Lionel Richie · 1983 Spin it Again - Eighty million dollars in sales later, critics still can't figure out why this one hurts.

Diana Ross · 1977 Spin it Again - Gil Askey built the room around her voice and then had the sense to leave it alone.

Anita Baker · 1986 Spin it Again - Nathan East on bass, Ricky Lawson on drums, and a singer who never once oversells it — this is what sophisticated looked like before that word got ruined.

Neil Young · 1992 Spin it Again - Neil Young found Kenny Buttrey working outside of music, drove out to get him, and made the most unhurried album of 1992.

Emmylou Harris · 1995 Spin it Again - Daniel Lanois put Emmylou Harris in a Victorian house in New Orleans and made the most ambient country record anyone had heard — and somehow her voice was still the loudest thing in the room.

The Chicks · 2020 Spin it Again - They didn't come back to be forgiven — they came back with better material than the people who punished them ever made.

Emmylou Harris & Patty Griffin · 2007 Spin it Again - The record you filed under 'nice' a decade ago has been waiting to tell you something you're finally ready to hear.

Babyface · 1989 Spin it Again - Babyface turned down the lights, turned down the volume, and somehow turned up everything that matters.

Mariah Carey · 1990 Spin it Again - A nineteen-year-old holds back, and that's exactly what breaks you.

Japanese Breakfast · 2023 Spin it Again - She wrote a bestselling book about losing her mother, and now here she is playing those songs in a room full of people who read it.

Bonnie Raitt · 1977 Spin it Again - She learned slide guitar from Mississippi Fred McDowell in person, and by 1977 she was making records this quietly confident while Warner Bros. looked the other way.

Emmylou Harris · 1975 Spin it Again - Emmylou Harris walked into a Los Angeles studio still carrying Gram Parsons, and somehow that made the whole thing sound more honest than anything Nashville was putting out.

Vicki Brown · 1979 Spin it Again - One of the best voices in British pop spent twenty years making everyone else sound good, then made this, and the world looked the other way.

Stevie Nicks · 1981 Spin it Again - Jimmy Iovine knew what radio needed, Stevie Nicks knew what she'd been carrying for years, and somehow neither one had to compromise.

Marilyn Martin · 1982 Spin it Again - The session world produced a lot of voices in the early eighties — this is the one that should have gotten a second album.

Basia Bulat · 2022 Spin it Again - You filed this one away after two casual plays, and that's exactly what it was waiting for you to stop doing.

Björk · 2001 Spin it Again - Matmos turned liposuction sounds into percussion and somehow this is the warmest record of 2001.

Carla Bruni · 2002 Spin it Again - Three million copies sold in France, and somehow it never crossed the channel — a spare, guitar-and-piano chanson debut that makes almost everything from 2002 sound overcrowded.

Jacqueline du Pré, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra · 1967 Spin it Again - She had nine years left to perform when she made this, and somehow the cello already knew.

Jacqueline du Pré, Berlin Philharmonic · 1968 Spin it Again - Du Pré was twenty-three years old and playing like someone who had already heard the end of the story.