[Introspective] Final results of poll on the best overall "PSB era"

[Wayne Studer]

The final results are in for my poll last week, in which I asked my site 
visitors what they consider to be the best overall "Pet Shop Boys era" based 
on everything they did during that period (music, live shows, music videos, 
graphics, side projects, and so on). And the half-decade "PSB era" that 
received the most votes was:

* 1990-1994, picked by 41.8% of the voters.

To see the complete results, please visit my "Commentary" site at 
http://www.geowayne.com/psbhtml.htm and click the "Past Survey Results" 
button in the navigation bar.

For the week head, I'm engaging in my occasional indulgence of running not 
one but two new polls simultaneously. My "main poll" for this coming week is 
based on discussions I've read elsewhere online, most notably on the Pet 
Shop Boys Community Forum. Many fans like some of the b-sides/bonus tracks 
on the "Elysium" singles more than they like certain of the album's tracks 
themselves -- so much so that they've said, if it had been up to them, they 
would have replaced some of the album's songs with some of those bonus 
tracks. So I'm wondering how you feel about this. Are there any "Elysium" 
tracks that you, if it had been in your power, would have replaced with some 
of those single bonus tracks -- and, if so, which ones would you switch? 
What may prove a particular challenge with this question, however, is that 
the number of tracks "deleted" and "added" must match so that the total 
number of songs remains 12.

But I have a bonus of my own this week: a second survey question. You see, 
I'm aware of at least two cases of fans living outside the United Kingdom 
who have yet to receive the CD single discs of "Memory of the Future" that 
they had pre-ordered about a month ago. I'm interested in finding out how 
common a phenomenon this is. Did you pre-order one or both of the "Memory of 
the Future" CDs (that is, place your order before the December 31 release). 
If so, have you received it/them yet? And do you live in the U.K. or outside 
the U.K.?

So please, when you have the chance, take a few moments to take part in one 
or both of these polls 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 
wonderful week ahead!

Wayne
http://www.geowayne.com/psbhtml.htm