John Cale · 1974 Spin it Again - The Velvet Underground's other founder made the record that explains why fear and art rock were always the same conversation.

Marianne Faithfull · 1979 Spin it Again - The voice that fell apart in the sixties came back a decade later as something far more dangerous.

The Rolling Stones · 1971 Spin it Again - Two days in Muscle Shoals, a zipper Andy Warhol designed, and Mick Taylor playing three and a half unrequested minutes on 'Can't You Hear Me Knocking' that nobody stopped.

Bob Marley and the Wailers · 1973 Spin it Again - Thirty-four minutes, nine songs, and the last time Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer were in the room.

Bob Marley and the Wailers · 1973 Spin it Again - The Wailers walked into Harry J's Studio in Kingston and recorded an album so locked-in it made every rhythm section that came after it sound like they were still figuring out where to stand.

Blondie · 1978 Spin it Again - Mike Chapman flew in from LA, ran Debbie Harry through takes until she was nearly done, and accidentally made the template for the next decade of pop.

XTC · 1979 Spin it Again - Hugh Padgham was in the room, Terry Chambers was behind the kit, and the bass guitar sounds like it's trying to escape the speakers.

Dire Straits · 1979 Spin it Again - Jerry Wexler flew a British pub-rock band to Alabama and let the room do the work.

Todd Rundgren · 1972 Spin it Again - This is the sound of one man deciding to just *do it all*, and somehow pulling off a double album that defies easy categorization.

Wings · 1973 Spin it Again - Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney, and Denny Laine went to Nigeria and made an album that sounds impossible for the conditions.

Bob Marley & The Wailers · 1976 Spin it Again - He recorded this without Chris Blackwell and it turned out to be the most self-possessed thing he ever made.

Bob Marley & The Wailers · 1978 Spin it Again - The world handed him a megaphone after Exodus and he used it to talk about lying in the grass.

Bob Marley & The Wailers · 1977 Spin it Again - He got shot, played a concert two days later anyway, flew to London, and made this.

Keith Jarrett & Jan Garbarek · 1974 Spin it Again - Manfred Eicher put four people in a room in Oslo and trusted the silence as much as the notes.

Keith Jarrett · 1972 Spin it Again - Before the Köln Concert made him famous, Jarrett sat alone in a German studio and invented the whole template in one morning.

Brian Eno · 1975. Spin it Again - Brian Eno and Phil Collins in 1975. That's all you need to know.

Brian Eno · 1978 Spin it Again - Eno took the waiting room and made it the destination, and in 1978 that was either a joke or a religion depending on how late your flight was.

Yes · 1973 Spin it Again - Four sides of vinyl, four Hindu scriptures, and four guys who forgot that restraint is also a musical decision.

Gentle Giant · 1972 Spin it Again - Seven musicians in 1972 deciding that medieval counterpoint and prog rock were basically the same problem, and being right.

Van der Graaf Generator · 1971 Spin it Again - Peter Hammill in 1971, so convinced civilization was ending that he made a twenty-three-minute suite about it, and the unsettling part is he wasn't wrong.