Iggy Pop · 1977 Spin it Again - Iggy Pop and David Bowie in Berlin, making the coldest, most influential album of 1977 on a busted tape machine and leftover cocaine.

Steely Dan · 1972 Spin it Again - They came from New York to LA, hired the best session players money could buy, and made a debut so airtight it's still hissing 50 years later.

Pink Floyd · 1967 Spin it Again - Four English boys recorded this in Abbey Road while The Beatles were next door making Sgt. Pepper — one of them never recovered.

Lauryn Hill · 1998 Spin it Again - She walked into Tuff Gong pregnant and made the only album that matters from that Fugees break.

FKA twigs · 2019 Spin it Again - She recorded her vocals at 3 a.m. into a single Neumann U 87 with no reverb — this is what it sounds like when an artist trusts the silence.

Syd Barrett · 1970 Spin it Again - David Gilmour and Roger Waters tried to hold it together in the studio. You can hear them failing.

Tim Buckley · 1970 Spin it Again - A man who had already abandoned folk for jazz then abandoned jazz for the outer reaches of the human voice.

DJ Krush · 1995 Spin it Again - DJ Krush's soundtrack for the 1995 anime is less a film score and more a beat meditation on what it means to be a machine that knows it's dreaming.

UNKLE · 1998 Spin it Again - Mixed mostly on broken headphones at 3 AM, this trip-hop landmark sounds exactly like that — desperate, intimate, and designed to be heard alone.

Jascha Heifetz · 1960 Spin it Again - Heifetz played the Tchaikovsky like he was arguing with God and winning.

Radiohead · 1995 Spin it Again - The Bends is the sound of a band learning to fly by throwing themselves off a cliff — and discovering they had wings.

New Order · 1983 Spin it Again - Joy Division's survivors traded the rain for sequencers and never looked back.

The Police · 1981 Spin it Again - They had become the biggest band in the world by sounding like the smallest — then they let the ghosts in.

ABBA · 1981 Spin it Again - They wrote about divorce while the world held its breath — and made it sound like a night drive through a snowstorm.

John Adams · 1978 Spin it Again - Minimalism’s hidden masterpiece — Adams wrote it at 31, before Nixon in China, and it still sounds like the future.

Philip Glass · 1978 Spin it Again - Philip Glass wrote an opera about a man who played the violin (badly) and never let him sing a word.

Steve Reich · 1978 Spin it Again - This is what it sounds like when eighteen people decide to breathe together, and the room becomes the instrument.

Gentle Giant · 1974 Spin it Again - This album is proof that prog could be intellectually rigorous without being boring.

King Crimson · 1974 Spin it Again - The album that nearly broke King Crimson opens with a sound like a tape machine struggling to keep its footing.

King Crimson · 1973 Spin it Again - A lineup of refugees from Yes and Family plus a percussionist who brought a suitcase full of hardware store items. They recorded for three weeks. The result is the angriest chamber music ever made.