Spaced Out: The Best of Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner

by Leonard Nimoy, William Shatner

Overview

One of the true ultimates in so-bad-it's-sublime listening. This collection culls the most interesting results of the famously bad recording careers of Star Trek's Kirk and Spock, both of whom recorded albums in the late 1960s. William Shatner's seven cuts all stem from his notorious album The Transformed Man, which the liner notes here aptly describe as "a bewildering collision of Dylan, Shakespeare, and the Beatles, narrated over a strangely disconnected free-for-all." Leonard Nimoy, meanwhile, gets considerably more attention, owing to his having recorded five (!) albums of "musical" material -- mostly covers of folk-rock contemporary tunes. He turns in no genuinely good material, but his unsteady attempts at carrying a tune are worth more than a few laughs, whether in his struggles to keep the meter in "Put a Little Love in Your Heart" or his attempts to channel the "spirit" of Spock in "Highly Illogical" and "Spock Thoughts" (the latter of which is actually "Desiderata"). Although a high rating seems inappropriate for a collection such as this, Spaced Out is actually a must-have for ironists who wish to impress their friends with pop culture detritus. ~ Joseph McCombs

Product Details

Release Date:	12/28/1999
Label:	Phantom Import Distribution / Mca
UPC:	0008811936129
Rank:	58367

Tracks

1. King Henry the Fifth
2. Elegy for the Brave
3. Highly Illogical
4. If I Had a Hammer
5. Mr. Tambourine Man
6. Where Is Love
7. Music to Watch Space Girls By
8. It Was a Very Good Year
9. Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town
10. Hamlet
11. A Visit to a Sad Planet
12. Abraham, Martin and John
13. Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds
14. If I Was a Carpenter
15. How Insensitive
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
21. Ballad of Bilbo Baggins
22. Everybody's Talkin'
23. Both Sides Now
24. Spock Thoughts

Album Credits

Performance Credits

William Shatner   Primary Artist,Voices
Leonard Nimoy   Primary Artist,Voices
Don Ralke   Conductor

Technical Credits

John Lennon   Composer
Pete Seeger   Composer
Joni Mitchell   Composer
Randy Myers   Composer
Mel Tillis   Composer
Tim Hardin   Composer
Lionel Bart   Composer
Antonio Carlos Jobim   Composer
Tony Velona   Composer
Don Ralke   Composer
Ervin Drake   Composer
Lee Hays   Composer
Johnny Cash   Composer
Norman Gimbel   Composer
Frank Davenport   Composer
James E. Holiday   Composer
David Schudson   Composer
Sidney Ramin   Composer
Fred Hertz   Composer
Russ B. Stedman   Composer
Randy James Myers   Composer
Paul McCartney   Composer
Bob Dylan   Composer
Bobby Hebb   Composer
Jackie Shannon   Composer
Christopher Hampton   Composer
Jackie DeShannon   Composer
Charles Randolph Grean   Composer
Fred Neil   Composer
Dick Holler   Composer
Vinicius de Moraes   Composer
John Hartford   Composer