New Kids on the Block · 1989

Loverboy · 1987 Spin it Again - Tom Werman, Little Mountain Sound, and a band that was better at their job than the red leather pants let anyone admit.

The Chicks · 2020 Spin it Again - They didn't come back to be forgiven — they came back with better material than the people who punished them ever made.

Mariah Carey · 1990 Spin it Again - A nineteen-year-old holds back, and that's exactly what breaks you.

Beyoncé · 2022 Spin it Again - Seventy-plus collaborators, one vision, and a low end that will tell you exactly what your speakers are worth.

Prefab Sprout · 1984 Spin it Again - The album that serious songwriters quietly cite when they think no one is listening.

Karla Bonoff · 1978 Spin it Again - Linda Ronstadt was having the hits; Bonoff was writing them and making her own records anyway.

Mariah Carey · 1997 Spin it Again - She was leaving her controlling husband-label-boss and made the only Mariah Carey album that sounds genuinely private.

Bob Dylan · 1976 Spin it Again - The album Blood on the Tracks gets all the credit, but this is the one with a room full of people who'd follow him anywhere.

Thelonious Monk · 1957 Spin it Again - The man who invented jazz piano silence put Coleman Hawkins and a twenty-nine-year-old Coltrane in the same room for one afternoon and hit record.

Glenn Gould · 1981 Spin it Again - He spent twenty-six years thinking about how he played this the first time, and the answer he came up with was: slower, quieter, and with considerably less to prove.

Glenn Gould · 1956 Spin it Again - He brought his own chair, sat lower than anyone else would, and played Bach like he'd already argued it out in his head on the drive over.

Julio Iglesias & Willie Nelson · 1984 Spin it Again - A Spaniard in a blazer and a Texas outlaw in a bandana walked into a studio together, and the result hit number one on both the pop and country charts simultaneously.

Miles Davis · 1966 Spin it Again - Tony Williams was nineteen years old on this bandstand, and he already sounds like he'd invented something nobody else knew was possible.

Miles Davis · 1961 Spin it Again - Miles needed out of his Prestige contract, Van Gelder had the room, and Coltrane was still figuring out what he was — everything lined up exactly once.

Miles Davis · 1959 Spin it Again - Miles needed out of his Prestige contract, so he cut four albums in a single afternoon — and every one of them holds up.

Miles Davis · 1958 Spin it Again - Recorded in a day to satisfy a contract, which is exactly the kind of pressure that makes jazz tell the truth.

Miles Davis · 1957 Spin it Again - Miles owed Prestige a few records, so he walked into Rudy Van Gelder's house with Coltrane and Philly Joe and just played his show.

Weather Report · 1980 Spin it Again - Zawinul slowed everything down, Shorter finally had room to breathe, and for once Weather Report sounded like they were playing for the end of the night instead of the beginning.

Herbie Hancock · 1974 Spin it Again - Hancock took the Headhunters' funk and ran it through a synthesizer until it stopped being jazz, stopped being soul, and became something that only made sense at two in the morning in 1974.