Toto · 1978 Spin it Again - Geoff Emerick produced their debut with the same meticulous discipline he brought to the Beatles, and Toto proved that arena rock perfection was still music.

The Byrds · 1968 Spin it Again - A band falling apart made their best record anyway, and nobody noticed until it was too late to ask why.

The Rolling Stones · 1972 Spin it Again - The Stones hiding from tax collectors in a French villa basement, too wrecked to leave and too talented to fail.

The Beatles · 1968 Spin it Again - They recorded it while falling apart, and you can hear every argument in the mix.

Van Morrison · 1974 Spin it Again - He stopped touring, stopped explaining, and made the most intimate album of his life with barely a session musician in sight.

The Byrds · 1968 Spin it Again - Los Angeles band walks into a Nashville studio with a twenty-two-year-old Hank Williams believer and walks out with the blueprint for every alt-country record made after 1975.

The Mamas & the Papas · 1966 Spin it Again - Lou Adler made them sound like they'd rehearsed in a cathedral and learned from Broadway, and somehow it became the year's biggest record.

Bob Dylan · 1966 Spin it Again - Nashville studio musicians met Dylan's surrealism in February 1966 and walked out having made rock's most dense and casually influential double album.

The Beatles · 1966 Spin it Again - A 1966 record from The Beatles that rewards close listening.

The Beatles · 1965 Spin it Again - By the time Rubber Soul closed, the screaming had stopped mattering, and what they were actually writing about began to matter instead.

Perfect · 1988 Spin it Again - Perfect recorded this in a studio that was still learning how to work, and it sounds like Poland itself in 1988—careful, precise, and deeply alive.

John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers · 1972

The Rolling Stones · 1973 Spin it Again - They recorded this in Kingston and LA without the hunger that made Exile, and came out sounding twice as confident.

The Who · 1967 Spin it Again - The Who made their greatest album by pretending to sell beans and dishwashing liquid between rock songs.

The Kinks · 1970 Spin it Again - He wrote this to settle accounts with the industry that made him famous, and did it so well you can sing along to your own humiliation.

Tom Waits · 1975 Spin it Again - A 24-year-old singer and his voice on a single night in a Los Angeles diner, with a bass player and a drummer who'd each seen the 20th century coming.

Murray Head ·

Eagles · 1972 Spin it Again - Four kids from the Midwest learned to harmonize in Los Angeles and made the first genuinely inevitable pop-country record of the seventies.

Chilliwack · 1977 Spin it Again - A radio-friendly rock album that sounds designed, not lucky—listen to the spaces between the notes.

The Kinks · 1968 Spin it Again - It sold nothing in 1968 and Ray Davies made it anyway, for reasons that took the rest of the world twenty years to catch up to.