Tom Waits · 1975 Spin it Again - A 24-year-old singer and his voice on a single night in a Los Angeles diner, with a bass player and a drummer who'd each seen the 20th century coming.

Eagles · 1972 Spin it Again - Four kids from the Midwest learned to harmonize in Los Angeles and made the first genuinely inevitable pop-country record of the seventies.

Joni Mitchell · 1975 Spin it Again - Henry Lewy and Joni Mitchell built a LA session band that sounds like the future arriving inside a sprinkler's hiss.

Emmylou Harris · 1995 Spin it Again - Daniel Lanois put Emmylou Harris in a Victorian house in New Orleans and made the most ambient country record anyone had heard — and somehow her voice was still the loudest thing in the room.

Andrew Gold · 1977 Spin it Again - His mother dubbed Audrey Hepburn's singing voice. His father wrote the Exodus score. Andrew Gold turned that inheritance into immaculate West Coast pop, and this is where it peaked.

Andrew Gold · 1976 Spin it Again - A Burbank studio record from 1976 that most people own for one song and have never actually heard.

Joni Mitchell · 1976 Spin it Again - She drove across the country alone after a breakup and came back with nine songs and Jaco Pastorius on fretless bass — no drummer required.

Joni Mitchell · 1972 Spin it Again - She sat down at a piano in Christmas-time Los Angeles and made loneliness sound like the most precise thing in the room.

Joni Mitchell · 1972 Spin it Again - She wrote these songs alone in the Canadian wilderness and it shows in the best possible way.

Joni Mitchell · 1974 Spin it Again - Joni Mitchell figured out that jazz musicians could make pop songs feel like they were falling apart in exactly the right places, and then she proved it.

Judee Sill · 1973 Spin it Again - She wrote the orchestral arrangements herself while on parole, and you can hear every bit of that in the strings.