Emmylou Harris · 1975 Spin it Again - Emmylou Harris walked into a Los Angeles studio still carrying Gram Parsons, and somehow that made the whole thing sound more honest than anything Nashville was putting out.

Vicki Brown · 1979 Spin it Again - One of the best voices in British pop spent twenty years making everyone else sound good, then made this, and the world looked the other way.

Vicki Brown · 1978 Spin it Again - Joe Brown's wife went to Munich and made a soul record that splits the difference between Dusty Springfield and Amy Winehouse, then died at 48 before anyone noticed.

Led Zeppelin · 1971 Spin it Again - They didn't put their name on the cover, and it still sold fifty million copies — which tells you everything about whether the music needed the marketing.

Black Sabbath · 1970 Spin it Again - Four kids from Birmingham with two days of studio time invented an entire genre and didn't notice.

Deep Purple · 1972 Spin it Again - The casino burned down the night before they were supposed to record, so they set up in a hotel corridor and made this instead.

Deep Purple · 1972 Spin it Again - You've owned this record for years and you still haven't actually listened to Jon Lord.

Karla Bonoff · 1978 Spin it Again - Linda Ronstadt was having the hits; Bonoff was writing them and making her own records anyway.

Andrew Gold · 1977 Spin it Again - His mother dubbed Audrey Hepburn's singing voice. His father wrote the Exodus score. Andrew Gold turned that inheritance into immaculate West Coast pop, and this is where it peaked.

Andrew Gold · 1976 Spin it Again - A Burbank studio record from 1976 that most people own for one song and have never actually heard.

Jimmy Cliff · 1972 Spin it Again - A Kingston crime movie with a shoestring budget accidentally made the most important reggae record ever released outside Jamaica.

Vicki Brown · 1977 Spin it Again - She sang on half of London's hit records in the seventies, and almost nobody knew her name until this.

Vicki Brown · 1978 Spin it Again - She spent twenty years being the best thing on other people's records, then made one of her own, and nobody noticed.

Neil Young & Crazy Horse · 1979 Spin it Again - One side acoustic, one side electric, and the whole thing sounds like it was recorded in a building that was on fire.

Bob Dylan · 1976 Spin it Again - The album Blood on the Tracks gets all the credit, but this is the one with a room full of people who'd follow him anywhere.

Joni Mitchell · 1976 Spin it Again - She drove across the country alone after a breakup and came back with nine songs and Jaco Pastorius on fretless bass — no drummer required.

Vashti Bunyan · 1971 Spin it Again - Joe Boyd produced it at the same studio where Nick Drake made his records, it sold nothing, and she disappeared for thirty years — which is the only explanation for why you don't already own this.

Grateful Dead · 1970 Spin it Again - Six months after Workingman's Dead, they went back to the same room and got it even more right.

Neil Young · 1972 Spin it Again - He slipped a disc, wore a sling, and recorded the best-selling album of 1972 in a barn and a Nashville studio with a drummer who'd already played on Blonde on Blonde.

Gang of Four · 1979 Spin it Again - Every band you love that plays guitar like a blunt instrument learned it from this record.