Hot Buttered Soul

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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

Product Description
24 Bit Remastered Series in a Digipak.

Hot Buttered Soul,Isaac Hayes,Stax,Funk,Pop,R&B,Soul,Soul/R & B,Soul/Reggae/Rhythm & Blues,United States of America

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Average customer rating: One of the best soul platters around! Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymistic As important today as in 1969. Progressive soul from a master... Hot Buttered Soul

Hot Buttered Soul Isaac Hayes Manufacturer: Stax ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | R&B | Styles | Music General | Soul | R&B | Styles | Music General | Funk | R&B | Styles | Music Similar Items: Black Moses The Isaac Hayes Movement ...To Be Continued Shaft: Music From The Soundtrack (1971 Film) Superfly (1972 Film) ASIN: B000000ZGO Release Date: 1990-10-25

Tracks:

1. Walk On By
2. Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymistic
3. One Woman
4. By The Time I Get To Phoenix

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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 Details

24 Bit Remastered Series in a Digipak.

Customer Reviews:

One of the best soul platters around!.......2007-07-22

One of the great masterpieces of 60s and 70s R&B (and still one of the genre's key standard-bearers), Hot Buttered Soul is an impeccably crafted album, a stunning showcase of music at its emotionally resonant best. The record's production is simply stunning, a dreamy and overwhelming combination of lush strings and refined horns with throbbing basses and raw, distorted guitars. Each song is an impossibly well-built soundscape, a work that gushes with emotion and unchecked power. Hayes' rough, warm voice rings with both devotion and sex, pain and sensuality. The man fills every lyric on this album with life and passion, transforms each sentence into a sermon. The result? Pure gold.

The album opens with an epic reworking of Burt Bacharach and Hal David's "Walk on By." Hayes' arrangement lends the song an incredible amount of tension, complimenting the dramatic lyrics with swirling horns, relentless rhythms, and cruel electric guitars. It may not be a Spector-esque "wall of sound," but it is some kind of musical architecture. The song slowly builds in intensity, finally exploding a thundering climax (or should I say catharsis?) of flailing strings, breathtaking melodies, and the hypnotic, relentless throb of an organ. The result sounds like some unprecedented combination of "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" and "Down By the River." Brillinant!

Next up is "Hyperbolicsyllabicesquedalymistic," which has a lot more going for it than a great title. It's a stomping soul-funk stunner, with a nasty wah-wah guitars and some unstoppable stomping rhythms. Hayes' voice is pure attitude. He's like a laid-back, cooler-than-cool James Brown. The song's extended instrumental break is a sweaty, hypnotic jam, driven by a fantastic piano solo and a thudding bass line.

After that is "One Woman." At a "pitiful" five minutes and seven seconds long, it's the shortest song on the album. It's also the tamest, devoid of the grittier sounds faound elsewhere on Hot Buttered Soul. Still, it's a beautiful tune, thanks to its soaring melody, gorgeous orchestration, and Hayes' impassioned vocal.

Finally, there's "By the Time I Get to Phoenix." A classic example of an artist covering a song and making it entirely his own, this recording should (if there's any justice in this world) go down in history as one of the greatest soul performances, ever. Isaac takes his time with the song, unselfconciously stretching it across over eighteen minutes. Nearly half of the performance is spent on an incredible opening narration, in which Hayes relates the tune's backstory over a minimal accompaniment (a single, pounding cymbal, with a humming organ), slowly building up a sense of emotional anguish and escelating tension- before releasing all of it in the song's second half, a relentless rush of gushing orchestration and nuanced vocals. Like "Walk On By," the song goes out on a sky scraping instrumrental climax, putting the ideal cap on a great song (and a great album).

Great, great stuff. If you even vaguely like soul or R&B, you really should have this.

Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymistic .......2007-05-09

When I was about 12 or 13, my father said the best album he ever owned was Isaac Hayes "Hot Buttered Soul". I remembered this about 7 years ago and I see why my dad told me that. Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymistic is one of the baddest, funkiest track ever made. If you are a "true" fan of 70's R&B, this album is a must have in you collection.

As important today as in 1969........2007-03-22

Isaac Hayes' "Hot Buttered Soul" was radically different from anything which Stax Records had previously released. Hayes' eclectic mix of Soul, Jazz and lush, symphonic orchestration was certainly revolutionary back in 1969...but it made him a superstar. In retrospect, Hayes' 1969-74 recordings laid the foundation for Disco and this album remains a pivotal release. Indispensable.

Progressive soul from a master..........2007-03-13

Way before Isaac played Chef on the sometimes funny, mostly smug sitcom South Park, and before he flipped out on Scientology, he made some of the greatest soul albums of all time. This is the one I consider his best. It's only got 4 tracks on it, but they are all gorgeous. Isaac has a great sense of narrative, and this is demonstrated the best in the song By the Time I Get to Phoenix. It runs 18:40, but he needs every minute of that to tell the story behind the song. The actual song doesn't begin until about half way through it. A lot of people like Isaac's Shaft soundtrack, but I never really dug it. This album, Movement, and Joy are my favorites. Issac Hayes is a lot like the group War, in that he's what I call progressive soul music (who actually opened for him on some tours). Albums with long, complicated arrangements, but with a ton of soul. That's Isaac. That's War. And this is a great album....

Hot Buttered Soul.......2007-02-03

Mr. Hayes shows us what he's made of on this CD. A true soul artist. It's amazing to me that he even was able to get this recorded, as songs over two minutes were regarded as 'long!' This music still sounds 'fresh' today! Five stars for Mr. Hayes

Average customer rating: the best copy, but why no 5.1? a great album but is it worth getting the sacd version? Mobile Fidelity is BACK!

Hot Buttered Soul Isaac Hayes Manufacturer: Mobile Fidelity Koch ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Blues | Styles | Music General | R&B | Styles | Music General | Soul | R&B | Styles | Music General | Funk | R&B | Styles | Music Similar Items: Soultrane Companion Shaft Red Hot & Blue: Cole Porter Tribute Minute by Minute ASIN: B00006SFBI Release Date: 2003-04-22

Tracks:

1. Walk on By
2. Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymistic
3. One Woman
4. By the Time I Get to Phoenix

Customer Reviews:

the best copy, but why no 5.1?.......2006-01-17

I have been a Mobile Fidelity fan for years. To be sure their product is always top shelf. This release is no exception...it beats the socks off of the regular issue in terms of musical presentation. Still, this recording would shine in 5.1 surround, so come on MoFi, give us a 5.1 presentation. Sure I know your contract with Sony (CBS) prohibits you from releasing 5.1 CDs of their products, but this is NOT a CBS product. If you got the original master tapes, getting the original 8 track master would not be much more difficult. Please try a little harder next time.

a great album but is it worth getting the sacd version?.......2004-02-28

The album is great...doesn't matter if it is only cd or sacd. The thing with this disc, or at least the advertising is that it is not a 5.1 sacd, only stereo. If you have a 5.1 sound system, you will only get playback through the front two speakers.

Mobile Fidelity is BACK!.......2003-04-29

Mobile Fidelity is BACK! In a big way, wow. . . I had forgotten all about this underrated R&B classic featuring "Chef" from South Park, but dear God, this is the real thing, oozing soul and sensuality. This is also a two for one treat as it will play on CD players and the new SACD format.

I bought it for the CD layer alone and was not disappointed, but when I brought it over to my friend Steve's crib & popped the disc into the SACD player - Isaac Hayes jumped out of the speakers & gave us a freakin' concert!

Average customer rating: One of the best soul platters around! Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymistic As important today as in 1969. Progressive soul from a master... Hot Buttered Soul

Hot Buttered Soul Isaac Hayes Manufacturer: Wea ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | R&B | Styles | Music General | Soul | R&B | Styles | Music General | Funk | R&B | Styles | Music R&B | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Black Moses The Isaac Hayes Movement ...To Be Continued Shaft: Music From The Soundtrack (1971 Film) Superfly (1972 Film) ASIN: B00005JAWY

Tracks:

1. Walk on By
2. Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymistic
3. One Woman
4. By the Time I Get to Phoenix

Amazon.com

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 Details

24 Bit Remastered Series in a Digipak.

Customer Reviews:

One of the best soul platters around!.......2007-07-22

One of the great masterpieces of 60s and 70s R&B (and still one of the genre's key standard-bearers), Hot Buttered Soul is an impeccably crafted album, a stunning showcase of music at its emotionally resonant best. The record's production is simply stunning, a dreamy and overwhelming combination of lush strings and refined horns with throbbing basses and raw, distorted guitars. Each song is an impossibly well-built soundscape, a work that gushes with emotion and unchecked power. Hayes' rough, warm voice rings with both devotion and sex, pain and sensuality. The man fills every lyric on this album with life and passion, transforms each sentence into a sermon. The result? Pure gold.

The album opens with an epic reworking of Burt Bacharach and Hal David's "Walk on By." Hayes' arrangement lends the song an incredible amount of tension, complimenting the dramatic lyrics with swirling horns, relentless rhythms, and cruel electric guitars. It may not be a Spector-esque "wall of sound," but it is some kind of musical architecture. The song slowly builds in intensity, finally exploding a thundering climax (or should I say catharsis?) of flailing strings, breathtaking melodies, and the hypnotic, relentless throb of an organ. The result sounds like some unprecedented combination of "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" and "Down By the River." Brillinant!

Next up is "Hyperbolicsyllabicesquedalymistic," which has a lot more going for it than a great title. It's a stomping soul-funk stunner, with a nasty wah-wah guitars and some unstoppable stomping rhythms. Hayes' voice is pure attitude. He's like a laid-back, cooler-than-cool James Brown. The song's extended instrumental break is a sweaty, hypnotic jam, driven by a fantastic piano solo and a thudding bass line.

After that is "One Woman." At a "pitiful" five minutes and seven seconds long, it's the shortest song on the album. It's also the tamest, devoid of the grittier sounds faound elsewhere on Hot Buttered Soul. Still, it's a beautiful tune, thanks to its soaring melody, gorgeous orchestration, and Hayes' impassioned vocal.

Finally, there's "By the Time I Get to Phoenix." A classic example of an artist covering a song and making it entirely his own, this recording should (if there's any justice in this world) go down in history as one of the greatest soul performances, ever. Isaac takes his time with the song, unselfconciously stretching it across over eighteen minutes. Nearly half of the performance is spent on an incredible opening narration, in which Hayes relates the tune's backstory over a minimal accompaniment (a single, pounding cymbal, with a humming organ), slowly building up a sense of emotional anguish and escelating tension- before releasing all of it in the song's second half, a relentless rush of gushing orchestration and nuanced vocals. Like "Walk On By," the song goes out on a sky scraping instrumrental climax, putting the ideal cap on a great song (and a great album).

Great, great stuff. If you even vaguely like soul or R&B, you really should have this.

Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymistic .......2007-05-09

When I was about 12 or 13, my father said the best album he ever owned was Isaac Hayes "Hot Buttered Soul". I remembered this about 7 years ago and I see why my dad told me that. Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymistic is one of the baddest, funkiest track ever made. If you are a "true" fan of 70's R&B, this album is a must have in you collection.

As important today as in 1969........2007-03-22

Isaac Hayes' "Hot Buttered Soul" was radically different from anything which Stax Records had previously released. Hayes' eclectic mix of Soul, Jazz and lush, symphonic orchestration was certainly revolutionary back in 1969...but it made him a superstar. In retrospect, Hayes' 1969-74 recordings laid the foundation for Disco and this album remains a pivotal release. Indispensable.

Progressive soul from a master..........2007-03-13

Way before Isaac played Chef on the sometimes funny, mostly smug sitcom South Park, and before he flipped out on Scientology, he made some of the greatest soul albums of all time. This is the one I consider his best. It's only got 4 tracks on it, but they are all gorgeous. Isaac has a great sense of narrative, and this is demonstrated the best in the song By the Time I Get to Phoenix. It runs 18:40, but he needs every minute of that to tell the story behind the song. The actual song doesn't begin until about half way through it. A lot of people like Isaac's Shaft soundtrack, but I never really dug it. This album, Movement, and Joy are my favorites. Issac Hayes is a lot like the group War, in that he's what I call progressive soul music (who actually opened for him on some tours). Albums with long, complicated arrangements, but with a ton of soul. That's Isaac. That's War. And this is a great album....

Hot Buttered Soul.......2007-02-03

Mr. Hayes shows us what he's made of on this CD. A true soul artist. It's amazing to me that he even was able to get this recorded, as songs over two minutes were regarded as 'long!' This music still sounds 'fresh' today! Five stars for Mr. Hayes

Average customer rating:

Hot Buttered Soul/24 Bit Isaac Hayes ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Soul | R&B | Styles | Music General | Funk | R&B | Styles | Music R&B | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B000026G3T

Tracks:

1. Walk On By
2. Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymistic
3. One Woman
4. By The Time I Get To Phoenix

Album Description

24-bit remastered reissue of the Stax soul classic, originally released in 1969.

Average customer rating:

Second Soul Manufacturer: Smokin' Poultry ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | R&B | Styles | Music General | Soul | R&B | Styles | Music General | R&B | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B000068IF4 Release Date: 2002-05-20

Tracks:

1. BE MY GIRL
2. 634-5789 (Soulsville USA)
3. I CANT GET NEXT TO YOU
4. RHYTHM MAN
5. PROUD MARY
6. DANCE TO THE MUSIC
7. ITS ALL RIGHT
8. BRICK HOUSE
9. I WANT YOU BACK

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Hot Buttered Soul with five seductive pieces of brass belting out great SOUL and R&B dance and listening music. Southern California's own twelve (12) piece SOUL CITY SURVIVORS are touring the western 13 states and wowing crowds of all ages with the great horn sound of the famed Soul City Hornets! Teamed with the seductive dance steps of Tiffany and Irene, this twelve piece act is highly recommended for concert and dance venues. This, their 2nd CD on Smokin Poultry Records, is a pleasure for which to tickle your auditory nerves. Recommend: STRONG BUY!

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