Kate Bush · 1985 Spin it Again - Side two is a drowning woman surviving the night, and she produced every second of it herself in 1985.

Miles Davis · 1966 Spin it Again - Tony Williams was nineteen years old on this bandstand, and he already sounds like he'd invented something nobody else knew was possible.

Miles Davis · 1961 Spin it Again - Miles needed out of his Prestige contract, Van Gelder had the room, and Coltrane was still figuring out what he was — everything lined up exactly once.

Miles Davis · 1959 Spin it Again - Miles needed out of his Prestige contract, so he cut four albums in a single afternoon — and every one of them holds up.

Oscar Peterson · 1956 Spin it Again - Ray Brown's bass lines carry more structural logic than most pianists' left hands, and Peterson plays over them like the room belongs to him.

Oscar Peterson · 1963 Spin it Again - Ray Brown's bass sits just below your sternum, and the rest of the record builds itself around that fact.

Blondie · 1978 Spin it Again - Mike Chapman flew in from LA, ran Debbie Harry through takes until she was nearly done, and accidentally made the template for the next decade of pop.

Duran Duran · 1981 Spin it Again - Colin Thurston had just come off Bowie's Berlin trilogy and then produced this — which tells you it was never just a pretty-boy record.

XTC · 1979 Spin it Again - Hugh Padgham was in the room, Terry Chambers was behind the kit, and the bass guitar sounds like it's trying to escape the speakers.

The Human League · 1981 Spin it Again - Martin Rushent almost left 'Don't You Want Me' off the album entirely.

Bronski Beat · 1996 Spin it Again - The one Bronski Beat album nobody talks about is quietly doing more interesting things than the one everybody talks about.

Todd Rundgren · 1972 Spin it Again - This is the sound of one man deciding to just *do it all*, and somehow pulling off a double album that defies easy categorization.

Wings · 1973 Spin it Again - Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney, and Denny Laine went to Nigeria and made an album that sounds impossible for the conditions.

The Beatles · 1969 Spin it Again - For the band that changed everything, this was the sound of their quiet, confident end.

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan · 1989 Spin it Again - The voice that made Peter Gabriel stop talking at WOMAD in 1985, finally captured on tape the way it deserved.

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan · 1990 Spin it Again - Peter Gabriel had the good sense to build a studio in the English countryside and then invite someone who made him irrelevant.

Natacha Atlas · 2010 Spin it Again - Atlas spent the nineties building a sound loud enough to fill clubs; here she proves she never needed the volume.

Neil Young · 2012 Spin it Again - Neil Young kept the tape running between albums and the outtakes turned out to be the whole point.

Nils Lofgren · 1992 Spin it Again - He spent the decade being the second name in the credits for Neil Young and Springsteen, then walked into the Ryman with an acoustic guitar and no backup plan.

Whiskey Myers · 2014 Spin it Again - The album Whiskey Myers made before people started paying attention, which might be exactly why it hits harder than the one that made them famous.