The Jimi Hendrix Experience · 1967 Spin it Again - Three weeks of sessions in London, a borrowed Fuzz Face, and an engineer smart enough to mike the amp from the side — that's the whole story.

Various Artists · 1972 Spin it Again - Sixteen songs recorded by kids who had no idea what they were doing, compiled by a kid who absolutely did.

Blue Rodeo · 1991 Spin it Again - Toronto, 1991, while grunge was eating everything — Blue Rodeo made a pedal-steel record about memory and didn't apologize for a second of it.

Spirit of the West · 1992 Spin it Again - A Vancouver folk-rock band in peak form, making the kind of record that Gold certification in Canada quietly undersells.

Spirit Of The West · 1994 Spin it Again - You know the party song. This is the album they made when the party was over.

Bill Laurance · 2019 Spin it Again - The Snarky Puppy keyboard player walks out alone at Montreux and turns out to have been the interesting one all along.

Jimmy Cliff · 1972 Spin it Again - A Kingston crime movie with a shoestring budget accidentally made the most important reggae record ever released outside Jamaica.

Red Hot Org · 1994 Spin it Again - A benefit record that forgot to be polite about it — Laswell, Santana, Bootsy Collins, and Billy Higgins in the same room, the year after Ra died.

The Human League · 1982 Spin it Again - A remix album that has no right being this good — Rushent went back into the Dare tapes and found rooms no one knew were there.

Depeche Mode · 1981 Spin it Again - The principal songwriter left before the second album, and somehow that's when Depeche Mode actually started.

Eurogliders · 1984 Spin it Again - Grace Knight sang jazz standards later in life, and once you hear this record properly you understand exactly why that was always inevitable.

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.

Neil Young & Crazy Horse · 2003 Spin it Again - A concept album recorded in a ranch barn with a band that had been playing together since Nixon — it should not work as well as it does.

Neil Young & Crazy Horse · 1979 Spin it Again - One side acoustic, one side electric, and the whole thing sounds like it was recorded in a building that was on fire.

Neil Young with Crazy Horse · 2022 Spin it Again - Neil Young finished this album, decided not to release it, and sat on it for two decades — and he was still wrong to wait.

Johnny Clegg & Savuka · 1988 Spin it Again - A white Zulu street dancer and an eight-piece band made the most politically dangerous music in apartheid South Africa, and it grooves the whole time.

Paul Simon · 1986 Spin it Again - A middle-aged folk singer went to apartheid South Africa with a hunch and came home with the fretless bass line that has been stuck in your head since 1987.

Aaliyah · 1996 Spin it Again - Timbaland was twenty-two, the drum patterns land slightly wrong until they land completely right, and nobody else sounded like this in 1996.

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.

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.