25 best read/clocked on post ever, 2012 - 2025

This blog is in operation for close to fourteen years. Well over 5100 posts have been published since the start in February 2012. Nearly every year something mysterious happens when one post or several get extremely popular, with a dozen of more clicks per day for months on end. This distorts this list no little. But then, that is what it is.

As you will see, there are quite some changes compared to last year, with the note that it might be that I overlooked The Velvet Underground last year. It is one of a few older posts that gather some attraction over many years, leading to the number of views to swell slowly but surely. The big click bang of 2019, when nearly all posts were popular for as long as they were in the 25 most recent posts exactly, has been half wiped out this year. Enter the even bigger bang of 2025, that was a lot more random in its preference where the posts' publishing date was concerned, yet very consistent in the choices made.

Number one remains for the same, for several years already. Only a very special action will be able to change that. What I really like, is that an obscure album, a personal favourite from 1980, has made it into the top 10 this year. Another slow riser. Looking at the number of comments beneath it, many views may have been real

25. (16) Data Mirage Tangram. The Young Gods, 2019

24. (23) Let’s Rock. The Black Keys, 2019

23. ( -)  2024, week 41. 10 singles, 2024

22. ( -)  Save Your Hearts. Madisyn Whajne, 2020

21. (14) Jane Willow live. Haarlem, vrijdag 30 augustus, 2019

20. ( -)  2024, week 41. 10 singles, 2024

19. (12) Norman Fucking Rockwell!. Lana del Rey, 2019

18. ( -)  The Velvet Underground. 45th Anniversary super deluxe edition. The Velvet

             Underground, 2015

17. (11) A Wizard A True Star. Todd Rundgren + Meat Loaf/The Beatles/Jimi Hendrix/The Analogues,                   2017

16. ( -)  Jesus Christ Superstar. World Forum The Hague, Sunday 8 January, 2017 

15. (  9) Echo Chamber. The Strange, 2019

14. (10) The Analogues Live. Wednesday 18, Stadsschouwburg Velsen, 2016

13. ( -)  Plenty Of Blankets. No Ninja Am I, 2022

12. (  8) Anaana. Cari Cari, 2018

11. ( -)  And For Our Next Trick. The Tearaways, 2023

10. ( -)  2025, week 7. 10 singles, 2025

 9. (13) Wooden Soldiers. Wooden Soldiers, 2019

 8. (15)  No Fright. Live Wire, 2013

 7. (  7) One Day (Reckoning Song), Asaf Avidan (Wankelmut RMX), 2012

 6. (  4) Risha. David Eugene Edwards & Alexander Hacke, 2018

 5. ( 5) Remedies (2). Soup, 2017

 4 .( 3) Gé Hofenk, 2012

 3. ( 5) Life In Reverse. TELL, 2024

 2. ( 2) 67 Lost Songs from the 60s. A discussion, 2018

  1. ( 1) David Bowie for Dummies by Tineke G., 2017