Ginuwine · 1996 Spin it Again - A twenty-two-year-old from DC and an unknown Virginia Beach beatmaker made one of the most spatially strange R&B records of the decade, and somehow everyone only remembers the horse.

Mariah Carey · 1997 Spin it Again - She was leaving her controlling husband-label-boss and made the only Mariah Carey album that sounds genuinely private.

Aaliyah · 1996 Spin it Again - Timbaland was twenty-two, the drum patterns land slightly wrong until they land completely right, and nobody else sounded like this in 1996.

Various Artists · 1992 Spin it Again - Rakim, Big Daddy Kane, EPMD, Cypress Hill, and Teddy Riley in the same room — and that's not even the most notable thing about this record.

Snoop Dogg · 1993 Spin it Again - He was arraigned for murder the same week this came out, and it still moved 800,000 copies in seven days.

Various Artists · 1993 Spin it Again - Two twenty-one-year-old directors demanded original music instead of a licensed playlist, and that decision is why this still sounds like something rather than a souvenir.

2Pac · 1994 Spin it Again - The G-funk is immaculate, Nate Dogg sounds like he's saving his soul, and Pac hadn't become the myth yet.

Mogwai · 1999 Spin it Again - Dave Fridmann took five Scottish post-rock kids to a converted farmhouse in upstate New York and made them be quiet for an hour.

The Tragically Hip · 1998 Spin it Again - The Hip went deeper into their own country while everyone else was turning down the tuning pegs, and it paid off in a way that is still hard to explain to anyone who wasn't there.

Patricia Barber · 1994 Spin it Again - Recorded in a mob bar on Monday nights by a pianist who never left Chicago and never needed to.

Bronski Beat · 1996 Spin it Again - The one Bronski Beat album nobody talks about is quietly doing more interesting things than the one everybody talks about.

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan · 1990 Spin it Again - Peter Gabriel had the good sense to build a studio in the English countryside and then invite someone who made him irrelevant.

Joe Satriani · 1992 Spin it Again - Turns out all those guitar-hero melodies hold up fine without the amp.

Nils Lofgren · 1992 Spin it Again - He spent the decade being the second name in the credits for Neil Young and Springsteen, then walked into the Ryman with an acoustic guitar and no backup plan.

Nils Lofgren · 1997 Spin it Again - He played piano on *After the Gold Rush* having practiced for three days. This is what four more decades of that kind of nerve sounds like.

The Carter Family & Dolly Parton · 1998 Spin it Again - Dolly Parton walked into a room with the last living Carters and nobody added reverb.

Patricia Barber · 1994 Spin it Again - Two microphones, a working bar in Chicago, and one of the most unsettling piano voices in American music.

Laurie Anderson · 1993 Spin it Again - This proves that all albums in the 90's weren't bad

Various Artists · 1998 Spin it Again - Three men, three centuries of technique between them, all circling the same six suites like they each found something different hidden inside the wood.

Mazzy Star · 1993 Spin it Again - Hope Sandoval sounds like she learned to sing in a room she was trying to disappear into, and David Roback let the reverb prove her right.