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. The J. Geils Band: “Live” Full House
  11. Sade: Love Deluxe
  12. The Doors: Strange Days
  13. Frank Sinatra: In the Wee Small Hours
  14. The Pretty Things: Parachute
  15. Sinéad O’Connor: I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got
  16. Woodstock
  17. The Kinks: The Great Lost Kinks Album
  18. The Sundays: Reading, Writing and Arithmetic
  19. The Bill Evans Trio: Portrait in Jazz
  20. Jethro Tull: The Broadsword and the Beast

The Bottom 10

Starting with the least-read review:

  1. Phil Ochs: Greatest Hits and Gunfight at Carnegie Hall
  2. June Tabor: Against the Streams
  3. The 1930’s: Swinging and Singing Through the Great Depression
  4. Little Richard: The Georgia Peach
  5. The Police: Every Breath You Take-The Singles
  6. Cheap Trick: Heaven Tonight
  7. Carl Perkins: Dance Album
  8. Denim: Back in Denim
  9. Prince and the Revolution: Purple Rain
  10. The Moody Blues: Days of Future Passed