this has been around for a while. Not for the faint-hearted. You have been warned.

At the end of that video, you can see he's wearing a button that says "What is a Nimoy?" We still don't know.

Actually it's not all that bad, certainly not as immortally painful as Shatner's various forays into musical bulldada. Not that Nimoy is any sort of Pavarotti either, but this is basically just a filk song and his vocal is perfectly adequate for what it's intended to be.

i am not iblis }()+

Some of the other badges the dancer/elves wear include:

"Hobbits Unite"

"Admit Leonard Nimoy to the U.N."

"Bilbo Lives" (Actually, this might be "Spock Lives".)

I agree with IBLIS. It's not *good*, but it ain't terrible either. That, I think, is the main difference between Shatner and Nimoy as vocalists. Neither of them can sing worth a damn, but at least Nimoy tries to have fun with it. Shatner took himself *so* seriously on his album. He'd made up for it a little in recent years through self-parody.

To me the difference is that Spock *tries* to be funny, while Kirk actually succeeds. Nimoy is more, well, weird than he is humorous. "Admit Leonard Nimoy to the U.N.?" This isn't in the same league as Shatner's legendary over-the-top "mister tambourine maaaaaAAAAAAaaaannnn!!"

There is one thing, though. Ever since I watched that "Bilbo Baggins" video, the song has become stuck in my head. My wife caught me humming it in the car the other day. I need help.

Shatner totally redeemed himself as "The Big Giant Head" on 3rd Rock From the Sun. There could not have been a better choice for that role.

JT

Perfect cure, Dan--in your head sing the song without shame, then, near the end, make up a giant, intricate Mozartian finale, including a loud Ta-Da! at the end. Your brain will realize that the song is over and you'll be free. Works every time.

Shatner's music *is* funnier, no question, but only because it is so much worse. I don't think his "Mr. Tambourine Man" was so over-the-top because he was trying to turn it into a joke. I think he was deadly, deadly serious.

Boy are you right. Shatner only got born-again hip when he started camping his melodramatic self. And he's pretty charming now. But that initial album of "interpretative stylings" was, at the time, meant to be heavy. Soda must've come out of Dylan's nose. It did out of mine.

Still can't touch Shatner's moving interpetation of "Rocket Man"

I'm not gonna watch that thing. I tried to listen to just the audio version of it last year but had to perform an emergency shutdown when my skin spontaneously started to peel off all over my body. Cleaning out my ears was like a major operation, normal Q-tips wouldn't work and I had to use a gerbil on a stick. Three or four gerbils, actually, they kept wearing out.

I know I downloaded "Mr. Tamborine Man" about a year after I started browsing the web, but I only remember snatches of what happened after I hit "play". Bad news. Don't do it.

It appears that Mr. Nimoy is spinning a CD on his finger for a few second in one scene, yet this was decades before CDs.