Michael Jackson · 1991 Spin it Again - Jackson was already untouchable by 1991—so he made an album that wouldn't soothe anyone, wouldn't settle into a groove, and proved that pop mastery meant making something that still sounds restless three decades later.

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.