Once a month we look back on the stuff we wrote that got the most attention. We don’t do any special weighting for items that appeared later in the month, or anything fancy like that. These are simply the things that received the most views last month, according to our stats. If an item ranked last month, its position is in parenthesis.

1. History Channel Documentary: The Beatles On Record (Nov 2009)

2. (2) Elliott Smith’s Girlfriend Cut Off (2007)

3. Forkcast Filter, Round 19 (Nov 2009)

4. (11) The 100 Greatest Drug Songs Ever (2008)

5. Lester Bangs in Rolling Stone (dot com) (2006)

See positions 6 through 20 after the jump…

6. Julian Casablancas on the Tonight Show (Oct 2009)

7. (8) Billy Ray Cyrus is a Pimp (August 2009)

8. Jack White is the new Rick Rubin (Nov 2009)

9. (1) Fun with Forkcast, Round 18 (Oct 2009)

10. (10) Runaways Movie Planned: Neon Angels (2007)

11. MP3: The Raveonettes – The Chosen One (Nov 2009)

12. Pinkerton: Deluxe Edition Coming Soon (July 2009)

13. Blues Explosion Reissues, Best Of Coming (Oct 2009)

14. (15) Stone Roses Discuss Remastering Their Debut (June 2009)

15. Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo on Asian Women (2007)

16. Reelin’ In. . . (Sept 2009)

17. (4) Fun with Forkcast, Round 17 (Sept 2009)

18. Elvis Perkins In Dearland – The Doomsday E.P. (Nov 2009)

19. (13) The Last Picture Show: Final Photos of Famous People (2008)

20. (18) Elliott Smith’s Archives: The GLONO Interview with Larry Crane (March 2009)

Previous charts: Oct 2008, Nov 2008, Dec 2008, Jan 2009, Feb 2009, March 2009, April 2009, May 2009, June 2009, July 2009, August 2009, Sept 2009, Oct 2009.