Customer Reviews
Well well well - By: A. P. Duff, 16 Aug 2008 
Bought after hearing the track Common People on You Tube & to be quite honest expecting a dire experience- how wrong could we be.
Refreshing, amusing well arranged & written - a triumph for Shatner & co - very very well done. I wish it every success.
Angela
Respect - By: Mr. G. C. Stone, 06 May 2008 
So Shatner can't sing, so his Star Trek days are long gone. So what? Here we have a mature, self-aware human being who's been through some extraordinary times, but knows who he is, why he can be proud, & how not to take himself too seriously. Shatner doesn't sing, he talks the tracks, but each has something to say & is worth your time. You'll be surprised & rewarded by the effort. And then there's the opening track - a belting 'Common People', produced brilliantly, & with Joe Jackson's soaring vocals to drive it along besides Shatner's unique delivery. Strange but magnificent - I'm surprised how often I return to it as a 'favourite' track.
I've Got To Get It Together - By: M. J. Everett, 02 Apr 2008 This is a must own, even for those who can't stand the man, unless you souless you'll change your heart.. It's pure class not one bad song & the weak songs now will soon be your favorites..Timeless & beautiful record..
Style : It's William Shatner's perfect Deliveryin spoken word, combined with the outstanding & original Ben Folds on all kinds instruments.
Great album - By: Sean O'Brien, 05 Feb 2008 The music's great (as you'd expect from Ben Folds) & Shat draws youin with his delivery. Poignant lyricsin places. Poetic, surreal meanderingsin others, but always listenable. Don't dismiss this as a novelty record - it most certainly ain't, not that Shat takes himself too seriously. As he says 'Live life like you're gonna die - because you are!'
Surprisingly good - By: D. Hughes, 06 Jan 2008 William Shatner's music career has a bad press. His 1968 album The Transformed Man is pretty widely mocked by all & sundry. I've never really heard much of that album aside from the odd excerpt of Lucyin the sky with diamonds, but I'm willing to believe the consensus that it's main merit is merely as an oddity at the pop culture freakshow.
But Has Been the album he made with Ben Foldsin 2004 is really good. It's really, really, good. I'm not even saying thatin a ironic kitschy way. It's just a great & original piece of work.
Shatner proves himself a talented, intriguing, & self-mocking lyricist. He wrote the words for Fold's music for all but three of the tracks (novelist Nick Hornby providing lyrics for "That's me Trying") & is brutalin his honesty. His takes on his own fame are fascinating ("It hasn't happened yet", "Has been", & "Real") & his emotion at the death of his wife ("What have you done") is palpable.
You don't just get Shatner either. Ben Folds, Joe Jackson, Aimee Mann, Lemon Jelly, Henry Rollins, & Brad Paisley all make guest appearances.
It's just damn good & you should go out & buy it. And if you don't? Well I just can't get behind that.
