Glenn Gould · 1981 Spin it Again - He spent twenty-six years thinking about how he played this the first time, and the answer he came up with was: slower, quieter, and with considerably less to prove.

Kate Bush · 1985 Spin it Again - Side two is a drowning woman surviving the night, and she produced every second of it herself in 1985.

Kate Bush · 1982 Spin it Again - She locked herself in a London studio for eighteen months, fired the management, and came out with something that still has no genre.

Julio Iglesias & Willie Nelson · 1984 Spin it Again - A Spaniard in a blazer and a Texas outlaw in a bandana walked into a studio together, and the result hit number one on both the pop and country charts simultaneously.

Tracey Thorn · 1982 Spin it Again - Tracey Thorn made this before the industry found her, and you can hear exactly that in every quiet second of it.

Taste Of Joy · 1980s Spin it Again - A library record from the Selected Sound archive that your shelves have been hiding from you.

Duran Duran · 1981 Spin it Again - Colin Thurston had just come off Bowie's Berlin trilogy and then produced this — which tells you it was never just a pretty-boy record.

Scritti Politti · 1985 Spin it Again - Green Gartside spent years in a Welsh breakdown, then came back and made the most philosophically loaded pop record of 1985 — with Marcus Miller on bass.

The Human League · 1981 Spin it Again - Martin Rushent almost left 'Don't You Want Me' off the album entirely.

Peter Gabriel · 1989 Spin it Again - Peter Gabriel made a movie soundtrack that spent the next thirty years making the movie irrelevant.

Peter Gabriel · 1989 Spin it Again - Three years, a half-built studio, Youssou N'Dour, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, and a brief to make music that sounds two thousand years old.

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan · 1989 Spin it Again - The voice that made Peter Gabriel stop talking at WOMAD in 1985, finally captured on tape the way it deserved.

Bob Marley & The Wailers · 1980 Spin it Again - He had fourteen months to live when they made this, and the only place it shows is the last song.

Arthur Russell · 1986 Spin it Again - This is a strange album and that's what makes it great. It's one of those ones you make a tape of and share it with your friends. "Listen to This".

Weather Report · 1980 Spin it Again - Zawinul slowed everything down, Shorter finally had room to breathe, and for once Weather Report sounded like they were playing for the end of the night instead of the beginning.

Nile Rodgers · 1985 Spin it Again - Nile Rodgers stripped away the disco architecture, sat down alone with the credits, and made something quieter than anyone wanted from him in 1985.

Michael Jackson · 1982 Spin it Again - Quincy Jones spent two years making sure every single second of this record felt inevitable, and unfortunately for everyone who came after, he succeeded.

Rickie Lee Jones · 1982 Spin it Again - She sounds like the last woman left in a bar at 2 a.m. who actually has somewhere to be, and the band behind her knows it.

Rickie Lee Jones · 1981 Spin it Again - She followed up a hit record by making something stranger and sadder and harder to sell, and it turned out that was the right move.

Fleetwood Mac · 1987 Spin it Again - Buckingham basically built the whole thing in his home studio while the band was falling apart, and somehow that loneliness ended up sounding like the last warm night of summer.