From psbfan at geowayne.com Thu Aug 9 21:32:49 2018 From: psbfan at geowayne.com (Wayne Studer) Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2018 21:32:49 -0700 Subject: [Introspective] Poll ends soon on whether you are buying Neil's new book Message-ID: <093a4391-04ce-6439-0a8f-cca795e3c8c0@geowayne.com> Hey there! Tomorrow (Saturday) is the last full day of my current poll, which asks whether you are planning to buy -- or perhaps have already pre-ordered -- Neil Tennant's upcoming book "One Hundred Lyrics and a Poem." 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 choice from the options right there on my home page. On Sunday I will end this poll, post the final results, and launch a new survey for the next tw weeks. Thanks to everyone who has already voted! And I wish you all a wonderful weekend! Wayne http://www.geowayne.com/psbhtml.htm From psbfan at geowayne.com Sat Aug 11 22:33:53 2018 From: psbfan at geowayne.com (Wayne Studer) Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2018 22:33:53 -0700 Subject: [Introspective] Final results of poll on buying Neil's upcoming book Message-ID: <64fb93ff-0497-2ac4-54cd-28107698c499@geowayne.com> The final results are in for my poll of the past two weeks, in which I asked my site visitors whether they were planning to buy (or had already pre-ordered) Neil Tennant's upcoming book "One Hundred Lyrics and a Poem." And the response that received the most votes was: * "Yes, I'm planning to buy the standard edition, but I haven't placed an order," chosen by 28.7% of the voters. 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 next two weeks lists the Pet Shop Boys single b-sides / single bonus tracks of the present decade and asks you to imagine that they had instead saved them for a studio album. In that case, which 12 of those songs do you believe would have made the best studio album. 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 the previous survey! And I hope you all have a most excellent two weeks ahead! Wayne http://www.geowayne.com/psbhtml.htm From psbfan at geowayne.com Thu Aug 23 21:32:52 2018 From: psbfan at geowayne.com (Wayne Studer) Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2018 21:32:52 -0700 Subject: [Introspective] Poll ends soon on recent PSB b-sides that would have made the best studio album Message-ID: Hey there! Tomorrow (Saturday) is the last full day of my current poll, which asks you to choose up to 12 of the Pet Shop Boys' single b-sides/bonus tracks of the current decade that would, in your opinion, together have made the best studio album if they had chosen to release them as such. 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 selections right there on my home page. On Sunday I will end this poll, post the final results, and launch a new survey for the next two weeks ahead. Thanks to everyone who has already voted! And I hope you all have a most enjoyable weekend! Wayne http://www.geowayne.com/psbhtml.htm From psbfan at geowayne.com Sat Aug 25 22:25:13 2018 From: psbfan at geowayne.com (Wayne Studer) Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2018 22:25:13 -0700 Subject: [Introspective] Final results of poll on recent PSB b-sides that would've made the best studio album Message-ID: The final results are in for my poll of the past two weeks, in which I asked my site visitors to pick the 12 recent (2010s) Pet Shop Boys b-sides that, in their opinion, would together have made the best studio album had the Boys decided to release them as such. And the 12 songs that received the most votes were: * In His Imagination, picked by 75.2% of the voters * A Certain 'Je Ne Sais Quoi', chosen by 74.9% * Listening, 59.1% * One Night, 52.8% * Hell, 46.3% * I Started a Joke, 44.2% * In Bits, 41.5% * A Cloud in a Box, 41.2% * The Way Through the Woods, 40.6% * Wiedersehen, 39.1% * Baby, 37.6% and * I Cried for Us, chosen by 36.1% 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 survey for the next two weeks asks to you pick your favorite PSB-written song on the subject of lost love. So I've listed a selection of good candidates chosen by the site visitor who suggestion this question with a little additional input from me. Of course, I've included a "Some other song" option in case your own personal favorite PSB lost-love song isn't listed among them. Thanks so much to Mary E. for suggesting this question! And thanks as well to everyone who voted in my previous survey! And I wish you all a terrific two weeks ahead! Wayne http://www.geowayne.com/psbhtml.htm