New Kids on the Block · 1989

Joni Mitchell · 1975 Spin it Again - Henry Lewy and Joni Mitchell built a LA session band that sounds like the future arriving inside a sprinkler's hiss.

Pukka Orchestra · Mid-1970s Spin it Again - Session players in Toronto making pop music with no intention of being remembered, which is precisely why you should.

Don Johnson · 1986 Spin it Again - Richard Perry produced it, Steve Lukather played on it, and two million Americans bought it — the part your music-snob brain has to just sit with.

Gregory Abbott · 1986 Spin it Again - Harvard degree, one number one, and a bassline so patient it practically raises an eyebrow at you.

Wham! · 1984 Spin it Again - Every song on here was built by a twenty-one-year-old who understood the architecture of longing better than almost anyone working at the time.

Eighth Wonder · 1989 Spin it Again - Pet Shop Boys produced the best track, nobody gave Patsy Kensit credit for the performance, and this record has been sitting in your collection doing nothing about it.

Vicki Brown · 1985 Spin it Again - She spent twenty years being the best voice in someone else's room, and they only let her make one record of her own.

Vicki Brown · 1987 Spin it Again - She spent twenty years making other people's records sound better, then made one of her own, and almost nobody noticed.

Diana Ross · 1977 Spin it Again - Gil Askey built the room around her voice and then had the sense to leave it alone.

The Chicks · 2020 Spin it Again - They didn't come back to be forgiven — they came back with better material than the people who punished them ever made.

Exposé · 1992 Spin it Again - Martinée built the Miami freestyle sound like load-bearing walls, and this is the record where it finally had somewhere to stand.

Cyndi Lauper · 1983 Spin it Again - Thirty years old, one failed band behind her, and she walked into Media Sound and made every song sound like she'd lived it twice.

Madonna · 1984 Spin it Again - Nile Rodgers came in off Bowie's 'Let's Dance' and his rhythm guitar on the title track is doing more work than most people have ever noticed.

Tina Turner · 1984 Spin it Again - Mark Knopfler wrote the title track for Dire Straits, passed on it, then played guitar while Tina Turner turned it into something neither of them could have made alone.

Stevie Nicks · 1981 Spin it Again - Jimmy Iovine knew what radio needed, Stevie Nicks knew what she'd been carrying for years, and somehow neither one had to compromise.

Marilyn Martin · 1982 Spin it Again - The session world produced a lot of voices in the early eighties — this is the one that should have gotten a second album.

Prefab Sprout · 1984 Spin it Again - The album that serious songwriters quietly cite when they think no one is listening.

Peter Gabriel · 1986 Spin it Again - Stewart Copeland played drums on one track, Kate Bush sang on another, and somehow the whole thing sounds like one continuous thought.

Andrew Gold · 1976 Spin it Again - A Burbank studio record from 1976 that most people own for one song and have never actually heard.