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Hot Buttered Soul | 
| Artist: Isaac Hayes
Label: Stax
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Rating:  60 reviews
Sales Rank: 8016
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 4114
UPC: 252184114244
EAN: 0025218411424
ASIN: B000000ZGO
Release Date: October 25, 1990
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| Tracks:
| • | Walk on By - Isaac Hayes, Bacharach, Burt | | • | Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymistic - Isaac Hayes, Isbell | | • | One Woman - Isaac Hayes, Chalmers, Charles | | • | By the Time I Get to Phoenix - Isaac Hayes, Webb, Jimmy [1] |
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By 1969, black artists were following rock's lead and recording extended epics. At the forefront of such experimentation was big bad Isaac Hayes, coauthor of countless Stax classics and an artist in his own right. On this, his second album, Hayes takes two MOR-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, revolutionizing 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
Album Description
Japanese only remastered SHM-CD (Super High Material CD - playable on all CD players) pressing packaged in a paper sleeve. Universal. 2008.
Album Details
24 Bit Remastered Series in a Digipak.
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Dayyyumm! Four tracks an' still it's a long, LONELY road... October 22, 2002
Nathan (Charlotte, N.C. United States)
20 out of 24 found this review helpful
...but, oh, how lovely it is to travel. Isaac Hayes went into the recording studio back in 1969 with his the Bar-Kays as his backing band and created something magical and timeless that is beyond comparison from anything else I've ever heard. With only four numbers present here, it'd be easy to second-guess picking this up, but if you do you are a sucker, because you just don't understand how strong and potent this album is. It's almost ridiculous how many rappers have sampled this material, and how many times they've done it at that, but none of 'em, NONE OF 'EM could amass the emotion and skill that Brother Ike amassed into these four incredible numbers. The opener 'Walk on By' is not to be messed with for nothin'. The intro is hypnotic and intoxicating, stretching on for over two minutes before Brother Ike's mournful and dour voice comes in to sing his frustration and sadness away. Is' a rough number if you lived through it, but it's good fa' the soul. What follows is jus' somethin' funky, fa'real, an' I'm'a try an' spell it all out fa' you. 'Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymistic' is down-and-dirty gut-bucket funktified soul. Rhodes electric piano, classic guitar riffs, and that repetitive piano that Public Enemy jus' loves to sample. Oh, what a classic piece 'a work. I'm surprised lotsa these reviews don't seem to think too highly of 'One Woman' 'cause I can't get enough of that number. It's sweeter and more easy-going than the other three, but it's no less strong. I first tooke heavy notice of it while I was stuck in traffic on the highway on my way to my girl's house an' I heard Brother Ike say "I fight my way through the five o'clock rush hour, as daylight slowly leaves the sky..." That stuff gave me chills, fa'real. The good kinda chills when you can't wait for those loving arms of that special someone to greet you, like they always do at the end of everyday. It's just a nice poetic song, irreplaceable if you ask me. Alright, but the truth is that the next number is the real tear-jerker. For the first eight or nine minutes of 'By the Time I Get to Phoenix' there is nothing in the back ground but a hypnotic thumping bassline and Brother Ike telling a truly heartbreaking story of a man and a woman wo were in love, well, at least the man was in love, you know? ("But, y'see, girls, I don't mean to come down on you, but this man LOVED this woman so, but, they say love is blind...") If you're feelin' it, then when the song finally kicks in, you should already be reduced to a puddle of tears. Then all you can do is moan an' wail along with Isaac about bein' a prisoner of love who will never be free. Fellas, if you've ever had your heartbroken, an' you intend to get anything outta reading this review, it should be to not go another day without this masterpiece. If your lovelorn, sad, an' need somethin' to feed your sadness, or somethin' to keep you in touch with your spirit and soul, then this is the album to pick up. It's by all means one'a the baddest and best soul albums of ALL TIME, flawlessly performed from start to finish. Like I said, it's a long and lonely road, but it's a lovely one to travel. Again and again.
Hot Buttered Soul January 18, 2004
brother_ike (L-Boogie)
14 out of 15 found this review helpful
Finally left alone to do whatever kind of record he pleased, Ike hit big in 1969 with this, basically his debut album. And albums even from this classic era don't come any more individual than this one.`Walk On By' is titanic at twelve minutes long but justifies every second of its length, and is still as haunting and atmospheric all these decades later. `Hyperbolic...' is a hard hitting, almost bluesy number where Ike sings bizarre lyrics over another great melody, ending it off with a long piano riff. Ike also offers his own twist of `One Woman' and does an admirable job, but the closing `By The Time I Get To Phoenix' is the real attention grabber. Having taken the listener on a NINE minute journey just to get the mood right, Ike takes another nine to sing the song and climaxes it with some funky horns! Overall Ike's debut is hitting, a true master class in musicianship, innovation, and slow burners. This will always be a great time capsule of true soul.
Don't WALK ON BY on this one !!!! August 28, 1999
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
This album is a musical masterpiece !!! Ike transmits his emotions through his sublime voice and his fantastic music. When I hear the nearly 20 minute ``By the time I get to Phoenix ``, I never get bored by the 7 minute intro. You can't skip his rap cause you'll miss part of the message that Black Moses is delivering to you. Walk on by is charged with so much sadness that you can relate easily to what he's going through. Hyperbolic... is pure funk pleasure. One woman is a sweet ballad filled with incredible background vocals. Hot buttered soul is one of the key albums that popularized album concepts and proved that M.Hayes is a musical genius.
SOUL, SOUL, AND MORE SOUL..... August 20, 2003
mediaagent (New York, New York)
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
Let me just start off by saying I was 3yrs old when this "Album" came out. And I remember that every one of my relatives had this album (including my mom and grandparents). Everyone would be partying and playing this album. (Ours is worn out....believe me).You know how a song can trigger a memory? Well, I saw movie "Dead Presidents" (great soundtrack CD), and Issac's "Walk on By" is included in movie (where they count the money). All of a sudden, I remembered this cut! I heard it so many times in my childhood. So I had to see if HOT BUTTERED SOUL was released on CD. Thank god it is! Honey, this is soul music at its finest. Issac Hayes does not get the credit he deserves in music history. Forget Dionne Warwick's version, Issac Hayes is the BEST version I've ever heard. The horns, the violins, the melody, the man is BAD! This has got to be the best musical introduction I have ever heard in my life! Then you get to "Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedelamystic"...I have NO IDEA what the hell this means, but I feel the smoke, the sweat, the sex, the incense, the energy of this cut. I tell you, they just don't make them like this anymore. You want some soul, get HOT BUTTERED SOUL. Issac may be "Chef" on SOUTH PARK now, but he's a musician always. In heart and soul.
A soul classic... January 13, 2006
B. Bowman (Jersey, United States)
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
When I first got this I remember the girl I was with at the time looking at the track list on the back of the CD case and saying, "Four songs? You got ripped off." Man, was she wrong. (Then again, she was wrong about a lot of things.) This disc contains four jams that are some of the smoothest soul music I've ever heard. Isaac Hayes knew how to take a song and build it into an extended masterpiece. "Walk On By" is twelve minutes of Isaac layin' it down, and it doesn't drag for a second. His vocals on this song and throughout the album are sublime. The horn and orchestral arrangement is also noteworthy, opening the album in majestic fashion. "Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymistic" is a real groove, and the piano solo in the second half of the song is one of my favorites, building to an exhilarating crescendo at the end of the song. (Public Enemy sampled part of this solo on their classic track "Black Steel In The Hour Of Chaos".) I have put this song on at many parties and it never fails. The eighteen and a half minute "By The Time I Get To Phoenix" has attained legendary status since being recorded. Isaac Hayes really put it together on this album, and it should be regarded as a classic of soul music. This is a CD that I can put on anytime and it always moves me. If you are into R&B or soul music and haven't heard this, do yourself a favor and pick up a copy.
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