Chic · 1979 Spin it Again - Nile Rodgers turned a lawsuit over "Le Freak" into the cleanest, coldest groove of 1979, and the bass on "Good Times" has been haunting dance floors for forty-five years without ever once breaking a sweat.

Michael Jackson · 1982 Spin it Again - Quincy Jones spent two years making sure every single second of this record felt inevitable, and unfortunately for everyone who came after, he succeeded.

Harry Nilsson · 1971 Spin it Again - Harry Nilsson made this one right after the Beatles stopped needing him, and you can hear every bit of that in how quietly good it is.

Grandmaster Flash and Melle Mel · 1982 Spin it Again - Before the beef, before the split, Grandmaster Flash and Melle Mel still in the same room, and you can hear exactly what was about to be lost.

Grandmaster Flash · 1981 Spin it Again - Before anyone called it an art form, Flash was in a basement in the Bronx treating other people's records like they owed him something.

Dave Brubeck Quartet · 1959 Spin it Again - Dave Brubeck put jazz in 5/4 time in 1959 and somehow the squares bought it, which tells you something about the song and something about the squares.

Thelonious Monk · 1957 Spin it Again - Monk wrote the title track so knotty his own band couldn't play it clean, so they spliced together two takes and called it done, and somehow that's the most honest thing on the record.

Kraftwerk · 1978 Spin it Again - Four Germans in Düsseldorf decided machines were more honest than people, and turned out to be right.

Kraftwerk · 1977 Spin it Again - Four Germans in 1977 decided that the future sounded like train windows and chrome, and the rest of electronic music has spent fifty years trying to catch up.

Fleetwood Mac · 1979 Spin it Again - Lindsey Buckingham blew a $1 million recording budget making something that sounded like it was recorded in a parking garage, and he was right to do it.

Black Lips · 2017 Spin it Again - Black Lips dragged whatever was left of Appalachian dirt-rock into 2017 and somehow it still smelled like 1967.

XTC · 1986 Spin it Again - Todd Rundgren produced it, Andy Partridge hated him for it, and the record came out better for the argument.

Steely Dan · 1974 Spin it Again - Fagen and Becker figured out that jazz could be smug and it still sounds like a Tuesday night that went somewhere unexpected.