Listening to Shatner's new CD "Has Been" made me go back and re-appraise "Transformed Man." Unlike "Has Been", this CD is totally over-the-top, and borderline maniacal. I have loved Shatner's singing for all the wrong reasons ever since I first heard him on the "Golden Throats" CD. Here we get to savor those tracks "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" and "Mr. Tambourine Man" (I particularly love the last screamed line of "Mr. Tambourine Man"), but I think the best part of this CD are the Shakespeare monologues and especially the bizarre and brazenly hammy "Spleen" in which Bill rants about various issues confronting his "bent skull" at sidesplitting length.