Hot Buttered Soul (40th Anniversary Edition) [Extra tracks, Original recording remastered]

Isaac Hayes | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 23, 2009)
• Original Release Date: 1968
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Extra tracks, Original recording remastered
• Label: Stax
• ASIN: B0028NSE3M
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,556 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #14 in Music > R&B > Soul > Memphis Soul

Editorial Reviews

Originally released at the end of the `60s, Hot Buttered Soul set the precedent for how soul would evolve in the 70's - simultaneously establishing Isaac Hayes as a major music force. This newly remastered 40th Anniversary Edition also features two bonus tracks, new photographs and expanded liner notes by Jim James (My Morning Jacket)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Remastering Of A Soul & Funk Game-Changing Classic!!, July 12, 2010

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HE WHO FUNKS BEHIND THE ROWS!! (Seattle & San Diego) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Hot Buttered Soul (40th Anniversary Edition) (Audio CD)

MAN!!--MAN!!--MAN!!
The memories for me associated with this classic album! (-:
It brings back my childhood watching my parents and older cousins
"do their thing" at the house parties, card parties, BBQ's/Fish-Fries, etc.
that they would throw in my family back then when they were all young
and many who are gone now were still around.

Issac Hayes served notice to the musical world of 1969
that HIS MOMENT had indeed ARRIVED and he was so much more
than just being part of the great Stax Records songwriting/producing
team of Hayes & Porter, who had given the label it's core sound
during the mid 60's with classics performed by Sam & Dave, Otis Redding
and others. This was a MAJOR DEPARTURE from the standard STAX sound
and a glimpse into the bright & funky future of the 1970's and beyond!
I always say that Curtis Mayfield, Sly Stone, Issac Hayes, Stevie Wonder
and Marvin Gaye did more to establish that black music was so much more
sophisticated than it's simple gut-bucket beginnings than any other artists
of their generation. They were the forerunners for Barry White, P-Funk,
The Isley Brothers 70's T-Neck Years, and many others that came after them.

From the opening notes of Issac Hayes' classic sleek, seductive and
infinitely funky re-working of the Burt Bachrach/Hal David via Dionne Warwick
1964 pop classic "WALK ON BY", you just know that this is something very special!
The sweeping orchestration is epic!---The funky-as-a-pot-of-chittlins rhythm section,
replete with fuzztone & wah-wah guitars, percolating bass line, echoplex &
other trippy psychedelic effects, and drums that sounded like the drummer
reached way back and came down on the snare with such force that the drum kit had
to be riveted to the floor! This is an 11 minute soul-funk opus that is just
timeless and still BAD 2 DEATH 40 years later!!
So many hip-hop careers have been made sampling from the riffs
and licks off of Issac Hayes's 1969-1973 work that it's ridiculous!
But not just hip-hop and R&B, but pop, rock and alternative too! (Oh yeah!)
He has to be right up there with James Brown, Sly Stone, P-Funk, Curtis Mayfield
and others for number of songs dissected, sampled, and in some cases, downright
plagiarized by hip-hop and modern R&B producers who have the nerve to label themselves
as modern musical geniuses! HA!!--Yeah, right! (-:

Track 2 is another one of those almighty funk-rock bomb jamz which influenced
so many generations since then and has been sampled to death....
The stank-funky 9-plus minutes long "HYPERBOLICSYLLABISTICSESQUEDALYMYSTIC",
with it's heavy wah-wah, rolling way-out piano, sick bassline, more of
that hellacious drumming...
MAN!!---It's just southern-pimp-a-delic-groovalistic-funk at it's best! (-:

Track 3 is a relatively short (5-plus minute) exercise in soulful romance
advice called "ONE WOMAN", where Brother Ike basically sermonizes the virtues
of finding, loving and sticking with THAT ONE good woman or man in your life!

Track 4, and amazingly the final track on the album is Issac's classic
re-working of Jimmy Webb's country classic "By The Time I Get To Phoenix",
which introduced the world to one of Ike's trademark "raps"
over a sustained organ chord, with sparse bass line and rimshot/high-hat
timekeeping underneath as Issac spins an 8-plus minute tale, building & building,
finally climaxing into the actual song, replete with horns and strings,
which lasts a full 18 minutes and 42 minutes! WOW!!

Let me tell those who don't know already....this was a very innovative
album for it's time and changed the game on so many levels:
The length of what a song could be, arranging & orchestration,
production techniques which were cutting edge for black music at that time,
everything was all about BIG RICH SOUND!!
Issac Hayes voice was also innovative for that time and his baritone crooning
filled with longing and sensitivity while still maintaining his masculinity
and that low bass rumble which drove the women crazy of that time!
No disrespect to the late great Maestro Barry White, but Issac Hayes had
planted that flag in the "soul dirt" 5 yrs before him! (-:
This album was also perfect for the then new & emerging FM RADIO,
where emphasis was being placed on whole albums instead of just 2 minute singles like before.
This album was a HUGE SELLER in it's time and literally saved STAX records,
who had foolishly signed away the rights to their previous publishing catalogue
and all the great artists and songs therein to Atlantic Records in May of 1968.
Damn!!--Talk about bone-head moves!
After an unsuccessful attempt before this album for Issac Hayes to go solo
and break free of the whole behind-the-scenes staff songwriter-producer
thing, "HOT BUTTERED SOUL" was his second attempt, and boy did it work!
Again, I can't emphasized enough how important and influential this record
was in it's time, and it's influence extends way into the future!
If you haven't listened to it before, PLEASE CHECK IT OUT!!

A BONNIFIED SOUL/FUNK CLASSIC that has been remastered to perfection!

REST IN PEACE ISSAC HAYES aka BLACK MOSES!! (1942-2008)

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars HOT BUTTERED CORNBREAD SOUL!!!!!!!!!!, December 9, 2010

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Salayo Brown "REAL SMOOVE" (LINCOLN, NE. USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hot Buttered Soul (40th Anniversary Edition) (Audio CD)

THIS HISTORIC ALBUM WAS RELEASED 1 YEAR BEFORE I WAS BORN. IKE ENDED THE '60'S WITH A BANG. I ABSOLUTELY LOVE HOW HE RE-WORKED "WALK ON BY", HIS DELIVERY WAS DONE WITH SO MUCH CONVICTION AND CHARISMA. THAT SONG REALLY MAKES ME FEEL TEN FEET TALL BECAUSE IT MAKES ME FEEL GOOD. HYPERBOLLIC...... IS JUST ASTOUNDING. "BY THE TIME I GET TO PHOENIX" KINDA REMINDS ME OF BEING IN CHURCH. IKE WASN'T CALLED BLACK MOSES FOR NOTHIN', HE SURE LED THE TRUE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL(SO-CALLED AFRICAN-AMERICANS) THROUGH SOME TIMES WITH HIS WONDERFUL MUSIC AND HIS MASTERFUL REMAKES. I LOVE ME SOME ISAAC HAYES RIGHT ABOUT NOW. REST IN PEACE.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Greatest Soul Album Ever Made, October 1, 2010

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GB (Sebastopol, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hot Buttered Soul (MP3 Download)

If someone were to ask me what is the greatest soul album ever made this would be my choice. As evidence I would play the second song, Hyperbolicsyllablecsesquedalymistic. If that long soulful outro on that song doesnt get you I am not certain what will. The piano playing at the end is out of this world. Then, you have the classic song Walk On By and the last track seems to go on forever and when you are listening to it you kind of hope it will. If you listen to just the samples you might think it sounds too much like Barry White, and it probably was an influence on Barry, but don't let the snippets fool you. The magic in this album is the long grooves of the songs. I think it is great music for road trips especially on a lonely highway. But, however you are going to play it I think you will enjoy it.