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.

Broken Social Scene · 2010 Spin it Again - An EP that outweighs most full albums by a band that never really knew how to be small.

Glenn Gould · 1981 Spin it Again - He spent twenty-six years thinking about how he played this the first time, and the answer he came up with was: slower, quieter, and with considerably less to prove.

Sufjan Stevens · 2010 Spin it Again - Sufjan Stevens spent a decade secretly making Christmas records for his family, and this is what happened when he finally let everyone else in.

Low Anthem · 2011 Spin it Again - Four people in a room in Rhode Island, playing holiday songs like they mean the sad part.

Various Artists · 2012 Spin it Again - A Christmas compilation that was actually sequenced by someone who owns records.

Meaghan Smith · 2011 Spin it Again - You already own this one — the question is whether you've ever actually listened to it.

Miles Davis · 1957 Spin it Again - Miles owed Prestige a few records, so he walked into Rudy Van Gelder's house with Coltrane and Philly Joe and just played his show.

Horace Silver · 1965 Spin it Again - Sixty years of samples and covers and it still sounds like the original is the only one that got it right.

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.

Ella Fitzgerald · 1957 Spin it Again - Duke Ellington flew his actual orchestra to Hollywood for this, sat down at the piano, and played while Ella sang his songs back to him.

Ella Fitzgerald · 1956 Spin it Again - The record that convinced the world a pop singer could be a serious artist — and then quietly made that argument unnecessary.

Scritti Politti · 1985 Spin it Again - Green Gartside spent years in a Welsh breakdown, then came back and made the most philosophically loaded pop record of 1985 — with Marcus Miller on bass.

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.

Bob Marley & The Wailers · 1976 Spin it Again - He recorded this without Chris Blackwell and it turned out to be the most self-possessed thing he ever made.

Bob Marley & The Wailers · 1978 Spin it Again - The world handed him a megaphone after Exodus and he used it to talk about lying in the grass.

Bob Marley & The Wailers · 1977 Spin it Again - He got shot, played a concert two days later anyway, flew to London, and made this.

Nickel Creek · 2005 Spin it Again - They already knew it was over when they made it, and somehow that made everything tighter.