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BlueSwan wrote:

Undertaker wrote:Somewhere would have been a great track if the beginning and the end had some sort of effort put in for the first and last 30 seconds of the song.

Dave

"Somewhere" could indeed have been an awesome track. All they needed was a production more in the vein something like "Always On My Mind". Then all they needed was a tune sounding something like "It's A Sin". Then it would kick ass! Easy!

And of course, lyrics like 'Being Boring'. Oh well, I'm sure that's what the next PSB single will sound like

Stats-freak wrote:
Take your time and give it a shot. You don't have to post your list within 10 minutes...

Hey, thanks for urging me to do it. I'll try then, but maybe in the weekend. Can't do it from monday to friday.

Also... it is not a question of listening, as the songs are all fresh in my mind. The problem (besides time) is that it is a difficult task because the songs are all good.

I mean: LIBERATION, MIRACLES, FLAMBOYANT, IT'S ALRIGHT, CAN YOU FORGIVE HER, I WOULDN'T NORMALLY DO are all exceptional songs. I really don't know which ones I like more.

But I'll try saturday when I am home.

Hey stats-freak, I can see it's really nice for you to know the results and hoping for more entries and changes to the statistics. But for the rest of us having given our entries weeks ago its either let us know the results soon or we we will forget about it. I am not the most frequent topic-reader, so I'll probably forget about this poll in a short time, then remember it a year later and frustratingly won't find it again. So as I guess the sence of such polls is to see a result (otherwise I would restrict myself from answering future ones) I would be glad if you could provide your statistics soon. And I am really looking forward to see them. No harm intended...

13thJoerg wrote:Hey stats-freak, I can see it's really nice for you to know the results and hoping for more entries and changes to the statistics. But for the rest of us having given our entries weeks ago its either let us know the results soon or we we will forget about it. I am not the most frequent topic-reader, so I'll probably forget about this poll in a short time, then remember it a year later and frustratingly won't find it again. So as I guess the sence of such polls is to see a result (otherwise I would restrict myself from answering future ones) I would be glad if you could provide your statistics soon. And I am really looking forward to see them. No harm intended...

OK, I will post the results soon. I was still hoping for a few additional lists by people who didn't post a complete Top 38, and I was giving them some time to finish their lists.

I also posted a request on the German forum, aimed at some German users who posted their Top 38 over there. I would like to include those lists in this poll as well, but I feel I have to ask their permission for this (or shouldn't I?)

Anyway: results are due soon!

Here's mine:

1. Rent
2. Can You Forgive Her?
3. Always On My Mind
4. I Don't Know What You Want...
5. West End Girls
6. Domino Dancing
7. Flamboyant
8. Being Boring
9. A Red Letter Day
10. Jealousy
11. Opportunities
12. Suburbia
13. Miracles
14. So Hard
15. ...Drunk
16. Left To My Own Devices
17. Liberation
18. What Have I Done To Deserve This?
19. Yesterday, When I Was Mad
20. Paninaro 95
21. Heart
22. Home & Dry
23. London
24. I Wouldn't Normally Do This Kind Of Thing
25. Where The Streets Have No Name
26. Before
27. Se A Vida E
28. I Get Along
29. Go West
30. It's A Sin
31. Love Comes Quickly
32. How Can You Expect To Be Taken Seriously?
33. Was It Worth It?
34. Single
35. DJ Culture
36. Somewhere
37. New York City Boy
38. It's Alright

For those who asked and those who wondered: I have decided to CLOSE the votes counting THIS WEEKEND. So, I will announce the results very soon. If someone still wants to vote, BE QUICK. You have approximately 1 day left.

This is my first post I think. Here we go:

1 Love Comes Quickly
2 Single-Bilingual
3 Liberation
4 Flamboyant
5 It's A Sin
6 Se a Vida e
7 Left To My Own Devices
8 Miracles
9 Always On My Mind
10 It's Alright
11 Being Boring
12 Paninaro 95
13 You Only Tell Me You Love Me...
14 Rent
15 Domino Dancing
16 Somewhere
17 Suburbia
18 I Would't Normally Do...
19 Opportunities
20 How Can You Expect To Be Taken Seriously
21 Heart
22 Can You Forgive Her?
23 Was It Worth It
24 West End Girls
25 Where The Streets Have No Name
26 A Red Letter Day
27 Jealousy
28 London
29 I Don't Know What You Want But...
30 Go West
31 Before
32 What Have I Done To Deserve This
33 Dj Culture
34 So Hard
35 Home And Dry
36 New York City Boy
37 I Get Along
38 Yesterday When I was Mad

01 West End Girls
02 Left To My Own Devices
03 Being Boring
04 Jealousy
05 So Hard
06 Liberation
07 Single-Bilingual
08 Suburbia
09 Always On My Mind
10 Se A Vida E (That's The Way Life Is)
11 Opportunities (Let's Make Lots Of Money)
12 What Have I Done To Deserve This
13 It's Alright
14 It's A Sin
15 A Red Letter Day
16 Rent
17 Domino Dancing
18 I Get Along
19 Love Comes Quickly
20 Yesterday When I Was Mad
21 How Can You Expect To Be Taken Seriously
22 Somewhere
23 I Wouldn't Normally Do This Kind Of Thing
24 DJ Culture
25 Go West
26 Where The Streets Have No Name (I Can't Take My Eyes Off You)
27 Can You Forgive Her
28 New York City Boy
29 Home And Dry
30 Paninaro 95
31 Before
32 Heart
33 I Don't Know What You Want But I Can't Give It Any More
34 Flamboyant
35 You Only Tell Me You Love Me When You're Drunk
36 London
37 Miracles
38 Was It Worth It

A couple of new lists to process... We're approaching 50 entries now...
I had a lack of time this weekend, but the results are due very soon. I will try to post the list today, if not tomorrow.

After processing 47 lists on this forum, I may now announce the RESULTS of the "Rank The Singles" survey...

*drum rolls*

And the winner is: Can You Forgive Her with 1342 points.

It was a very close race with the runner-up It's A Sin , which ended just 9 points behind the winner.

The worst single according to the participants is I Get Along

The full list

01 Can You Forgive Her (1342)
02 It's A Sin (1333)
03 West End Girls (1316)

04 Left To My Own Devices (1291)
05 Being Boring (1286)
06 Always On My Mind (1233)
07 Domino Dancing (1196)
08 Rent (1140)
09 Heart (1137)
10 So Hard (1114)

11 Suburbia (1109)
12 Miracles (1090)
13 What Have I Done To Deserve This (1075)
14 Love Comes Quickly (1058 )
15 Flamboyant (1045)
16 Go West (1011)
17 Paninaro 95 (961)
18 Opportunities (Let's Make Lots Of Money) (952)
19 I Don't Know What You Want But I Can't Give It Any More (949)
20 I Wouldn't Normally Do This Kind Of Thing (875)

21 You Only Tell Me You Love Me When You're Drunk (871)
22 How Can You Expect To Be Taken Seriously (869)
23 It's Alright (868 )
24 Where The Streets Have No Name (I Can't Take My Eyes Off You) (835)
25 Liberation (828 )
26 A Red Letter Day (817)
27 Jealousy (806)
28 Se A Vida E (790)
29 Yesterday When I Was Mad (685)
30 Was It Worth It (655)

31 Before (642)
32 DJ Culture (623)
33 Single-Bilingual (611)
34 Home And Dry (562)
35 New York City Boy (487)
36 London (477)
37 Somewhere (452)
38 I Get Along (436)

(By the way: If I had included 4 additional lists by users from the German forum, West End Girls would have taken over the second place from It's A Sin. Can You Forgive Her would still have been the winner.)

stats-freak wrote:And the winner is: Can You Forgive Her

Thanx for the effort!

Interesting, 'I Get Along' is the most
disliked one. Let's hate it, let's miss-
behave ...

Great work, stats-freak ! Interesting, if not exactly surprising result. Needless to say, I am thrilled that the two best PSB singles (and frankly the two best singles ever released) were number one and two, even if I would place them in reverse order.

Yeah, the top three is hardly a surprise...Can you forgive her? wins most of these polls. Interesting to see that the best post-Very single is Miracle at #12.

I don't understand why people dislike 'I get along' so much, but I Release is certainly the big loser with its singles going in at #34, #36 and #38 respectively, whereas Actually holds #2, #8, #9 and #13.

It would be interesting to get some statistics about what songs divide people most etc.

Joemoz wrote:Yeah, the top three is hardly a surprise...Can you forgive her? wins most of these polls. Interesting to see that the best post-Very single is Miracle at #12.

I don't understand why people dislike 'I get along' so much, but I Release is certainly the big loser with its singles going in at #34, #36 and #38 respectively, whereas Actually holds #2, #8, #9 and #13.

It would be interesting to get some statistics about what songs divide people most etc.

Additional stats will be published here soon. Miracles was on a much higher position for a long time. It spent time around position #5.

I'm surprised about the good position of So Hard and Domino Dancing. I'm surprised about the disappointing position of Go West and Se A Vida E. I'm surprised about Seriously beating Streets (Pet Shop Boys take note)

Btw:
Result discography (+ seriously) versus post-discography:
19896 - 14931 points

The users who participated in this survey, are:
Lush, Rent, Zeus, Andmaste, BlueSwan, Zukunft, Alfonso, CBA, Technotrancemix, The Wanderer, Devices, E-Mail Vampire, Dreamcatcher 2003, One Of The Crowd, 13thJoerg, Glenny4, Mattis, Bookshopboy, Steve Fett, Kirk Mack, Chrispsb, SilentRose, Jealousy, Undertaker, Joe Stalin, Markus, Tenlow, Rusty, SynthDuos, dVTB, Pani, Dipso, SPCD1035, Joemoz, Exciter, Blossom, Morrison, Pepe, Ronald42, Noteburg, ifwicon, jamie1978, chr, Being boring, Eldritch, Bilin_gual and Reznorxx.

stats-freak wrote:I'm surprised about Seriously beating Streets (Pet Shop Boys take note)

Neil doesn't do mongboards.