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.

Rush · 1980 Spin it Again - Rush figured out that seven-minute songs hit harder when the band actually knows when to breathe, and 1980 was the year they proved it.