Booker T. & the M.G.'s · 1968 Spin it Again - A 1968 record from Booker T. & the M.G.'s that rewards close listening.

Prince · 1981 Spin it Again - A twenty-two-year-old asking who he is over the only sound that matters: his own.

Prince · 1985 Spin it Again - He made Purple Rain a year earlier and could have done anything; instead he locked himself in the studio and made something genuinely strange.

Prince · 1982 Spin it Again - He recorded it alone in a basement in Minnesota and somehow made it sound like the future was starting right there.

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.

Stevie Wonder · 1972 Spin it Again - A 1972 record from Stevie Wonder that rewards close listening.

Stevie Wonder · 1980 Spin it Again - A 1980 record from Stevie Wonder that rewards close listening.

Mahmoud Ahmed · 1975 Spin it Again - Mahmoud Ahmed proved in 1975 that the greatest jazz was being made three thousand miles east of where anyone was looking.

Stevie Wonder · Spin it Again - A timeless record from Stevie Wonder that rewards close listening.

Cymande · 1972 Spin it Again - This is what hip-hop went to dig for: four men fusing calypso, funk, and Afrobeat into grooves so alive and unguarded that Atlantic Records didn't know what they had.

Marvin Gaye · 1973 Spin it Again - This is the record Marvin made after Motown finally let him speak, and he used it to change what intimacy could sound like on vinyl.

Evelyn 'Champagne' King · 1984 Spin it Again - Kashif produced this in 1984 and somehow made it sound like it was made in 1985 and will still sound right in 2035.

Labelle · 1974 Spin it Again - Allen Toussaint produced a masterclass in letting three voices own a groove and a room at once.

Thundercat · 2013 Spin it Again - Flying Lotus and Stephen Bruner made an album where the bass could have been a lead instrument and chose not to.

Vicky Brown · 1982 Spin it Again - Vicky Brown made this in 1982 with Quincy Jones and vanished; Doug Sax engineered it like it mattered; almost nobody heard it.

Marvin Gaye · 1971

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.

Cymande · 1974 Spin it Again - Ten Caribbean-British musicians made one of the loosest records of the seventies and then quietly disappeared, leaving the crates to do the talking.

Cymande · 1973 Spin it Again - Eleven Caribbean musicians in a London studio made something so self-contained it took twenty years and a thousand sample clearances for the rest of the world to catch up.

Prince & The Revolution · 1984 Spin it Again - He stripped the bass line out of 'When Doves Cry' at the last minute and it somehow has more bottom than anything on the radio that year.