From psbfan at geowayne.com Thu Oct 2 22:04:24 2014 From: psbfan at geowayne.com (Wayne Studer) Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2014 22:04:24 -0700 Subject: [Introspective] Poll ends soon on "non-singles" from most recent PSB albums Message-ID: <1DFEB31C0F194690AA2666EB56BAFB02@COMP8> Hey there! Tomorrow (Saturday) is the last full day of my current poll, which asks you to choose the "non-single" from each of the Pet Shop Boys' four most recent studio albums -- from Fundamental to Electric -- that you would most have liked to have been released as a single, or at least believe would have made the best one. If you haven't voted yet, please take a few moments to make your choices right there on the home page of my "Commentary" site at http://www.geowayne.com/psbhtml.htm. On Sunday I will end this poll, post the final results, and launch a new survey for the week ahead. Thanks to everyone who has already voted! And I hope you all have a marvelous weekend! Wayne http://www.geowayne.com/psbhtml.htm From psbfan at geowayne.com Sat Oct 4 22:20:29 2014 From: psbfan at geowayne.com (Wayne Studer) Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2014 22:20:29 -0700 Subject: [Introspective] Final results of best single choice of non-singles from recent PSB albums Message-ID: <4FE3369362304E03B1420C43AE99B628@COMP8> The final votes are in for my poll this past week, in which I asked my site visitors which "non-singles" from the Pet Shop Boys' four most recent studio albums they thinks should have been released as singles, or at least would have made the best choices for singles. And the songs that received the most votes per album were: >From Fundamental: * "The Sodom and Gomorrah Show," chosen by 51.6% of the voters. >From Yes: * "Pandemonium," selected by 43.9%. >From Elysium: * "A Face Like That," tapped by 51.8%. And from Electric: * "The Last to Die," picked by 26.6%. To see the complete results, please visit my "Commentary" site at http://www.geowayne.com/psbhtml.htm and click one of the "Past Survey Results" options from my top navigation bar or select the appropriate link from my "What's New?" page. At the suggestion of several site visitors, I'm running a "sequel" to the past few polls, asking pretty much the same question one last time (I absolutely promise!) about Disco 3 as well as the b-sides collections Alternative and Format. In other words, which song from each of those discs (which means two songs each for Alternative and Format, one per disc) do you think would have made the best single? So please mull this over and make your choices right there on my home page. Thanks to everyone who voted in last week's survey! And I hope you all have a delightful week ahead! Wayne http://www.geowayne.com/psbhtml.htm From psbfan at geowayne.com Thu Oct 9 22:46:12 2014 From: psbfan at geowayne.com (Wayne Studer) Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2014 22:46:12 -0700 Subject: [Introspective] Poll ends soon on "singles" from Alternative, Format, and Disco 3 Message-ID: Hey there! Tomorrow (Saturday) is the last full day of my current poll, which asks which songs from the Pet Shop Boys' b-sides collections Alternative and Format as well as from Disco 3 you think would have made the best singles. If you haven't voted yet, please take a few moments to visit my "Commentary" site at http://www.geowayne.com/psbhtml.htm and make your choices right there on my home page. On Sunday I will end this poll, post the final results, and launch a new survey for the week ahead. (And I promise it will have *nothing* to do with choosing songs that would have made good singles. ;-) Thanks to everyone who has already voted! And I hope you all have a superb weekend! Wayne http://www.geowayne.com/psbhtml.htm From psbfan at geowayne.com Sat Oct 11 22:06:52 2014 From: psbfan at geowayne.com (Wayne Studer) Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 22:06:52 -0700 Subject: [Introspective] Final results of poll of "single choices" from 3 PSB collections Message-ID: The final results are in for my poll this past week, in which I asked my site visitors which songs from Alternative, Format, and Disco 3 they think would have made the best singles. And the songs that received the most votes were: >From Alternative Disc 1 - * "In the Night," chosen by 19.4% of the voters. >From Alternative Disc 2 - * "Shameless," picked by 42.5%. >From Format Disc 1 - * "Delusions of Grandeur," tapped by 19.4%. >From Format Disc 2 - * "I Didn't Get Where I Am Today," selected by 24.4%. And from Disco 3 - * "Positive Role Model," picked by 32.6%. To see the complete results, please visit my "Commentary" site at http://www.geowayne.com/psbhtml.htm and click one of the "Past Survey Results" options from my top navigation bar or select the appropriate link from my "What's New?" page. My new poll for the week ahead is a major shift from the focus of the past four weeks (for which I imagine many of you are very grateful). I've listed two dozen different factors that might account for why someone might be a fan of the Pet Shop Boys, and I'm asking you to pick the five (or fewer than that, if you prefer) that you believe best account for why you, personally, are a fan. So please take a few moments to make your choices 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 terrific week ahead! Wayne http://www.geowayne.com/psbhtml.htm From psbfan at geowayne.com Thu Oct 16 22:08:53 2014 From: psbfan at geowayne.com (Wayne Studer) Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 22:08:53 -0700 Subject: [Introspective] Poll ends soon on your "PSB fandom factors" Message-ID: <37140567367743D784DA4D5DE83A4D64@COMP8> Hey there! Tomorrow (Saturday) is the last full day of my current poll, which asks you to choose up to five factors (from a list of two dozen that I've put together) that you believe contribute the most to your being a fan of the Pet Shop Boys. If you haven't voted yet, please take a few moments to visit my "Commentary" site at http://www.geowayne.com/psbhtml.htm and make your choices right there on my home page. On Sunday I will end this poll, post the final results, and kick off a new survey for the week ahead. Thanks to everyone who has already voted! And I hope you all have a fantastic weekend! Wayne http://www.geowayne.com/psbhtml.htm From psbfan at geowayne.com Sat Oct 18 22:04:04 2014 From: psbfan at geowayne.com (Wayne Studer) Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2014 22:04:04 -0700 Subject: [Introspective] Final results of poll on your top five "PSB fandom factors" Message-ID: <346A862CE7F443A1BC62DCF9054C106C@COMP8> The final results are in for my poll this past week, in which I asked my site visitors to choose up to five factors that contribute most to them being a fan of the Pet Shop Boys. And the five factors that received the most votes are: * "The intelligence and general excellence of their lyrics," chosen by 73.0% of the voters, * "The beauty of their melodies," selected by 61.9%, * "Their terrific 'musical style' and instrumental arrangements," picked by 52.6%, * "Their innovation, inventiveness, and imagination," selected by 31.9%, and * "Synthpop and/or dance music in general -- and they're among the best at it," chosen by 28.2%. To see the complete results, please visit my "Commentary" site at http://www.geowayne.com/psbhtml.htm and select one of the "Past Survey Results" options in the top navigation bar, or click the appropriate link on my "What's New?" page. My new poll for the week ahead focuses on the producers the Pet Shop Boys have employed to produce their albums. I'm wondering, of those who produced half or more of any particular PSB album (either "alone" or in collaboration with Chris and Neil), which are, in your opinion, the best producer and the one you would most like for them to tap again as producer for some future album. (The two may not necessarily be the same; that's entirely up to you.) Thanks so much to Andrea Grasso for suggesting this question. (Actually, it's only half of the suggestion;the other half would prove much more challenging for me to manage as a poll question, so I may or may not be able to get to it at a later date.) Thanks as well 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 From psbfan at geowayne.com Thu Oct 23 22:00:42 2014 From: psbfan at geowayne.com (Wayne Studer) Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 22:00:42 -0700 Subject: [Introspective] Poll ends soon on PSB album producers Message-ID: <6306D85143C646628086D73B7356C4CE@COMP8> Hey there! Tomorrow (Saturday) is the last full day of my current poll, which asks who you believe is the best producer from among those who have produced half or more of a Pet Shop Boys studio album, and which one you would most like for them to work with again. (The two aren't necessarily the same.) If you haven't voted yet, please take a moment to visit my "Commentary" site at http://www.geowayne.com/psbhtml.htm and make your choices right there on my home page. On Sunday I will end this poll, post the final results, and launch a new survey for the week ahead. Thanks to everyone who has already voted! And I hope you all have a marvelous weekend! Wayne http://www.geowayne.com/psbhtml.htm From psbfan at geowayne.com Sat Oct 25 22:03:55 2014 From: psbfan at geowayne.com (Wayne Studer) Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2014 22:03:55 -0700 Subject: [Introspective] Final results of poll on PSB album producers Message-ID: <591C6079720B4F8D8A6A5C61CE7F0A92@COMP8> The final results are in for my poll this past week, in which I asked my site visitor to choose who they think is the best producer from among those who have produced at least half of a Pet Shop Boys studio album, as well as the one they would most like the Boys to work with again. And the producers who received the most votes were: * Stephen Hague, who 30.7% of the voters felt is the best producer, and * Stuart Price, who 35.9% would most like the Pet Shop Boys to work with again. To be honest, I was pleasantly surprised to see that the top vote-getters in the two parts of this poll didn't turn out to be the same. To see the complete results, please visit my "Commentary" site at http://www.geowayne.com/psbhtml.htm and click one of the "Past Survey Results" options from the top navigation bar or click the appropriate link on my "What's New?" page. My new poll for the week ahead asks pretty much the same questions (best and would most like to work for the Boys again), only this time with regard to the Pet Shop Boys' official remixers. Because there would have been so many to choose from, I've narrowed down the choices to only those who have remixed at least three different PSB songs. So please check out the list of these remixers right there on my home page and, when you're ready, make your choices. And thanks to Henrik for suggesting this question! By the way, because of my unusual personal schedule for the next few weeks, this and the new few surveys after it will follow different-from-usual schedules of their own. For instance, this poll will run one day longer than usual, ending and switching over to a new survey on Monday, November 3, rather than next Sunday. Meanwhile, thanks to everyone who voted in last week's survey. And I hope you all have an excellent week ahead! Wayne http://www.geowayne.com/psbhtml.htm From psbfan at geowayne.com Thu Oct 30 22:08:54 2014 From: psbfan at geowayne.com (Wayne Studer) Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 22:08:54 -0700 Subject: [Introspective] Poll ends soon on frequent PSB remixers Message-ID: <61D658DD03C146A7B906306C8A6D87C0@COMP8> Hey there! To deviate from the norm, tomorrow (Saturday) is *not* the last full day of my current poll. Instead, because of some unusual personal schedules starting now and continuing for the next month or so, Sunday is the last full day of my current poll, which asks you which of the Pet Shop Boys' most frequent "official" remixers (those who have remixed at least three different songs of theirs) you think is the best and which you would most like to remix again for them at some future point. If you haven't voted yet, please take a few moments to visit my "Commentary" site at http://www.geowayne.com/psbhtml.htm and make your choices right there on my home page. On *Monday* I'll end this poll, post the final results, and start a new survey that will run for the next two weeks. Thanks to everyone who has already voted! And I hope you all have a fantastic weekend! Wayne http://www.geowayne.com/psbhtml.htm