Talk:Pleasant Valley Sunday

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Did you know... that The Monkees' 1967 hit Pleasant Valley Sunday was named for a street in West Orange, New Jersey, where the song's authors, Gerry Goffin and Carole King, lived?

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This article does not contain cites for most of the information. The riffs to both songs are pretty simple and I find it hard to believe that Mike Nesmith can no longer play them, even if he hasn't played in a long time. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.124.149.222 (talk) 19:47, 27 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Have you ever been in your fifties, with residual hand injuries (read his bio), and out of practice for years on end while you run your multimedia company? Let's cut the man some slack, please. Zephyrad (talk) 02:08, 28 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Counterpart to Penny Lane?[edit]

This song does not appear to be an American version of Penny Lane. One is about nostalgia and childhood reminiscences, the other about suburbia and herd mentality. Their only similarity is that they are about places, in which case you could just as well say this song is the American counterpart of Waterloo Sunset or Itchycoo Park. As such, I have removed the sentence: "The song may be seen as an American counterpart to Penny Lane". Feel free to reinstate when accompanied by a respected source. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Guyburns (talk • contribs) 04:24, 14 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Versions[edit]

Was the song written for the Monkees, or did anyone else record it before them ? -- Beardo (talk) 01:15, 1 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Is "Interpretation of lyrics" relevant?[edit]

There are a couple of problems with the "Interpretation of lyrics" section that make its relevance questionable.

The Blitz interviewer appears to have been under the impression that Nesmith wrote the song: 'Unique thing about the lyrics there too, portraying your obvious dissatisfaction with the complacency of life in suburban America.' Nesmith's reply may have been a sarcastic retort at such obvious ignorance. You only have to look at the record label to discover who wrote a song.
The attached photo of the Blitz article is in such low resolution that the text is illegible apart from the pull quote. Given that the net citation points to a faithful transcription, does this photo add anything?

In general, any interpretation of lyrics is only relevant if made by the song's author(s). Phil Champ (talk) 08:30, 21 June 2018 (UTC))[reply]

Removed POV material.[edit]

Have removed the following section:

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However this testimony needs to be treated with a degree of caution and it would be interesting to know if the surviving co-writer, ie Carole King, agrees with this seemingly perverse interpretation.

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If anyone can work it into an encylopedic and referenced quote then the result can go back into the article. Until then, POV original analysis like this has no place on Wikipedia. 2.24.71.30 (talk) 20:04, 21 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]