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.

Deep Purple · 1972 Spin it Again - You've owned this record for years and you still haven't actually listened to Jon Lord.

Tori Amos · 1998 Spin it Again - The album she made after losing a pregnancy — with Matt Chamberlain on drums and Tchad Blake behind the glass — sounds like nothing else she recorded before or since.

Various Artists · 1992 Spin it Again - Everyone owns this for the Pearl Jam track and forgets there are nine other songs worth their time.

The Jimi Hendrix Experience · 1967 Spin it Again - Three weeks of sessions in London, a borrowed Fuzz Face, and an engineer smart enough to mike the amp from the side — that's the whole story.

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.

Swans · 1993 Spin it Again - Swans learned to be terrifying at low volume, and this is the document where that became undeniable.

Neil Young & Crazy Horse · 1979 Spin it Again - One side acoustic, one side electric, and the whole thing sounds like it was recorded in a building that was on fire.

Neil Young with Crazy Horse · 2022 Spin it Again - Neil Young finished this album, decided not to release it, and sat on it for two decades — and he was still wrong to wait.

Various Artists · 1992 Spin it Again - Rakim, Big Daddy Kane, EPMD, Cypress Hill, and Teddy Riley in the same room — and that's not even the most notable thing about this record.

Snoop Dogg · 1993 Spin it Again - He was arraigned for murder the same week this came out, and it still moved 800,000 copies in seven days.

Various Artists · 1993 Spin it Again - Two twenty-one-year-old directors demanded original music instead of a licensed playlist, and that decision is why this still sounds like something rather than a souvenir.

2Pac · 1994 Spin it Again - The G-funk is immaculate, Nate Dogg sounds like he's saving his soul, and Pac hadn't become the myth yet.

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.

Iron Maiden · 1983 Spin it Again - The record where five guys who had never quite been the same band in the same room finally locked into one, and stayed there for a decade.

The Plasmatics · 1983 Spin it Again - The band that blew up cars on TV made a hushed, lonely EP in 1983, and nobody noticed.

Oingo Boingo · 1983 Spin it Again - Eleven musicians, one very anxious Danny Elfman, and a producer from the Canterbury scene walked into a Hollywood studio and made the Oingo Boingo album that still doesn't get its due.

Muddy Waters · 1971 Spin it Again - Every band that ever plugged in an electric guitar owes this record a debt they'll never fully settle.

Muddy Waters · 1958 Spin it Again - The Rolling Stones took their name from track one. Everything else cascaded from there.

IDLES · 2018 Spin it Again - Joe Talbot named a song after his stillborn daughter and then put it in the middle of a punk record, and somehow that's the right move.