Prince · 1988 Spin it Again - Prince, fresh off scrapping the Black Album, went in the opposite direction and made his most optimistic record.

Prince · 1987 Spin it Again - This is the album that should have been his *Thriller* — the one where the radio hits and the deep cuts are equally unhinged, and the air between the instruments matters as much as the notes.

Prince · 1981 Spin it Again - A twenty-two-year-old asking who he is over the only sound that matters: his own.

Prince · 1985 Spin it Again - He made Purple Rain a year earlier and could have done anything; instead he locked himself in the studio and made something genuinely strange.

Prince · 1982 Spin it Again - He recorded it alone in a basement in Minnesota and somehow made it sound like the future was starting right there.

Prince & The Revolution · 1984 Spin it Again - He stripped the bass line out of 'When Doves Cry' at the last minute and it somehow has more bottom than anything on the radio that year.