William Shatner - Has Been

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Albums, Music Commentary, Criticism, Billlambusta, Brianerickson, Music

4.3 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2016

⏱️ 120 minutes

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Summary

Bill and Brian take a deep dive into the unique and unexpectedly great work of William Shatner and his collaboration with Ben Folds, Has Been (2004, Shout! Factory). The iconic Star Trek actor was often maligned for his previous foray into pop music, 1968's The Transformed Man, but he found a willing collaborator who helped channel his spoken word poetry fantastic songs that muse on success, tragedy, and growing older. Bill and Brian talk about how they were pleasantly surprised when this came out. We came for Ben Folds but stayed for Shatner. We also discuss Pulp, Joe Jackson, anxiety in the face of success, relationships with dads, the passage of time, the Great Cosmic Joke, having fun at funerals, choosing how you feel, how Shatner took control of who and what he is with his own self-awareness, and much more as we make our way through the album track by track!

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0:00.0	Hello, has been.
0:08.0	Hello, and welcome to the great albums podcast. I'm Bell. Has been... You talk to me.
0:21.9	Hello, and welcome to the great albums podcast.
0:24.5	I'm Bill.
0:25.0	And I'm Brian.
0:25.9	What are we just listening to right there, Brian?
0:28.0	That was the title track, Has Been, by William Shatner, off of his 2004 sophomore solo record.
0:36.3	If you've never listened to the podcast before, what we do hear every week is take a different
0:40.6	album of music and talk about what makes it great.
0:43.6	We're going to kind of do a deep dive on the album from a fan's perspective and talk about
0:48.3	what we love about the album, what we think is cool.
0:52.4	We're going to talk a little bit about the history of the artist,
0:57.0	and then we are going to get into a track-by-track review.
1:01.0	Sounds good, dude. Let's do it.
1:02.3	All right.
1:03.1	We don't have a guest with us this week.
1:04.7	It's just me and Brian.
1:06.1	But this is going to be a good one with just the two of us,
1:09.3	because this is a cool, cool album.
1:12.6	Yeah, this one was on our initial list before we even started recording episodes that we said,
1:18.3	eventually we have to get to this album. So this one's been on the list for about two years now almost.
1:24.9	Yeah, because we actually made the list, I think, like,
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