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May 29
Controversy
Prince · 1981 Spin it Again - A twenty-two-year-old asking who he is over the only sound that matters: his own.
genre:New Wave
May 29
Around the World in a Day
Prince · 1985 Spin it Again - He made Purple Rain a year earlier and could have done anything; instead he locked himself in the studio and made something genuinely strange.
genre:Pop
May 29
1999
Prince · 1982 Spin it Again - He recorded it alone in a basement in Minnesota and somehow made it sound like the future was starting right there.
genre:Synth-Pop
May 29
Rio
Duran Duran · 1982 Spin it Again - Colin Thurston's production and John Taylor's bass lines proved that 1982's pop didn't have to be disposable.
genre:Synth-Pop
May 27
Tropicália: ou Panis et Circensis
Various Artists · 1968 Spin it Again - The moment Brazilian music decided it didn't have to choose between bossa nova and chaos.
genre:Psychedelic Rock
May 27
A Divina Comédia ou Ando Meio Desligado
Os Mutantes · 1970 Spin it Again - The album that made everyone wonder if the Mutantes had lost their minds, and eventually proved they'd just found somewhere further in.
genre:Tropicália
May 26
The White Album
The Beatles · 1968 Spin it Again - They recorded it while falling apart, and you can hear every argument in the mix.
genre:Pop
May 25
Fela Kuti and Africa 70
Fela Kuti and Africa 70 · 1972 Spin it Again - Recorded in Lagos in 1972 with Tony Allen behind the drums, this is the album where Fela's vision crystallized — a relentless polyrhythmic statement that proved a continent had its own way of moving.
decade:1970s
May 24
Untangle the Rainbow
Steeleye Span · 1969 Spin it Again - Before anyone else figured it out, Steeleye Span proved that English folk songs and electric guitars could occupy the same space without one destroying the other.
decade:1960s
May 23
Chicken Skin Music
Ry Cooder · 1976 Spin it Again - He listened so hard to other people's music that he became invisible in his own record, and somehow that's when he sounded most like himself.
genre:Folk
May 23
Eat to the Beat
Blondie · 1979 Spin it Again - A 1979 record from Blondie that rewards close listening.
genre:Disco
May 23
Party Mix / Mesopotamia
The B-52'S · Spin it Again - A timeless record from The B-52'S that rewards close listening.
genre:Post-Punk
May 22
Nightbirds
Labelle · 1974 Spin it Again - Allen Toussaint produced a masterclass in letting three voices own a groove and a room at once.
genre:Funk
May 22
Diamond
Dee Harris · 1985 Spin it Again - Talk Talk's restraint meets Soft Cell's sensuality on a record nobody's heard but everyone with taste should own.
decade:1980s
May 22
Reward
Cate Le Bon · 2012 Spin it Again - A Welsh guitarist discovers that architecture and silence say things melody never could—recorded alone in Wales and built from the refusal to fill space.
genre:Art Pop
May 21
Revolver
The Beatles · 1966 Spin it Again - A 1966 record from The Beatles that rewards close listening.
genre:Psychedelic Rock
May 21
Rubber Soul
The Beatles · 1965 Spin it Again - By the time Rubber Soul closed, the screaming had stopped mattering, and what they were actually writing about began to matter instead.
genre:Pop
May 20
Poniedzialek
Kayah · 1988
genre:New Wave
May 19
Crunkin G Style
Rottin · Year Unknown Spin it Again - A deep cut from the regional crunk era that sounds better the second time through, when you're listening alone and can actually hear the architecture underneath the bounce.
decade:Unknown
May 18
Mr. Bungle
Mr. Bungle · 1991 Spin it Again - John Zorn produced a metal band that played lounge jazz, prog arrangements, and avant-garde deconstruction in the same breath, and somehow made it cohere.
genre:Avant-Garde
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