoy releases a new record as well, then we can start worrying. You don't know the meaning of 'shock and awe' 'til you've heard the whole damn album that 'The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins' comes from. "The Two Sides of Leonard Nimoy," Side One 'Mr. Spock' and Side Two 'Leonard Nimoy.' I mean, daaaaaaaaaaaaaamn... o.o
There's no wrong way, to eat a Rhesus...
Is there any limit to what those evil Canadians will do? My guess is no. At least they gave us Jim Carey, wait....
I think we would all like to see more Shatner Star Trek. Either in a starring role or as a director. There is just something TNG-DS9-Voy, ect are just missing from TOS.
I want my captain to be a womanizing manwhore fucking green aliens around the universe. Not some pansy bald headed geriatric who flys around with pinochio and Klingons that have butts on their forheads (we never did find out WHY Klingons had such a drastic change in appearance, other than worf saying "It's something we don't like to talk about")
I could go on and on about what I don't like about the new ST stuff, like Janeway from Voyager, why does she sound like she smokes 2 packs a day, yet we never see her light up? Or why does scott bakula have a dog on enterprise? How come Cisco never puts the beat down on that Ferengi bar he KNOWS would sell out the station for a few bars of gold pressed latinum?
Please....For the love of....God.... Bring us back our captain. With the cost of special effects so cheap these days, i'm sure something really cool could be produced for less than they spend on these new series.
In the last entry of his three-part autobiography (GET A LIFE), he explains that his ST:TOS delivery was a combination of influences, one being a play he was in years before that had everyone practically asleep every show. Bill said that he decided to turn everything up a notch to see what would happen. So, "I'd love some coffee" became "I'd LOVE...some COFFEE!" and right away, people were sitting up straight in their seats because the intensity was contagious. As for the...famouspause, he said that that was caused in part by dealing with the mind-numbing dialogue and the sheer volume of it they had to memorize every week, so, when you...hear...oneofthosepauses, you know that that's actually Bill trying to come up with his line.
I highly recommend both the STAR TREK MEMORIES books and GET A LIFE because it gives you an idea of where the actors' heads were at at the time the series was being made. Bill also tells some fascinating stories about things that have happened in more recent years related to the show.
"Stop right there! I have here the only working phaser ever built. It was fired only once, to keep William Shatner from making another album."
That's a pretty tough one, really. I've heard both, and they're both pretty bad. I think Shatner's is worse by a very narrow margin, but Tiny Tim's version of Stairway to Heaven (same album), or the original song Fourteen (also same album) are known to cause spontaneous abortions in cattle. May be harmful to children. Be that as it may, Fourteen ranks far above Shatner's body of work as the second worst song I have ever heard. YMMV, of course.
-1, "1337" speak
Please....God.....No!
Yes he is, He also had a solo career, but later on again joined iron maiden.
for the last time people, I am "frodo from middle eaRTH", not "middle eaST".
Point your browser here. Scroll down a little bit (if necessary) and look for "lovetrek.wav".
Enjoy.
I have something in common with Stephen Hawking...
Now THIS is an album I would be willing to spend money on - RIAA take note!
Free Enterprise. It is a surprisingly good (really!) film about just the kinds of folks who read Slashdot. While not a spoof on Star Trek, it nevertheless has fun with it -- and even at Mr. Shatner's expense. And, yes, he plays himself. It's a heapload of fun -- and the DVD has some hysterical "special features." Get it.
The Borg are traveling back in time to stop this. So are Starfleet and the Romulans. It is the first joint effort between all three civalizations.
Table-ized A.I.
It's funny enough when you read it, but it's much better when you hear it. Particularly when he comes to the "Every. Word. Is. Its. Own. Sentence." bit. Reading it is kinda like reading a transcript of a Monthy Python sketch. Funny enough, but....
Don't have a link I'm afraid, not even sure I have the clip anymore. Try google, or P2P net of choice. I'm sure you'll find it.
Kjella
Live today, because you never know what tomorrow brings
My favorite Star Trek line, while "Roc" (played by the guy who did Lurch from The Addams Family) is strangling the hell out of Capt. Kirk.
He squeezes Kirk's neck harder with each word until it looks like it's going to pop right off his neck.
It's the small things in life...
The revolution will NOT be televised.
a moving elegy to his last wife that he brutually drowned. He makes Robert Blake look laid back by comparison!
Oh.. my... GOD... I've justgot to... find... my... earplugs...
Learn something new.
Oh, you said "interview." Sorry.
Why do I have this? I don't smoke.
[...]who married Nom from ST DS9[...] ... Must ... Resist ...
Gah!
Can't do it; its 'Rom' you nincompoop!
Animaniacs, which probably had the highest concentraion of Star Trek refences of any animation exept for the Simpson, did a wonderful episode called 'Karaoke-Dokie'. It was one of the best parodies of Shanter and Nimoy, rendering both in full Star Trek style. In it Willie Slakmer and Lenny Neeboy present their particular brand of music. Absolutely hilarious.
"She's a scientist and a lesbian. She's not going to let it slide." Orphan Black
According to the official website of Incubus (Shatner's 1965 Esperanto masterpiece) :
Co-star Ann Atmar committed suicide in 1965 shortly after appearing in Incubus.
Not that this should in any way be taken as a commentary on Mr. Shatner's thespian abilities, but when your co-stars feel compelled to off themselves before the movie is even released...
Nah, Shatner couldn't have been that bad. Or... could... he...?
I agree, on the whole it isn't painfully Shatner bad.
What is funny isn't Nimoy's singing but what the jerking teenagers are doing. If you removed them and just had Leonard sitting in various poses on that landscape you'd have something like a Raffi video. Very watchable for the kiddies for whom this was most likely intended. (Actually, where *did* this come from?)
If you don't want to repeat the past, stop living in it.
Damn!
And I used to think Canada was cool...
My hyperlinks aren't worth the paper they're printed on.
>Nope. "Mr. Tambourine Man" was Shatner as well.
I had almost put it out of my mind enough to forget this. *Almost.*
-fb Everything not expressly forbidden is now mandatory.
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. It was likewise campy.
So I punched him in the gut, grabbed the microphone, and won the crowd over with a rousing rendition of "Enjoy The Silence" or some other early-'90s alternative song.
Man, I wish I hadn't grown up so close to Branson.
Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
There is ANOTHER William Shatner album called "Capitain of the Ship". It features Mr. Shatner on the cover holding an upside-down tripod and looking very, well, Shatnery. You can find out more here.
Scary...very...scary...
I don't think I could ever be high enough to handle that video
It is by the juice of the coffee bean that thoughts acquire speed, the teeth acquire stains. The stains become a warning
At my old job, the creative services folk had a tape (they duped me a copy) of Shat's defining moment in bad perfomance, the rarely seen (thank god) "Rocket Man" performance at a Science Fiction Awards show (introduced by Bernie Taupin and Karen Black!). As Leonard Pinth Garnell would say "Really bad, bad art" We would watch the tape every few months whenever we needed a surreal lift, and then watch the brilliant satire of Shat's Rocket Man performed by Chris Elliot on Letterman ("zero hour, oh, I don't know, must have been around 9 am or so..")
If you haven't heard "Transformed Man" go grab a ball of foil and chew on it till it hits your fillings, its a much less painful thing to do...
Actually, the counterculture that 'LOTR' first thrived in was kind of sappy, naive, and completely non-ironic. So the Nimoy video seems to kind of fit in that culture pretty well. The fact that it's aged so badly is more a sign of how far we've fallen since. I look at the covers of my old Tolkein Trilogy, the 1960's paperback edition, and look at the bookstore at the bombastic 'piece of Classic art' bullshit that the trilogy is packaged in now, and I have to wonder if it's anything that Tolkein would have wanted. I mean, sure, he probably would have no problem with his descendents benefitting from his work, he'd want that. But the outright whoring that goes on...
Too much of what passes for 'current' now is blatant repackaging of the goodness from the past (all the Star Trek/Star Wars/Casper, etc. etc. dreck that gets remade over and over and over and over again) Seems like we're not capable of moving on.
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Try google, or P2P net of choice. I'm sure you'll find it.
A quick Googling yields this.
Of course, everything I know about Canada, I learned from South Park.
(Also, Free Enterprise was awesome! Made me cringe a lot, but mainly from self-recognition.)
Carthago delenda est!
I don't know... that 45-minute hippie rant that Nimoy puts in the middle of Hammer makes me want to punch him in the face.
Boobies never hurt anyone. - Sherry Glaser.
It might not improve but it's funny as hell
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Guy 1: So what's your idea?
Shatner: A musical version of Julius Ceaser. The complete text, like Branaugh did with Hamlet. I'd play all the parts myself, but Calpernia. I thought we could get Sharon Stone for that.
Guy 2: She could be hard to get.
Shatner: At any rate, I've got the thing all worked out, and I've got this great drummer man,
Guy 2: If you play all the parts, won't you have to stab yourself in the back?
Shatner: Wouldn't be the first time.
This really is a great movie. It's hilarious, and the jabs taken against star-wars/movie geeks are really done with a loving stab.
"Inattention makes clowns of us all" -Bean
My brothers and I got this when we were just kids. Thought it was gonna be another comedy album. Oh, wait....okay.
He was also the host of the US version of Iron Chef!
sorry was a huge fan of that show.... still holding out for another season of TOS lol like THAT will ever happen
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Don't be so sure. I once heard a Muzak version of "A Day in the Life". I hadn't thought it was possible. After hearing it, I knew it wasn't possible.
And the brethren went away edified.
I'd love to hear Shatner sing the 'Vegas' version of Rollins' Liar.
This may be the first new CD I've bought in YEARS!
Right or wrong, you just gotta luv Shatner!
"...Well, there's egg and bacon; egg sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg bacon and spam; egg bacon sausage and spam..."
Well, I bought:
Spaced Out - The Very Best of William Shatner & Leonard Nimoy
1. King Henry the Fifth - William Shatner
2. Elegy for the Brave - William Shatner
3. Highly Illogical
4. If I Had a Hammer
5. Mr. Tambourine Man - William Shatner
6. Where Is Love
7. Music to Watch Space Girls By
8. It Was a Very Good Year - William Shatner
9. Ruby Don't Take Your Love to Town
10. Hamlet - William Shatner
11. Visit to a Sad Planet
12. Abraham, Martin and John
13. Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds - William Shatner
14. If I Was a Carpenter
15. How Insensitive - William Shatner
16. I'd Love Making Love to You
17. Put a Little Love in Your Heart
18. Sunny
19. Gentle on My Mind
20. I Walk the Line
21. Ballad of Bilbo Baggins
22. Everybody's Talkin'
23. Both Sides Now
24. Spock Thoughts
Interesting to say the least. I'll buy Shatner's new one when it comes out.
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The Twilight Zone, "Nick of Time", written by Dr. Mality.
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Shatner is absolutely intense, brilliant and believable!
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"My God, it's worse than I thought!"
(Actually, it was Shatner's character talking about Striker's album-"400 Polka Favorites", I think-but the quote fits.)
--RJ
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"Would it kill you to put down the toilet seat?" -- Maya Angelou
Shatner gives this speech to scifi loser-geeks in the Star Trek Convention parody episode 222 of Saturday Night Live. Considered one of the more memorable skits in SNL's history.
Here is an obscure movie with Nimoy as an alien zombie! I would really like to see Radar men some day. Leonard also appeared in several episodes of Bonanza
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I wanna get this baby for my collection of horrible album covers!
Of course, Shatner doesn't have a hook....
I have here the only phaser ever built! It was fired only once, to keep William Shatner from making another album!
Looks as though we need more phasers...
He was also on this little show that nobody likely ever heard of... Star Trek. I doubt any /.er knows what that is.
Perhaps Shatner didn't do as well with his Priceline stock as he thought, and needs to make a little more money?
While I agree his solo album is one of the worst things ever produced on vinyl, his work with Ben Folds in Fear of Pop was brilliant.
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It's pretty clear that The Transformed Man was recorded with a lot of joint work.
Or maybe bong work.
When just a sprout, I had a copy of Two Sides of Leonard Nimoy. The wierd part is that I distinctly remember my copy containing the track Twinkle, twinkle little Earth, and also remember noticing that after 'Bilbo Baggins' got to be something of a hit, later pressings of 'Two Sides' no longer had that track.
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More happened in TOS in the first 2 minutes of an episdoe than an entire _season_ of Voyager. "Enterprise" is unwatchable--the cheesy opening music will set dogs baying--I see Justin Timberlake doing a remake. I want Capt. Kirk back. I want a plot. I want action. I don't want some psychobabble about guiding spirits; I don't want borg; I don't want Whoopi Freaking Goldberg.
I want Star Trek back. Is that too much to ask?
I agree wholeheartedly.
Brent Spiner's albums have been out for quite a while and actually aren't half bad.
According to his this website (scroll down to 11 December), Adrian Belew, best known for being the King Crimson frontman since 1981's Discipline, will play lead guitar on Shatner's new album.
Sounds good to me !
Will there be a duet with Leonard Nimoy?
In the USA, we like stuff watered down, like beer, television, and freedom.
Where's Yoko Ono when you need her?
it was called Nemesis, and it bombed hard. The original Star Trek was pure, cheesy Lensman-style space opera. Trouble is, pure space opera is a niche within a niche market, and niche market's don't fly in America. After all, why sell to an audience of 100,000 when you can pander to a million? I'm still trying to figure out who Nemesis got made, but it doesn't surprise me it more or less killed the franchise.
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Shattner should sell his soul to the Robot Devil so that he can sing better.
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i'm surpised that no-one brought up tekwar. It was a sci-fi series authored by William Shatner and revolved around these druglords that dealt in a deadly mega-virus called Tek.
They apparantly even had a TV thingy on Tekwar starring Shatner's daughter
Though, I must confess, I never read or saw tekwar, I played Tekwar. It was a game made using a highly modified Build (duke3d)engine.. and was gr8 fun playing.. gunfire was exchanged in banks, subways, offices, and even on top of moving vehicles like trucks and boats.... And to think his music is more popular!!
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the good news is that it won't air on the radio or MTV.
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(Also....the Shatner impressions on the Simpsons, Futurama, and Family Guy comes to mind...hehehe.... "...In the......city....of.......L.A.........In the.....city...of.....good ol'....Watts........
In the...........city,......city...of....Compton..."
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Well, this is a subject I care DEEPLY for, and following site beats 'em all.
Check out April Winchell's online collection of bizarre tunes:
1) TV Stars Who Insist on Singing (William Shatner!...)
2) German Covers (Bonanza, She Loves You Ja Ja Ja)
3) Hindi versions of Abba tunes
4) Terrifying Christian Recordings
5) Kick-ass 007 covers by the 'Tokyo Panorama Mambo Boys'.
6) Eilert Pilarm.
Plus the usual suspects: Mrs. Miller, the Chipmunks, Spock, Tammy Bakker, the Shaggs...
Now is the winter of our disco tent
> what r u wearing.
A White t-shirt with grease stains and Dorito cheese smeared on it, a ripped-up pair of sweatpants, and underwear with holes large enough to drive a truck through. Sexy, eh?
Yeah brother! What we need is a Star Trek Easy Listening release with cheesy music from and inspired by the series.
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DS9 was my favorite series I think, at least the later seasons. It was a little weak for a while until the figured out how to make it work.
I'd still love to see a Trek series focused on telling stories in the Trek universe instead of focusing on one crew. Take as many episodes and actors as it takes to tell the story properly, and when its done, get a new cast and a new story and do it all again. No reaching for new stories when things get worn out, but as much time as you need to develop characters. And if the fans want to see continuations or some story is good enough to spin off a new series, you can.
Don't worry. He'll hire a ghost singer.