The Clash · 1980 Spin it Again - A 1980 record from The Clash that rewards close listening.

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.

The Clash · 1979 Spin it Again - The last truly great Clash album, and the moment they stopped being a punk band and became something that still doesn't have a name.

Television · 1977 Spin it Again - Two men trading guitar lines like they're speaking in code, no bass, no patience for hooks—Marquee Moon is the anti-punk masterpiece that proved the CBGB underground was after something stranger than anyone admitted.

Motordamn · 1977–1978 Spin it Again - A tight touring band in a basement studio, playing like they knew every song could be the last one the label would release.

Half Japanese · 1980 Spin it Again - The lo-fi kids of the nineties all owe a debt here, and none of them paid it back in full.

The Plasmatics · 1983 Spin it Again - The band that blew up cars on TV made a hushed, lonely EP in 1983, and nobody noticed.

Oingo Boingo · 1983 Spin it Again - Eleven musicians, one very anxious Danny Elfman, and a producer from the Canterbury scene walked into a Hollywood studio and made the Oingo Boingo album that still doesn't get its due.

Patti Smith · 1978 Spin it Again - Patti Smith screaming her way through Because the Night, a song Tom Petty passed on and Springsteen half-wrote, and somehow she ended up owning all of it.

Patti Smith · 1975 Spin it Again - She walked into a studio in 1975, opened with a line about Jesus dying for somebody's sins but not hers, and everything that came after it had to answer for itself.

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.

Black Lips · 2017 Spin it Again - Black Lips dragged whatever was left of Appalachian dirt-rock into 2017 and somehow it still smelled like 1967.