Love · 1967 Spin it Again - Arthur Lee sang about dying young while arranging strings that sounded like heaven — and he was right on both counts.

Pete Rock & CL Smooth · 1994 Spin it Again - This is what happens when a producer knows exactly when to stop touching the fader.

Abdullah Ibrahim · 1983 Spin it Again - South African piano master comes home to his instrument after years in exile, one unbroken session that sounds like a man finally alone with what he needed to say.

Abdullah Ibrahim · 1985 Spin it Again - A 1985 record from Abdullah Ibrahim that rewards close listening.

Ben Sidran · 1990 Spin it Again - Sidran recorded this with nothing but a piano, his voice, and the discipline not to add anything that wasn't absolutely necessary.

Anita Baker · 1988 Spin it Again - A 1988 record from Anita Baker that rewards close listening.

Television · 1977 Spin it Again - Two men trading guitar lines like they're speaking in code, no bass, no patience for hooks—Marquee Moon is the anti-punk masterpiece that proved the CBGB underground was after something stranger than anyone admitted.

Anita Baker · 1994 Spin it Again - Anita Baker walked away from the machine and made the album she actually wanted to hear.

Guadalcanal Diary · 1988 Spin it Again - A record that gets quieter the more closely you listen, and that's exactly the point.

Mötley Crüe · 1987 Spin it Again - It took a death, a near-death, a shattered arm, and roughly two years of studio wreckage before this record finally locked in — and it sounds like exactly that.

Lodger · 1992 Spin it Again - A 1992 British pop record so far ahead of its moment that it took thirty years to find the audience it deserved.

Anita Baker · 1986 Spin it Again - Anita Baker made this after escaping a bad label deal, and you can hear the relief in every unhurried note.

Anita Baker · 1986 Spin it Again - Nathan East on bass, Ricky Lawson on drums, and a singer who never once oversells it — this is what sophisticated looked like before that word got ruined.

The Cars · 1981 Spin it Again - The Cars at the exact moment when every night on the road had made them a machine without yet making them a tired one.

Björk · 2001 Spin it Again - Matmos turned liposuction sounds into percussion and somehow this is the warmest record of 2001.

Various Artists · 1972 Spin it Again - Sixteen songs recorded by kids who had no idea what they were doing, compiled by a kid who absolutely did.

Grandmaster Flash and Melle Mel · 1982 Spin it Again - Before the beef, before the split, Grandmaster Flash and Melle Mel still in the same room, and you can hear exactly what was about to be lost.

Björk · 1997 Spin it Again - Björk took the Icelandic string octet and the 808 and refused to let either one win.

Anita Baker · 1986 Spin it Again - There is no album called "Mute" by Anita Baker from 1986 — her 1986 record was "Rapture," and getting that wrong would embarrass us both.