[Introspective] Final results of poll on ranking the PSB studio albums
Wayne Studer
psbfan at earthlink.net
Sat Sep 26 22:08:36 PDT 2009
The final results are in for my survey this past week, in which I asked my
site visitors to rank the Pet Shop Boys' studio albums from #1 to #10, with
#1 being their favorite and #10 their least favorite. And the final results
are extremely interesting. In fact, you might say there are two "winners"
depending on how you look at it:
* "Very" had the best average ranking of 3.88, but
* "Behaviour" had the largest number of #1 votes, with 30.4% of the voters
choosing it as their #1 favorite.
How can one album have the most #1 votes but another come out on top in the
averages? Well, it has to do with the votes for #2, #3, #4, etc. The final
overall ranking, based strictly on the averages, was:
#1 - Very
#2 - Behaviour
#3 - Actually
#4 - Yes
#5 - Introspective
#6 - Please
#7 - Fundamental
#8 - Bilingual
#9 - Nightlife
#10 - Release
To see the complete results, including all the percentages for all the
rankings for all the albums, please visit my "Commentary" site at
http://www.geowayne.com/psbhtml.htm and click the "Past Survey Results"
button in the left navigation bar.
After last week's relatively complex poll, I figured we should wind down
with a much simpler one this week. In a recent interview, the Pet Shop Boys
said that there is serious consideration of a possible upcoming release of
an "Alternative 2" album, collecting their single b-sides released since
"Alternative" in 1995. I'm wondering whether you would buy such an album,
and why or why not. (See, I told you it was simple. ;-) So please take a
moment to respond to this question right there on my home page.
In the meantime, thanks to everyone who voted in last week's survey! And I
hope you all have a superb week ahead!
Wayne
http://www.geowayne.com/psbhtml.htm
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