Blondie · 1978 Spin it Again - Mike Chapman flew in from LA, ran Debbie Harry through takes until she was nearly done, and accidentally made the template for the next decade of pop.

Duran Duran · 1981 Spin it Again - Colin Thurston had just come off Bowie's Berlin trilogy and then produced this — which tells you it was never just a pretty-boy record.

Scritti Politti · 1985 Spin it Again - Green Gartside spent years in a Welsh breakdown, then came back and made the most philosophically loaded pop record of 1985 — with Marcus Miller on bass.

The Human League · 1981 Spin it Again - Martin Rushent almost left 'Don't You Want Me' off the album entirely.

Wings · 1973 Spin it Again - Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney, and Denny Laine went to Nigeria and made an album that sounds impossible for the conditions.

Cheb i Sabbah · 2009 Spin it Again - You've had this record for years and you've never actually listened to it.

Bob Marley & The Wailers · 1980 Spin it Again - He had fourteen months to live when they made this, and the only place it shows is the last song.

Bob Marley & The Wailers · 1976 Spin it Again - He recorded this without Chris Blackwell and it turned out to be the most self-possessed thing he ever made.

Bob Marley & The Wailers · 1977 Spin it Again - He got shot, played a concert two days later anyway, flew to London, and made this.

Nickel Creek · 2005 Spin it Again - They already knew it was over when they made it, and somehow that made everything tighter.

Herbie Hancock · 1974 Spin it Again - Hancock took the Headhunters' funk and ran it through a synthesizer until it stopped being jazz, stopped being soul, and became something that only made sense at two in the morning in 1974.

Odyssey · 1978 Spin it Again - Phyllis Rhodes and her cousins figured out that disco and soul were the same conversation, and nobody at the party argued with them.

Nile Rodgers · 1985 Spin it Again - Nile Rodgers stripped away the disco architecture, sat down alone with the credits, and made something quieter than anyone wanted from him in 1985.

Chic · 1979 Spin it Again - Nile Rodgers turned a lawsuit over "Le Freak" into the cleanest, coldest groove of 1979, and the bass on "Good Times" has been haunting dance floors for forty-five years without ever once breaking a sweat.

Fleetwood Mac · 1987 Spin it Again - Buckingham basically built the whole thing in his home studio while the band was falling apart, and somehow that loneliness ended up sounding like the last warm night of summer.

Pharoah Sanders · 1974 Spin it Again - Pharoah Sanders in '74, still chasing that frequency Coltrane pointed at, and some nights he actually touches it.

Lee Morgan · 1964 Spin it Again - Lee Morgan walked into Van Gelder's studio with a blues shuffle and a hard bop trumpet and left behind forty minutes that still sound better at midnight than most things sound at any hour.

Herbie Hancock · 1974 Spin it Again - Hancock took the electric funk he was building on Head Hunters and tightened every screw until there was almost no room left to breathe, which is exactly the point.

XTC · 1986 Spin it Again - Todd Rundgren produced it, Andy Partridge hated him for it, and the record came out better for the argument.

Herbie Hancock · 1973 Spin it Again - Herbie Hancock walked out of Miles Davis's band and into a funk club, and nobody who was there that night ever fully recovered.