July 23, 2004

Dance, and drink, and screw. Because there's nothing else to do. In which William Shatner covers Pulp's Common People, as previously promised. My brain has just launched legal action against my ears. (Quicktime, 2MB, large snippet of song)

Pray God don't be a double post. I can't take another one.

posted by flashboy 20 years ago
  • Aren't you supposed to be out declaiming for the Bashi rather than inflicting this crap on innocent earoles?
  • Eh?
  • That's actually not that bad... and I love Pulp.
  • I thought it was kind of fun in a novelty sort of way.
  • Don't you people get it? I guess I need to spell it out. Shatner is not trying to be musical! Abyssmal Joe Jackson guitar work and grand Finale vocals aside, What Shatner is doing here is what he's been doing from day one with his "music" - Dramatic readings of pop lyrics. And personally, I can't think of a song better suited to a dramatic reading than Common People.
  • Heard it and this is the scary part. Shatner is getting better.
  • I suxx0r @ teh HTML.
  • HAW HAW Flashboy! DOUBLE ...er, never mind. Ok then, SILLY post.
  • Posted on the blue though... /ducks
  • And on my blog before either Mare. Your point? Mofi != Mefi. What's posted at one, is not a double ppost at the other.
  • mare's just trying to scare flashboy, I think. She's not really trying to revive the Mofi-Mefi debacle. *cross fingers*
  • Joe. Jackson. With. Shatner. (>_<) I'll say it again: WHO THE @*^&# IS FOOLING AROUND WITH REALITY? Next: Brian Eno mixes latest Britney Spears cover of Talking Heads' "Burning down the House".
  • I feel ill
  • Bill Shatner is a very strange man. Yes, he is the male equivalent of a Grande Dame in many senses. Yes, he is an egomaniac of ridiculous proportions, even for a thesp. However, it has come to my attention that he has a rather remarkable and totally off-the-wall sense of humour. He is, in fact, able to mock himself, even while having the vanity to continue to hide his baldness. Once, remarkable as it may actually seem, he was capable of quite interesting acting, too. Recently he has demonstrated rather good comedy chops (his appearances on Third Rock were very funny). I have come to enjoy his forays into music. Unlike others, I do not believe for a second he is taking himself seriously, even when he did that weird album back in the 60s/70s. Nimoy, on the other hand, really thought he could sing folk.
  • What Uncle Nostril said. Shatner's performance in Free Enterprise was delightful, and he was perfect as The Big Giant Head on Third Rock. I actually enjoyed this "cover". Thanks flashboy
  • This is killer. Copy, Right? is a hysterical mp3 of Telly Savalas singing the Bread song If. Listen to it now before it's taken offline.
  • Good heavens. The Official Site