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May 29
Controversy
Prince · 1981 Spin it Again - A twenty-two-year-old asking who he is over the only sound that matters: his own.
genre:New Wave
May 29
Around the World in a Day
Prince · 1985 Spin it Again - He made Purple Rain a year earlier and could have done anything; instead he locked himself in the studio and made something genuinely strange.
genre:Pop
May 29
1999
Prince · 1982 Spin it Again - He recorded it alone in a basement in Minnesota and somehow made it sound like the future was starting right there.
genre:Synth-Pop
May 25
Amoroso
João Gilberto · 1977 Spin it Again - After inventing bossa nova, Gilberto spent most of the seventies trying not to repeat himself; Amoroso is what happened when he stopped trying and just sang.
decade:1970s
May 24
Veedon Fleece
Van Morrison · 1974 Spin it Again - He stopped touring, stopped explaining, and made the most intimate album of his life with barely a session musician in sight.
genre:Singer-Songwriter
May 23
Party Mix / Mesopotamia
The B-52'S · Spin it Again - A timeless record from The B-52'S that rewards close listening.
genre:Post-Punk
May 18
Mr. Bungle
Mr. Bungle · 1991 Spin it Again - John Zorn produced a metal band that played lounge jazz, prog arrangements, and avant-garde deconstruction in the same breath, and somehow made it cohere.
genre:Avant-Garde
May 11
Heart & Soul
Lorraine Ellison · 1966 Spin it Again - Stay With Me charted in 1967 and still nobody quite knew what to do with her — which tells you everything about 1967.
decade:1960s
May 10
Purple Rain
Prince & The Revolution · 1984 Spin it Again - He stripped the bass line out of 'When Doves Cry' at the last minute and it somehow has more bottom than anything on the radio that year.
genre:Funk
May 9
Calling Elvis
Mark Knopfler · 1991 Spin it Again - He had the biggest-selling British rock album behind him and made this instead — a quiet, fingerpicked thing about faith healers and dead kings.
genre:Singer-Songwriter
May 7
Lianne La Havas
Lianne La Havas · 2012 Spin it Again - She plays her own guitar, sings behind the beat, and leaves more air in the room than anyone asked for — and somehow that's the whole trick.
genre:R&B
May 1
In the Mood
Bonnie Raitt · 1977 Spin it Again - She learned slide guitar from Mississippi Fred McDowell in person, and by 1977 she was making records this quietly confident while Warner Bros. looked the other way.
genre:Rock
May 1
Machine Head
Deep Purple · 1972 Spin it Again - The casino burned down the night before they were supposed to record, so they set up in a hotel corridor and made this instead.
genre:Heavy Metal
May 1
Made in Japan (Deluxe Edition)
Deep Purple · 1972 Spin it Again - You've owned this record for years and you still haven't actually listened to Jon Lord.
decade:1970s
Apr 26
Trouble at the Dancehall
Blue Rodeo · 1991 Spin it Again - Toronto, 1991, while grunge was eating everything — Blue Rodeo made a pedal-steel record about memory and didn't apologize for a second of it.
genre:Roots Rock
Apr 22
Shaka Zulu
Ladysmith Black Mambazo · 1987 Spin it Again - Seventy years of Black South African choral tradition, recorded at the Hit Factory in New York, miscategorized as folk music, and still more patient than anything else in your library.
genre:World Music
Apr 22
Graceland
Paul Simon · 1986 Spin it Again - A middle-aged folk singer went to apartheid South Africa with a hunch and came home with the fretless bass line that has been stuck in your head since 1987.
genre:Pop
Apr 21
Devo Live: The Mongoloid Years
Devo · 1981 Spin it Again - This is Devo before anyone had heard of Devo, playing to rooms full of people who had no idea what they were watching.
genre:Punk
Apr 20
American Beauty
Grateful Dead · 1970 Spin it Again - Six months after Workingman's Dead, they went back to the same room and got it even more right.
genre:Folk Rock
Apr 11
Three Weeks in January
Laurie Anderson · 1993 Spin it Again - This proves that all albums in the 90's weren't bad
genre:Electronic
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