Hot Buttered Soul | 
 enlarge | Artist: Isaac Hayes
Label: Stax
Category: Music
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Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 13120
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 029667080521
EAN: 0029667080521
ASIN: B000026EVD
Release Date: May 28, 1991
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| Tracks:
| • | Walk On By | | • | Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymistic | | • | One Woman | | • | By The Time I Get To Phoenix |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
By 1969, black artists were following rock's lead and recording extended epics. At the forefront of such experimentation was big bad Isaac Hayes, co-author of countless Stax classics and an artist in his own right. On this, his second album, Hayes takes two adult-pop benchmarks, Burt Bacharach's "Walk On By" and Jimmy Webb's "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" and spins them out into slow-building sermons lasting 12 and 18.5 minutes apiece. Heavily romantic, they predate by two years Barry White's symphonic adventures in the same style, revolutionising soul music in the process. Meanwhile, on the album's third epic, the 10-minute "Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymistic", Hayes and his backing band the Bar-Kays wind up sounding, bizarrely, like a black Crazy Horse. --Barney Hoskyns
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 Before Barry White........ September 25, 2007
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
......came Isaac Hayes. A four track album ? In 1969 ? You've got to be kidding, right ? No Sir. Isaac Hayes took the orchestration and elongation of soul music to the nth degree with this ground-breaking release. Whether or not you find the four abnormally-extended workouts to your own personal taste or not, you simply have to admire the artist's willingness to push back the boundaries of contemporary popular music and the sheer chutzpah of it all.
The opener, "Walk On By" is a magnificent interpretation of the track made famous by Dionne Warwick in anyone's book. Lushly and lasciviously orchestrated it has so many peaks it leaves you breathless, despite its essential laid back groove. The contender for the longest track name ever is next, and a wonderful earthy funker it is too, with Hayes' band right on the money. Top dollar soul/funk. "One Woman" seems like a throwaway cut in comparison to its mighty counterparts, but it has a great chorus rise to it with peerless gospelly female backing vocals. The album's closer, the monumental pot boiler of "By The Time I Get To Phoenix" out-Barry Whites Barry White three years or so before he made the drawn-out soulful spoken introduction his own in many people's eyes. This track is a mighty eighteen-minute opus, rising to a classic, comparatively frenetic ending that just leaves one in awe of this album's achievement. Remember once again. It was 1969.
Throughout this album the sound and standard of musicianship (from the Bar-Kays) is top notch, save for one strange crackly bit two thirds of the way through "One Woman". Overall, though, highly recommended if you are interested in the progression of soul music.
There's nothing like this !! September 23, 2006
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
I can remember well the first time I heard this album. Used to a diet of Soul from the more commercial end of the spectrum, this was the album that sent me on a journey to discover Soul and Funk in all its forms - and what an album!!
I cannot hear Ike's version of "Walk on By" without marvelling at the sheer audacity of the man - but I love it, the strings, the guitars, the slow build up (will he ever sing?) and then the gravelly vocal - epic stuff.
There' more - "...Phoenix" is the same but more so, and while "One Woman" is almost standard fare, Hyper..." was the forerunner of the funk workouts Ike would become famous for on "Shaft".
No. this is not for everyone, and there are better albums but Soul music would not be the same without it and I love it.
 Forget the rest cos this is the best February 24, 2004
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
At Glastonbury 2003, (i think), Hayes did a set which consisted of 15 minutes of 'SHAFT!' he's a complicated man etc.' Why didn't he play something from an album that sets him above other soul folk? The rendition of 'walk on by' is not just another attempt at remaking the original but a successful delivery of a classic song with a touch of conseptual improv. The best track by far, is 'Hyperbolersylabic'. This isn't soul, but hardcore funk. This literally has never failed to get me wailing along to Isacc's dulsit tones and bouncing along to a fantasticaly simple, pounding bass line. This gets closer to a Funkadelic live jam at points, (all be it with just the one guitar and piano), than a soul revolution. The final track is extremely long (18:00), most of which is story telling, but this needn't be skipped if the album is listened to the way it should be. Just sit back, with unnecessary sunglasses and a free 45 minutes.
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