Vicki Brown · 1994

Vicki Brown · 1992 Spin it Again - A 1992 soul record so precisely composed and beautifully produced that you wonder how it disappeared almost entirely from conversation.

Eric Clapton · 1997 Spin it Again - Clapton stripped of the band, the arena, and the expectation — it turns out that's when he's most himself.

Mark Knopfler · 1991 Spin it Again - He had the biggest-selling British rock album behind him and made this instead — a quiet, fingerpicked thing about faith healers and dead kings.

Dire Straits · 1991 Spin it Again - Six years after Brothers in Arms sold nine million copies, Knopfler came back with something quieter, more interior, and then walked away for good.

Mark Knopfler · 1996 Spin it Again - Sixteen songs, no stadium in sight, and a guitar tone that makes you realize how much of Dire Straits was just overhead.

Guided by Voices · 1994 Spin it Again - Twenty-eight songs in under forty minutes, recorded on leftover tape in a Dayton basement by a third-grade teacher who had to be at school Monday morning.

My Bloody Valentine · 1991 Spin it Again - Half a million pounds, nineteen studios, and a guitar technique nobody has successfully stolen since.

The Lemonheads · 1992 Spin it Again - Evan Dando covering Gram Parsons and Suzanne Vega in the same year he became famous — and somehow neither one feels like an accident.

The Lemonheads · 2003 Spin it Again - The kind of record you already own but haven't actually sat down with since the Clinton administration.

Lodger · 1992 Spin it Again - A 1992 British pop record so far ahead of its moment that it took thirty years to find the audience it deserved.

Nirvana · 1994 Spin it Again - They stripped the cymbals off Grohl's kit and asked Cobain to play folk songs in a candlelit room, and somehow that became the most honest document of the nineties.

Neil Young · 1992 Spin it Again - Neil Young found Kenny Buttrey working outside of music, drove out to get him, and made the most unhurried album of 1992.

Greg Keelor · 1997 Spin it Again - The kind of record that sat in your collection for years being background music until the night you finally stopped moving.

Patty Griffin · 1994 Spin it Again - She was tending bar in Boston when she made this, and A&M sat on it for two years because they didn't know what to do with a voice that honest.

Emmylou Harris · 1995 Spin it Again - Daniel Lanois put Emmylou Harris in a Victorian house in New Orleans and made the most ambient country record anyone had heard — and somehow her voice was still the loudest thing in the room.

Mariah Carey · 1990 Spin it Again - A nineteen-year-old holds back, and that's exactly what breaks you.

Exposé · 1992 Spin it Again - Martinée built the Miami freestyle sound like load-bearing walls, and this is the record where it finally had somewhere to stand.

Niki Haris · 1991 Spin it Again - She sang background for Madonna and then made a debut this good, which is exactly the kind of injustice that takes thirty years to correct.

Diamanda Galás · 1994 Spin it Again - She trained as a concert pianist and then decided the voice was the more dangerous instrument.