| ▲ | Shatner is making an album with 35 metal icons(guitarworld.com) |
| 143 points by mhb 5 hours ago | 65 comments |
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| ▲ | jsheard 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| If I had a nickel for each actor who recorded a heavy metal album after their 90th birthday then I'd have two nickels, which isn't much but it's weird that it's happened twice. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlemagne:_The_Omens_of_Deat... |
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| ▲ | defrost 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Impressive. The great Orsen Welles spring chickened out by only recording heavy metal tracks when he was 70. His excuse for not repeating that at 90 was dying not long after. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AMi-vCfAWw | | |
| ▲ | mberning 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Manowar are such a guilty pleasure of mine. They have a lot of very silly material, but hard to deny that Dark Avenger is anything but absolute art. |
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| ▲ | stavros 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | I knew about this, though I'd never listened to it. I gave it a shot now, and I wanted to like it, but... it's terrible, unfortunately. | | |
| ▲ | bebebop 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | He also did work with Rhapsody of Fire from 2004 to 2010, where his contributions were of much higher quality. | | |
| ▲ | stavros 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | It doesn't bother me, it's fantastic that he did this, it was just objectively not very good. I'm glad his other contributions were better, and he's obviously had an illustrious career in general. |
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| ▲ | ziofill 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Oh wow he looks incredible for being 94 | |
| ▲ | russellbeattie 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Phineas and Ferb had some of the best scripts ever written for TV, and I'll die on that hill. |
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| ▲ | jimberlage 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| William Shatner has the most experimental, wild Spotify I've ever seen. If you haven't ever seen it, look at his discography. He does a lot of almost spoken-word poetry over soft rock, punk, etc. You get the sense that he views acting as his side hustle and is waiting for his musical career to take off. |
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| ▲ | vunderba 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | He's also (to my knowledge) one of the only major Hollywood actors to ever star in a movie filmed entirely in esperanto. I've heard that the pronunciation is rather rough around the edges though I have no way of corroborating that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incubus_(1966_film) | | |
| ▲ | jimbokun 22 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | Shatner speaks Esperanto with a perfect native accent. Everyone else is pronouncing it wrong. | | | |
| ▲ | peatmoss 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | When I watched Incubus I remember him sounding very much like he was trying to speak Italian. My only basis for comparison are some podcasts in Esperanto I've listened to, and completion of the duolingo course (I've forgotten everything). |
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| ▲ | wodenokoto an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | His rendition of “Common People” is my favorite cover and I honestly prefer it to Pulps original. | | |
| ▲ | daveac 27 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Thank you. 100% agree. I would love to hear Shatner work with John Cooper Clarke |
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| ▲ | etrautmann 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | At one point he was huge into the paintball scene as well. Beyond hobby level | |
| ▲ | squigz 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | There's also the time he did spoken word Slim Shady for Futurama https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqf04PAeFnE |
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| ▲ | ryandrake 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| No mention of Shatner's music career is complete without listing Spaced Out: The Best of Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner[1]. And, yes, it's exactly as -unique- as you'd imagine it might be. 1: https://www.amazon.com/Spaced-Out-Leonard-William-Shatner/dp... |
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| ▲ | timoth3y an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| William Shatner is someone I really wish I could dislike. I mean, he is certainly not a conventionally talented singer or actor. He's laughably, painfully bad sometimes. But the man keeps going! He's one of the hardest working people in show business. He clearly takes his craft very seriously, even if he defines it a bit differently from the rest of world. The Wrath of Khan has no business being as great a movie as it is, and his version of Common People is fantastic. I'm sure this collaboration will be .... something else. == Edit
I'm sure I am over-analyzing this - I do that with everything - but Common People is actually "perfect" Shatner. When you start listening, you feel "OK, this is lame." After a bit it clicks and it becomes "Oh! I see what they are trying to do here." and by the end it becomes "Damn! This is awesome." Shatner doesn't change throughout the performance, but everything just falls into place around him. |
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| ▲ | amiga386 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I'm amazed the guy is still ticking at all. He's 94! Seems he's also still driving... and eating his breakfast at traffic lights: https://www.tmz.com/2026/01/20/william-shatner-eating-cereal... |
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| ▲ | this-is-why 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| If you’ve never heard it, his duet of the song Common People is pretty awesome: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cMXhWf0vE7c |
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| ▲ | WalterBright 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Shatner ... knows ... how to ... have fun ... in his 90s! |
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| ▲ | johngossman 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | As I age, I look on these happy, productive seniors, people like Dick Van Dyke (100), David Attenborough (99), and Mel Brooks (99) and keep my fingers crossed. | | |
| ▲ | phasetransition 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Brooks was a combat engineer at the Battle of the Bulge! That always blows me away. What a life's journey. | | |
| ▲ | jimbokun 17 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Like a stray bullet and his journey ends there but instead he’s still going strong at 99. |
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| ▲ | esafak 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | 100 is the new 80... I hope! |
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| ▲ | ThrowawayR2 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | And more power to him; he's enjoying himself and that's all that matters. We should all be so fortunate. |
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| ▲ | BLKNSLVR 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I can't get behind this! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAWP9Oxdn9Q |
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| ▲ | webprofusion 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| It's Rad. It doesn't even have to be good, it just has to exist. |
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| ▲ | saas_startup 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Captain Kirk is climbing a mountain, why is he climbing a mountain ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HU2ftCitvyQ |
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| ▲ | DoneWithAllThat 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| His 2004 album “Has Been” is surprisingly good. |
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| ▲ | pdpi 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | I would never have expected that "Shatner and Henry Rollins ranting while Adrian Belew and Matt Chamberlain go absolutely wild on guitar and drums respectively" would be anywhere close to as good as it is. Incidentally, Rollins talking about the recording[0] of it is freaking hilarious. [0]: https://youtu.be/8zL3wtNrq00?t=4616 | | |
| ▲ | JamesTRexx an hour ago | parent [-] | | Well, thanks for cutting another one and a half hours from my already too short period of sleep at night and making me waste more time tomorrow at looking up more stand up shows from Henry if available. |
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| ▲ | block_dagger 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| The album he made with Ben Folds was worth a couple of listens. Only a couple. |
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| ▲ | protocolture 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Still waiting for his spoken word, rnb, julius caesar. |
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| ▲ | jrootabega 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Guess the Beastie Boys were never in the running. |
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| ▲ | burnt-resistor 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| "Please God, don't let him sing." is my immediate reaction after curiously hearing one of his previous works. |
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| ▲ | Avicebron 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| It's Shatner, he can score anything. |
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| ▲ | ArchieScrivener 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| God speed, Metal Man. |
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| ▲ | SilentM68 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Don't know if true or not but I saw somewhere on the web that he is also in talks to return to Star Trek. |
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| ▲ | ThrowawayR2 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | I recall that he consulted for an unofficial (semi-official?) concept video by the Roddenberry Archive that was a finale/sendoff for Captain Kirk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgOZFny7F50 . If you're a fan of TOS, it's worth a watch. | | |
| ▲ | SilentM68 21 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Yup, I am a fan and watched that concept video when it came out.
I'm hoping he makes some sort of return, perhaps involving the
Star Trek Picard Season 3 reveal that Kirk's body is being kept
on ice at Section 31, on Daystrom Station. I would imagine that
there are many ways that Kirk could be brought back, perhaps
Kirk's body could have ended up being stored in a transporter's
buffer similar to how the episode "Relics" from Star Trek: The
Next Generation, Captain Montgomery Scott (Scotty) is discovered
alive in a transporter buffer after being trapped for 75 years
on a Dyson sphere. The transporter has been rigged to sustain
two life signals, allowing Scott to survive by maintaining a
diagnostic cycle. His pattern remains intact, allowing him to
be rematerialized after being rescued by the USS Enterprise.
Another possibility is being back due to meddling from the Q
or an evolved V'Ger. There's been published a comic where some
of the old crew from multiple TV projects have been brought
back to help solve the killings of some of Star Trek's Gods
by an unknown figure. Emperor Kahless is eventually revealed
to be Star Trek’s god-killer. Among the many cameos in the
series are Benjamin Sisko, Jake Sisko, Kira Nerys, Odo, Worf,
Alexander Rozhenko, Spock, Scotty, Uhura, B'Elanna Torres,
Tom Paris, Ro Laren, and others like Q, Kahless (clone/Emperor),
and crossovers with Picard-era or TOS characters. It does not
have to be a TV series but could be a limited TV mini-series.
The Star Trek financial gods wasted big money on a badly done
Section 31 movie. I don't see why they don't do something more
similar to Star Trek comic and Television canon. |
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| ▲ | excalibur 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| If you haven't heard his Bohemian Rhapsody cover, it's something else. He flat out admitted that he had never heard the song before recording it. Which... Number one, how? And number two, who let him do that? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ul6S84qF_TU |
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| ▲ | afavour 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Sometimes I’m absolutely mystified by the items that appear at the top of HN. |
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| ▲ | johngossman 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | That's not a bug, that's a feature | |
| ▲ | bgdkbtv 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | I am also confused as to how this is relevant to HN. | | |
| ▲ | defrost 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Apparently more than 100 registerd users with voting rights thought it interesting and few to none felt it flag worthy. So, much the same bar was cleared as every other article that makes the "interesting to HN community" grade. Rack that up to more Trekkie-adjacent and metal-heads than you might have expected. |
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| ▲ | Razengan 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Mystified by the fact that people on HN have interests outside of computers and shit? | | |
| ▲ | afavour 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | A lot of those non-tech get flagged from the homepage. It’s interesting to see what is allowed to stay and what is not. | |
| ▲ | Krutonium 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | ...Yes. We're all fucking nerds. /s |
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