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.

Marianne Faithfull · 1979 Spin it Again - The voice that fell apart in the sixties came back a decade later as something far more dangerous.

Bob Marley and the Wailers · 1973 Spin it Again - Thirty-four minutes, nine songs, and the last time Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer were in the room.

Bob Marley and the Wailers · 1973 Spin it Again - The Wailers walked into Harry J's Studio in Kingston and recorded an album so locked-in it made every rhythm section that came after it sound like they were still figuring out where to stand.

The Tragically Hip · 1998 Spin it Again - The Hip went deeper into their own country while everyone else was turning down the tuning pegs, and it paid off in a way that is still hard to explain to anyone who wasn't there.

Bob Marley & The Wailers · 1980 Spin it Again - He had fourteen months to live when they made this, and the only place it shows is the last song.

Bob Marley & The Wailers · 1976 Spin it Again - He recorded this without Chris Blackwell and it turned out to be the most self-possessed thing he ever made.

Bob Marley & The Wailers · 1978 Spin it Again - The world handed him a megaphone after Exodus and he used it to talk about lying in the grass.

Bob Marley & The Wailers · 1977 Spin it Again - He got shot, played a concert two days later anyway, flew to London, and made this.

Brian Eno · 1975. Spin it Again - Brian Eno and Phil Collins in 1975. That's all you need to know.

Nick Drake · 1972 Spin it Again - Twenty-two minutes, one guitar, one voice, and Drake was dead two years later — some nights that's all the context you need.

Nick Drake · 1970 Spin it Again - Nick Drake in 1970, strings arranged by Robert Kirby, jazz musicians who barely knew him, and somehow that distance is exactly what makes it hurt.

Portishead · 2008 Spin it Again - Eleven years away and they came back sounding like a band that had decided warmth was no longer an option.

Grace Jones · 1981 Spin it Again - Grace Jones, Sly Dunbar, Robbie Shakespeare, and a cold synth bass in a room together — that's the whole story.

Shelby Lynne · 2000 Spin it Again - Shelby Lynne covering the soundtrack to a John Cusack movie nobody asked for and somehow making it sound like 2 AM in a bar where everyone's pretending they're fine.