King Crimson · 1974 Spin it Again - The album that nearly broke King Crimson opens with a sound like a tape machine struggling to keep its footing.

King Crimson · 1973 Spin it Again - A lineup of refugees from Yes and Family plus a percussionist who brought a suitcase full of hardware store items. They recorded for three weeks. The result is the angriest chamber music ever made.

King Crimson · 1974 Spin it Again - Three musicians playing with the telepathy of a unit that knows it's over, captured with clinical precision and volcanic force.

White Noise · 1969 Spin it Again - Three Radiophonic alchemists locked in a room with tape loops and oscillators. Still sounds like the future.

Junior Murvin · 1976 Spin it Again - When The Clash covered the title track, they missed the point — this is airier, weirder, and far better.

John Martyn · Spin it Again - A timeless record from John Martyn that rewards close listening.

Bob Marley and the Wailers · 1979 Spin it Again - The album where Marley stopped being poetic and started being a document, recorded as cancer was teaching him that time was the only thing he couldn't get back.

Fairport Convention · 1969 Spin it Again - A 1969 record from Fairport Convention that rewards close listening.

Tom Waits · 1985 Spin it Again - A man who decided his own legend wasn't ugly enough, so he built an uglier one.

2 Men A Drum Machine & A Trumpet · 1988 Spin it Again - Three musicians decided the only way forward was to remove everything but trumpet, drums, and voices, and they were right.

The Wailers · 1973 Spin it Again - Clapton heard 'I Shot the Sheriff' here first, made it a hit, and the original got left in the shade — which is exactly backwards.

Tom Odell · 2013 Spin it Again - He was twenty-two, playing piano in a Bermondsey studio, and somehow the grief in his voice sounds earned.

Låpsley · 2016 Spin it Again - You played this twice in 2016 and then life moved on — tonight is the first time you'll actually hear it.

Matilda Mann · 2022 Spin it Again - You've already got this one somewhere in the pile — tonight is the night you actually listen to it.

U2 · 1987 Spin it Again - Bono was writing about America from Ireland, and that distance is what made it hurt.

Jimmy Cliff · 1972 Spin it Again - A Kingston crime movie with a shoestring budget accidentally made the most important reggae record ever released outside Jamaica.

Demi Lovato · 2020 Spin it Again - You bought this ironically and you know it sounded better than it had any right to.

Mumford & Sons · 2009 Spin it Again - The backlash came so fast you might have missed that the record itself is actually good.

Nick Drake · 1969 Spin it Again - Nick Drake recorded this in a converted Chelsea dairy at night, and you can hear every wall.

John Cale · 1974 Spin it Again - The Velvet Underground's other founder made the record that explains why fear and art rock were always the same conversation.