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.

Nikki Lane · 2014 Spin it Again - Thirty-seven minutes of low, dusky Americana made by people who knew exactly when to stop.

Yes · 1973 Spin it Again - Four sides of vinyl, four Hindu scriptures, and four guys who forgot that restraint is also a musical decision.

Gentle Giant · 1972 Spin it Again - Seven musicians in 1972 deciding that medieval counterpoint and prog rock were basically the same problem, and being right.

Yes · 1972 Spin it Again - Four guys in 1972 decided that eighteen minutes was a reasonable length for a single song, and they were right.

Weather Report · 1980 Spin it Again - Zawinul slowed everything down, Shorter finally had room to breathe, and for once Weather Report sounded like they were playing for the end of the night instead of the beginning.

Herbie Hancock · 1974 Spin it Again - Hancock took the Headhunters' funk and ran it through a synthesizer until it stopped being jazz, stopped being soul, and became something that only made sense at two in the morning in 1974.

Herbie Hancock · 1974 Spin it Again - Herbie in '74, still one foot in jazz and one foot somewhere murkier, and you can hear him deciding which direction to walk.

Weather Report · 1977 Spin it Again - Jaco Pastorius walked into a jazz-fusion session in 1977 and made the bass the whole conversation, and nobody's really argued with him since.

Nile Rodgers · 1985 Spin it Again - Nile Rodgers stripped away the disco architecture, sat down alone with the credits, and made something quieter than anyone wanted from him in 1985.

Chic · 1979 Spin it Again - Nile Rodgers turned a lawsuit over "Le Freak" into the cleanest, coldest groove of 1979, and the bass on "Good Times" has been haunting dance floors for forty-five years without ever once breaking a sweat.

Michael Jackson · 1982 Spin it Again - Quincy Jones spent two years making sure every single second of this record felt inevitable, and unfortunately for everyone who came after, he succeeded.

Fleetwood Mac · 1987 Spin it Again - Buckingham basically built the whole thing in his home studio while the band was falling apart, and somehow that loneliness ended up sounding like the last warm night of summer.

Dire Straits · 1980 Spin it Again - Knopfler figured out that a Fender and a good story about a woman leaving could do more damage than a wall of synthesizers ever would.

Kraftwerk · 1977 Spin it Again - Four Germans in suits built the skeleton that every DJ, hip-hop producer, and synth band has been draping flesh on ever since, and most of them still haven't caught up.

Patti Smith · 1978 Spin it Again - Patti Smith screaming her way through Because the Night, a song Tom Petty passed on and Springsteen half-wrote, and somehow she ended up owning all of it.

Sly and the Family Stone · 1971 Spin it Again - Sly Stone locked himself in a home studio, turned the funk to mud, and made something so exhausted and paranoid it still sounds like 3am on a bad year.

Rush · 1980 Spin it Again - Rush figured out that seven-minute songs hit harder when the band actually knows when to breathe, and 1980 was the year they proved it.

Eric B. & Rakim · 1987 Spin it Again - Rakim figured out what a microphone was actually for, and Eric B. built the room around him, and nothing sounded quite right in the same way after 1987.