[Introspective] Final results of poll on PSB albums farthest from their "comfort zone"

[Wayne Studer]

The final results are in for my poll this past week, in which I asked my 
site visitors to choose the Pet Shop Boys albums that take them farthest 
from their musical "comfort zone." And that albums that received the 
most votes were:

* "Release," picked as the *studio* album that takes them farthest from 
their musical comfort zone by 67.3% of the voters; and

* their ballet "The Most Incredible Thing" chosen as the 
PSB/Tennant-Lowe "special project" that takes them farthest from their 
comfort zone by 55.8%.

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 he appropriate link 
on my "What's New?" page.

My new poll for the week ahead sets up one of my occasional imaginary 
scenarios and calls for a choice based upon it. In this case, I'm 
listing twelve of the Boys' single b-sides that received the highest 
ratings in my periodic "Rating Project" surveys, and I'm asking you to 
imagine that they were never released before, but instead have just been 
released as the tracks on a brand new PSB studio album. How would you 
compare such an album with all of their other studio albums? Would it be 
one of their best? One of their weakest? Or somewhere in the middle? So 
please check out the list of songs and then make your choice from the 
options provided right there on my home page.

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