Dead Kennedys · 1980 Spin it Again - San Francisco punk that treated specificity as a weapon and proved the form still had teeth when you used your head.

Talking Heads · 1979 Spin it Again - Talking Heads and Brian Eno turned neurosis into rhythm on the album that proved new wave wasn't just about youth rebellion—it was about actually being aware.

Talking Heads · 1980 Spin it Again - A 1980 record from Talking Heads that rewards close listening.

The B-52'S · Spin it Again - A timeless record from The B-52'S that rewards close listening.

Wire · 1977 Spin it Again - A band too precise and too weird for punk to contain, building minimalist structures out of silence and argument.

Cocteau Twins · 1984 Spin it Again - Robin Guthrie turned reverb into an instrument, Elizabeth Fraser into a voice beyond language, and the '80s into something that didn't have to choose between coldness and feeling.

Modern English · 1981 Spin it Again - Everything they did before the song that followed them everywhere — and it turns out it was the more interesting half.

IDLES · 2018 Spin it Again - Joe Talbot named a song after his stillborn daughter and then put it in the middle of a punk record, and somehow that's the right move.

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

Marianne Faithfull · 1979 Spin it Again - The voice that fell apart in the sixties came back a decade later as something far more dangerous.

XTC · 1979 Spin it Again - Hugh Padgham was in the room, Terry Chambers was behind the kit, and the bass guitar sounds like it's trying to escape the speakers.

The Fall · 1980 Spin it Again - Mark E. Smith on a wet Tuesday in Salford, half-drunk and fully right about everything, cutting the dullest parts out of rock and leaving only the parts that make you uneasy.

Joy Division · 1980 Spin it Again - Ian Curtis recorded it knowing, and you can hear that he knew.

Joy Division · 1979 Spin it Again - Ian Curtis singing like a man auditioning for his own funeral, over a rhythm section that understood dread better than any therapist, recorded in a factory town that had already given up.

Grace Jones · 1981 Spin it Again - Grace Jones, Sly Dunbar, Robbie Shakespeare, and a cold synth bass in a room together — that's the whole story.