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This album really _is_ as weird as I'd expected, and then some. This afternoon I went to Music Millennium and discovered it sitting on the shelf next to Dr. Demento's 20th Anniversary Album--a sign of things to come. Well, it was only ten bucks, and the amusement was well worth it.
The album is promoted as being by "William Shatner, Captain Kirk of Star Trek" and features Shatner combining the spoken word with musical interludes. The first five tracks juxtapose a poem (or Shakespeare) against a 1960s pop song and the sixth contains only a poem.
Somewhat comically, Shatner seems to have turned the jamón dial all the way up. Probably one of the more (in)famous tracks, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, has him speaking the lyrics with such high-pitched gusto that one wonders if he might've been smoking at the time. Another track contains It was a Very Good Year; Shatner's intonation made me think of Captain Kirk play-acting a film noir character putting 'em away in a cab (driven by Spock), yammering about all the women he's been with, with Spock rolling his eyes and dismissing him as just another drunk.
As for Mr. Tambourine Man, that's just ... weird. Especially the end where Shatner starts yelling at the tambourine man like the drunks I see downtown at night. Also unsettling are the album art pictures of Kirk with mutton chops.
The album is promoted as being by "William Shatner, Captain Kirk of Star Trek" and features Shatner combining the spoken word with musical interludes. The first five tracks juxtapose a poem (or Shakespeare) against a 1960s pop song and the sixth contains only a poem.
Somewhat comically, Shatner seems to have turned the jamón dial all the way up. Probably one of the more (in)famous tracks, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, has him speaking the lyrics with such high-pitched gusto that one wonders if he might've been smoking at the time. Another track contains It was a Very Good Year; Shatner's intonation made me think of Captain Kirk play-acting a film noir character putting 'em away in a cab (driven by Spock), yammering about all the women he's been with, with Spock rolling his eyes and dismissing him as just another drunk.
As for Mr. Tambourine Man, that's just ... weird. Especially the end where Shatner starts yelling at the tambourine man like the drunks I see downtown at night. Also unsettling are the album art pictures of Kirk with mutton chops.
