Can you dig it isaac hayes

The cross-section of that music captured in this tracklisting is about as good as it gets. Highlights from Hayes' other soundtrack work-- his theme from Tough Guys is sweet 'n' nasty proto-disco with a synth bass part from another planet-- mingle with album cuts, minor hits, and a few edits of his longest tracks, including a seven-minute reduction of his epic reading of Jimmy Webb's "By the Time I Get to Phoenix".

It's hard for anything to top "Walk on By", but Hayes hardly needs to worry about that when his second tier includes songs like "Do Your Thing", an essential slab of languid bongo funk, the throbbing, horn-soaked instrumental "Disco Connection", and "Hyperbolicsyllabic-sesquadelymistic", a nine-minute funk crawl capped by an out-of-this world piano solo that Public Enemy later snipped a portion of for the basis of "Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos".

It's actually a little jarring sitting next to the plaintive live version of the traditional gospel song "His Eye Is on the Sparrow. There are only a few places in the two-plus hours of music here where not everything works.

The need to edit down a few of the longer tracks is unfortunate, but understandable if anything they could have lopped the intro of "I Stand Accused" , and anyone who wants the full-length versions of "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" or "Do Your Thing" can simply scoop up Hot-Buttered Soul or the Shaft soundtrack-- you'll want to own them anyway.

Skip to content Search query All Results. Only minor quibbles could be made with the selections. And then there's the cherry -- er, some other spherical object -- on top: Hayes ' performance of Chef 's "Chocolate Salty Balls.

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