Dee Harris · 1985 Spin it Again - Talk Talk's restraint meets Soft Cell's sensuality on a record nobody's heard but everyone with taste should own.

Chief Rockaz · Year unknown Spin it Again - This one's been on your shelf longer than you've actually listened to it—tonight, the production will finally show you why you bought it.

Tim Duzit · Year Unknown Spin it Again - He played one guitar and sang into the room like nobody was listening, and somehow that's exactly what the producer wanted.

Rottin · Year Unknown Spin it Again - A deep cut from the regional crunk era that sounds better the second time through, when you're listening alone and can actually hear the architecture underneath the bounce.

Beastie Boys · 1986

2 Men A Drum Machine & A Trumpet · 1988 Spin it Again - Three musicians decided the only way forward was to remove everything but trumpet, drums, and voices, and they were right.

SZA · 2017 Spin it Again - She knew the men weren't worth it while she was writing about them, and somehow that made the whole thing worse.

Drake · 2021 Spin it Again - Noah '40' Shebib mixed the loneliness of having everything until it sounded like a room you actually want to sit in.

Chris Brown · 2019 Spin it Again - Thirty-two tracks of late-night R&B from a man who still hasn't decided whether he wants to be a pop star or a soul singer, and somehow that indecision is the whole point.

Chris Brown · 2024 Spin it Again - You owned this for a year and never actually heard the bass.

Eighth Wonder · 1988 Spin it Again - The number seven single that should have been a number one, from a year when the machinery was working perfectly and nobody quite noticed.

Chilly Gonzales · 2010 Spin it Again - Gonzales has spent his whole career hiding how good he actually is behind how clever he is — this is the record where the hiding slips.

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

Aaliyah · 1996 Spin it Again - Timbaland was twenty-two, the drum patterns land slightly wrong until they land completely right, and nobody else sounded like this in 1996.

Various Artists · 1992 Spin it Again - Rakim, Big Daddy Kane, EPMD, Cypress Hill, and Teddy Riley in the same room — and that's not even the most notable thing about this record.

Various Artists · 1993 Spin it Again - Two twenty-one-year-old directors demanded original music instead of a licensed playlist, and that decision is why this still sounds like something rather than a souvenir.

2Pac · 1994 Spin it Again - The G-funk is immaculate, Nate Dogg sounds like he's saving his soul, and Pac hadn't become the myth yet.

Eric B. & Rakim · 1987 Spin it Again - Rakim figured out what a microphone was actually for, and Eric B. built the room around him, and nothing sounded quite right in the same way after 1987.

Grandmaster Flash and Melle Mel · 1982 Spin it Again - Before the beef, before the split, Grandmaster Flash and Melle Mel still in the same room, and you can hear exactly what was about to be lost.

Grandmaster Flash · 1981 Spin it Again - Before anyone called it an art form, Flash was in a basement in the Bronx treating other people's records like they owed him something.