Booker T. & the M.G.'s · 1968 Spin it Again - A 1968 record from Booker T. & the M.G.'s that rewards close listening.

Sam & Dave · 1967 Spin it Again - A 1967 record from Sam & Dave that rewards close listening.

Prince · 1982 Spin it Again - He recorded it alone in a basement in Minnesota and somehow made it sound like the future was starting right there.

Duran Duran · 1982 Spin it Again - Colin Thurston's production and John Taylor's bass lines proved that 1982's pop didn't have to be disposable.

Toto · 1978 Spin it Again - Geoff Emerick produced their debut with the same meticulous discipline he brought to the Beatles, and Toto proved that arena rock perfection was still music.

Toto · 1982 Spin it Again - A 1982 record from Toto that rewards close listening.

Michael Jackson · 1979 Spin it Again - Quincy Jones produced a 20-year-old out of the Jackson 5 and into adulthood with nine minutes of the most sophisticated disco-funk ever put on a pop radio station.

Stevie Wonder · 1972 Spin it Again - A 1972 record from Stevie Wonder that rewards close listening.

Stevie Wonder · 1980 Spin it Again - A 1980 record from Stevie Wonder that rewards close listening.

Mahmoud Ahmed · 1975 Spin it Again - Mahmoud Ahmed proved in 1975 that the greatest jazz was being made three thousand miles east of where anyone was looking.

Mulatu Astatke · 1974 Spin it Again - Mulatu Astatke didn't borrow from Western jazz so much as recognize the vibraphone was waiting to play an entirely different language.

Phyllis Hyman · 1983 Spin it Again - A 1983 record from Phyllis Hyman that rewards close listening.

Herbie Hancock · 1973 Spin it Again - Herbie Hancock stopped playing jazz and started playing everybody's party—and somehow made it matter.

Donald Byrd · 1972 Spin it Again - Byrd brings Ethiopian modal scales and patient grooves to Van Gelder's studio with a band that sounds like it actually plays together.

Cymande · 1972 Spin it Again - This is what hip-hop went to dig for: four men fusing calypso, funk, and Afrobeat into grooves so alive and unguarded that Atlantic Records didn't know what they had.

Marvin Gaye · 1973 Spin it Again - This is the record Marvin made after Motown finally let him speak, and he used it to change what intimacy could sound like on vinyl.

Blondie · 1979 Spin it Again - A 1979 record from Blondie that rewards close listening.

The B-52'S · Spin it Again - A timeless record from The B-52'S that rewards close listening.

Evelyn 'Champagne' King · 1984 Spin it Again - Kashif produced this in 1984 and somehow made it sound like it was made in 1985 and will still sound right in 2035.

The Mamas & the Papas · 1966 Spin it Again - Lou Adler made them sound like they'd rehearsed in a cathedral and learned from Broadway, and somehow it became the year's biggest record.