Tom Waits · 1975 Spin it Again - A 24-year-old singer and his voice on a single night in a Los Angeles diner, with a bass player and a drummer who'd each seen the 20th century coming.

Genesis · 1974 Spin it Again - Peter Gabriel made a double album concept record about a surreal New York street gang in 1974, and somehow convinced a major label to release it.

Murray Head ·

Motordamn · 1977–1978 Spin it Again - A tight touring band in a basement studio, playing like they knew every song could be the last one the label would release.

Eagles · 1972 Spin it Again - Four kids from the Midwest learned to harmonize in Los Angeles and made the first genuinely inevitable pop-country record of the seventies.

Supertramp · 1979

Chilliwack · 1977 Spin it Again - A radio-friendly rock album that sounds designed, not lucky—listen to the spaces between the notes.

Marvin Gaye · 1971

Joni Mitchell · 1975 Spin it Again - Henry Lewy and Joni Mitchell built a LA session band that sounds like the future arriving inside a sprinkler's hiss.

Pukka Orchestra · Mid-1970s Spin it Again - Session players in Toronto making pop music with no intention of being remembered, which is precisely why you should.

The Wailers · 1973 Spin it Again - Clapton heard 'I Shot the Sheriff' here first, made it a hit, and the original got left in the shade — which is exactly backwards.

Boney M. · 1978 Spin it Again - Bobby Farrell died in St. Petersburg on the same date — and in the same city — that Rasputin was murdered. The song was already on the record.

Cymande · 1974 Spin it Again - Ten Caribbean-British musicians made one of the loosest records of the seventies and then quietly disappeared, leaving the crates to do the talking.

Cymande · 1973 Spin it Again - Eleven Caribbean musicians in a London studio made something so self-contained it took twenty years and a thousand sample clearances for the rest of the world to catch up.

The Who · 1973 Spin it Again - Townshend handed the band synthesizer demos so complete the other three sometimes felt like session players — and they still made it sound like a live wire.

The Kinks · 1970 Spin it Again - Ray Davies flew back from an American tour to re-record a single lyric for the BBC, and the song still sounds effortless.

Howlin' Wolf · 1971 Spin it Again - Sixty-one years old, kidneys failing, flown to London — and he was still the least impressed person in the room.

Diana Ross · 1977 Spin it Again - Gil Askey built the room around her voice and then had the sense to leave it alone.

Vicki Brown · 1979 Spin it Again - Forty-one years old, one shot at a solo album, and she phrased every line like she'd been thinking about it since the session before.

Bonnie Raitt · 1977 Spin it Again - She learned slide guitar from Mississippi Fred McDowell in person, and by 1977 she was making records this quietly confident while Warner Bros. looked the other way.