New Kids on the Block · 1989

LeVert · 1988 Spin it Again - Gerald Levert's voice wrapped in silk arrangements and synth-age luxury—stop treating this as background music and hear what the sequencing and production actually meant.

Pukka Orchestra · Mid-1970s Spin it Again - Session players in Toronto making pop music with no intention of being remembered, which is precisely why you should.

Bon Jovi · 1986 Spin it Again - Bob Rock engineered it, Desmond Child co-wrote it, and Jon Bon Jovi almost left the best song off the record.

Chicago · 1986 Spin it Again - Peter Cetera's last album with Chicago sounds like a man already halfway out the door — and somehow that's exactly what the songs needed.

Loverboy · 1987 Spin it Again - Tom Werman, Little Mountain Sound, and a band that was better at their job than the red leather pants let anyone admit.

Boney M. · 1978 Spin it Again - Bobby Farrell died in St. Petersburg on the same date — and in the same city — that Rasputin was murdered. The song was already on the record.

Cymande · 1974 Spin it Again - Ten Caribbean-British musicians made one of the loosest records of the seventies and then quietly disappeared, leaving the crates to do the talking.

Cymande · 1973 Spin it Again - Eleven Caribbean musicians in a London studio made something so self-contained it took twenty years and a thousand sample clearances for the rest of the world to catch up.

Arthur Conley · 1967 Spin it Again - Otis Redding produced this record, co-wrote the hit, and was dead before the year was out — and somehow none of that is the most interesting thing about it.

Don Johnson · 1986 Spin it Again - Richard Perry produced it, Steve Lukather played on it, and two million Americans bought it — the part your music-snob brain has to just sit with.

Gregory Abbott · 1986 Spin it Again - Harvard degree, one number one, and a bassline so patient it practically raises an eyebrow at you.

Vicki Brown · 2019 Spin it Again - Decades of session work, and this is the record where she finally gets the room to herself.

Mark Knopfler · 1991 Spin it Again - He had the biggest-selling British rock album behind him and made this instead — a quiet, fingerpicked thing about faith healers and dead kings.

Drake · 2021 Spin it Again - Noah '40' Shebib mixed the loneliness of having everything until it sounded like a room you actually want to sit in.

Chris Brown · 2019 Spin it Again - Thirty-two tracks of late-night R&B from a man who still hasn't decided whether he wants to be a pop star or a soul singer, and somehow that indecision is the whole point.

Chris Brown · 2024 Spin it Again - You owned this for a year and never actually heard the bass.

Wham! · 1984 Spin it Again - Every song on here was built by a twenty-one-year-old who understood the architecture of longing better than almost anyone working at the time.

Eighth Wonder · 1989 Spin it Again - Pet Shop Boys produced the best track, nobody gave Patsy Kensit credit for the performance, and this record has been sitting in your collection doing nothing about it.

Vicki Brown · 1985 Spin it Again - She spent twenty years being the best voice in someone else's room, and they only let her make one record of her own.