Marvin Gaye · 1971

The Wailers · 1973 Spin it Again - Clapton heard 'I Shot the Sheriff' here first, made it a hit, and the original got left in the shade — which is exactly backwards.

Antony and the Johnsons · 2005 Spin it Again - A voice so specific it shouldn't work on paper, over orchestrations so perfectly restrained they make the grief land harder.

Solange · 2016 Spin it Again - Eight years of patience went into one song, and then she built a whole album to hold it.

U2 · 1987 Spin it Again - Bono was writing about America from Ireland, and that distance is what made it hurt.

Shlump · 2013 Spin it Again - Before the festival circuit caught up, a kid with a DAW and too many late nights quietly mapped out what psychedelic bass music was going to become.

Jacqueline du Pré · 1965 Spin it Again - She was twenty years old, Barbirolli had known Elgar personally, and somehow the tape caught something neither of them could have planned.

Temple of the Dog · 1991 Spin it Again - A grief record made in a few weeks by people who didn't know they were about to become famous, and it shows — in the best possible way.

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan & Peter Gabriel · 1994 Spin it Again - Gabriel built the room and had the sense to stay out of the way.

Red Hot Org · 1994 Spin it Again - A benefit record that forgot to be polite about it — Laswell, Santana, Bootsy Collins, and Billy Higgins in the same room, the year after Ra died.

Ladysmith Black Mambazo · 1987 Spin it Again - Seventy years of Black South African choral tradition, recorded at the Hit Factory in New York, miscategorized as folk music, and still more patient than anything else in your library.

Vusi Mahlasela · 1990 Spin it Again - Recorded in Pretoria in 1990, this is what it sounds like when someone has been singing for their life and finally gets a microphone worth the trouble.

Georg Solti / Vienna Philharmonic · 1959 Spin it Again - John Culshaw put sixty anvils in a Vienna ballroom and accidentally made the most important classical recording of the twentieth century.

Herbert von Karajan / Berlin Philharmonic · 1963 Spin it Again - A forty-four-year-old conductor, a church in Dahlem, and a deaf composer's last word on what music is for.

Sam Amidon · 2010 Spin it Again - Old murder ballads and fiddle tunes, run through an Icelandic studio and returned barely recognizable — in the best way.

Andrew Hill · 1965 Spin it Again - Recorded nine months before Eric Dolphy died, with Tony Williams at nineteen doing things to a drum kit that still don't have a name.

Sufjan Stevens · 2015 Spin it Again - Made at home, in the dark, about a mother he barely knew — and it sounds exactly like that.

Bob Marley and the Wailers · 1973 Spin it Again - Thirty-four minutes, nine songs, and the last time Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer were in the room.

Bob Marley and the Wailers · 1973 Spin it Again - The Wailers walked into Harry J's Studio in Kingston and recorded an album so locked-in it made every rhythm section that came after it sound like they were still figuring out where to stand.

Glenn Gould · 1956 Spin it Again - He brought his own chair, sat lower than anyone else would, and played Bach like he'd already argued it out in his head on the drive over.