Beethoven · 1808 Spin it Again - Four notes, two hundred years, and it still sounds like someone kicking in a door.

Joni Mitchell · 1972 Spin it Again - She wrote these songs alone in the Canadian wilderness and it shows in the best possible way.

Joni Mitchell · 1971 Spin it Again - She sat down at a piano in 1971 and decided to just say the whole thing, and nobody's really recovered from it since.

Joni Mitchell · 1974 Spin it Again - Joni Mitchell figured out that jazz musicians could make pop songs feel like they were falling apart in exactly the right places, and then she proved it.

Radiohead · 1997 Spin it Again - Thom Yorke wrote about feeling like a ghost in a machine before most people had even touched the internet, and it turned out he was right.

Björk · 1997 Spin it Again - Björk took the Icelandic string octet and the 808 and refused to let either one win.

Massive Attack · 1998 Spin it Again - Massive Attack in 1998, paranoid and slow, building dread out of guitar loops and darkness until you forget there was ever anything called trip-hop.

Clipping. · 2020 Spin it Again - Daveed Diggs and two producers from Los Angeles made a horror rap record in 2020 that understood noise the way a good cinematographer understands darkness — as a tool, not a mood.

Fiona Apple · 2012 Spin it Again - Fiona Apple alone in a room with her piano and her demons, and she won.

Jesu · 2006 Spin it Again - Justin Broadrick took the weight of Godflesh and buried it under so much gauze and melody that you almost forget how heavy it still is.

Pharoah Sanders · 1974 Spin it Again - Pharoah Sanders in 1974, still chasing something cosmic but letting the silence do more of the work this time.

Sun Ra · 1963 Spin it Again - Sun Ra in 1963, before most people had a framework for what he was doing, pointing a microphone at the part of the room where the sound goes to die.

Sun Ra · 1973 Spin it Again - Sun Ra decided the cosmos needed a bandleader and nobody in 1973 had a convincing argument against it.

Fleetwood Mac · 1975 Spin it Again - Buckingham and Nicks walked in off the street and the band immediately sounded like they'd been waiting for them the whole time.

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.

Bill Evans · 1958 Spin it Again - Bill Evans alone at the piano in 1958, holding one bass note for eleven minutes while the right hand just wanders, and somehow that's enough.

Bill Evans Trio · 1962 Spin it Again - Bill Evans plays like he's trying not to wake someone up, and Scott LaFaro is dead eleven days after this was recorded.

Feist · 2007 Spin it Again - Leslie Feist made a record about wanting things you can't quite name, and she did it without once raising her voice.

Kasey Chambers · 1999 Spin it Again - Kasey Chambers was nineteen years old, raised on the Nullarbor Plain hunting foxes, and that's exactly what this sounds like.

Gillian Welch · 2001 Spin it Again - Gillian Welch and David Rawlings in a room with two guitars, taking their time, and somehow that's enough.