Rickie Lee Jones · 1981 Spin it Again - She followed up a hit record by making something stranger and sadder and harder to sell, and it turned out that was the right move.

Dire Straits · 1980 Spin it Again - Knopfler figured out that a Fender and a good story about a woman leaving could do more damage than a wall of synthesizers ever would.

Dire Straits · 1985 Spin it Again - Mark Knopfler recorded this on a Schecter Strat through a Notchell amp and somehow made corporate radio sound like a rain-soaked motorway at 2am.

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band · 1969 Spin it Again - Don Van Vliet recorded it in a house where the band wasn't allowed to sleep, and somehow that's exactly what it sounds like.

Steely Dan · 1980 Spin it Again - Becker and Fagen spent so much money and time making LA sound this cold and frictionless that it almost killed the band, and you can hear every dollar of it.

Fleetwood Mac · 1975 Spin it Again - Buckingham and Nicks walked in off the street and the band immediately sounded like they'd been waiting for them the whole time.

Fleetwood Mac · 1979 Spin it Again - Lindsey Buckingham blew a $1 million recording budget making something that sounded like it was recorded in a parking garage, and he was right to do it.

Fleetwood Mac · 1977 Spin it Again - Four people actively falling apart held it together just long enough to cut something that still sounds like it knows something you don't.

Steely Dan · 1974 Spin it Again - Fagen and Becker figured out that jazz could be smug and it still sounds like a Tuesday night that went somewhere unexpected.