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

Culture Club · 1983 Spin it Again - Boy George was twenty-two and already knew that the quieter he sang, the harder it landed.

Various Artists · 2023 Spin it Again - Mark Ronson treated the Barbie brief like an actual artistic problem, and it turns out that was the right call.

Demi Lovato · 2020 Spin it Again - You bought this ironically and you know it sounded better than it had any right to.

Johnny Clegg & Savuka · 1988 Spin it Again - A white Zulu street dancer and an eight-piece band made the most politically dangerous music in apartheid South Africa, and it grooves the whole time.

Paul Simon · 1986 Spin it Again - A middle-aged folk singer went to apartheid South Africa with a hunch and came home with the fretless bass line that has been stuck in your head since 1987.

Mariah Carey · 1997 Spin it Again - She was leaving her controlling husband-label-boss and made the only Mariah Carey album that sounds genuinely private.

Julio Iglesias & Willie Nelson · 1984 Spin it Again - A Spaniard in a blazer and a Texas outlaw in a bandana walked into a studio together, and the result hit number one on both the pop and country charts simultaneously.

Tracey Thorn · 1982 Spin it Again - Tracey Thorn made this before the industry found her, and you can hear exactly that in every quiet second of it.

The Beach Boys · 1966 Spin it Again - This is the album where Brian Wilson heard the voices and put them to tape with the best players money could buy.

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.

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.

Harry Nilsson · 1971 Spin it Again - Harry Nilsson made this one right after the Beatles stopped needing him, and you can hear every bit of that in how quietly good it is.

Rickie Lee Jones · 1982 Spin it Again - She sounds like the last woman left in a bar at 2 a.m. who actually has somewhere to be, and the band behind her knows it.

Joe Jackson · 1982 Spin it Again - Joe Jackson ditched the band, kept one piano, hired a few session guys, and recorded it in New York in the middle of summer like he was trying to outrun something, and you can hear exactly what that sounds like.

Fleetwood Mac · 1979 Spin it Again - Lindsey Buckingham blew a $1 million recording budget making something that sounded like it was recorded in a parking garage, and he was right to do it.

Prefab Sprout · 1985 Spin it Again - Paddy McAloon sat down in 1985 and wrote melodies so precisely sad they made Thomas Dolby's production feel like the only logical place to put them.