Arthur Conley · 1967 Spin it Again - Otis Redding produced this record, co-wrote the hit, and was dead before the year was out — and somehow none of that is the most interesting thing about it.

Lorraine Ellison · 1966 Spin it Again - Stay With Me charted in 1967 and still nobody quite knew what to do with her — which tells you everything about 1967.

Original London Cast of Sunny Afternoon · 2014 Spin it Again - A West End cast found something in Ray Davies's songs that Davies himself had long since buried under nostalgia tours.

Gregory Abbott · 1986 Spin it Again - Harvard degree, one number one, and a bassline so patient it practically raises an eyebrow at you.

Mark Knopfler · 1991 Spin it Again - He had the biggest-selling British rock album behind him and made this instead — a quiet, fingerpicked thing about faith healers and dead kings.

Wham! · 1984 Spin it Again - Every song on here was built by a twenty-one-year-old who understood the architecture of longing better than almost anyone working at the time.

Eighth Wonder · 1989 Spin it Again - Pet Shop Boys produced the best track, nobody gave Patsy Kensit credit for the performance, and this record has been sitting in your collection doing nothing about it.

Vicki Brown · 1987 Spin it Again - She spent twenty years making other people's records sound better, then made one of her own, and almost nobody noticed.

Corinne Bailey Rae · 2006 Spin it Again - Four million people bought this record, and it never once raised its voice to earn any of them.

Diana Ross · 1977 Spin it Again - Gil Askey built the room around her voice and then had the sense to leave it alone.

Babyface · 1989 Spin it Again - Babyface turned down the lights, turned down the volume, and somehow turned up everything that matters.

Mariah Carey · 1990 Spin it Again - A nineteen-year-old holds back, and that's exactly what breaks you.

Exposé · 1992 Spin it Again - Martinée built the Miami freestyle sound like load-bearing walls, and this is the record where it finally had somewhere to stand.

Niki Haris · 1991 Spin it Again - She sang background for Madonna and then made a debut this good, which is exactly the kind of injustice that takes thirty years to correct.

Cyndi Lauper · 1983 Spin it Again - Thirty years old, one failed band behind her, and she walked into Media Sound and made every song sound like she'd lived it twice.

The Magic Numbers · 2003 Spin it Again - A self-circulated CDR from 2003 that sounds more finished than most albums with actual budgets.

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

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.

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.

Alvvays · 2017 Spin it Again - Molly Rankin wrote 'Archie, Marry Me' almost as a joke, and it's still the most perfectly constructed three minutes of Canadian indie pop this decade.