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.

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

John Coltrane · 1958 Spin it Again - Recorded eleven months before Giant Steps changed everything, this is Coltrane still inside the tradition — and already pulling at the walls.

Peter Gabriel · 1989 Spin it Again - Peter Gabriel made a movie soundtrack that spent the next thirty years making the movie irrelevant.

Peter Gabriel · 1989 Spin it Again - Three years, a half-built studio, Youssou N'Dour, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, and a brief to make music that sounds two thousand years old.

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan · 1989 Spin it Again - The voice that made Peter Gabriel stop talking at WOMAD in 1985, finally captured on tape the way it deserved.

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan · 1990 Spin it Again - Peter Gabriel had the good sense to build a studio in the English countryside and then invite someone who made him irrelevant.

Natacha Atlas · 2010 Spin it Again - Atlas spent the nineties building a sound loud enough to fill clubs; here she proves she never needed the volume.

Sussan Deyhim · 2006 Spin it Again - Deyhim trained for years to sing in ceremonial contexts and then spent her career making sure none of those ceremonies exist.

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

Cheb i Sabbah · 2009 Spin it Again - You've had this record for years and you've never actually listened to it.

Bob Marley & The Wailers · 1980 Spin it Again - He had fourteen months to live when they made this, and the only place it shows is the last song.

Bob Marley & The Wailers · 1976 Spin it Again - He recorded this without Chris Blackwell and it turned out to be the most self-possessed thing he ever made.

Bob Marley & The Wailers · 1977 Spin it Again - He got shot, played a concert two days later anyway, flew to London, and made this.