Codeine · 1992 Spin it Again - While Sub Pop was busy with loud guitars, Codeine quietly made the quietest record on the roster — and it hit harder than most of the rest.

Joni Mitchell · 1976 Spin it Again - She drove across the country alone after a breakup and came back with nine songs and Jaco Pastorius on fretless bass — no drummer required.

Stornoway · 2011 Spin it Again - The guy finishing his bird-counting doctorate wrote every song, and somehow that explains everything about why this record sounds the way it does.

Pentangle · 1968 Spin it Again - Bert Jansch and John Renbourn sharing a guitar track is reason enough, but then Terry Cox barely touches the kit and somehow that's the thing that gets you.

Nick Drake · 1969 Spin it Again - Nick Drake recorded this in a converted Chelsea dairy at night, and you can hear every wall.

Vashti Bunyan · 1971 Spin it Again - Joe Boyd produced it at the same studio where Nick Drake made his records, it sold nothing, and she disappeared for thirty years — which is the only explanation for why you don't already own this.

Neil Young · 1972 Spin it Again - He slipped a disc, wore a sling, and recorded the best-selling album of 1972 in a barn and a Nashville studio with a drummer who'd already played on Blonde on Blonde.

Harry Nilsson · 1968 Spin it Again - Van Dyke Parks produced it, it cost a fortune, sold nothing, and sounds like nothing else from 1968 or anywhere else.

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.

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.

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.

The Rolling Stones · 1967 Spin it Again - Their manager walked out, they couldn't leave the country, and somehow John Paul Jones ended up arranging the strings.

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.

Sufjan Stevens · 2010 Spin it Again - Sufjan Stevens spent a decade secretly making Christmas records for his family, and this is what happened when he finally let everyone else in.

Kate Bush · 1985 Spin it Again - Side two is a drowning woman surviving the night, and she produced every second of it herself in 1985.

Kate Bush · 1982 Spin it Again - She locked herself in a London studio for eighteen months, fired the management, and came out with something that still has no genre.

Taste Of Joy · 1980s Spin it Again - A library record from the Selected Sound archive that your shelves have been hiding from you.

The Beach Boys · 1966 Spin it Again - This is the album where Brian Wilson heard the voices and put them to tape with the best players money could buy.

The Beatles · 1969 Spin it Again - For the band that changed everything, this was the sound of their quiet, confident end.