The Kinks · 1970 Spin it Again - Ray Davies flew back from an American tour to re-record a single lyric for the BBC, and the song still sounds effortless.

Prince & The Revolution · 1984 Spin it Again - He stripped the bass line out of 'When Doves Cry' at the last minute and it somehow has more bottom than anything on the radio that year.

Eric Clapton · 1997 Spin it Again - Clapton stripped of the band, the arena, and the expectation — it turns out that's when he's most himself.

Mark Knopfler · 1991 Spin it Again - He had the biggest-selling British rock album behind him and made this instead — a quiet, fingerpicked thing about faith healers and dead kings.

Dire Straits · 1991 Spin it Again - Six years after Brothers in Arms sold nine million copies, Knopfler came back with something quieter, more interior, and then walked away for good.

Mark Knopfler · 1996 Spin it Again - Sixteen songs, no stadium in sight, and a guitar tone that makes you realize how much of Dire Straits was just overhead.

Neil Young · 1992 Spin it Again - Neil Young found Kenny Buttrey working outside of music, drove out to get him, and made the most unhurried album of 1992.

Tina Turner · 1984 Spin it Again - Mark Knopfler wrote the title track for Dire Straits, passed on it, then played guitar while Tina Turner turned it into something neither of them could have made alone.

The Magic Numbers · 2003 Spin it Again - A self-circulated CDR from 2003 that sounds more finished than most albums with actual budgets.

Bonnie Raitt · 1977 Spin it Again - She learned slide guitar from Mississippi Fred McDowell in person, and by 1977 she was making records this quietly confident while Warner Bros. looked the other way.

The Cars · 1981 Spin it Again - The Cars at the exact moment when every night on the road had made them a machine without yet making them a tired one.

Stevie Nicks · 1981 Spin it Again - Jimmy Iovine knew what radio needed, Stevie Nicks knew what she'd been carrying for years, and somehow neither one had to compromise.

Pat Benatar · 1980 Spin it Again - She had been singing in Holiday Inns two years before this, and then she went quadruple platinum.

Marilyn Martin · 1982 Spin it Again - The session world produced a lot of voices in the early eighties — this is the one that should have gotten a second album.

Peter Gabriel · 1986 Spin it Again - Stewart Copeland played drums on one track, Kate Bush sang on another, and somehow the whole thing sounds like one continuous thought.

Various Artists · 1972 Spin it Again - Sixteen songs recorded by kids who had no idea what they were doing, compiled by a kid who absolutely did.

Jimmy Cliff · 1972 Spin it Again - A Kingston crime movie with a shoestring budget accidentally made the most important reggae record ever released outside Jamaica.

Vicki Brown · 1977 Spin it Again - She sang on half of London's hit records in the seventies, and almost nobody knew her name until this.

Neil Young & Crazy Horse · 2003 Spin it Again - A concept album recorded in a ranch barn with a band that had been playing together since Nixon — it should not work as well as it does.

Neil Young & Crazy Horse · 1979 Spin it Again - One side acoustic, one side electric, and the whole thing sounds like it was recorded in a building that was on fire.