Nile Rodgers · 1985 Spin it Again - Nile Rodgers stripped away the disco architecture, sat down alone with the credits, and made something quieter than anyone wanted from him in 1985.

Rickie Lee Jones · 1982 Spin it Again - She sounds like the last woman left in a bar at 2 a.m. who actually has somewhere to be, and the band behind her knows it.

Rickie Lee Jones · 1981 Spin it Again - She followed up a hit record by making something stranger and sadder and harder to sell, and it turned out that was the right move.

Fleetwood Mac · 1987 Spin it Again - Buckingham basically built the whole thing in his home studio while the band was falling apart, and somehow that loneliness ended up sounding like the last warm night of summer.

Rickie Lee Jones · 1979 Spin it Again - She showed up in 1979 with a beat-up beret and a voice that sounded like it had already been through something, and nobody from that year sounds quite like her.

Donald Fagen · 1982 Spin it Again - Fagen spent six years out of Steely Dan's shadow to make something quieter and colder and more his, and it turns out that's exactly what he had to say.

Fleetwood Mac · 1979 Spin it Again - Lindsey Buckingham blew a $1 million recording budget making something that sounded like it was recorded in a parking garage, and he was right to do it.

Fleetwood Mac · 1977 Spin it Again - Four people actively falling apart held it together just long enough to cut something that still sounds like it knows something you don't.

Donald Fagen · 1982 Spin it Again - Donald Fagen cashed out his Steely Dan ticket and spent it all on one quiet, fluorescent-lit night in 1982 that still sounds like it knows something you don't.