Top 20 Most-Read Reviews (all-time)

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This is a list of the Top 20 altrockchick reviews of all time (2011-2025), based on reader visits, updated on January 30, 2025.

The list does not include my most-read posts. That honor belongs to my four-episode erotic biography. Each episode earned more than double the hits of the top-read review. I had to take it down because some people interpreted the series as an advertisement for illegal services and I found my inbox filled with sleazy propositions.

It’s important to remember that the list is based entirely on reader interest and is not a compilation of what I consider my best work.

I’ve also included the ten least-read posts down at the bottom (of course).

The Top 20

Neil Young and Crazy Horse: Rust Never Sleeps
The Kinks: Preservation Acts 1 and 2
Song Series: “The Rodeo Song” – Garry Lee and the Showdown/Gaye Delorme
Jethro Tull: A Passion Play
Radiohead: In Rainbows
Yes: Close to the Edge
The Grateful Dead: Europe 72
King Crimson: In the Court of the Crimson King
Jethro Tull: Songs from the Wood
The J. Geils Band: “Live” Full House
Sade: Love Deluxe
The Doors: Strange Days
Frank Sinatra: In the Wee Small Hours
The Pretty Things: Parachute
Sinéad O’Connor: I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got
Woodstock
The Kinks: The Great Lost Kinks Album
The Sundays: Reading, Writing and Arithmetic
The Bill Evans Trio: Portrait in Jazz
Jethro Tull: The Broadsword and the Beast

Commentary

My review of Rust Never Sleeps shot to the top of the all-time list one week after publication, breaking the record for most hits in a single day four days in a row. Thank you, Neil Young fans!

The two entries I find most surprising—and delightfully so—are Sinatra and Bill Evans. I published the review of In the Wee Small Hours on the 4th of July when I thought no one would show up. I tend to publish reviews of albums that are interesting to me but unlikely to be of much interest to my audience on American holidays. I’d always thought that people weren’t interested in jazz reviews, but I based that belief on the immediate response. As it turns out, my jazz reviews have legs!

In the end, the stats do not influence what I choose to write about. If I find music that is interesting to me, I’ll write about it sooner or later, statistics and trends be damned.