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.

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.

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.

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.

The Lemonheads · 2003 Spin it Again - The kind of record you already own but haven't actually sat down with since the Clinton administration.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Yes · 1973 Spin it Again - Four sides of vinyl, four Hindu scriptures, and four guys who forgot that restraint is also a musical decision.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Ornette Coleman · 1960 Spin it Again - Two quartets, one session, zero agreement, and somehow Coleman made that the whole point.

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.

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.

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.

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.