Kraftwerk · 1974 Spin it Again - Four Germans in 1974 deciding that machines were more honest than guitars, and they weren't wrong.

Neu! · 1975 Spin it Again - Michael Rother and Klaus Dinger spent half the record trying to kill each other and the other half sounding like they invented the next twenty years of music, which they did.

Bill Withers · 1972 Spin it Again - Bill Withers recorded this at 34, after years of working a factory floor, and you can hear every single one of those years.

Brian Eno · 1978 Spin it Again - Four tape loops running at different lengths, and somewhere in the spaces between them, Eno quietly ended the idea that music had to demand your attention.

Herbie Hancock · 1973 Spin it Again - Herbie Hancock walked out of Miles Davis's band and into a funk club, and nobody who was there that night ever fully recovered.

Miles Davis · 1970 Spin it Again - Miles Davis walked into the studio in 1970 with electric guitars and a couple of drummers and just refused to explain himself.

Judee Sill · 1973 Spin it Again - She wrote the orchestral arrangements herself while on parole, and you can hear every bit of that in the strings.

Leon Thomas · 1973 Spin it Again - Leon Thomas yodeling over spiritual jazz like he's trying to contact something the rest of us stopped believing in a long time ago.

Alice Coltrane · 1971 Spin it Again - Alice Coltrane buried her husband two years before this and came back with a harp, a tambura, and a swami, and somehow that's the least strange thing about it.

Steely Dan · 1974 Spin it Again - Fagen and Becker figured out that jazz could be smug and it still sounds like a Tuesday night that went somewhere unexpected.

Steely Dan · 1977 Spin it Again - Fagen and Becker hired the best session players in Los Angeles and then made them feel slightly inadequate.