Devo · 1981 Spin it Again - This is Devo before anyone had heard of Devo, playing to rooms full of people who had no idea what they were watching.

Iron Maiden · 1983 Spin it Again - The record where five guys who had never quite been the same band in the same room finally locked into one, and stayed there for a decade.

The Plasmatics · 1983 Spin it Again - The band that blew up cars on TV made a hushed, lonely EP in 1983, and nobody noticed.

Oingo Boingo · 1983 Spin it Again - Eleven musicians, one very anxious Danny Elfman, and a producer from the Canterbury scene walked into a Hollywood studio and made the Oingo Boingo album that still doesn't get its due.

Bob Dylan · 1976 Spin it Again - The album Blood on the Tracks gets all the credit, but this is the one with a room full of people who'd follow him anywhere.

Muddy Waters · 1971 Spin it Again - Every band that ever plugged in an electric guitar owes this record a debt they'll never fully settle.

Muddy Waters · 1958 Spin it Again - The Rolling Stones took their name from track one. Everything else cascaded from there.

Mumford & Sons · 2009 Spin it Again - The backlash came so fast you might have missed that the record itself is actually good.

Cory Wong · 2022 Spin it Again - Seventy minutes of a Minneapolis funk guitarist proving that joy, precision, and complete creative control can coexist without apology.

IDLES · 2018 Spin it Again - Joe Talbot named a song after his stillborn daughter and then put it in the middle of a punk record, and somehow that's the right move.

Vulfpeck · 2020 Spin it Again - Joe Dart's bass and forty-one minutes of people who know exactly when not to play.

Gang of Four · 1979 Spin it Again - Every band you love that plays guitar like a blunt instrument learned it from this record.

The Rolling Stones · 1969 Spin it Again - Released five days after Altamont, with a choir, a cracked voice, and Ry Cooder — this is the record where the Stones figured out they didn't need to be a band to sound like one.

The Rolling Stones · 1971 Spin it Again - Two days in Muscle Shoals, a zipper Andy Warhol designed, and Mick Taylor playing three and a half unrequested minutes on 'Can't You Hear Me Knocking' that nobody stopped.

Various Artists · 1968/1996 Spin it Again - The Stones buried this for twenty-eight years because they thought the Who outplayed them — they were probably right, and it still didn't matter.

Bob Marley and the Wailers · 1973 Spin it Again - Thirty-four minutes, nine songs, and the last time Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer were in the room.

Bob Marley and the Wailers · 1973 Spin it Again - The Wailers walked into Harry J's Studio in Kingston and recorded an album so locked-in it made every rhythm section that came after it sound like they were still figuring out where to stand.

The Tragically Hip · 1998 Spin it Again - The Hip went deeper into their own country while everyone else was turning down the tuning pegs, and it paid off in a way that is still hard to explain to anyone who wasn't there.

The Tragically Hip · 2004 Spin it Again - Built in their own converted bathhouse outside Kingston, by men who had stopped waiting for America to figure it out.

The Tragically Hip · 2006 Spin it Again - The Hip made this one when they had nothing left to prove and everything left to lose, and it sounds like both.