D'Angelo and the Vanguard · 2014 Spin it Again - Fourteen years after Voodoo, D'Angelo returned with a political funk record that still sounds like the future.

David Bowie · 1977 Spin it Again - Recorded in the shadow of the Wall, with Fripp's guitar tracking across the hall like a transmission from another planet.

David Bowie · 1977 Spin it Again - A car crash, a coke psychosis, and a flight to Berlin produced an album that still sounds like nothing else.

BROCKHAMPTON · 2017 Spin it Again - Eight voices and no single purpose—hyperactive rap and sung melody colliding over production that won't stay still, recorded the moment before the whole thing came apart.

Steeleye Span · 1969 Spin it Again - Before anyone else figured it out, Steeleye Span proved that English folk songs and electric guitars could occupy the same space without one destroying the other.

Evelyn 'Champagne' King · 1984 Spin it Again - Kashif produced this in 1984 and somehow made it sound like it was made in 1985 and will still sound right in 2035.

Pentatonix · 2013 Spin it Again - Fresh off winning The Sing Off, Pentatonix made a Christmas album that respects the songs instead of drowning them in arrangement.

Pentatonix · 2014 Spin it Again - Ben Folds produces five singers into something you forgot a cappella could be: urgent, specific, alive.

Chris Brown · 2019 Spin it Again - Thirty-two tracks of late-night R&B from a man who still hasn't decided whether he wants to be a pop star or a soul singer, and somehow that indecision is the whole point.

Chris Brown · 2024 Spin it Again - You owned this for a year and never actually heard the bass.

Harry Nilsson · 1968 Spin it Again - Van Dyke Parks produced it, it cost a fortune, sold nothing, and sounds like nothing else from 1968 or anywhere else.

Harry Nilsson · 1971 Spin it Again - Harry Nilsson made this one right after the Beatles stopped needing him, and you can hear every bit of that in how quietly good it is.

Cowboy Junkies · 1988 Spin it Again - One microphone, one room, one take, and somehow the Trinity Session sounds like the only honest thing recorded that decade.

David Bowie · 1997 Spin it Again - Bowie doing Tibetan chant-influenced art rock in '97 while everyone was waiting for him to be irrelevant, and he almost proved them right, almost.