From psbfan at geowayne.com Thu Nov 1 21:13:23 2018 From: psbfan at geowayne.com (Wayne Studer) Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2018 21:13:23 -0700 Subject: [Introspective] Poll ends soon on your first-ever "PSB product" Message-ID: <243fca74-78e5-9e7f-9f98-d864d26ba728@geowayne.com> Hey there! Tomorrow (Saturday) is the last full day of my current survey, which asks you to dig back into your memory and name the first-ever "PSB product" (album, single, DVD, ticket, etc.) that you ever bought, or at least that you ever owned, such as if you received it as a gift. 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 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 great weekend! Wayne http://www.geowayne.com/psbhtml.htm From the.ackermans at juno.com Fri Nov 2 19:25:16 2018 From: the.ackermans at juno.com (Don Ackerman) Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2018 02:25:16 GMT Subject: [Introspective] Neil Reads Moby Dick? Message-ID: <20181102.212516.26696.0@webmail03.vgs.untd.com> More pods with Neil Tennant! Talks about lyrics and his book https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-quietus-radio/id1141717351?mt=2 Doctor Bits, best Songs ever, & more https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/word-podcast/id137323360?mt=2 What he’d take on a desert island https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/desert-island-discs-archive-2005-2010/id435713614?mt=2 Does anyone know of more? Maybe any with Chris Lowe? ---------- Original Message ---------- From: "Don Ackerman" To: introspective at lists.jameslick.com Subject: Re: [Introspective] Neil Reads Moby Dick? Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2018 22:51:27 GMT Neil reads Chapter 11: Nightgown (the date listed in September 25, 2012). ---------- Original Message ---------- From: "Don Ackerman" To: introspective at lists.jameslick.com Subject: [Introspective] Neil Reads Moby Dick? Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2018 22:07:47 GMT I found this accidentally searching for Pet Shop Boys content. https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-moby-dick-big-read/id561715706?mt=2&i=1000381644491 PSB Forever, Don — ____________________________________________________________ The IRS Will Hate These 47 Passive Income Secrets lifetime-income-report.com http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/5bd4e1dd903f061dd3dcbst01vuc _______________________________________________ introspective at lists.jameslick.com delivery to the.ackermans at juno.com https://lists.jameslick.com/mailman/options/introspective/the.ackermans%40juno.com https://lists.jameslick.com/mailman/listinfo/introspective _______________________________________________ introspective at lists.jameslick.com delivery to the.ackermans at juno.com https://lists.jameslick.com/mailman/options/introspective/the.ackermans%40juno.com https://lists.jameslick.com/mailman/listinfo/introspective ____________________________________________________________ Vanna White “Banned”? Latest In The Wheel Of Fortune Drama.. track.volutrk.com http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/5bdd075c7aca975c6897st04vuc From psbfan at geowayne.com Sat Nov 3 21:51:15 2018 From: psbfan at geowayne.com (Wayne Studer) Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2018 21:51:15 -0700 Subject: [Introspective] Final results of survey on your first-ever "PSB product" Message-ID: <7ea574a6-5d85-1cec-a816-4947628a4ef0@geowayne.com> The final results are in for my survey of the past two weeks, in which I asked my site visitors about the first-ever "Pet Shop Boys product" they ever bought, or at least that they ever owned. And the selection chosen by the largest number of voters was: * The album "Actually," cited by 16.7% of the voters as their first-ever "PSB product." 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 -- and, yes, I'm now returning to my typical weekly poll schedule -- may be a little more conceptually challenging than most. Here's how it works: I've listed each of the Pet Shop Boys' singles for which they also released a music video (not counting one of those mere "lyric videos" that have grown more common of late), and I'm asking you to compare the relative quality, however you define it for yourself, of the song versus its video. You may then place *two* votes: one for the song/video combo in which you feel the quality of the song itself is the "most better," so to speak, compared to the video, and the other for the combo in which you believe the quality of the video is the "most better" compared to the song. For instance, if you don't much care for both the song and its video -- that is, you don't like either one of them -- then that's not a good choice for you. But if you really like the song and don't like the video, or vice-versa, then it's an excellent candidate for your vote. Just pick the ones for which you feel that way most strongly. Please note that you don't have to place two votes if you don't want to; if you prefer, you can vote in only one category. Thanks so much to Rashomon for suggesting this intriguing poll question! Thanks as well to everyone who voted in my previous survey! And I wish you all a marvelous week ahead! Wayne http://www.geowayne.com/psbhtml.htm From psbfan at geowayne.com Thu Nov 8 21:06:18 2018 From: psbfan at geowayne.com (Wayne Studer) Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2018 21:06:18 -0800 Subject: [Introspective] Poll on comparing PSB singles with their videos ends soon Message-ID: Hey there! Tomorrow (Saturday) is the last full day of my current poll, which lists all of the Pet Shop Boys' singles that had music videos (which of course is most of them) and asks you to pick two: (1) the one in which the single is the "most better" than its video and (2) the one in which the video is the "most better" than its single. (If this doesn't make much sense to you, I explain it in a lot more detail on my website.) 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. Thanks to everyone who has already voted! And I hope you all have a wonderful weekend! Wayne http://www.geowayne.com/psbhtml.htm From psbfan at geowayne.com Sat Nov 10 21:34:47 2018 From: psbfan at geowayne.com (Wayne Studer) Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2018 21:34:47 -0800 Subject: [Introspective] Final results of poll comparing PSB singles and their videos Message-ID: <2b5b1bc7-7468-b10a-5e57-ada4709f169d@geowayne.com> The final results are in for my poll of the past week, in which I asked my site visitors to pick two Pet Shop Boys singles: (1) the one for which the song is the "most better" than its music video, and (2) the one in which the video is the "most better" than the song. And the single/video combos that received the most votes are: * "Left to My Own Devices," picked by 23.2% of the voters as the PSB single that is the "most better" than its video, and * "I'm with Stupid," chosen by 7.9% of the voters as the video that is the "most better" than the song itself. Quite a difference there, with the results far more "spread out," so to speak, for the latter than the former. At any rate, if you would like to see the complete, detailed 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 is conceptually much simpler than that one. I've listed the PSB collaborations (with some slight "adjustments") that the Boys themselves have listed on their official website (at http://petshopboys.co.uk/product#collaboration), and I'm asking you to pick the one that you would *most* like to hear them perform live in concert. (Hence, ones that they've already performed live on tour or during one of their occasional "residencies" are omitted.) So please take a few moments to check out the songs I've listed right there on my home page and make your choice. And thanks to John McFadden for suggesting this question! Thanks as well 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 Nov 15 21:13:14 2018 From: psbfan at geowayne.com (Wayne Studer) Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2018 21:13:14 -0800 Subject: [Introspective] Poll ends soon on PSB collaboration you most want to hear live Message-ID: <2200d8ae-4d8c-6ea9-19fc-7ff7afd01fad@geowayne.com> Hey there! Tomorrow (Saturday) is the last full day of my current poll, which asks you to pick, of the individual songs (as opposed to entire albums) listed by the Pet Shop Boys on their official website's "Collaborations" page that they have not yet performed live on tour or during their occasional "residencies" (as opposed to sporadic "one-offs"), the one that you would most like to hear them perform live in concert. 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 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 phenomenal weekend! Wayne http://www.geowayne.com/psbhtml.htm From psbfan at geowayne.com Sat Nov 17 22:08:03 2018 From: psbfan at geowayne.com (Wayne Studer) Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2018 22:08:03 -0800 Subject: [Introspective] Final results of poll on collaboration you'd most like to hear PSB perform live Message-ID: The final results are in for my poll of the past week, in which I asked my site visitors to choose the Pet Shop Boys collaboration listed on their own website's "Collaborations" page -- but which they haven't yet performed on tour -- that they would indeed most like to hear them perform live. And the collaboration that received the most votes was: * "Disappointed," picked by 25.8% 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 week ahead is inspired by recent articles I've read online by various music critics that seem to identify a "PSB golden age" encompassing their first five studio albums. This made me wonder, taking that "golden age" definition as a core assumption, how my site visitors would rank just those five albums in comparison with each other. In other words, which one would you rank #1, their very best, down to #5, the comparatively "weakest" of the batch? Please keep in mind, however, that I don't consider *any* of these albums "weak" by any means. On the contrary, they're all superb! And I'm confident that most if not almost all of you would agree! But in any such group, some virtually have to be stronger than others. So how would you rank them? Please take a moment to make your choices right there on my home page. In the meantime, thanks to everyone who voted in last week's survey! I hope you all have a wonderful week ahead! And Happy Thanksgiving to my fellow U.S. fans and anyone else who observes the holiday this coming week! Wayne http://www.geowayne.com/psbhtml.htm From psbfan at geowayne.com Thu Nov 22 20:30:13 2018 From: psbfan at geowayne.com (Wayne Studer) Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2018 20:30:13 -0800 Subject: [Introspective] Poll ends soon on ranking the first five PSB studio albums Message-ID: Hey there! Tomorrow (Saturday) is the last full day of my current poll, which asks you to rank the Pet Shop Boys' first five studio albums -- what many music critics regard as their "classic" or "golden" era, from Please through Very -- from #1 to #5, with #1 being the one that you think is the best and #5 being the "weakest" of the batch (although I think most of us would agree that none of them is actually a "weak" album). 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 terrific weekend! Wayne http://www.geowayne.com/psbhtml.htm From psbfan at geowayne.com Sat Nov 24 21:35:14 2018 From: psbfan at geowayne.com (Wayne Studer) Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2018 21:35:14 -0800 Subject: [Introspective] Final results of poll ranking the first five PSB studio albums Message-ID: <73bdc041-3648-644d-0cab-f88f6b4ea7d2@geowayne.com> The final results are in for my poll of the past week, in which I asked my site visitors how they would rank the Pet Shop Boys' first five albums -- what many if not most music critics regard as their "classic" era -- from #1 to #5, with #1 being the best of the bunch. And the album that received the highest (that is, the lowest figure considering 1 is the best) average ranking is: * Behaviour, with an average rank of 2.45 and ranked #1 by 36.9% of the voters (more than any of the other four albums). In two out of three ways to analyze the results, including the average rankings, the final ranking of these albums is: 1. Behaviour 2. Very 3. Introspective 4. Actually 5. Please (In the third way to analyze the results, the positions of Introspective and Actually are switched in the rankings.) 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 takes its cue from the Pet Shop Boys' sixth studio album, Bilingual. So far that has been their only album dominated by "Latin" musical styles. One of my regular correspondents, porkchopkid, was wondering whether, after all this time (now more than 20 years), you would like for them to put out another new studio album that's similarly Latin-oriented. Or, if not Latin, would you like for them to devote a future album to some other geographically/culturally based style of music? Or would you prefer for them to avoid such styles, at least for all or most of an album? Thanks so much to porkchopkid for suggesting this intriguing question! And thanks as well to everyone who voted in last week's survey! I hope you all have a superb week ahead! Wayne http://www.geowayne.com/psbhtml.htm From psbfan at geowayne.com Thu Nov 29 21:09:06 2018 From: psbfan at geowayne.com (Wayne Studer) Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2018 21:09:06 -0800 Subject: [Introspective] Poll ends soon on whether PSB should record another "Latin" album Message-ID: <5f554e37-0f23-ba12-1f6d-2f5fd7fccf79@geowayne.com> Hey there! Tomorrow (Friday) is the last full day of my current poll, which asks whether you would like the Pet Shop Boys to record and release another album that, like Bilingual, has a predominantly Latin musical style or influence. (Not surprisingly, I make sure this is more than just a simple Yes/No question.) 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 provided 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