The Zombies · 1968 Spin it Again - They handed CBS one of the finest British pop records ever made, CBS said no thanks, and the band had already split before anyone figured that out.

The Velvet Underground · 1967 Spin it Again - It sold nothing in 1967 and quietly rewired everything that came after it.

Nico · 1967 Spin it Again - Nico was handed other people's songs, an arranger she resented, and somehow made the most quietly devastating record of 1967.

Andrew Hill · 1965 Spin it Again - Recorded nine months before Eric Dolphy died, with Tony Williams at nineteen doing things to a drum kit that still don't have a name.

Thelonious Monk · 1957 Spin it Again - The man who invented jazz piano silence put Coleman Hawkins and a twenty-nine-year-old Coltrane in the same room for one afternoon and hit record.

Father John Misty · 2017 Spin it Again - Seventy-four minutes, a seventy-four-piece orchestra, and one guy who really needed you to sit still for a while.

Sufjan Stevens · 2015 Spin it Again - Made at home, in the dark, about a mother he barely knew — and it sounds exactly like that.

Father John Misty · 2015 Spin it Again - Josh Tillman made a record so committed to sincerity that he had to bury it under three layers of irony just to get it out the door.

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.

Mogwai · 1999 Spin it Again - Dave Fridmann took five Scottish post-rock kids to a converted farmhouse in upstate New York and made them be quiet for an hour.

Radiohead · 2000 Spin it Again - Thom Yorke couldn't pick up a guitar after *OK Computer*, so they made this instead.

Broadcast · 2000 Spin it Again - Trish Keenan sang like she was narrating a film nobody had made yet, and then she was gone at 42.

Gang of Four · 1979 Spin it Again - Every band you love that plays guitar like a blunt instrument learned it from this record.

John Cale · 1974 Spin it Again - The Velvet Underground's other founder made the record that explains why fear and art rock were always the same conversation.

Marianne Faithfull · 1979 Spin it Again - The voice that fell apart in the sixties came back a decade later as something far more dangerous.

Broken Social Scene · 2010 Spin it Again - An EP that outweighs most full albums by a band that never really knew how to be small.

The Tragically Hip · 1998 Spin it Again - The Hip went deeper into their own country while everyone else was turning down the tuning pegs, and it paid off in a way that is still hard to explain to anyone who wasn't there.

The Tragically Hip · 2004 Spin it Again - Built in their own converted bathhouse outside Kingston, by men who had stopped waiting for America to figure it out.

The Tragically Hip · 2006 Spin it Again - The Hip made this one when they had nothing left to prove and everything left to lose, and it sounds like both.

Glenn Gould · 1981 Spin it Again - He spent twenty-six years thinking about how he played this the first time, and the answer he came up with was: slower, quieter, and with considerably less to prove.