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Apr 24
Colour by Numbers
Culture Club · 1983 Spin it Again - Boy George was twenty-two and already knew that the quieter he sang, the harder it landed.
genre:Pop
Apr 24
Dance
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.
decade:1980s
Apr 24
Speak and Spell
Depeche Mode · 1981 Spin it Again - The principal songwriter left before the second album, and somehow that's when Depeche Mode actually started.
genre:New Wave
Apr 24
This Island
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.
genre:Synth-Pop
Apr 24
Barbie (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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.
genre:Dance-Pop
Apr 24
Mamma Mia Here We Go Again Soundtrack
Various Artists · 2018 Spin it Again - ABBA songs don't need a sequel, and somehow this one earns its place anyway.
decade:2010s
Apr 24
Eurovision: Fire Saga Soundtrack
Demi Lovato · 2020 Spin it Again - You bought this ironically and you know it sounded better than it had any right to.
decade:2020s
Apr 22
Shaka Zulu
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.
genre:World Music
Apr 22
Umkhulu
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.
genre:Pop
Apr 22
Graceland
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.
genre:Pop
Apr 22
Butterfly
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.
genre:Pop
Apr 22
One in a Million
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.
genre:Hip Hop
Apr 19
Cory Wong
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.
genre:R&B
Apr 19
Vulfpeck
Vulfpeck · 2014 Spin it Again - They funded a free tour by uploading silence to Spotify, then dropped this like it was nothing.
decade:2010s
Apr 19
Thrill
Vulfpeck · 2020 Spin it Again - Joe Dart's bass and forty-one minutes of people who know exactly when not to play.
genre:Soul
Apr 19
Catch a Fire
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.
genre:Rock
Apr 18
Holidays Rule
Various Artists · 2012 Spin it Again - A Christmas compilation that was actually sequenced by someone who owns records.
genre:Alternative Rock
Apr 17
Song for My Father
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.
decade:1960s
Apr 16
At the Stratford Shakespearean Festival
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.
genre:Hard Bop
Apr 16
Night Train
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.
genre:Hard Bop
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