Wayne Shorter · 1964 Spin it Again - Wayne Shorter with Miles Davis's rhythm section, no Miles, just four nights of recording until they got it right, and you can hear exactly what that kind of quiet pressure does to a tenor player.

Steely Dan · 1980 Spin it Again - Becker and Fagen spent so much money and time making LA sound this cold and frictionless that it almost killed the band, and you can hear every dollar of it.

Franz Schubert · 1823 Spin it Again - Schubert was twenty-six, already sick, and this is what quiet fury sounds like when someone stops trying to convince you of anything.

Franz Schubert · 1828 Spin it Again - Schubert wrote this in the last weeks of his life and somehow made the slowest movement on the piano feel like it has nowhere to be and all the time in the world.

Alban Berg Quartet · 1983 Spin it Again - Four Vienna guys in 1983 who had clearly lived inside these quartets long enough to stop proving anything and just play them straight.

Ludwig van Beethoven · 1827 Spin it Again - Seven movements played without pause, written by a man who couldn't hear a note of it, and somehow that's the least remarkable thing about it.

Johannes Brahms · 1883 Spin it Again - Brahms at fifty, done proving himself, finally just writing the thing he heard in his head.

Cowboy Junkies · 1988 Spin it Again - One microphone, one room, one take, and somehow the Trinity Session sounds like the only honest thing recorded that decade.

Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions · 2003 Spin it Again - Sandoval sounds like she's singing from the bottom of a well and somehow that's the only place you want to be at 2am.

Concrete Blonde · 1989 Spin it Again - Johnette Napolitano sounds like she's been awake for three days and has decided to stop pretending that's a problem.

Mazzy Star · 1993 Spin it Again - Hope Sandoval sounds like she learned to sing in a room she was trying to disappear into, and David Roback let the reverb prove her right.

Joni Mitchell · 1972 Spin it Again - She wrote these songs alone in the Canadian wilderness and it shows in the best possible way.

Joni Mitchell · 1971 Spin it Again - She sat down at a piano in 1971 and decided to just say the whole thing, and nobody's really recovered from it since.

Radiohead · 1997 Spin it Again - Thom Yorke wrote about feeling like a ghost in a machine before most people had even touched the internet, and it turned out he was right.

Portishead · 1994 Spin it Again - Beth Gibbons singing like she's the only person left in a city that forgot to tell everyone else to leave.

Fiona Apple · 2012 Spin it Again - Fiona Apple alone in a room with her piano and her demons, and she won.

Fleetwood Mac · 1975 Spin it Again - Buckingham and Nicks walked in off the street and the band immediately sounded like they'd been waiting for them the whole time.

Fleetwood Mac · 1977 Spin it Again - Four people actively falling apart held it together just long enough to cut something that still sounds like it knows something you don't.

Feist · 2007 Spin it Again - Leslie Feist made a record about wanting things you can't quite name, and she did it without once raising her voice.

Kasey Chambers · 1999 Spin it Again - Kasey Chambers was nineteen years old, raised on the Nullarbor Plain hunting foxes, and that's exactly what this sounds like.