D'Angelo · 2000 Spin it Again - Questlove played the drums slightly behind the beat on purpose, and that decision is why this record still sounds like nothing else made in your lifetime.

Ginuwine · 1996 Spin it Again - A twenty-two-year-old from DC and an unknown Virginia Beach beatmaker made one of the most spatially strange R&B records of the decade, and somehow everyone only remembers the horse.

Mariah Carey · 1997 Spin it Again - She was leaving her controlling husband-label-boss and made the only Mariah Carey album that sounds genuinely private.

Aaliyah · 1996 Spin it Again - Timbaland was twenty-two, the drum patterns land slightly wrong until they land completely right, and nobody else sounded like this in 1996.

Cory Wong · 2022 Spin it Again - Seventy minutes of a Minneapolis funk guitarist proving that joy, precision, and complete creative control can coexist without apology.

Irma Thomas · 2004 Spin it Again - Randy Newman wrote one of the songs, a residential studio near a Louisiana river caught the rest, and somehow nobody made a bigger deal of this at the time.

Anita Baker · 1986 Spin it Again - There is no album called "Mute" by Anita Baker from 1986 — her 1986 record was "Rapture," and getting that wrong would embarrass us both.

Aretha Franklin · 1967 Spin it Again - Aretha walked into Muscle Shoals in January, got into a fight with her husband on the second day, and still cut the title track before anyone could stop her.