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

Aaliyah · 1996 Spin it Again - Timbaland was twenty-two, the drum patterns land slightly wrong until they land completely right, and nobody else sounded like this in 1996.

Snoop Dogg · 1993 Spin it Again - He was arraigned for murder the same week this came out, and it still moved 800,000 copies in seven days.

Devo · 1981 Spin it Again - This is Devo before anyone had heard of Devo, playing to rooms full of people who had no idea what they were watching.

Oingo Boingo · 1983 Spin it Again - Eleven musicians, one very anxious Danny Elfman, and a producer from the Canterbury scene walked into a Hollywood studio and made the Oingo Boingo album that still doesn't get its due.

Vulfpeck · 2014 Spin it Again - They funded a free tour by uploading silence to Spotify, then dropped this like it was nothing.

The Rolling Stones · 1971 Spin it Again - Two days in Muscle Shoals, a zipper Andy Warhol designed, and Mick Taylor playing three and a half unrequested minutes on 'Can't You Hear Me Knocking' that nobody stopped.

The Rolling Stones · 1967 Spin it Again - Their manager walked out, they couldn't leave the country, and somehow John Paul Jones ended up arranging the strings.

Various Artists · 1968/1996 Spin it Again - The Stones buried this for twenty-eight years because they thought the Who outplayed them — they were probably right, and it still didn't matter.

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.

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

Kate Bush · 1985 Spin it Again - Side two is a drowning woman surviving the night, and she produced every second of it herself in 1985.

Blondie · 1978 Spin it Again - Mike Chapman flew in from LA, ran Debbie Harry through takes until she was nearly done, and accidentally made the template for the next decade of pop.

Duran Duran · 1981 Spin it Again - Colin Thurston had just come off Bowie's Berlin trilogy and then produced this — which tells you it was never just a pretty-boy record.

XTC · 1979 Spin it Again - Hugh Padgham was in the room, Terry Chambers was behind the kit, and the bass guitar sounds like it's trying to escape the speakers.

The Human League · 1981 Spin it Again - Martin Rushent almost left 'Don't You Want Me' off the album entirely.

Todd Rundgren · 1972 Spin it Again - This is the sound of one man deciding to just *do it all*, and somehow pulling off a double album that defies easy categorization.

Nikki Lane · 2014 Spin it Again - Thirty-seven minutes of low, dusky Americana made by people who knew exactly when to stop.

Herbie Hancock · 1974 Spin it Again - Hancock took the Headhunters' funk and ran it through a synthesizer until it stopped being jazz, stopped being soul, and became something that only made sense at two in the morning in 1974.

The Decemberists · 2005 Spin it Again - Colin Meloy spent five years learning every word in the English language and then made an album about pirates and murderers that somehow feels more like your hometown than anything you grew up with.