The Waites Ensemble · 1974–1976 Spin it Again - Mid-seventies Decca chamber recordings that sound like the musicians are breathing in the same room with you—no tricks, no compression, just tape running at the right speed.

Joan Sutherland · Spin it Again - A timeless record from Joan Sutherland that rewards close listening.

The Who · 1969 Spin it Again - Pete Townshend built Tommy as a broken salvation myth, and the Who played it like they understood the weight of what they'd created.

The Who · 1967 Spin it Again - The Who made their greatest album by pretending to sell beans and dishwashing liquid between rock songs.

Murray Head ·

Original London Cast of Sunny Afternoon · 2014 Spin it Again - A West End cast found something in Ray Davies's songs that Davies himself had long since buried under nostalgia tours.

Rufus Wainwright · 2007 Spin it Again - Rufus Wainwright released a grand, forty-piece album in 2007 and then, almost in the same breath, this — twenty-three minutes of French chanson recorded in Montreal with his mother at the piano.

Georg Solti / Vienna Philharmonic · 1959 Spin it Again - John Culshaw put sixty anvils in a Vienna ballroom and accidentally made the most important classical recording of the twentieth century.

Alban Berg Quartet · 1987 Spin it Again - Four Hungarians handed six quartets to four Austrians and the result is the kind of cold precision that makes you stop arguing about which recording is definitive.

Alban Berg Quartet · 1981 Spin it Again - The Alban Berg Quartet in 1981, playing Opp. 59 and 74 like they had the rest of their lives to get it right and somehow still finished on time.

Alban Berg Quartet · 1983 Spin it Again - Four Vienna guys in 1983 who had clearly lived inside these quartets long enough to stop proving anything and just play them straight.