Gentle Giant · 1974 Spin it Again - This album is proof that prog could be intellectually rigorous without being boring.

King Crimson · 1974 Spin it Again - The album that nearly broke King Crimson opens with a sound like a tape machine struggling to keep its footing.

King Crimson · 1973 Spin it Again - A lineup of refugees from Yes and Family plus a percussionist who brought a suitcase full of hardware store items. They recorded for three weeks. The result is the angriest chamber music ever made.

King Crimson · 1974 Spin it Again - Three musicians playing with the telepathy of a unit that knows it's over, captured with clinical precision and volcanic force.

Terje Rypdal · 1975 Spin it Again - A double LP that proves the icier the playing, the brighter the burn.

Mahavishnu Orchestra · 1973 Spin it Again - Five men in a London studio played so hard the tape almost melted.

Return to Forever · 1976 Spin it Again - Four virtuosos, no overdubs, sounding like a fantasy movie that never existed.

Journey · 1974 Spin it Again - Greg Rollie's Hammond B3 and Neal Schon's crystalline guitar discover they can make a language nobody else in 1974 was speaking.

Can · 1973 Spin it Again - Four songs, thirty-nine minutes—Can at the moment they stopped being a rock band and became a recording itself.

Pink Floyd · 1975 Spin it Again - An album so restrained it makes restraint sound like the bravest choice a rock band could make.

Genesis · 1974 Spin it Again - Peter Gabriel made a double album concept record about a surreal New York street gang in 1974, and somehow convinced a major label to release it.

Supertramp · 1979

Yes · 1973 Spin it Again - Four sides of vinyl, four Hindu scriptures, and four guys who forgot that restraint is also a musical decision.

Camel · 1974 Spin it Again - Camel in 1974, still figuring out who they were, accidentally made something more fluid and honest than anything they tried once they knew.

Gentle Giant · 1972 Spin it Again - Seven musicians in 1972 deciding that medieval counterpoint and prog rock were basically the same problem, and being right.

Van der Graaf Generator · 1971 Spin it Again - Peter Hammill in 1971, so convinced civilization was ending that he made a twenty-three-minute suite about it, and the unsettling part is he wasn't wrong.

King Crimson · 1969 Spin it Again - Five guys in 1969 decided jazz, classical, and rock had been playing it too safe, and the rest of us have been catching up ever since.

Yes · 1972 Spin it Again - Four guys in 1972 decided that eighteen minutes was a reasonable length for a single song, and they were right.

Genesis · 1973 Spin it Again - Peter Gabriel still half-asleep, Steve Hackett playing guitar like he's trying not to wake anyone, and somehow that restraint is the whole point.

Pink Floyd · 1973 Spin it Again - Eight years into their career, four guys in a London studio decided that anxiety, money, and dying slowly were the only subjects worth fifty minutes of your time, and they were right.