The Kinks · 1970 Spin it Again - Ray Davies flew back from an American tour to re-record a single lyric for the BBC, and the song still sounds effortless.

Cream · 1968 Spin it Again - Clapton, Bruce, and Baker were already breaking up when they played these Fillmore shows, and you can hear it.

The Jimi Hendrix Experience · 1968 Spin it Again - He was twenty-five, burning through studios in New York and London, and somehow this is still the widest-sounding record anyone has ever made.

Prince & The Revolution · 1984 Spin it Again - He stripped the bass line out of 'When Doves Cry' at the last minute and it somehow has more bottom than anything on the radio that year.

Mark Knopfler · 1991 Spin it Again - He had the biggest-selling British rock album behind him and made this instead — a quiet, fingerpicked thing about faith healers and dead kings.

Guided by Voices · 1994 Spin it Again - Twenty-eight songs in under forty minutes, recorded on leftover tape in a Dayton basement by a third-grade teacher who had to be at school Monday morning.

The Lemonheads · 1992 Spin it Again - Evan Dando covering Gram Parsons and Suzanne Vega in the same year he became famous — and somehow neither one feels like an accident.

The Lemonheads · 2003 Spin it Again - The kind of record you already own but haven't actually sat down with since the Clinton administration.

Chris Brown · 2019 Spin it Again - Thirty-two tracks of late-night R&B from a man who still hasn't decided whether he wants to be a pop star or a soul singer, and somehow that indecision is the whole point.

Chris Brown · 2024 Spin it Again - You owned this for a year and never actually heard the bass.

Eighth Wonder · 1988 Spin it Again - The number seven single that should have been a number one, from a year when the machinery was working perfectly and nobody quite noticed.

Soft Cell · 1981 Spin it Again - They recorded this in a hurry on a budget that showed, and somehow that's why it still sounds dangerous.

Belouis Some · 1985 Spin it Again - The record you bought for one single and never actually played.

U2 · 1987 Spin it Again - Bono was writing about America from Ireland, and that distance is what made it hurt.

Vicki Brown · 1979 Spin it Again - Forty-one years old, one shot at a solo album, and she phrased every line like she'd been thinking about it since the session before.

Niki Haris · 1991 Spin it Again - She sang background for Madonna and then made a debut this good, which is exactly the kind of injustice that takes thirty years to correct.

Madonna · 1984 Spin it Again - Nile Rodgers came in off Bowie's 'Let's Dance' and his rhythm guitar on the title track is doing more work than most people have ever noticed.

Tina Turner · 1984 Spin it Again - Mark Knopfler wrote the title track for Dire Straits, passed on it, then played guitar while Tina Turner turned it into something neither of them could have made alone.

Half Japanese · 1981 Spin it Again - Two brothers from Ohio who didn't know how to play guitar made something more honest than most people who did.

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.