Neil Young with Crazy Horse · 2022 Spin it Again - Neil Young finished this album, decided not to release it, and sat on it for two decades — and he was still wrong to wait.

Bob Dylan · 1976 Spin it Again - The album Blood on the Tracks gets all the credit, but this is the one with a room full of people who'd follow him anywhere.

Mumford & Sons · 2009 Spin it Again - The backlash came so fast you might have missed that the record itself is actually good.

Grateful Dead · 1970 Spin it Again - Six months after Workingman's Dead, they went back to the same room and got it even more right.

Neil Young · 1972 Spin it Again - He slipped a disc, wore a sling, and recorded the best-selling album of 1972 in a barn and a Nashville studio with a drummer who'd already played on Blonde on Blonde.

The Zombies · 1968 Spin it Again - They handed CBS one of the finest British pop records ever made, CBS said no thanks, and the band had already split before anyone figured that out.

The Velvet Underground · 1967 Spin it Again - It sold nothing in 1967 and quietly rewired everything that came after it.

The Rolling Stones · 1969 Spin it Again - Released five days after Altamont, with a choir, a cracked voice, and Ry Cooder — this is the record where the Stones figured out they didn't need to be a band to sound like one.

The Rolling Stones · 1971 Spin it Again - Two days in Muscle Shoals, a zipper Andy Warhol designed, and Mick Taylor playing three and a half unrequested minutes on 'Can't You Hear Me Knocking' that nobody stopped.

The Rolling Stones · 1967 Spin it Again - Their manager walked out, they couldn't leave the country, and somehow John Paul Jones ended up arranging the strings.

Various Artists · 1968/1996 Spin it Again - The Stones buried this for twenty-eight years because they thought the Who outplayed them — they were probably right, and it still didn't matter.

Bob Marley and the Wailers · 1973 Spin it Again - The Wailers walked into Harry J's Studio in Kingston and recorded an album so locked-in it made every rhythm section that came after it sound like they were still figuring out where to stand.

The Tragically Hip · 1998 Spin it Again - The Hip went deeper into their own country while everyone else was turning down the tuning pegs, and it paid off in a way that is still hard to explain to anyone who wasn't there.

The Tragically Hip · 2004 Spin it Again - Built in their own converted bathhouse outside Kingston, by men who had stopped waiting for America to figure it out.

The Tragically Hip · 2006 Spin it Again - The Hip made this one when they had nothing left to prove and everything left to lose, and it sounds like both.

Dire Straits · 1979 Spin it Again - Jerry Wexler flew a British pub-rock band to Alabama and let the room do the work.

Peter Gabriel · 1989 Spin it Again - Three years, a half-built studio, Youssou N'Dour, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, and a brief to make music that sounds two thousand years old.

Neil Young · 2012 Spin it Again - Neil Young kept the tape running between albums and the outtakes turned out to be the whole point.

Nils Lofgren · 1992 Spin it Again - He spent the decade being the second name in the credits for Neil Young and Springsteen, then walked into the Ryman with an acoustic guitar and no backup plan.

Harry Nilsson · 1971 Spin it Again - Harry Nilsson made this one right after the Beatles stopped needing him, and you can hear every bit of that in how quietly good it is.