Johann Christian Bach · 1770 Spin it Again - Johann Christian Bach, the forgotten London Bach, writing keyboard concertos in 1770 that Mozart basically studied like homework and then never once credited.

Tchaikovsky · 1875 Spin it Again - Tchaikovsky wrote it in 1875 and they almost didn't play it, and that opening chord sequence is the reason you still remember what a piano sounds like.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart · 1785 Spin it Again - Mozart was twenty-nine, had maybe six years left, and still wrote a slow movement so unhurried it makes you resent every clock you own.

Mozart · 1786 Spin it Again - Mozart at thirty, writing a slow movement so quietly devastating that even he knew not to push it further.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky · 1866 Spin it Again - Tchaikovsky was twenty-six, calling it *Winter Daydreams*, and you can hear a young man who hasn't quite decided if he's Russian or German yet, which turns out to be exactly the tension worth sitting with.

Johannes Brahms · 1876 Spin it Again - Brahms sat on this thing for twenty years, and you can hear every single one of them.

Joni Mitchell · 1972 Spin it Again - She wrote these songs alone in the Canadian wilderness and it shows in the best possible way.

Joni Mitchell · 1971 Spin it Again - She sat down at a piano in 1971 and decided to just say the whole thing, and nobody's really recovered from it since.

Joni Mitchell · 1974 Spin it Again - Joni Mitchell figured out that jazz musicians could make pop songs feel like they were falling apart in exactly the right places, and then she proved it.

Fleetwood Mac · 1975 Spin it Again - Buckingham and Nicks walked in off the street and the band immediately sounded like they'd been waiting for them the whole time.

Fleetwood Mac · 1977 Spin it Again - Four people actively falling apart held it together just long enough to cut something that still sounds like it knows something you don't.

Bill Evans Trio · 1962 Spin it Again - Bill Evans plays like he's trying not to wake someone up, and Scott LaFaro is dead eleven days after this was recorded.

Beck · 2002 Spin it Again - Beck made an entire album about heartbreak and somehow the pedal steel guitar did more talking than he did.

Prefab Sprout · 1985 Spin it Again - Paddy McAloon sat down in 1985 and wrote melodies so precisely sad they made Thomas Dolby's production feel like the only logical place to put them.

Anita Baker · 1986 Spin it Again - There is no album called "Mute" by Anita Baker from 1986 — her 1986 record was "Rapture," and getting that wrong would embarrass us both.

Sade · 1985 Spin it Again - Sade Adu singing like she has nowhere to be and all the time in the world to get there, over jazz that never once tries to impress you.

Duke Ellington & John Coltrane · 1962 Spin it Again - Duke Ellington playing like a man with nothing left to prove, Coltrane playing like a man with everything still to say, and somehow they both ended up in the same room on the same night.

Bill Withers · 1972 Spin it Again - Bill Withers recorded this at 34, after years of working a factory floor, and you can hear every single one of those years.

Aretha Franklin · 1967 Spin it Again - Aretha walked into Muscle Shoals in January, got into a fight with her husband on the second day, and still cut the title track before anyone could stop her.

Roberta Flack · 1969 Spin it Again - Roberta Flack walked into a studio in 1969 and played piano like she had thirty more years of heartbreak to account for, and it turns out she was right.