Track Listing

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

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #598 in Music
• Released on: 1990-10-25
• Number of discs: 1

Album Details
24 Bit Remastered Series in a Digipak.

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

Customer Reviews

LEGEND
THE GREAT ONES PASS ON, WHERE ARE THE KEEPERS OF THE FLAMES? THE ORIGINATORS ARE BEING REPLACED WITH THE??????????? P.S. YOUNGSTERS THE MASTER LEFT MANY MANY LESSONS BEHIND!

This Recording Was Revolutionary!!
When this album was released, it revolutionized R&B. I don't think there was a brother who considered himself a "player" who didn't own a copy of this album. If he wanted to create a mood in his place, he threw this one on the turntable and got the Cold Duck out of the fridge. I rode up and down the highway listening to this album. Considering when it was released, the musical arrangements were powerful and so different than anything we heard on the radio at that time. Isaac was truly in a class by himself. Nobody was doing anything like this!!

There isn't a woman right now who is familar with Isaac's music, who doesn't remember who she was going out with when this album hit the airwaves. I remember, and I'm sorry that the album dredges up memories of that bum!! LOL That's not Isaac's fault.... I still had Isaac long after I threw that dog under a bus!! In all honesty, a lot of my girl friends would reflect on the monologue on "By The Time I Get To Phoenix", and wish they had a man who loved them like that. It made a lot of us think hard and deep about the relationships we were in at the time.

I thank Isaac Hayes for his contribution.. not only to Black music, but to American music as a whole. He was truly ahead of his time.

Where It All Startled
It was with deep saddness that I heard of the passing of Composer,Arranger,Singer,Producer,Songwriter,DJ and humanitarian Mr.Isaac(Black Moses)Hayes a few days ago.Myself being being a big Isaac Hayes fan.And having just about everyone of his albums decided to review the 'Hot Buttered Soul' album.Because this is the album that startled it all and gave birth to the movement.The Isaac Hayes movement that would come to dominate the mid sixties and on into the mid seventies.Isaac Hayes had a uncanny way of taking other peoples songs and turning them into something very special and unique.And when Isaac Hayes decided to rap on some of his songs the raps were done with class and style.You found yourself actuality feeling the pain of the guy as he drove his car with tears in his eyes on his way to Phoenix.On 'Walk On By' Hayes gives us a fantastic arrangment and a great vocal performance.And if you like some funk in your music you got 'Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymistic'.And finally you have 'One Woman' a song dealing with forbidden love sung with deep depth of feeling by Hayes.'Hot Buttered Soul' with its mixture of horns,strings,vocals and storytelling turned out to be a powerhouse elixir of sound.We should also give some credit to Stax records for having the guts to put this album out to the public.I think the biggest influence 'Hot Buttered Soul' had on R&B is that it put an end to the three minute rule for R&B songs.Before 'Hot Buttered Soul' R&B songs were three minutes or less.After 'Hot Buttered Soul' artists like The Temptations,Barry White,Donna Summer,James Brown and Stevie Wonder songs became longer.By breaking the three minute rule Isaac Hayes made it possible for these artists and so many others to extend their musical creativeness.After 'Hot Buttered Soul' Isaac Hayes and The Movement would give us the albums To Be Continued,The Isaac Hayes Movement,Black Moses,Live At The Sahara Tahoe and of course Shaft.With the great songs Our Day Will Come,I Stand Accused,Never Can Say Goodbye,Ain't No Sunshine and Theme From Shaft.This is just a small amount of music that came out of the fertile musical mind of Iassc Hayes.Well the fertile musical mind of Isaac Hayes is at rest now along with Curtis Mayfield,James Brown,Barry White and Luther Vandross.With only a few of the R&B giants left what the furture holds for R&B? I for one do not know.But I do know this.The music of Isaac Hayes will continue to be a source of entertainment and Joy(another one of his albums).Rest In Peace Brother Hayes.