Cocteau Twins · 1984 Spin it Again - Robin Guthrie turned reverb into an instrument, Elizabeth Fraser into a voice beyond language, and the '80s into something that didn't have to choose between coldness and feeling.

Spandau Ballet · 1983 Spin it Again - They spent two years in four different studios to understand how to be the thing they sounded like they wanted to be. This is where they figured it out.

Richard Marx · 1987

Chicago · 1986 Spin it Again - Peter Cetera's last album with Chicago sounds like a man already halfway out the door — and somehow that's exactly what the songs needed.

Otis Redding · 1967 Spin it Again - He died twelve weeks after this came out, which means every track on it was recorded by a man who had no idea he was making a legacy.

Lorraine Ellison · 1966 Spin it Again - Stay With Me charted in 1967 and still nobody quite knew what to do with her — which tells you everything about 1967.

Don Johnson · 1986 Spin it Again - Richard Perry produced it, Steve Lukather played on it, and two million Americans bought it — the part your music-snob brain has to just sit with.

Prince & The Revolution · 1984 Spin it Again - He stripped the bass line out of 'When Doves Cry' at the last minute and it somehow has more bottom than anything on the radio that year.

Mark Knopfler · 1996 Spin it Again - Sixteen songs, no stadium in sight, and a guitar tone that makes you realize how much of Dire Straits was just overhead.

Rufus Wainwright · 2007 Spin it Again - Rufus Wainwright released a grand, forty-piece album in 2007 and then, almost in the same breath, this — twenty-three minutes of French chanson recorded in Montreal with his mother at the piano.

My Bloody Valentine · 1991 Spin it Again - Half a million pounds, nineteen studios, and a guitar technique nobody has successfully stolen since.

Drake · 2021 Spin it Again - Noah '40' Shebib mixed the loneliness of having everything until it sounded like a room you actually want to sit in.

Chris Brown · 2019 Spin it Again - Thirty-two tracks of late-night R&B from a man who still hasn't decided whether he wants to be a pop star or a soul singer, and somehow that indecision is the whole point.

Tom Odell · 2013 Spin it Again - He was twenty-two, playing piano in a Bermondsey studio, and somehow the grief in his voice sounds earned.

Eighth Wonder · 1989 Spin it Again - Pet Shop Boys produced the best track, nobody gave Patsy Kensit credit for the performance, and this record has been sitting in your collection doing nothing about it.

Anita Baker · 1986 Spin it Again - Anita Baker made this after escaping a bad label deal, and you can hear the relief in every unhurried note.

Corinne Bailey Rae · 2006 Spin it Again - Four million people bought this record, and it never once raised its voice to earn any of them.

Amy Winehouse · 2003 Spin it Again - Before the tabloids, before the beehive became a costume, there was this — a teenager from Southgate cutting a hip-hop jazz record that most forty-year-olds couldn't have pulled off.

Lianne La Havas · 2012 Spin it Again - She plays her own guitar, sings behind the beat, and leaves more air in the room than anyone asked for — and somehow that's the whole trick.

Alela Diane · 2010 Spin it Again - She moved to France, made a record about leaving, and somehow it sounds like staying.