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Hot Buttered Soul | 
| Artist: Isaac Hayes
Label: Stax
Category: Music
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Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 37822
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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 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.
 I,m souled on this album(Sorry) May 7, 2004
7 out of 9 found this review helpful
It starts with a crisp peal of percussion and then the strings flow dreamily in. They seethe with honeyed intensity but then glistening steely bursts of guitar crackle like lightning on the horizon. Then they sound suddenly wonky, slightly out of key before that incredible rumble of a voice joins the fray with admirable restraint. Over the next ten minutes Isaac Hayes takes us through a rendition of “Walk on by” that is both graceful and majestic ending with a string twanging fevered intensity and along the way incorporates girly backing vocals, a clarinet and fermented key boards.
Isaac Hayes recorded “Hot Buttered Soul” in 1969, his first album for Stax records he was shoved into a studio at short notice along with three producers and the Bar -Kay’s rhythm section under the instructions to produce anything as long as he did it with alacrity. Which is why Hayes got away with producing an album that contained just four songs, only one of them an original, and saw him produce not so much cover versions as stretch -limo versions as he distend the originals way beyond their intended lengths through audacious instrumentation arrangements and slow-mo raps that if done by any one else would be so corny they could be sponsored by Green Giant.
His opening take on Bacharach/Davids “Walk on by” leads into the one original song on the album the tongue dislocating “Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymistic” which is a fantastic funk work out with hip swivelling bass and swanky licks of wah wah which ends with demented piano. His version of Chalmers/Rhodes “One Woman” is relatively restrained coming in under six minutes with more female backing and those trademark strings which leads into his truly extraordinary version of Jimmy Webbs “By the time I get to Phoenix”. Here Hayes over lachrymose organ and swishes of hi-hat actually introduces the song he’s going to sing before embarking on an epic tale of betrayal and love gone bad. Then those strings quiver in, the horns break out like a rash, the clarinet and piano motifs weep sympathetically in the background and Hayes sings the song with increasing crooning vehemence while the instruments rise in fervour until it reaches a point of such glorious epiphany it’s almost masochistic. “You had a good heart and you abused it” he sings. Listening to this it’s hard to disagree.
This is a brilliant album One of the truly great soul releases up there with anything by Green, Gaye or Mayfield. In fact in terms of its fervent emotional catharsis it’s up their with anything in the entire musical canon.
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.
 Bloated, Tedious, Over Rated January 29, 2004
5 out of 27 found this review helpful
It is difficult for me to quite understand how this has become such a classic. Perhaps it is the wonderful production of 'Walk on By'. Besides that sound, which is admittedly way ahead of it's time, I can hear little to recommend on this album. All 4 tracks are sprawling, unfocused messes - getting to the end of the disc in one sitting is a real chore, and I have an unusually large attention span for music.
Issac comes across as insincere and untalented. The songs do not grab me as being musical enough. Why not try a real soul classic such as Inspiration Information by Shuggie Otis or There's a Riot Going on?
Originally unique. January 14, 2002
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Isaac Hayes' treatment of sixties standards on this album must have been a real door opener for the soul music genre. Long before Prog Rockers bored people to death with their quiet 20 minute mumblings, Hayes gives a heart rendering performance of 'By the time I get to Phoenix', that in terms of audible pain is right up there with the clear torment heard on Elvis' late sixties classics, 'If I can dream' and 'Suspicious Minds.' Hayes' version of 'By the time I get to Phoenix' is the best part of the album, but his styling of 'Walk On By' removes the track from it's easy listening roots. The album seeps of originality and new direction. This certainly was the beginning of the deep Soul roots that would follow into the seventies, as other bands, (particularly Motown faves such as Stevie Wonder and the Temptations) followed Isaac Hayes' mind blowing lead.
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