Matthew Tavares · 2006 Spin it Again - Solo piano, 2006, Toronto, made before BADBADNOTGOOD existed — this is what it sounds like when someone plays like nobody's watching because nobody was.

Chilly Gonzales · 2005 Spin it Again - The pedal noise under 'Never Stop' is not a mistake, and realizing that changes the whole record.

Neil Young & Crazy Horse · 2003 Spin it Again - A concept album recorded in a ranch barn with a band that had been playing together since Nixon — it should not work as well as it does.

D'Angelo · 2000 Spin it Again - Questlove played the drums slightly behind the beat on purpose, and that decision is why this record still sounds like nothing else made in your lifetime.

Mumford & Sons · 2009 Spin it Again - The backlash came so fast you might have missed that the record itself is actually good.

Radiohead · 2000 Spin it Again - Thom Yorke couldn't pick up a guitar after *OK Computer*, so they made this instead.

Broadcast · 2000 Spin it Again - Trish Keenan sang like she was narrating a film nobody had made yet, and then she was gone at 42.

The Tragically Hip · 2004 Spin it Again - Built in their own converted bathhouse outside Kingston, by men who had stopped waiting for America to figure it out.

The Tragically Hip · 2006 Spin it Again - The Hip made this one when they had nothing left to prove and everything left to lose, and it sounds like both.

Sussan Deyhim · 2006 Spin it Again - Deyhim trained for years to sing in ceremonial contexts and then spent her career making sure none of those ceremonies exist.

Cheb i Sabbah · 2006 Spin it Again - Rahat Fateh Ali Khan over a four-on-the-floor kick drum, and somehow nobody flinches.

Cheb i Sabbah · 2009 Spin it Again - You've had this record for years and you've never actually listened to it.

Irma Thomas · 2004 Spin it Again - Randy Newman wrote one of the songs, a residential studio near a Louisiana river caught the rest, and somehow nobody made a bigger deal of this at the time.

Etta James · 2003 Spin it Again - Etta James at sixty-five, live orchestra, Capitol Studios — the woman had been singing 'At Last' for forty years and somehow found more to say.

Bettye LaVette · 2003 Spin it Again - She'd been making records since 1962 and this is the one that made people feel guilty for not knowing her name sooner.

Bettye LaVette · 2005 Spin it Again - Joe Henry recorded this in his house in South Pasadena and somehow made a sixty-year-old Detroit lifer sound like the only adult in the room.

Nickel Creek · 2005 Spin it Again - They already knew it was over when they made it, and somehow that made everything tighter.

Various Artists · 2003 Spin it Again - T Bone Burnett handed Jack White an acoustic guitar and told him to forget everything he knew, and it worked.

Alison Krauss & Union Station · 2004 Spin it Again - Jerry Douglas's dobro and a voice that never once pushes — quiet proof that restraint is a skill most studios forgot how to teach.

Alison Krauss & Union Station · 2001 Spin it Again - You already own this record. Tonight is the first time you're actually going to hear it.