Maria Callas · 1954–1958 Spin it Again - Callas didn't sing Verdi arias—she lived them, breath by breath, and never let you forget she was terrified.

Duran Duran · 1982 Spin it Again - Colin Thurston's production and John Taylor's bass lines proved that 1982's pop didn't have to be disposable.

Kate Bush · 1980 Spin it Again - Kate Bush was nineteen when she made this, and she had already heard every classical composer and every pop song worth hearing.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Gang of Four · 1979 Spin it Again - Every band you love that plays guitar like a blunt instrument learned it from this record.

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.

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.

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.

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.