Project Rewatch: Season 1 Disc 3 Episodes 13-15

[omorka]

This song has two versions. They have completely different arrangements. The backing vocals are completely different. The one I knew from the '80s revival has Mike singing, backed by either Micky or Boyce (I genuinely can't tell; I'm going to assume it's Micky). I just found out about this one this week. This one has Peter singing - Peter! -

Comments

[lolleeroberts]

I watched these episodes as an 11 year old girl with a major crash on Peter. So it's interesting 40 something years later to get your take on them. I may have to rewatch them.

[omorka]

I'm in much the same boat, only 20 years after you; my first watchthrough was during the '86-'88 revival when the show was on MTV/Nickelodeon/Nick at Nite, I was 12-13 at the time, and I thought the '60s version of Micky was the dreamiest thing I'd ever heard/seen.

The Spouse got me the two season boxed sets as a Yule gift, but I hadn't gotten around to really looking at them until after school was out - and then suddenly was struck with the urge to write fic. Can't do that without brushing up on the canon, so instead of a episode here, an episode there, I'm doing a slow marathon.

[starcat_jewel]

What if you ask someone to sing a Monkees song that's not the theme and they pick "Shades of Grey"? That was my favorite song off that album, and it holds up remarkably well 40 years later.

[omorka]

I'd be startled, because it takes at least two and ideally three people to sing. ;-)

It's a lovely song, though, that's true - and yet another of the few that Peter gets to take lead on, even if it's only for a verse. I think "Randy Scouse Git" is the standout from Headquarters, but "Shades of Gray"is definitely in second place.

[omorka]

Addition: There actually is a surviving Micky vocal, although it was never mixed down into its own proper version of the song (a later remaster grafts it onto the Mike version). One song, three different Monkees singing lead.