Leonard Nimoy, William Shatner - Spaced Out: The Best of Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner
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Free Music Notes for Spaced Out: The Best of Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner
Free Music Review: This cd will live long and prosper
Hit: 5 Stars
Well, call me crazy, but after my psychiatric nurse gave me the ok to play this cd 2 or 3 times I found myself strangely hypnotized by the rich, Paul Robesonesque baritone voice of one Leonard Simon Nimoy. I don't know if his voice worked a Vulcan mind meld into my deep subconscious, but I can't seem to get enough of it. Apparently I'm not alone, when Nimoy first released his albums they sold quite well. Whenever I hear his smooth, romantic crooning in the song "I'd Love Making Love to You" it makes me want to jump in the sack with him, and I'm not even gay! His versions of "Put a Little Love in Your Heart", "Gentle on my Mind", and "Everybody's Talkin'" takes these great songs to a whole different level. "I Walk the Line" is a perfect song for his low pitch and he does a masterful job. "If I had a Hammer" gives me goose bumps and makes me proud to be an American. But my favorite song on the whole album is "Abraham, Martin and John". I think Nimoy comes the closest to what Holler intended the song to be like when he wrote it. The original version was done by Dion and was too instrument driven. Nimoy strips the song down to his mellow, sometimes quavering voice. When he gets to the final verse about Bobby things get very emotional and it would bring a tear to any Liberal's eye. An extreme Liberal better have a box of tissues handy when they listen to the song because they will be sobbing for their great leaders who have died and never been replaced. At the end of the cd there are some "Spock Thoughts". One must keep in mind that Spock suffers from a sort of schizophrenia in his mind between his Vulcan logic and his human emotions. So these supposed words of wisdom may not be too wise for pure humans to follow blindly. If one tried they would probably end up in a straight jacket at a psych ward, and they would probably be singing their own version of "Mr. Tambourine Man".Free Music Review: An absolute masterpiece of horribleness
Hit: 5 Stars
This album shows two *actors* - seen from the side that no man has seen before. Which is actually also the same side that no man should EVER have to see. Before you buy this record, ask yourself this. Would you buy a used car from Mick Jagger? Would you buy a painting by Evel Knievel? Would anyone, in his right mind, buy cookies from the butcher or milk from the mailman?
If your answer to all of the above is 'yes', then go ahead, buy this magnificent CD. This one shows how horribly wrong it all can turn out when people start to venture outside their expertise, when bricklayers become cakebakers so to speak.
William Shatner can't sing! Nor can Leonard Nimoy! But that didn't stop them from going into the studio and recording an album. The outcome is a collection of serious spoofs of the artists themselves. Which is a good thing - it shows a sense of humour.
But who's lauging last? Is it the Star Trek hater, who says: 'Told you them weren't no good anyway nohow'? Is it the conoisseur, who says 'The music may be awful but it's the emotion that counts'? Is it you, having bought this magnificent piece of naïve art? No. It's them. Nimoy and Shatner. Laughing their butts off, cause they sold another album.
So if you have any sense of humour, listen to this album and have one serious hootnanny of an evening. If you don't have a sense of humour then simply down a fifth of vodka and listen to this album. Same hootnanny.
I'd recommend it to anyone. Especially when you, like myself, suffer from unwanted guests on a regular basis. Want them to leave? Put this record on. Works like a charm.
Free Music Review: Ah, Uh, Er - Fascinating...
Hit: 5 Stars
In the words of Tom Hulce's Mozart in _Amadeus_:"I never thought music like that was possible!" "One hears such sounds, and what can one say but - ??!!"
I have "Two Sides of Leonard Nimoy" on vinyl - a Christmas present from a sister Trekkie back in 1973 - so some of his tracks were familiar to me - but I had never heard any of Shatner's tracks - I'd heard _of_ them by reputation...
I can truly say that this disc took me where I have never been before. Since I am listening to track 8 ("It was a Very Good Year") as I write this, I am probably still "wherever" I have gone. Will it be possible for me to return from this space/time/musical anomaly? Or will I languish in the outermost reaches of the Shatmoy, unable to find the wormhole that will bring me back? Will my skeletal infrastructure be able to withstand the stress of repeated, escalating bouts of manic laughter? Will I run out of tissues and float from my chair on a sea of hilarious tears?
I really wasn't ready for the opening of Track 1 ("Henry V") - I almost jumped out of my chair. And then, I almost fell on the floor in a body-wrenching spasm of utter and insane hilarity... mmm, if flying scissor kicks could be done vocally...
This CD was the perfect mood-altering substance to pull me up from what was an absolute donkey's-butt nightmare of a day. When I return home, I'll file it in my special CD section, along with Leon Redbone and James Brown and Ween ...
I think it's time to get "Transformed Man" now - I'm ready! Yeah, let's go - make it so!!
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Free Music Review: Kirk and the Tambourine of Doom
Hit: 5 Stars
(The following is my interpretation of William Shatner's interpretation of Bob Dylan's "Mister Tambourine Man.")
It's a sunny afternoon in the park as Shatner approaches Mr. Tambourine Man.
Shatner: "Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man!"
MTM: "Hi. Can I help you?"
Shatner: "Mr... tambourine... MAN."
MTM: "Okay, buddy. Whatever." (Goes back to playing his tambourine.)
Shatner: "I'm not sleepy... and there IS no place I'm GOING to."
MTM: "Hey, listen, I just want to play my tambourine here. Just move along."
Shatner: "In the Jingle... Jangle.... Morning. I'll come following you."
MTM: "Okay, now you're freaking me out."
Shatner: "Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man...?"
MTM: "Get away from me. I'll call the police. I'm serious."
Shatner: "Mr. TAMBOURINE Man!"
MTM: (Starts taking slow steps backwards, eyes wide with fear.)
Shatner: (Starting to sweat; His eyes are glazed as he reaches out to MTM with shaky hands.) "Mr.... Tambourine... Man?"
MTM: (Mr. Tambourine Man drops his tambourine and runs.)
Shatner: (Looks to the heavens, and with clenched fists a cry wells up from his primoridal core.) "MISTER TAMBOURIIIINE MAAAAAAN!"
(Tune in for the next episode: "Mr. Spock and the Wrath of Bilbo.")
Free Music Review: Mister tambourine man... MISTER TAMBOURINE MAN!!!
Hit: 5 Stars
I love so-bad-it's-good music, so obviously I had to have this CD. There's so much superlatively, deliciously, appallingly bad stuff on this CD it's hard to know where to begin. Most of the CD is taken up by Nimoy, but the few Shatner tracks scale heights of awfulness that few other artists have even approached (not even Bobby Goldsboro). "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" and "Mr. Tambourine Man" prove beyond the shadow of a doubt that method acting and popular songs are not a marriage made in heaven. In fact, together they are possibly the worst songs ever recorded by anyone anywhere. I challenge you to listen to these two songs back-to-back and decide which is worse -- perhaps that's something man was never meant to know. The Nimoy tracks are not quite as spectacular, but there are many highlights there too: "Highly Illogical" is delightfully awful, and "The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins" is completely demented (it's a favorite on the Dr. Demento show). The rest of the songs are mostly just evidence of Mr. Nimoy's incredibly mediocre singing voice; some of them, like "Both Sides Now" should be included on a future compilation entitled "Good Songs Sung by Bad Singers". This CD is a treasure that you'll enjoy for years, although not for the reasons the artists intended.