Talking Heads · 1986 Spin it Again - The one where Talking Heads stopped dissecting America and just let it be strange and enormous and okay.

Cory Wong · 2022 Spin it Again - Seventy minutes of a Minneapolis funk guitarist proving that joy, precision, and complete creative control can coexist without apology.

Vulfpeck · 2014 Spin it Again - They funded a free tour by uploading silence to Spotify, then dropped this like it was nothing.

Vulfpeck · 2020 Spin it Again - Joe Dart's bass and forty-one minutes of people who know exactly when not to play.

Gang of Four · 1979 Spin it Again - Every band you love that plays guitar like a blunt instrument learned it from this record.

Herbie Hancock · 1974 Spin it Again - Hancock took the Headhunters' funk and ran it through a synthesizer until it stopped being jazz, stopped being soul, and became something that only made sense at two in the morning in 1974.

Herbie Hancock · 1974 Spin it Again - Herbie in '74, still one foot in jazz and one foot somewhere murkier, and you can hear him deciding which direction to walk.

Nile Rodgers · 1985 Spin it Again - Nile Rodgers stripped away the disco architecture, sat down alone with the credits, and made something quieter than anyone wanted from him in 1985.

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.

Michael Jackson · 1982 Spin it Again - Quincy Jones spent two years making sure every single second of this record felt inevitable, and unfortunately for everyone who came after, he succeeded.

Shuggie Otis · 1974 Spin it Again - A kid alone in his home studio in 1974, playing every instrument, going nowhere commercially, getting everything right.

Sly and the Family Stone · 1971 Spin it Again - Sly Stone locked himself in a home studio, turned the funk to mud, and made something so exhausted and paranoid it still sounds like 3am on a bad year.

Grandmaster Flash · 1982 Spin it Again - Seven minutes of broken glass and burnt-out streetlights that made every rock critic realize they'd been writing about the wrong neighborhood for a decade.

Herbie Hancock · 1974 Spin it Again - Hancock took the electric funk he was building on Head Hunters and tightened every screw until there was almost no room left to breathe, which is exactly the point.

Khruangbin · 2018 Spin it Again - Three Texans who listened to too many Thai funk records made something that sounds like a late-night drive through a country you've never been to but somehow already miss.

Bill Withers · 1972 Spin it Again - Bill Withers recorded this at 34, after years of working a factory floor, and you can hear every single one of those years.