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.

Grateful Dead · 1970 Spin it Again - Six months after Workingman's Dead, they went back to the same room and got it even more right.

Thelonious Monk · 1957 Spin it Again - The man who invented jazz piano silence put Coleman Hawkins and a twenty-nine-year-old Coltrane in the same room for one afternoon and hit record.

Low Anthem · 2011 Spin it Again - Four people in a room in Rhode Island, playing holiday songs like they mean the sad part.

Julio Iglesias & Willie Nelson · 1984 Spin it Again - A Spaniard in a blazer and a Texas outlaw in a bandana walked into a studio together, and the result hit number one on both the pop and country charts simultaneously.

Taste Of Joy · 1980s Spin it Again - A library record from the Selected Sound archive that your shelves have been hiding from you.

Miles Davis · 1958 Spin it Again - Recorded in a day to satisfy a contract, which is exactly the kind of pressure that makes jazz tell the truth.

Miles Davis · 1957 Spin it Again - Miles owed Prestige a few records, so he walked into Rudy Van Gelder's house with Coltrane and Philly Joe and just played his show.

Dire Straits · 1979 Spin it Again - Jerry Wexler flew a British pub-rock band to Alabama and let the room do the work.

Cheb i Sabbah · 2006 Spin it Again - Rahat Fateh Ali Khan over a four-on-the-floor kick drum, and somehow nobody flinches.

Bob Marley & The Wailers · 1978 Spin it Again - The world handed him a megaphone after Exodus and he used it to talk about lying in the grass.

Nils Lofgren · 1997 Spin it Again - He played piano on *After the Gold Rush* having practiced for three days. This is what four more decades of that kind of nerve sounds like.

The Carter Family & Dolly Parton · 1998 Spin it Again - Dolly Parton walked into a room with the last living Carters and nobody added reverb.

Alison Krauss & Union Station · 2004 Spin it Again - Jerry Douglas's dobro and a voice that never once pushes — quiet proof that restraint is a skill most studios forgot how to teach.

Hank Mobley · 1960 Spin it Again - The record Leonard Feather accidentally described when he called Mobley a middleweight — turns out that's exactly what jazz needed.

Norah Jones · 2002 - Spin it Again - Don't forget to spin her newer stuff too. This is one artist that gets better with age.

João Gilberto · 1960 Spin it Again - João Gilberto in 1960, turning a handful of American standards into something so quiet and precise it makes every other vocal performance in the room sound like it's trying too hard.

Astrud Gilberto · 1964 Spin it Again - Gilberto's voice was so small and so far back in the mix that you had to lean in, and once you did, you weren't going anywhere for a while.

Stan Getz and João Gilberto · 1964 Spin it Again - Stan Getz's tenor sitting that loose over Gilberto's guitar is the reason a lot of people spent the sixties thinking they understood something about sadness they didn't.

Astrud Gilberto · 1965 Spin it Again - Astrud Gilberto, 1965, singing like she's slightly bored with your feelings, and somehow that's the only thing that makes sense at two in the morning.