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.

Pearl Jam · 2011 Spin it Again - Two and a half hours of archival Pearl Jam that rewards the second listen far more than the first.

Beyoncé · 2022 Spin it Again - Seventy-plus collaborators, one vision, and a low end that will tell you exactly what your speakers are worth.

Mitski · 2022 Spin it Again - Four years of near-retirement produced an album about performing okayness until the performance becomes the only thing left.

Miya Folick · 2023 Spin it Again - You've played this one before, but not like this — Justin Raisen buried the real architecture where casual listening doesn't reach.

The Cars · 1981 Spin it Again - The Cars at the exact moment when every night on the road had made them a machine without yet making them a tired one.

Stevie Nicks · 1981 Spin it Again - Jimmy Iovine knew what radio needed, Stevie Nicks knew what she'd been carrying for years, and somehow neither one had to compromise.

Pat Benatar · 1980 Spin it Again - She had been singing in Holiday Inns two years before this, and then she went quadruple platinum.

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.

Led Zeppelin · 1971 Spin it Again - They didn't put their name on the cover, and it still sold fifty million copies — which tells you everything about whether the music needed the marketing.

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.

Deep Purple · 1972 Spin it Again - You've owned this record for years and you still haven't actually listened to Jon Lord.

Japanese Breakfast · 2021 Spin it Again - Three albums in, Michelle Zauner stopped writing about grief and started writing about wanting things — turns out that's harder, and she's better at it.

Temple of the Dog · 1991 Spin it Again - A grief record made in a few weeks by people who didn't know they were about to become famous, and it shows — in the best possible way.

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.

XTC · 1992 Spin it Again - Gus Dudgeon, Prairie Prince, harpsichord, martyrdom myths, and the quiet sound of a band making their best record while ceasing to exist.

Rilo Kiley · 2004 Spin it Again - The EP Rilo Kiley released the same year as their best album, which is exactly why nobody talks about it enough.

Wolf Alice · 2017 Spin it Again - There are bands that grow into their second album and bands that detonate it — Wolf Alice did the second thing.

Peter Gabriel · 1986 Spin it Again - Stewart Copeland played drums on one track, Kate Bush sang on another, and somehow the whole thing sounds like one continuous thought.

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan & Peter Gabriel · 1994 Spin it Again - Gabriel built the room and had the sense to stay out of the way.