Haircut 100 · 1981 Spin it Again - A band with one chance to make the record right, working with an engineer who understood that layering four instruments doesn't muddy a song if you know where to place each one.

Exposé · 1992 Spin it Again - Martinée built the Miami freestyle sound like load-bearing walls, and this is the record where it finally had somewhere to stand.

Patti Smith · 1978 Spin it Again - Patti Smith screaming her way through Because the Night, a song Tom Petty passed on and Springsteen half-wrote, and somehow she ended up owning all of it.

Patti Smith · 1975 Spin it Again - She walked into a studio in 1975, opened with a line about Jesus dying for somebody's sins but not hers, and everything that came after it had to answer for itself.