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May 15
The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
Genesis · 1974 Spin it Again - Peter Gabriel made a double album concept record about a surreal New York street gang in 1974, and somehow convinced a major label to release it.
decade:1970s
May 13
80s HITS – 100 Greatest Songs of the 1980s
LeVert · 1988 Spin it Again - Gerald Levert's voice wrapped in silk arrangements and synth-age luxury—stop treating this as background music and hear what the sequencing and production actually meant.
decade:1980s
May 11
Nightflight to Venus
Boney M. · 1978 Spin it Again - Bobby Farrell died in St. Petersburg on the same date — and in the same city — that Rasputin was murdered. The song was already on the record.
genre:Funk
May 9
Mouthfeel
The Lemonheads · 1992 Spin it Again - Evan Dando covering Gram Parsons and Suzanne Vega in the same year he became famous — and somehow neither one feels like an accident.
genre:Indie Rock
May 9
The Best of The Lemonheads (The Atlantic Years)
The Lemonheads · 2003 Spin it Again - The kind of record you already own but haven't actually sat down with since the Clinton administration.
genre:Indie Rock
May 1
Marilyn
Marilyn Martin · 1982 Spin it Again - The session world produced a lot of voices in the early eighties — this is the one that should have gotten a second album.
genre:Rock
May 1
Led Zeppelin IV
Led Zeppelin · 1971 Spin it Again - They didn't put their name on the cover, and it still sold fifty million copies — which tells you everything about whether the music needed the marketing.
genre:Folk Rock
Apr 29
From the Choirgirl Hotel
Tori Amos · 1998 Spin it Again - The album she made after losing a pregnancy — with Matt Chamberlain on drums and Tchad Blake behind the glass — sounds like nothing else she recorded before or since.
genre:Art Pop
Apr 22
One in a Million
Aaliyah · 1996 Spin it Again - Timbaland was twenty-two, the drum patterns land slightly wrong until they land completely right, and nobody else sounded like this in 1996.
genre:Hip Hop
Apr 10
Tales from Topographic Oceans
Yes · 1973 Spin it Again - Four sides of vinyl, four Hindu scriptures, and four guys who forgot that restraint is also a musical decision.
decade:1970s
Apr 10
In the Court of the Crimson King
King Crimson · 1969 Spin it Again - Five guys in 1969 decided jazz, classical, and rock had been playing it too safe, and the rest of us have been catching up ever since.
genre:Art Rock
Apr 10
Close to the Edge
Yes · 1972 Spin it Again - Four guys in 1972 decided that eighteen minutes was a reasonable length for a single song, and they were right.
decade:1970s
Apr 10
Selling England by the Pound
Genesis · 1973 Spin it Again - Peter Gabriel still half-asleep, Steve Hackett playing guitar like he's trying not to wake anyone, and somehow that restraint is the whole point.
decade:1970s
Apr 8
Risqué
Chic · 1979 Spin it Again - Nile Rodgers turned a lawsuit over "Le Freak" into the cleanest, coldest groove of 1979, and the bass on "Good Times" has been haunting dance floors for forty-five years without ever once breaking a sweat.
genre:Funk
Apr 5
Free Jazz
Ornette Coleman · 1960 Spin it Again - Two quartets, one session, zero agreement, and somehow Coleman made that the whole point.
genre:Avant-Garde
Apr 5
The Shape of Jazz to Come
Ornette Coleman · 1959 Spin it Again - Coleman walked in with a plastic saxophone and quietly ended an argument that had been going on since bebop started.
genre:Avant-Garde
Apr 5
Giant Steps
John Coltrane · 1960 Spin it Again - Coltrane changed the harmonic vocabulary of jazz with this record and then basically walked away from it, which is either the most confident or most restless thing a musician has ever done.
genre:Modal Jazz
Mar 30
I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You
Aretha Franklin · 1967 Spin it Again - Aretha walked into Muscle Shoals in January, got into a fight with her husband on the second day, and still cut the title track before anyone could stop her.
genre:R&B
Mar 30
First Take
Roberta Flack · 1969 Spin it Again - Roberta Flack walked into a studio in 1969 and played piano like she had thirty more years of heartbreak to account for, and it turns out she was right.
genre:Jazz