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Apr 29
Delius: Cello Concerto
Jacqueline du Pré, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra · 1967 Spin it Again - She had nine years left to perform when she made this, and somehow the cello already knew.
decade:1960s
Apr 29
Elgar: Violin Concerto
Itzhak Perlman, London Philharmonic Orchestra · 1982 Spin it Again - Elgar dedicated this concerto to an unnamed soul and then put five dots where the name should go — Perlman is the only violinist who seems to actually live inside that silence.
decade:1980s
Apr 29
Elgar: Cello Concerto
Jacqueline du Pré · 1965 Spin it Again - She was twenty years old, Barbirolli had known Elgar personally, and somehow the tape caught something neither of them could have planned.
decade:1960s
Apr 21
Piece of Mind
Iron Maiden · 1983 Spin it Again - The record where five guys who had never quite been the same band in the same room finally locked into one, and stayed there for a decade.
decade:1980s
Apr 19
Entertainment!
Gang of Four · 1979 Spin it Again - Every band you love that plays guitar like a blunt instrument learned it from this record.
genre:Funk
Apr 17
Hounds of Love
Kate Bush · 1985 Spin it Again - Side two is a drowning woman surviving the night, and she produced every second of it herself in 1985.
genre:Art Pop
Apr 17
The Dreaming
Kate Bush · 1982 Spin it Again - She locked herself in a London studio for eighteen months, fired the management, and came out with something that still has no genre.
genre:Experimental
Apr 15
Duran Duran
Duran Duran · 1981 Spin it Again - Colin Thurston had just come off Bowie's Berlin trilogy and then produced this — which tells you it was never just a pretty-boy record.
genre:Synth-Pop
Apr 3
OK Computer
Radiohead · 1997 Spin it Again - Thom Yorke wrote about feeling like a ghost in a machine before most people had even touched the internet, and it turned out he was right.
genre:Experimental Rock