To Be Continued

Isaac Hayes | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 7, 1991)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Stax
• ASIN: B000000ZHM
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
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Media Type: CD
Artist: HAYES,ISAAC
Title: TO BE CONTINUED
Street Release Date: 03/17/1989
Domestic
Genre: SOUL/R & B

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A shock to the system of soul, September 18, 2004

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Andy Agree "jackrabbit79" (Omaha, NE) - See all my reviews

This review is from: To Be Continued (Audio CD)

This is the peak accomplishment of Isaac Hayes' career. In 1971 he took 60s soul music and made it sleek, symphonic and refined, paving the way for so much of what became 70s soul, including, most obviously, Barry White's boudoir romps and some of the long instrumental forays of disco. Was this a good thing? Well, as one who generally prefers 60s soul to 70s, I say yes. Soul needed to evolve, and Isaac Hayes' albums of 1969-1972, of which this is the best, came as a needed shock to the system. But Isaac did it without compromising the raw emotion found in the 60s greats. Here is a blow-by-blow:

"Ike's Rap" and "Our Day Will Come" (joined tracks). "Ike's Rap" is a young man's tender words over the phone to a forbidden lover, telling her "I got my greetings today" and will soon be off fighting a distant war. Gentle strings and the rat-a-tat of a military-style snare drum provide ominous backdrop. He then dedicates "the words of this song" to his lover, and suddenly we are into "Our Day Will Come", a radical updating of the early 60s hit by Ruby and the Romantics. Unlike Ruby's breezy optimism, Isaac presents it slowed way down, as a courageous affirmation of faith against terrible opposition. When the orchestral arrangement swells in the climax, if your eyes are still dry, you haven't really been listening. "Our Day Will Come" is my favorite track on the album.

"The Look of Love". What is took Sergio Mendes two and half minutes to do, Isaac gets done in 11 - just long enough to.... well, to generate the wish that this be "just the start of so many groovy nights like this". It ends with an "ahhhhhhhhhh" from Isaac that is sheer theater! This is much closer in spirit to Dusty Springfield's version than Sergio's.

"Ike's Mood". This an orchestral mood piece, but don't let that description fool you. It starts with a light-funk bass line, staccato brass, and girls singing "brr-ring it back" (suggesting the "lovin' feeling" of the next song). Then it morphs into a sweet melody played by oboe and flute, then gaining momentum until the whole orchestra throbs with it. All class.

"You've Lost that Lovin' Feeling". A good rendition, but at 12 minutes, maybe a tad too long. To me, the least interesting track.

"Running Out of Fools". Second best track on the album, and most faithful to the old 60s definition of soul. A very effective slow-burn of revenge against a woman who had played Isaac for a fool, and years later actually calls him up. The words are priceless. "Go ahead with all your sweet talkin', go ahead for all the good it can do - Have yourself a dime's worth of talkin', cause in 3 minutes I'm gonna hang right up on you." Isaac's singing is magnificent throughout the album, but this song was made for him. He delivers all the shock, the tears, the anger, the sting and the manly pride that it calls for.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars His last complete great work., December 4, 1999

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Eric V. Moye (New York, by way of Dallas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: To Be Continued (Audio CD)

This album, like its two predecessors defined Ike's work. He shows his continued ability (having already proven himself an first rate writer) to take great songs in their own right and rearrange them to make them new and different classics. "The Look of Love" is a masterpiece, which must give its creators new found pride. However, there is no song like "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling": Sure enough a great work by the Righteous Brothers. A whole 'nother smoke when Ike puts his inimatable stamp on it.

A worthy successor to Hot Buttered Soul, and The I.H. Movement. Like those (unlike what followed) no filler.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars If Stax Would..., January 14, 2006

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Terrence D. Hillman "skeeme_" (Colorado, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: To Be Continued (Audio CD)

If Stax Records would remaster this album, they should make The Isaac Hayes Movement and ...To Be Continued one complete collection because both albums sound excellent when played together. The other actually takes off and advances where the previous left off. I just listened to them for the first time in full today, I mean I've heard them before, but I had a chance to kick back and enjoy them. True epics and right there along with the other classic albums Ike has done. If You have not heard of Isaac Hayes, or if You only think of him as the voice of Chef on South Park, You got it twisted! Nuff respect due...