Inspiration Information

Submitted by Richard Norbury on 7 February 2013 - 4:14pm

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Artist:

Shuggie Otis

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Nationality:

USA

Year:

1 974

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0000

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Track-listing:

Inspiration Information*Island Letter*Sparkle City*Aht Uh Mi Hed*Happy House*Rainy Day*Xl-30*Pling!*Not Available*Strawberry Letter 23*Sweet Thang*Ice Cold Daydream*Freedom Flight

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Nominator:

Rich

meeting-ID:

m_2

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Spotify-URL:

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Grooveshark-URL:

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Short-title:

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nominator-ID:

u_14

Meeting-date:

Tuesday, 7 August 2007

MusicBrainz-URL:

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Wikipedia-URL:

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Spotify-link-type:

album

Metacritic-URL:

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Discogs-URL:

Shuggie-Otis-Inspiration-Information/master/54621

Allmusic-URL:

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reviewed by

Richard Norbury
71

reviewed by

Glyn Lewis

Good in places, but perhaps not enough places

10-11-13

1-2-3-4-5-7

A bit of a curate's egg of an album this one. It felt like a long route through some rather disjointed noodling to get to the more coherent and interesting songs at the latter stages of this album. Some curious chord changes and switches in sound give a slightly disorienting and unpleasant feel to some tracks on here, I'd single out Happy House and XI-30 as particular offenders. Some great instrumental work and cool vibes towards the end on, amongst others, Sweet Thang and Freedom Flight, don't quite manage to save the day.
68

reviewed by

Neil Hornsey

Crank it up on a summer's day, top down.

10

Loved the psychadedlic mayhem that is track 13. Enjoyed the cool slick vocals. Weak in the middle, but aren't all albums?? Will play again, in a garden at night through patio doors, one day.
65

reviewed by

Jon Taylor

Classic R&B - kind to the ears and the soul

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