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Highly Illogical

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This album is either 1 star or 5 stars depending on the level of illegal pharmaceuticals in your system or the number of starfleet uniforms you have in the closet. It's better than Shatner's album at least. The "If I Were A Carpenter" track became sort of an inside joke when I was in college.

Avoid it, or not.

this is a masterpiece, a must for anyone that owns a bad music collection. if you want to get back at those losers at work without being direct. play this once a day(at least)in the office radio. it will make them all crazy! and you can just sit back and overhear there coments, as they wonder if they should confront you about your poor musical taiste. and after awhile, believe it or not, you begin to enjoy leonards slightly off key singing as you hum along. this album has done wonderous things for me, and i recomend it to all.

I have the original album, "The Two Sides of Leonard Nimoy". This is that material plus the outtakes. After hearing you can see why outtakes. Proud Mary with Brooklyn-ish accent on "turnin' and burnin'. Good to have if your a big trek fan, Lord knows you probably spent more on some other trek junk. I always like the album and the cd gave me a better copy,,,great album no,,,,great fun yes.

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.

Being both a Trekkie and a fan of cheeseball entertainment, I find this compilation of Leonard Nimoy's 'hits' to fill both bills rather well. His off-kilter covers of old pop & rock standards, mixed in with a few not-too-bad spoken-word bits, makes for some of the most infamous & pathetic celebrity recordings ever put out on vinyl! (Un)fortunately, his pioneering efforts in the realm of celeb albums opened the door to even more Star Trek thespians takin' a shot at recorded music! Most of 'em also have that bad-but-entertainingly-cheesy feel to 'em, but few can match Nimoy's horrifically-hilarious tin (pointed) ear!

I recall someone once referring to Nimoy's rendition of 'Proud Mary' as being "positively constipated", which I found to be rather accurate for just about ALL of the tunes he's mangled in this compilation of the worst from his run of five (!) vinyl releases. You also gotta take a listen to his 'Everybody's Talking', 'If I Had A Hammer', 'If I Was A Carpenter', and especially 'I Walk The Line'-these are the best of his worst! This one's definitely worth a spin at your next big Trekkie episode-marathon party!

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I found this album in the local record store about 11 years ago, and being a big Star Trek and Leonard Nimoy fan, I purchased it. The guy behind the counter told me it is a great album if you don't take it seriously, and accept it for what it is. I took it home and popped it into the player. Needless to say, within the first 4 or 5 lines of the opening/title track, I was laughing hysterically. I will say that even though this will probably make a lot of people mad, I really liked his renditions of "Proud Mary" and "I Walk The Line" (better than the original versions). And the narration tracks on the album I always found to be quite good. I have a connection with this album that few (if any) can lay claim to. The drama group I belong to one time did a Star Trek parody in which I was Spock, and I was immediately type cast in the role. Everyone started begging for me to return as Spock in one way or another. So I decided to take it to an extreem. I got dressed up in a Starfleet uniform, put on my ears, arched my eyebrows, and did a lipsync to the title track of this album, "Highly Illogical". It brought down the house. The musical guests for the evening were on right after me, and they came out and said they didn't want to play, because they couldn't fallow that up. Needless to say, I've returned several other times as Spock, but I still get requests to do (what we titled) "Spock Sings". So with all that being said, I will conclude with saying that if you buy this album expecting great musical quality, you will probably be disappointed. If you buy it and accept it as Leonard Nimoy doing his renditions of some classic songs (plus some originals), then you will possably like it. Just remember to listen to it with an open mind.

I expected this CD to be novel rather than excellent musically and I think that is probably a fair assessment. Some of the tracks are better than others; the eclectic mix of songs would challenge any artist, ranging (as it does) from 'Proud Mary' (originally Creedance Clearwater Revival I think) to 'If I was a Carpenter'. The latter, I felt, was more suited to Nimoy's talents; another highlight was 'I walk the Line'. 'Spock Thoughts' is a retitled version of 'Desiderata'; if you didn't like the original you won't like this, but I did and I like this version too. This is not just another novelty CD for Star Trek nerds.

Just when you think music can't get worse than William Shatner singing "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" this comes along. This CD is fundamental and required listening to any fan of outsider music.

While Nimoy's more common "Mr. Spock's Music From Outer Space" deals mostly with spoken word recordings about space, this album is all over the map. There is not a single genre Nimoy doesn't dabble in (rap and metal didn't exist when this was made...thank goodness.) He goes country with "Ruby Don't Take Your Love To Town," and manages to sound amazingly pathetic during the part about having "his legs bent and paralyzed." He tries folk with "Everybody's Talking", "If I Had A Hammer", and "If I Was A Carpenter." Each of these was sappy enough when originally recorded. The last thing we needed was Nimoy reaching for the high note in the last verse of "Everybody's Talking", or getting soulful on "If I Had A Hammer." CCR's folk-rock "Proud Mary" takes serious hits as Nimoy tries desperately to sing the blues, having particular problems with the words "turnin'" and "burnin'." There is the truly dreadful "Spock Thoughts" which is nothing more than a bad rewrite of the already putrescent "Desiderata." The biggest butchery done to a song on the album is the act of barbarism committed against the Johnny Cash classic "I Walk The Line" (You will love the humming part.) As bad as all this sounds (and is) it is nothing compared to the worst song on the CD, and one of the most moronic songs I have ever heard, the tribute to Tolkien titled "The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins" which is the crowning glory of this CD (and is the only pop song I know with a bassoon solo), narrowly edging out the lamest social commentary I have ever heard in my life, "Highly Illogical," which has lyrics that must be heard to be believed.

This CD is hard to find, but is worth every bit of effort. This is a truly amazing piece of anti-music, and I recommend it highly to fans of questionable music throughout this and other galaxies.

that this is a surprisingly good album. I love his covers of "Ruby Don't Take Your Love To Town" and "If I Were a Carpenter", and his originals are great too. My favorites are "The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins" and "Highly Illogical". You can't take it too seriously, but in the right context it's amazing!

I was so excited to get this CD and have not been let down! The condition of it was perfect and I know I will get to listen to it for years to come.