‘Common People’

Arranged by Ben Folds and with Joe Jackson as guest vocalist, Star Trek’s Captain Kirk talks his way through Pulp’s ‘Common People’. The results are every bit as bad as they sound. Shatner “acts out” Cocker’s depiction of a slumming rich kid, devaluing the song in the process. It’s similar to the way American versions of British sitcoms drain the lifeblood out of the original. Horrible stuff.