February 10th, 2008Spock Sings: Leonard Nimoy’s Spacey Showtunes
Remember Leonard Nimoy’s “The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins”, which got passed around a lot back when the Lord of the Rings trilogy was still hot?
Here’s the title track from that same album, Highly Illogical.
From far beyond the galaxies I’ve journeyed to this place
To study the behavior patterns of the human race
And I find them highly illogical
You can get the album from Amazon
One balmy summer evening I sat listening to this CD on the lawns of my Hampshire summer home. As the opening bars of the “Ballad Of Bilbo Baggins” tinkled out of the speakers, the skies darkened and a massive thunderstorm broke above me. Torrents of rain came lashing down, cruel winds upturned the gazebo and knocked the canapes and chinese straw mushroom vol-au-vents onto the grass. A bolt of lightning struck the east wing clock tower, causing £2.5 million worth of structural damage, and consigning to memory one of the largest private collections of Salvador Dali oil paintings known to man. The following morning, when I awoke, I stumbled outside. The grass around the gazebo had turned brown, and died. Small piles of dead earthworms lay scattered around like piles of vomit outside a Chinese restaurant on a Friday night. Lying unscathed amongst this devestation I found this CD, glinting in the sunlight. Needless to say I buried it at midnight at a crossroads just outside Winchester, and scattered the earth with salt to prevent it rising up again. Do not buy this CD if you value your life. Mine has never been the same since it passed its terrible curse onto me. I must go now, lest Nimoy use his dark powers against me once more. Farewell.
Via Star Trek Forum
February 10th, 2008 at 3:12 pm
It’s a shame his career has plummeted from recording bad novelty albums to narrating for edutainment programming.
February 10th, 2008 at 7:35 pm
As wonderfully atrocious that is, it is not nearly as bad as the cd for the Original Batman TV series soundtrack. My favourite track is track 5, Holy Hole In The Doughnut. It is basically elevator music broken up sporadically with Holy______! phrases.