[Introspective] Final results of poll on ranking the PSB studio albums

[Wayne Studer]

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