Straight No Chaser · 2013 Spin it Again - They made a Christmas album without treating it like a side gig or a joke.

Bobby Brown · 1992 Spin it Again - Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis spent 1992 proving that R&B rhythm didn't have to choose between precision and soul.

Michael Jackson · 1991 Spin it Again - Jackson was already untouchable by 1991—so he made an album that wouldn't soothe anyone, wouldn't settle into a groove, and proved that pop mastery meant making something that still sounds restless three decades later.

The Who · 1967 Spin it Again - The Who made their greatest album by pretending to sell beans and dishwashing liquid between rock songs.

The Kinks · 1970 Spin it Again - He wrote this to settle accounts with the industry that made him famous, and did it so well you can sing along to your own humiliation.

Haircut 100 · 1981 Spin it Again - A band with one chance to make the record right, working with an engineer who understood that layering four instruments doesn't muddy a song if you know where to place each one.

Guadalcanal Diary · 1988 Spin it Again - A record that gets quieter the more closely you listen, and that's exactly the point.

Supertramp · 1979

Beastie Boys · 1986

Jive Bunny and Mastermix · 1987

2 Men A Drum Machine & A Trumpet · 1988 Spin it Again - Three musicians decided the only way forward was to remove everything but trumpet, drums, and voices, and they were right.

Bobby Brown · 1988 Spin it Again - New Jack Swing meets mainstream pop with no apologies, and a twenty-year-old who knew exactly what he wanted to prove.

New Kids on the Block · 1989

Boney M. · 1978 Spin it Again - Bobby Farrell died in St. Petersburg on the same date — and in the same city — that Rasputin was murdered. The song was already on the record.

Cymande · 1974 Spin it Again - Ten Caribbean-British musicians made one of the loosest records of the seventies and then quietly disappeared, leaving the crates to do the talking.

Cymande · 1973 Spin it Again - Eleven Caribbean musicians in a London studio made something so self-contained it took twenty years and a thousand sample clearances for the rest of the world to catch up.

The Kinks · 1968 Spin it Again - It sold nothing in 1968 and Ray Davies made it anyway, for reasons that took the rest of the world twenty years to catch up to.

The Kinks · 1970 Spin it Again - Ray Davies flew back from an American tour to re-record a single lyric for the BBC, and the song still sounds effortless.

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.

Guided by Voices · 1994 Spin it Again - Twenty-eight songs in under forty minutes, recorded on leftover tape in a Dayton basement by a third-grade teacher who had to be at school Monday morning.