Often talked about, but fortunately never imitated or duplicated, William Shatner's and Leonard Nimoy's singing careers started with a bang and then ended abruptly, just like a hiccup. Ironically, a hiccup has more musical quality than anything these guys have sung. That being said, let's examine the first album.
William Shatner's "The Transformed Man"Imagine William Shatner. Now imagine him on hallucenegenic drugs. Now imagine he's been taken to the hospital after overdosing on hallucenagenic drugs and he's been given heavy doses of sedatives. Now imagine he's having an allergic reaction to the sedatives that they gave him because of the hallucenegenic overdose and it's causing seizures. Now imagine that while he's having these seizures caused by the sedatives that they gave him because of the overdose of hallucenegenics, he decides to vocalize his every thought. That's essentially what this sounds like. When you listen to this, try to remember that these songs were presumably meant to be listened to and enjoyed from start to finish. When I first heard of this album, I wondered why I hadn't seen references to it on every Trek humour page on the 'Net. After listening to it, I've discovered the answer: You can't really make fun of something unless you've seen/heard the whole thing, and no human, living or dead, can stand to listen to even ONE song from beginning to end. I tried my best, but the best I could do was to skip through a few songs, listening to 20-30 seconds at a time. Each song is made up of two parts. First, Kirk (whoops, make that "Shatner") recites a passage of classic literature. Next, he sings, or at least attempts something resembling singing, a song. The whole thing is quite strange and if anyone has a clue as to what this album is supposed to be about, shoot us an e-mail. Here's a sample of what to expect.Leonard Nimoy's "The Two Sides of Leonard Nimoy"While Nimoy's singing ability is slightly better than Shatner's and the songs are more bearable, we're still not dealing with anything that you'd want to listen to while stuck in an elevator. The content and style of the songs vary. All in all it sounds like what Spock would sing in the shower, if he sang in the shower. Some of it's good, some of it's bad, all of it's ugly. Listening to a Leonard Nimoy song is like eating that coarse salt at the bottom of the pretzel bag: You realise how gross it is the second you try it, but you can't stop yourself from having more.Here's the link: http://members.fortunecity.com/mp3trekk/. Unfortunately, I do not know who runs this site and could not find a main page for this site. If you know the URL please drop me a line and I'll link there instead. |  William Shatner  Leonard Nimoy |
