Top 20 Most-Read Reviews (all-time)

Ron Pinkney, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0&gt;, via Wikimedia Commons

This is a list of the Top 20 altrockchick reviews of all time (2011-2025), based on reader visits, updated on February 21, 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. 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.

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

The Top 20

  1. The Kinks: Preservation Acts 1 and 2
  2. Neil Young and Crazy Horse: Rust Never Sleeps
  3. Song Series: “The Rodeo Song” – Garry Lee and the Showdown/Gaye Delorme
  4. Jethro Tull: A Passion Play
  5. Radiohead: In Rainbows
  6. Yes: Close to the Edge
  7. King Crimson: In the Court of the Crimson King
  8. The Grateful Dead: Europe 72
  9. Jethro Tull: Songs from the Wood
  10. Sade: Love Deluxe
  11. The J. Geils Band: “Live” Full House
  12. The Doors: Strange Days
  13. Frank Sinatra: In the Wee Small Hours
  14. David Bowie: Heroes
  15. The Pretty Things: Parachute
  16. Sinéad O’Connor: I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got
  17. Woodstock
  18. The Beatles: Abbey Road
  19. The Kinks: The Great Lost Kinks Album
  20. Radiohead: OK Computer

The Bottom 10

Starting with the least-read review:

  1. Cheap Trick: Heaven Tonight
  2. Tom Petty: Full Moon Fever
  3. Little Richard: The Georgia Peach
  4. Denim: Back in Denim
  5. Prince and the Revolution: Purple Rain
  6. Maddy Prior and June Tabor: Silly Sisters
  7. Sexcapades: Songs of Love, Lust and Depravity
  8. June Tabor: Angel Tiger
  9. Joan Jett and the Blackhearts: I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll
  10. Otis Redding: The Very Best of Otis Redding