Culture Club · 1983 Spin it Again - Boy George was twenty-two and already knew that the quieter he sang, the harder it landed.

The Human League · 1982 Spin it Again - A remix album that has no right being this good — Rushent went back into the Dare tapes and found rooms no one knew were there.

Depeche Mode · 1981 Spin it Again - The principal songwriter left before the second album, and somehow that's when Depeche Mode actually started.

Eurogliders · 1984 Spin it Again - Grace Knight sang jazz standards later in life, and once you hear this record properly you understand exactly why that was always inevitable.

Various Artists · 2023 Spin it Again - Mark Ronson treated the Barbie brief like an actual artistic problem, and it turns out that was the right call.

Various Artists · 2018 Spin it Again - ABBA songs don't need a sequel, and somehow this one earns its place anyway.

Demi Lovato · 2020 Spin it Again - You bought this ironically and you know it sounded better than it had any right to.

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.

Johnny Clegg & Savuka · 1988 Spin it Again - A white Zulu street dancer and an eight-piece band made the most politically dangerous music in apartheid South Africa, and it grooves the whole time.

Paul Simon · 1986 Spin it Again - A middle-aged folk singer went to apartheid South Africa with a hunch and came home with the fretless bass line that has been stuck in your head since 1987.

Mariah Carey · 1997 Spin it Again - She was leaving her controlling husband-label-boss and made the only Mariah Carey album that sounds genuinely private.

Aaliyah · 1996 Spin it Again - Timbaland was twenty-two, the drum patterns land slightly wrong until they land completely right, and nobody else sounded like this in 1996.

Cory Wong · 2022 Spin it Again - Seventy minutes of a Minneapolis funk guitarist proving that joy, precision, and complete creative control can coexist without apology.

Vulfpeck · 2014 Spin it Again - They funded a free tour by uploading silence to Spotify, then dropped this like it was nothing.

Vulfpeck · 2020 Spin it Again - Joe Dart's bass and forty-one minutes of people who know exactly when not to play.

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.

Various Artists · 2012 Spin it Again - A Christmas compilation that was actually sequenced by someone who owns records.

Horace Silver · 1965 Spin it Again - Sixty years of samples and covers and it still sounds like the original is the only one that got it right.

Oscar Peterson · 1956 Spin it Again - Ray Brown's bass lines carry more structural logic than most pianists' left hands, and Peterson plays over them like the room belongs to him.

Oscar Peterson · 1963 Spin it Again - Ray Brown's bass sits just below your sternum, and the rest of the record builds itself around that fact.