- Audio CD (20 Jan 1998)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Format: Import
- Label: Euro Parrot
- ASIN: B000025LQG
- Other Editions: Audio CD | MP3 Download
- Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (35 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 68,172 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Track Listings
| 1. King Henry The Fifth - William Shatner | |||
| 2. Elegy For The Brave - William Shatner | |||
| 3. Highly Illogical | |||
| 4. If I Had A Hammer (The Hammer Song) | |||
| 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. A 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 | |||
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Product Description
Product Description
A collection of curiously compelling recordings brought together for the first time, summarising the talents of two artists who hold cult status in the worlds of both television and music. Spock sings, Kirk raps. Surreal soliloquies, mad monologues, peculiar parlance are all here. William Shatner (Captain Kirk) performs a bewildering collision of Bob Dylan, Shakespeare and The Beatles, narrated over a strangely disconnected free for all culled from his 1968 album The Transformed Man. Discover his staggering interpretations of "Mr Tambourine Man" and "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds". Leonard Nimoy (Spock) performs an astounding collection of lounge croons--"Where Is The Love?", "Everybody's Talkin"--and Spock standards--"Highly Illogical", "Music To Watch Space Girls By". An essential purchase for both Trekkies and connoisseurs of musical exotica. --F.B.Hawkes
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110 of 111 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This is the worst recording of anything ever produced and proof that God has forsaken us. Listening to Shatner scream his way through Mr Tambourine man, one dare not imagine what he's going to do if he catches up with him, surely something unspeakable. His now legendary performance of Lucy in the sky with diamonds is just as chilling in the way the song is first throttled and then finally kicked to death. Nimoy does not let us down easily either, The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins is a superb example of cringe at warp factor 10, there is so much terrible stuff on this CD that you cannot imagine its scale of horror. The sheer embarrassment of listening to this CD in public is a spiritually humbling experience. This is one of the funniest CD's you will ever hear, I urge you to defy logic and buy it!
61 of 62 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Do not listen to any of these tracks in the car. I once heard Shatners 'Lucy in the Sky' on the radio and was shaking so much (with what I can only describe as a highly potent mix of extreme mirth and total, magisterial awe) that I nearly veered off the road.
19 of 19 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Why the 5 star rating? Well, read all about it...
Shatner is quoted on the insert as saying, "I've been entranced with music for the longest time...and the bane of my life is that I really can't sing...I'm kind of feeling my way into an area that I'm discovering." This is exactly what many people miss - this isn't just a compilation of songs, this stuff was done as conceptual art. Conceptual art is not always made to popular tastes.
Thus, when I listened to this (my dad has the vinyls) I alternatively howled with laughter, tapped my toes, and sang along. The excellent selection does cover the unforgettable favorites, such as Shatner's Mr Tambourine Man and Nimoy's Ballad of Bilbo Baggins. These are truly unique.
These famous songs should not typecast the album, though - for instance, Shatner's renditions of Shakespeare are arguably quite good. The pieces are dramatic and interpretive (back to the art thing) and Shatner dares to be different - how much fun would it be to hear only one version of Hamlet? He's aware he can't sing so adapts (incidentally, Rex Harrison spoke his way through most of My Fair Lady - a musical!!)
Nimoy, on the other hand, provides spoken word and singing. One of the best songs is Where is Love - a touching, simple and well sung rendition. YES Nimoy CAN SING. I really liked the spoken piece, A Visit to A Sad Planet, as I hadn't heard before and found the ending intriguing (no spoilers here!). You really notice the difference between the 'Spock voice' and his 'Nimoy voice.'
With the variety on the CD you're bound to find something you love - whether because it's a funny laugh and you think it's dated or simply because you appreciate something a bit different from two cultural icons.
Bottom line: A really well-selected, quality produced, compilation of Shatner and Nimoy's art/interpretive records of yesteryear. You don't need to go buy six CDs, just this one. It's an eclectic, unusual CD you'll probably find you like a lot more than you expected (and it's a HECK of a conversation piece).
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
Lost in Space !
Awesome - worth the price alone for Leonard's - Bilbo Baggins. An absolute must for all Psych/Space/Prog and odd rockers !
Published 5 months ago by Heraldo
I've wasted my life....
Music (or what I thought was music) was the centre of my so called life. But this has really changed my world. Read more
Published 13 months ago by Training
So bad this lemon has bite
Some reviewers will say this CD is so bad it is good. I'm of the opposite opinion - it is so bad it is a distillation of the really awful. Read more
Published 16 months ago by mad_mushroom
Career defining moments!
This is surely a must for any lover of music or music collector. These recordings, particularly the songs, are so bad they are good. Read more
Published on 16 May 2010 by Norman Coates
Like nothing on Earth!
Ye gods, nothing prepared me for this. Not even the extracts I'd heard could prepare me for the full on screaming assault of the Shatman screaming "Hey! Mis-ter! Read more
Published on 23 Sep 2009 by Trevor Willsmer
They're both crazy!
I bought it for a friend, after listening to Willam Shatner and Leonard Nimoy sing on U-tube.
If you haven't heard it you won't believe how classically terrible it... Read more
If you haven't heard it you won't believe how classically terrible it... Read more
Published on 12 April 2009 by David Maw
pass me a phaser, quick
I bought this because it's supposed to be funny, and I enjoy a good laugh, but dear god it's appalling. What planet are these reviewers from? What drugs have they been taking? Read more
Published on 29 Mar 2009 by NewReview
And now for something completely different!
Thrill to the sound of Leonard Nimoy croaking `Bilbo Baggins', William Shatner murdering `Lucy in the sky with Diamonds'. Read more
Published on 20 Nov 2008 by Fletch-a-sketch
Priceless album may leave you speechless
I'd only ever heard a couple of the Nimoy offerings before and LSD by the Shatt, and so I thought I knew what I was letting myself in for, but I didn't really. Read more
Published on 14 Aug 2008 by Lou Knee
Words fail me
Words fail me. Listen to William Shatner decaliming Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds and marvel if you are on a bad acid trip yourself. Shatner is...well...let's say special. Read more
Published on 20 May 2008 by TKr
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