Spandau Ballet · 1983 Spin it Again - They spent two years in four different studios to understand how to be the thing they sounded like they wanted to be. This is where they figured it out.

Guadalcanal Diary · 1988 Spin it Again - A record that gets quieter the more closely you listen, and that's exactly the point.

Wolf Alice · 2021 Spin it Again - Wolf Alice finally stopped fighting their own restraint and made an album about how to say something without saying everything.

Fiona Apple · 2020

Motordamn · 1977–1978 Spin it Again - A tight touring band in a basement studio, playing like they knew every song could be the last one the label would release.

Vicky Brown · 1982 Spin it Again - Vicky Brown made this in 1982 with Quincy Jones and vanished; Doug Sax engineered it like it mattered; almost nobody heard it.

Chilliwack · 1977 Spin it Again - A radio-friendly rock album that sounds designed, not lucky—listen to the spaces between the notes.

Beastie Boys · 1986

Jive Bunny and Mastermix · 1987

Bobby Brown · 1988 Spin it Again - New Jack Swing meets mainstream pop with no apologies, and a twenty-year-old who knew exactly what he wanted to prove.

Mötley Crüe · 1987 Spin it Again - It took a death, a near-death, a shattered arm, and roughly two years of studio wreckage before this record finally locked in — and it sounds like exactly that.

Bon Jovi · 1986 Spin it Again - Bob Rock engineered it, Desmond Child co-wrote it, and Jon Bon Jovi almost left the best song off the record.

Loverboy · 1987 Spin it Again - Tom Werman, Little Mountain Sound, and a band that was better at their job than the red leather pants let anyone admit.

The Wailers · 1973 Spin it Again - Clapton heard 'I Shot the Sheriff' here first, made it a hit, and the original got left in the shade — which is exactly backwards.

Boney M. · 1978 Spin it Again - Bobby Farrell died in St. Petersburg on the same date — and in the same city — that Rasputin was murdered. The song was already on the record.

Cymande · 1974 Spin it Again - Ten Caribbean-British musicians made one of the loosest records of the seventies and then quietly disappeared, leaving the crates to do the talking.

Cymande · 1973 Spin it Again - Eleven Caribbean musicians in a London studio made something so self-contained it took twenty years and a thousand sample clearances for the rest of the world to catch up.

Otis Redding · 1967 Spin it Again - He died twelve weeks after this came out, which means every track on it was recorded by a man who had no idea he was making a legacy.

Arthur Conley · 1967 Spin it Again - Otis Redding produced this record, co-wrote the hit, and was dead before the year was out — and somehow none of that is the most interesting thing about it.

The Who · 1973 Spin it Again - Townshend handed the band synthesizer demos so complete the other three sometimes felt like session players — and they still made it sound like a live wire.