Michael Jackson · 1979 Spin it Again - Quincy Jones produced a 20-year-old out of the Jackson 5 and into adulthood with nine minutes of the most sophisticated disco-funk ever put on a pop radio station.

Blondie · 1979 Spin it Again - A 1979 record from Blondie that rewards close listening.

Boney M. · 1978 Spin it Again - Bobby Farrell died in St. Petersburg on the same date — and in the same city — that Rasputin was murdered. The song was already on the record.

Vicki Brown · 1979 Spin it Again - Forty-one years old, one shot at a solo album, and she phrased every line like she'd been thinking about it since the session before.

Blondie · 1978 Spin it Again - Mike Chapman flew in from LA, ran Debbie Harry through takes until she was nearly done, and accidentally made the template for the next decade of pop.

Odyssey · 1978 Spin it Again - Phyllis Rhodes and her cousins figured out that disco and soul were the same conversation, and nobody at the party argued with them.

Chic · 1979 Spin it Again - Nile Rodgers turned a lawsuit over "Le Freak" into the cleanest, coldest groove of 1979, and the bass on "Good Times" has been haunting dance floors for forty-five years without ever once breaking a sweat.