A Place to Bury Strangers · 2007 Spin it Again - Oliver Ackermann wired his own circuits, recorded in his own shop, and made the most destructive shoegaze record of the 2000s before anyone was paying attention.

Moon Duo · 2014 Spin it Again - You already own this record, which is exactly why you stopped hearing it.

Vic Chesnutt · 1996 Spin it Again - Vic Chesnutt made fifteen albums and this is the one that gets more interior the longer you leave it alone.

Vic Chesnutt · 2002 Spin it Again - Michael Stipe signed this man, produced him with almost nothing, and the result outlasted most of what surrounded it.

Soundgarden · 1994 Spin it Again - Cornell had four octaves and used none of them to impress you — that restraint is why this one still holds.

Modern English · 1981 Spin it Again - Everything they did before the song that followed them everywhere — and it turns out it was the more interesting half.

Black Sabbath · 1970 Spin it Again - Four kids from Birmingham with two days of studio time invented an entire genre and didn't notice.

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.

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.

Screaming Trees · 1992 Spin it Again - The record that proved the Screaming Trees were never really a grunge band — they just had the bad luck to live there.

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

Susanne Sundfør · 2015 Spin it Again - The record Sundfør made before everyone found her — colder, stranger, and more honest about what she was reaching for.

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

Gastr del Sol · 1995 Spin it Again - The guitarist from Jesus Lizard and the engineer who would later make Wilco's 'Yankee Hotel Foxtrot' made this first — and it sounds like it.

Blues Pills · 2014 Spin it Again - Elin Larsson was twenty-two and somehow already the most convincing blues-rock vocalist to come out of Scandinavia since forever.

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.

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.

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

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