The Beatles · 1965 Spin it Again - By the time Rubber Soul closed, the screaming had stopped mattering, and what they were actually writing about began to matter instead.

Perfect · 1988 Spin it Again - Perfect recorded this in a studio that was still learning how to work, and it sounds like Poland itself in 1988—careful, precise, and deeply alive.

Kayah · 1988

George Michael · 1987 Spin it Again - A twenty-four-year-old made this alone in a studio, played every instrument, and somehow wrote songs so guarded they felt like secrets even when twenty-five million people were listening.

Pentatonix · 2013 Spin it Again - Fresh off winning The Sing Off, Pentatonix made a Christmas album that respects the songs instead of drowning them in arrangement.

Pentatonix · 2014 Spin it Again - Ben Folds produces five singers into something you forgot a cappella could be: urgent, specific, alive.

En Vogue · 1992 Spin it Again - En Vogue understood that New Jack Swing needed space, and they filled it with four voices that made the genre feel like it had just been invented.

Various Artists · 1992

Bobby Brown · 1992 Spin it Again - Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis spent 1992 proving that R&B rhythm didn't have to choose between precision and soul.

Janet Jackson · 1989 Spin it Again - Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis built Janet Jackson a machine that sounded exactly like 1989 but could have been made for any year.

Spandau Ballet · 1983 Spin it Again - They spent two years in four different studios to understand how to be the thing they sounded like they wanted to be. This is where they figured it out.

Haircut 100 · 1981 Spin it Again - A band with one chance to make the record right, working with an engineer who understood that layering four instruments doesn't muddy a song if you know where to place each one.

Guadalcanal Diary · 1988 Spin it Again - A record that gets quieter the more closely you listen, and that's exactly the point.

Vicky Brown · 1982 Spin it Again - Vicky Brown made this in 1982 with Quincy Jones and vanished; Doug Sax engineered it like it mattered; almost nobody heard it.

Juice Newton · 1981 Spin it Again - Rod Argent produced this like he understood that Juice Newton's restraint was the whole point.

Supertramp · 1979

Jive Bunny and Mastermix · 1987

2 Men A Drum Machine & A Trumpet · 1988 Spin it Again - Three musicians decided the only way forward was to remove everything but trumpet, drums, and voices, and they were right.

Richard Marx · 1987

Bobby Brown · 1988 Spin it Again - New Jack Swing meets mainstream pop with no apologies, and a twenty-year-old who knew exactly what he wanted to prove.