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genre:Post-Punk
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May 29
Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
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.
genre:Post-Punk
May 28
Fear of Music
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.
genre:New Wave
May 28
Remain in Light
Talking Heads · 1980 Spin it Again - A 1980 record from Talking Heads that rewards close listening.
genre:New Wave
May 23
Party Mix / Mesopotamia
The B-52'S · Spin it Again - A timeless record from The B-52'S that rewards close listening.
genre:Post-Punk
May 21
Wire
Wire · 1977 Spin it Again - A band too precise and too weird for punk to contain, building minimalist structures out of silence and argument.
genre:Post-Punk
May 16
Treasure
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.
genre:Post-Punk
May 1
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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.
genre:New Wave
Apr 19
Joy as an Act of Resistance
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.
genre:Alternative Rock
Apr 19
Entertainment!
Gang of Four · 1979 Spin it Again - Every band you love that plays guitar like a blunt instrument learned it from this record.
genre:Funk
Apr 19
Broken English
Marianne Faithfull · 1979 Spin it Again - The voice that fell apart in the sixties came back a decade later as something far more dangerous.
genre:Singer-Songwriter
Apr 15
Drums and Wires
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.
genre:Post-Punk
Apr 5
Grotesque (After the Gramme)
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.
genre:Punk Rock
Apr 5
Closer
Joy Division · 1980 Spin it Again - Ian Curtis recorded it knowing, and you can hear that he knew.
genre:Dark Wave
Apr 5
Unknown Pleasures
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.
genre:Dark Wave
Mar 31
Nightclubbing
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.
genre:Post-Punk