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. Fun with Forkcast, Round 18 (Oct 2009)

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

3. (14) Noel Gallagher Quits Oasis (August 2009)

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

5. Five from the Archive: Weir Does Dylan (Oct 2009)

See positions 6 through 20 after the jump…

6. Autopsy results: Michael Jackson was healthy (Oct 2009)

7. Another Adam Yauch Cancer Update (Oct 2009)

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

9. Pearl Jam Is Week’s Top Seller (Sept 2009)

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

11. The 100 Greatest Drug Songs Ever (2008)

12. (1) Rhino Records: 1973 – 2009 (Updated) (Sept 2009)

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

14. Lost Classics: D.R.I. – Dealing With It (Oct 2009)

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

16. Five from the Archive: Zevon in ’78 (Oct 2009)

17. Streams: Mountain Goats, XX, Mission of Burma, more (Oct 2009)

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

19. Review: Richard Hawley – Truelove’s Gutter (Oct 2009)

20. If you don’t got Mojo Nixon… (Oct 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.