Andrew Gold · 1976 Spin it Again - A Burbank studio record from 1976 that most people own for one song and have never actually heard.

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

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.

Buena Vista Social Club · 1997 Spin it Again - They found Ibrahim Ferrer shining shoes and Rubén González without a piano, and six days later this existed.

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.

Various Artists · 2021 Spin it Again - A pop reimagining that had no business working, anchored by one original song that quietly outclasses everything it borrowed.

Various Artists · 2023 Spin it Again - Mark Ronson treated the Barbie brief like an actual artistic problem, and it turns out that was the right call.

Various Artists · 2018 Spin it Again - ABBA songs don't need a sequel, and somehow this one earns its place anyway.

Demi Lovato · 2020 Spin it Again - You bought this ironically and you know it sounded better than it had any right to.

Ladysmith Black Mambazo · 1987 Spin it Again - Seventy years of Black South African choral tradition, recorded at the Hit Factory in New York, miscategorized as folk music, and still more patient than anything else in your library.

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.

Mariah Carey · 1997 Spin it Again - She was leaving her controlling husband-label-boss and made the only Mariah Carey album that sounds genuinely private.

Herbert von Karajan / Berlin Philharmonic · 1963 Spin it Again - A forty-four-year-old conductor, a church in Dahlem, and a deaf composer's last word on what music is for.

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

Vashti Bunyan · 1971 Spin it Again - Joe Boyd produced it at the same studio where Nick Drake made his records, it sold nothing, and she disappeared for thirty years — which is the only explanation for why you don't already own this.

Grateful Dead · 1970 Spin it Again - Six months after Workingman's Dead, they went back to the same room and got it even more right.

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.

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

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.