Phyllis Hyman · 1983 Spin it Again - A 1983 record from Phyllis Hyman that rewards close listening.

Anita Baker · 1988 Spin it Again - A 1988 record from Anita Baker that rewards close listening.

Stevie Wonder · Spin it Again - A timeless record from Stevie Wonder that rewards close listening.

Cymande · 1972 Spin it Again - This is what hip-hop went to dig for: four men fusing calypso, funk, and Afrobeat into grooves so alive and unguarded that Atlantic Records didn't know what they had.

Marvin Gaye · 1973 Spin it Again - This is the record Marvin made after Motown finally let him speak, and he used it to change what intimacy could sound like on vinyl.

Labelle · 1974 Spin it Again - Allen Toussaint produced a masterclass in letting three voices own a groove and a room at once.

George Michael · 1987 Spin it Again - A twenty-four-year-old made this alone in a studio, played every instrument, and somehow wrote songs so guarded they felt like secrets even when twenty-five million people were listening.

Boz Scaggs · 1976 Spin it Again - This album proved that soul-pop didn't need to scream, and that the session musicians of Los Angeles understood taste better than anyone else in 1976.

The Blue Nile · 1989 Spin it Again - Nigel Godrich and the band spent months removing notes instead of adding them—and somehow made the most patient pop album of the 80s.

Vicky Brown · 1982 Spin it Again - Vicky Brown made this in 1982 with Quincy Jones and vanished; Doug Sax engineered it like it mattered; almost nobody heard it.

Marvin Gaye · 1971

Cymande · 1974 Spin it Again - Ten Caribbean-British musicians made one of the loosest records of the seventies and then quietly disappeared, leaving the crates to do the talking.

Cymande · 1973 Spin it Again - Eleven Caribbean musicians in a London studio made something so self-contained it took twenty years and a thousand sample clearances for the rest of the world to catch up.

Otis Redding · 1967 Spin it Again - He died twelve weeks after this came out, which means every track on it was recorded by a man who had no idea he was making a legacy.

Arthur Conley · 1967 Spin it Again - Otis Redding produced this record, co-wrote the hit, and was dead before the year was out — and somehow none of that is the most interesting thing about it.

Lorraine Ellison · 1966 Spin it Again - Stay With Me charted in 1967 and still nobody quite knew what to do with her — which tells you everything about 1967.

Vicki Brown · 2019 Spin it Again - Decades of session work, and this is the record where she finally gets the room to herself.

Wham! · 1984 Spin it Again - Every song on here was built by a twenty-one-year-old who understood the architecture of longing better than almost anyone working at the time.

Anita Baker · 1986 Spin it Again - Anita Baker made this after escaping a bad label deal, and you can hear the relief in every unhurried note.

Corinne Bailey Rae · 2006 Spin it Again - Four million people bought this record, and it never once raised its voice to earn any of them.