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Jun 15
Larks' Tongues in Aspic
King Crimson · 1973 Spin it Again - A lineup of refugees from Yes and Family plus a percussionist who brought a suitcase full of hardware store items. They recorded for three weeks. The result is the angriest chamber music ever made.
genre:Experimental Rock
Jun 14
The Parable of Arable Land
The Red Krayola · 1967 Spin it Again - Four art students in Houston made the most aggressively uncommercial album of 1967, and it still sounds like the future.
genre:Psychedelic Rock
Jun 10
Heroes
David Bowie · 1977 Spin it Again - Recorded in the shadow of the Wall, with Fripp's guitar tracking across the hall like a transmission from another planet.
genre:Experimental Rock
Jun 7
Ege Bamyasi
Can · 1972 Spin it Again - Jaki Liebezeit played his drums like he was programming a machine years before anyone had invented one.
genre:Experimental Rock
Jun 7
Tago Mago
Can · 1971 Spin it Again - Damo Suzuki sang in a language he invented on the spot, Jaki Liebezeit played drums like a human sequencer, and the whole thing was recorded in a medieval castle with a Grundig tape machine. That’s the kind of album you turn up at midnight.
genre:Experimental Rock
May 28
OK Computer (2017 Remaster)
Radiohead · 1997 (2017 Remaster) Spin it Again - Thom Yorke made this album convinced the world was ending, and the precision of his panic still sounds true.
genre:Experimental Rock
May 23
Rain Dogs
Tom Waits · 1985 Spin it Again - A man who decided his own legend wasn't ugly enough, so he built an uglier one.
decade:1980s
May 18
Mr. Bungle
Mr. Bungle · 1991 Spin it Again - John Zorn produced a metal band that played lounge jazz, prog arrangements, and avant-garde deconstruction in the same breath, and somehow made it cohere.
genre:Avant-Garde
Apr 3
OK Computer
Radiohead · 1997 Spin it Again - Thom Yorke wrote about feeling like a ghost in a machine before most people had even touched the internet, and it turned out he was right.
genre:Experimental Rock