alt Hacker NewsShatner is making an album with 35 metal icons
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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.
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...
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...
If you’ve never heard it, his duet of the song Common People is pretty awesome:
Shatner ... knows ... how to ... have fun ... in his 90s!
I can't get behind this!
It's Rad. It doesn't even have to be good, it just has to exist.
Captain Kirk is climbing a mountain, why is he climbing a mountain ?
"Please God, don't let him sing." is my immediate reaction after curiously hearing one of his previous works.
The album he made with Ben Folds was worth a couple of listens. Only a couple.
Still waiting for his spoken word, rnb, julius caesar.
Guess the Beastie Boys were never in the running.
God speed, Metal Man.
It's Shatner, he can score anything.
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.
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?
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Sometimes I’m absolutely mystified by the items that appear at the top of HN.
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...