Hot Buttered Soul

3.5 Isaac Hayes souled out

Enjoyable listen

I don’t like soul. It’s a genre based on a vibe I don’t enjoy. However, this album is a lot more lush and instrumentally complex than most soul, so it balances out. I liked it. I think the last song is a little bit underwhelming because of its long intro, but other than that, it’s one of the most enjoyable soul albums I’ve heard so far. 7/10

Holy cow! This was 1969!!?? Literally light years ahead of its time. Didn’t know what to expect, but this is just superb. Got a dirty nasty vibe at times and then it’s smooooooth. Definitely deserves its place on the list. 3. Drops points because it lost me a bit in the end. Definitely coming back to it though.

听不懂

Chef cooks

I think all albums should end with a 12 minute interview with the artist

This was ok

I've heard a lot about this album, but I've never actually listened to it, and it is as good as advertised. By the Time I Get to Phoenix is a TRIP.

It was unique in the ebbs and flows of each song however it was too long for me to ever want to revisit it

This was fine, but I didn't really get the point of the album. The songs were all very long but without much in the way of transitions or changes that could keep them interesting. I didn't dislike it, but I can't think of many reasons to put Hot Buttered Soul on again.

Lovely Isaac. A 3,7

How did they ever get this man to do South Park?

Never listened to Isaac Hayes before. It was sort of what I expected... except the songs were much longer than standard pop songs. It makes it more of a vibe thing I think. You turn it on and you just groove to it. I dig it but 20 minutes of him talking about his bad relationship? Dude... C'mon. I hope that was very healing for him but I found myself wanting to pay for his drink and leave half way through.

What a deliciously smooth listen. And it also went hard psych in parts. I wouldn’t say this is a life changer, but I’d come back to it. 3.5 stars.

Not for me but was great to have on in the background

First time listening to Isaac Hayes. I like the instrumental grooves, but I find it a bit boring because every track is so long. If I find a good part in a 14-minute track, I can’t wait to get to that part. My favorite tracks are ‘Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymistic’ and ‘By the Time I Get to Phoenix.’

This was pretty cool. Pretty pretty cool. Pretty short too. Or felt short. Long grooves and funky sounds. Can’t say I loved it but very nice.

45 min album with 4 songs! Wouldn’t listen to this kind of music all the time but enjoyed the soul.

Muy bonito

Good soul record.

Damn these songs are long. But they still sound good. He was just talking on By The Time I Get To Phoenix, yet thats one of my favorites on here. Saved: One Woman

would be 3 1/2 but i cant rate half stars

Verbaasde me dat dit album al uit 1969 kwam. Luistert lekker weg, lange nummers. Wel aardig wat herhaling. Wel heel relaxt voor de achtergrond. Eerste drie liedjes niet goed naar de tekst kunne luisteren, laatste lied beter: gewoon een soort spoken word.

Soul de corazón

It was alright. I lost interest in the last song, but aside from that I enjoyed the first track and the rest kind of just blended into the album.

Where to start? It’s so over the top, melodramatic and heavily arranged that it’s difficult to fully know what I think. Love his voice though-really soulful-and the songs (all four of them) are all powerful. I especially loved One Woman. Really good overall.

The guy has a great voice, but I found the whole album a bit slow. Also, he talks too much! Still prefer The Stranglers version of "Walk On By".

Smooth buttery soul, but clearly a filler album

fun - weird - buttered? three point five rounds down to THREE> some amazing sounds at the beginning though. I like the experimentally.

Pretty interesting. Not sure I would have ever found this otherwise

Probably more like 3.5 or 4 if I let it grow on me. I don’t listen to much soul, but I’ll probably come back to this one

There something about Isaac Heyes that I just cannot get into it. I mean I appreciate the musicality, but somehow his work just never clicks with me. Quite a pity actually, as this should be right up my alley.

I hate when songs have long instrumental endings or solos that drag on. Hayes's voice is like butter.

3.7

Goated

Bom álbum para namorar, deixar de fundo. Não se destacou muito pra mim.

A 45 minute album with four tracks? Sounds like it would be a prog rock album, not Isaac Hayes' buttery soul. The first track was fabulous... and man this was sampled so many times. It's always a pleasant surprise to learn where samples originated from. Also, Portishead borrowed heavily from this sound. The second and third were also fab. But that last track is pure fromage! A bit of a letdown from the setup from the rest of the album.

Great record. Amazing to see and hear the record's influence on other artists and projects I love. Walk On By is the masterpiece, one of the great soul tracks of all time. The rest is very good but cannot compare.

Mochte den Vibe, manchmal aber zu "wet" für mich, gerade, wenn zu viele Streicher dabei waren.

Isaac Hayes vocals and music is spectacular, but I wasn’t a huge fan of this album. My only real gripe is that the tracks are entirely too long and kinda meandering/repeating. I just felt…bored, honestly. The intros on each song took too long, and they didn’t seem to know how to end so just kept going. With that said, I cannot for one second deny his talent. His songwriting is solid even if I’m not a fan of the content (an entire song about how he feels so torn up by the affair that he’s involved in didn’t inspire sympathy). House vocals are incredible. The music is brilliantly mixed and performed. I just didn’t like the jam bandy nature of the tracks that just seemed to drone on.

A bit different actually quite enjoyed - interview at the end quite interesting too

Soulful, smooth, and overall a pretty solid album.

generational

The first song is great. I don't really know about the rest I was playing minesweeper the whole time so minus a few points for that.

All of the songs were very groovy but too long for my taste

Not at all what I was expecting. Fine for what it was I guess.

This is a pretty cool album. The fuzzed out guitars definitely make for a cool take on 60s soul. I prefer the first two tracks to the last two tracks by a good margin though, which makes it tough for me to go too high on a four track album. 3.5 stars.

Album is stuck in the 60s

I enjoyed this album, I really like the way it sounds, it's not something I would usually listen to but I like how it's so movie. I would walk through a park thinking about the one that got away to this album. I didn't give this as much attention as I should've but it's very ballad-y and I'm just not into that at the moment. Wait it's only four songs?? Interesting. I like this. Favourite: One Woman Least favourite: By The Time I Get To Phoenix

Sick guitar on the first two tracks...chef was cooking!

I would have liked it more if there would’ve been less of it.

Album No. 0103 on my list. I had never heard of either Isaac Hayes nor his album “Hot Buttered Soul” (what a great name) before. All of this was completely new to me. I did like the music in general. Very cool soul, very good style of singing. I get why this is considered to be a hallmark album of the soul genre. Good stuff! The songs however are way too long, including minute-long spoken word parts. “Walk On By”, and “By The Time I Get To Phoenix” are my favorite songs, and I’m glad that single edits of these songs exist, because I’ll certainly add them to my playlist. So in the end, it’s a close 3/5 to me. I would have given 4 stars, but dramaturically, the songs are not ideal, because they are too long. Cool artist though! 3/5 stars.

whoa dude this is so funky & groovy

Not for me

3,5 stars Não estava à espera de gostar tanto

Good album but not for a casual listen. Long songs.

Soulful for sure. The prolonged spoken word killed it for me.

Short album didn’t finish it it’s smooth vibe but not my type of vibe

A primeira musica é bue fire and then we kinda got lost i think mas achei fixe Eu daria 3.5 se desse

Half of it is great, the other I never want to listen to again. Good thing it's only 4 songs, but they really are sprawling, beast of their own so I will not complain about that. The final song in particular is painfull, the reward is good in the end, but nobody got that kind of time and his voice while magnetic is also quite monotone

I liked the sound not the length of songs. they felt way too dragged out. I did liked how it felt new.

Lovely and funky and trippy and groovy record man. The 20 minute of by the time I get to Phoenix was unprecedented but I fucked w it

Vibes: 4/5 Instruments: 4/5 Production: 3/5 Emotional Value: 4/5 Storytelling: 2/5 Album Cover: 0 Stand Outs: Walk on By, One Woman Overall Rating: 3.4

Sooooo smooooooth. A cozy 45 min story. I think this is my new favorite Christmas album but definitely have to be in the mood.

Lauter ziemlich lange Songs - und sehr konzertant

Very interesting album. Most sounded exactly like I expected, but had some unique sounds & silky bass lines. There was an almost 19 minute song... holy crap, that's the longest one I can think of. I think this was the wave of creativity before Parliament & Sly took over. Great hearing The Chef in his natural habitat and always thought Isaac Jones was about as cool as there is.

Aged surprisingly well. A precursor to a decade of soul and funk

Some songs made me tap my feet, good warm vibe ! Less fan of the story songs (last track)

Enjoyed it, heard Walk on By before but not this guys version.

I’ve always known Isaac Hayes as Shaft and I have the Shaft record (or did before my parents moved and half my records disappeared). I never knew him pre-Shaft, so this is exciting just to begin with. It reminds me a bit of Baby Huey, though Hayes’ vocals are certainly more subdued. But it’s a very aptly titled record, just dripping with soul and charisma. A great Sunday morning record, and one I’m sure I will come back to many times. I think maybe there’s something in my (very white, very folk-inspired) upbringing that makes soul feel more distant to me. I didn’t hear really anything by black artists except maybe Stevie wonder until I was old enough to seek out my own music among my predominantly white, middle class friends. And while hip hop was around enough to form a familiar touchstone and was a genre I delved into when I had the opportunity, soul has largely escaped me, unfortunately. I mean, I love baby Huey, because anybody who has heard him sing does, and as a bassist I’ve listened to not nearly enough James Jamerson to fully appreciate how singular he was. I think perhaps there is a chasm in my musical knowledge that makes me think of this album as a 3/5. Lyrically and sonically, I can recognize that it’s above and beyond, but it doesn’t quite scratch the itch I want it to, and I am struggling to articulate exactly why. I love the drawn out instrumentations, the improvisational, emotionally charged feel of the whole record. But the jams feel slightly boring—the bass lines are killer, but I think I prefer more discord and attached feel than the somewhat masturbatory jams. The lyrics are nice, in fact they’re deeply cool. Hyperbolicsyllabicesquedalymystic is fundamentally cooler than me. And maybe that’s part of the issue—I’m just not cool enough to fully appreciate this album. But lyrically it’s lacking a French you know what that’s preventing me from really latching on to this. I give it a three, closer to a four than a two. It’s an excellent album, I believe, and one that I’m not primed to give its proper flowers.

Nice album. Chill listen with good bass, a nice voice and nice piano and guitar. Not really my cup of tea and quite long at times for one song but overall very decent.

Goede shit 3/5

Okay music, but way too drawn out.

на любителя.

Some nice soulful tracks

Solid soul music with a good vocalist.

Ratings: 5: I will happily play this album anytime 4: I may occasionally play this album of my own free will 3: I will happily listen to this if someone plays it in the background 2: I will tolerate this if it is playing in the background 1: I will leave the room if someone plays this in the background Thank you chef for the extended jams! Enjoyed every minute, just not my cup of tea.

Good funky

The first track is a classic, and the second track is pretty solid. The third track, One Woman, is a bit over the top for my tastes. The last track, which takes up half of the entire album in play time, is decent. Overall 3. Just not really much of an album even though it's 45 minutes long, it feels like an EP.

Good music. Strong instrumentals. I could have done without the spoken word on the last one. 2.6 outta 5

Decent funk record, not super memorable, but the long extended nature of the songs was different.

Groovy and smooth.

Cheesy as hell but still really good

Smooth, groovy, and nice but not something I’ll probably come back to a lot. Never realized Chef was a Soul singer!

This was good, especially track 2.

Starts very groovy but becomes very heavy towards the end, maybe has to do with the track lengths? Great production tho, can see why it influenced soul so much

A nice album, but not very special at the same time

Dated.

Smooth, except for the annoying guitar.

Second Isaac Hayes this month. I’m fine with it. Brings backs memories of my high school days.

Fair, but not my style. Lot of talking?

Exactly what you expect and Issac Hayes album to be

This wasn't a bad album, but it was kinda slow and chill. Almost like background music.

Pretty good overall. Lots of talking though.

too much

Die Platte entstand überwiegend in den Ardent Studios in Memphis. Isaac Hayes, US-amerikanischer Musiker und Produzent, erweitert hier seinen Sound zu langen, arrangierten Soul-Stücken mit deutlichen Orchester- und Funkanteilen. Besonders bekannt sind „Walk On By“ und „Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymistic“, die zeigen, wie stark Hayes’ Ansatz zwischen opulenter Atmosphäre und repetitiver Groovestruktur pendelt. Das Album bewegt sich im Soul- und frühen Funkbereich und wirkt in seiner Konzentration auf Stimmung und Raum sehr geschlossen. Abschließend bleibt ein prägnantes Werk, das Hayes’ Stil nachhaltig geprägt hat.

The only Isaac Hayes song I knew before this album was the “theme from shaft.” I still love that song. I was hoping this album would bring some of the same whatever that song had. It didn’t. It was okay.

I thought we were in for a long slog with ‘walk on by’ to start as it plodded along and lost a lot of the little accents that make the original so good. The three tracks that followed were good though so I’m glad I stuck it out. When it found its groove it was a great mix of funk and soul which, interestingly, was often when Hayes took more of a step back and just let the band play.

Me ha gustado mucho, sobre todo siendo Soul. El inicio del álbum es buenísimo.

funky soulful and kinda strange.

I very much enjoyed this album listen! This isn’t music I typically listen to but growing up watching South Park it was fun to actually listen to an album by Isaac Hayes. This album was a soulful and funky good time and I would give it another listen in the future!

Should have include Chocolate Salty Balls on this one

chill vibes. nice to have on in the background. last track was very long and mostly just talking over instrumentals

Couldn’t really get into it but it wasn’t awful!

3/5

Good voice but not my cup of tea

Impossible not to picture Chef singing these songs. 3.5

The last song kinda lost me and that’s tough when an album is 4 songs

Wow what a pleasant surprise! As someone not well versed in soul music, it was mind blowing to come upon this album and see that it’s made up of only four mostly long tracks. The Bar-Kays as the rhythm section! Isaac Hayes singing, playing organ and conducting the band live! String section overdubs! Kind of a psychedelic vibe throughout this whole album and the tempos are all fairly slow and steady. Great to learn about this album and looking forward to future replays.

Decent soul album

Good album if wildly indulgent in that way that r&b can get at it's extremities. I do like him and have been to see his stuff at Stax. When no one was around I touched his amazing car. I like his style and panache.

Such a mood! An 18 minute long, mostly spoken word prequel to a country song is so bold. And it’s kind of great to listen to? Yes Chef!

Good album. Intrigued me on the first listen but didn't offer a lot on the second. Cool to see the Genesis of dance and r&b

chef

No muy guau. Nota: 2.7

Before today, my only experience of Isaac Hayes was from Shaft, and his soulful, and hilariously inappropriate advice to the children of South Park, and this was a nice, relaxing listen today. A bit surprising that there were only 4 songs on the album, but the songs rarely got tedious, even when pushing quarter of an hour long. That said, my favourite song was the shortest, One Woman. It's a solid 3 stars from me, but the highlight was when Spotify churned out Theme from Shaft after the album had finished. Absolute tune.

SO ahead of its time, especially the first two.

3.5

This was good for the first 3 songs but the last one was fairly boring

I mean, the vibe and the playing on this is impeccable, and yet ... I find it hard to say whether I enjoyed it. There's stretches where it sounds like he's left the band to play while he goes off for a cig - the band is incredible though. And the song where it's so hard for him because he's forced to cheat on his woman made me laugh. The length of time it takes for him to say "I'm about to sing a song" before By The Time I get To Phoenix is insane. A truly heroic amount of filler. And yet... A lot of the time I'm thinking it's really good, especially side 1.

An apt title. This is hot, smooth soul. Perhaps, though, a few more concise tracks would a been a better choice than 4 bloaters? Although the 18 minute ‘By The Time I Get To Phoenix’ is great the first time; once heard, the 8 minute single-note talky intro is surplus to requirements on subsequent listens. So whilst probably brilliant at a live show, on a studio album it’s a waste of vinyl. My first listen took 45 minutes. Subsequent listens took less than 30 (plus the time taken to trim the fat). The lean was lovely though.

Silky smooth voice! Love them! This was not my favorite album, however.

18 min long songs Cool soul vibes

Four songs in 48 min is wild. I got a little lost in the middle, but it was an enjoyable ride.

Really liked a lot of the music, but the 'monologue' on the last track finished me off. Didn't make it to the end.

Pretty good but not overly keen on his version of Walk On By.

Opens with a fantastic performance of a Burt & Hal classic, but the slower tracks aren’t really my thing. I ’m just not sexy enough of an loverman for it to float my boat.

I'll be honest, I didn't think I was going to like this album. I was pleasantly surprised, however. I really enjoyed the musical build-up of Walk On By, and the piano in Hyperbolic was great. The introduction on By The Time I Get to Phoenix is entirely too long. 3.5 out of 5.

I really liked some of it. The spoken track is funny. Love how long the tracks were compared to yesterday's 15 minute album

Didn’t really speak to me, but I enjoyed listening. The track where he mostly talks was not as enjoyable.

Groovy

Isaac Hayes has a great voice, the songs on "Hot Buttered Soul" are nicely arranged, I like the experimental approach with only four lengthy songs... But still, it somehow didn't really catch me. Solid easy listening stuff.

Issac has such a soothing and powerful voice, and some of the songs meet him and really allow him to shine. Others just drag and labor on and get into 'jam band that doesn't know how to end the song' territory. I was waiting for it to be done after about halfway through.

I recognized the voice of Chef from South Park and I was surprised because I didn't know they made soul music back in the 60s. I like soul but the only gripe I had with this album is that two of the songs were almost 20 minutes long and 90 percent of the songs was just literal talking before the actual music starts. Could have shortened and that would have made the album better. I will give this a 3 because I certainly felt like huge portions of this album could easily be cut out.

Surprisingly experimental. Long but great tracks. Thoroughly enjoyable.

An artist with a classic timeless feel and style.

i liked it well enough

*1969. *45 minutes, but only 4 songs… *Really soothing, buttery soul music. *Great quiet Saturday morning background music. *Last song is preachy and talkative and I’m not into it. RATING - 6.5/10

There isn’t many tracks here to rate…it’s a 3

Funk/soul slow tempo. Instrumentals on Walk On By are nice. Fuzz, orchestral. Hyperbolic... has great instrumentals and funky beat Best track - Walk On By, Hyperbolic... 3 stars, but Hyperbolic... is great

Kinda cheesy

Again was apprehensive, but you know what this was a good listen again. My soul did feel hot and buttered in the end. Only thing I would say is the last track had too much of what I would call a live jazz set entrance to it, and I didn’t think it translated very well to an album. But overall very smooth

I had not listened to Isaac Hayes until now, and I personally have a bias towards any music created in the 60s and 70s, but this was not one of my favs. I like 2 songs enough to put them on a playlist, but I also do not want to take away from the fact that Isaac Hayes was amazing. This album just didn't do it for me.

Different genre than I normally listen to but easy to enjoy. Not a huge fan of an album having four super long songs but I see what he's doing. I think the story tying into a song for the last one was cool but 19 minutes is too long. 6/10

Ok, too long. What’s the last one about. Not my cup of tea. Would have to be in the mood

This is probably a generational thing, but I was expecting to have a really hard time not hearing Chef, and it actually wasn't for the most part, only every once in a while did it kinda come through! I think mostly cause he's so much younger on this. "Walk On By" and "Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymistic" were my faves, and I enjoyed parts of "By The Time I Get to Phoenix" it just needed to be way shorter

Almost 4 stars but the last track drags on a little too long. Walk on By is a classic though and I would say at least listen once.

Funky, cool

Too much talking and repetition

One of those exquisitely produced and made albums that just isn't really my thing. A perfect soul/R&B record. But with the extreme song lengths (Average of 11 minutes, one of them is 19 minutes long!!!) and this just not really being my thing, just don't got a ton to say about it other than it's fantastic, just not for me.

so did he ever get to phoenix

Love soul music

Lots of long, meandering soul music. Not my style, but I see why it's beloved

Überraschend gut.

Nice mix of songs. Very smooth and chill listen. I have never heard this before today and I enjoyed it very much. Probably not something that I would gravitate towards but a nice listen when the mood strikes.

What a wild ride. You are NOT ready for Isaac Hayes’ version of “By the Time I Got to Phoenix,” by Jimmy Webb (look him up - that dude could write some songs) and mostly remembered for the Glen Campbell version. Isaac Hayes has a fantastic voice and the soul on this slab-o-wax is heavily buttered, baby!

The 18 minute track really didn’t work for me, and because it was half the album that made it challenging. Still three stars for overall grooviness.

Good album. I enjoy it.

Soulful but not something I'd revisit.

Kool

It was a very pleasant listen

Memphis soul

This was a solid and enjoyable listen - didn’t realise it was Chef until halfway through. Super soulful and funky.

Fun soulful album. Got some groovy jams

Started off real strong, but then "By The Time I Get To Phoenix" brought this album to a screeching halt. Ten minutes of talking (I have no idea what about) is far too much to ask of any listener. The last nine minutes don't provide a big enough payout to make Hayes' seemingly endless monologue worth it. Minus a half-star because Scientology. Just think about how South Park would be even better right now if Chef was still around.

Why are the songs so long?

Did Isaac Hayes invent Post-Soul?

Kind of faded into the background. Not exactly my jam but pleasant enough background music.

This was a pleasant smooth album to have on in the background. I didn't love the last song, "By The Time I Get to Phoenix", but the others were sweet. I'm surprised at how aggressively Spotify is selling merch for this 60 year old album. 6/10

Smooooth

It was okay

I’m not sure if it’s genius or awful, but you have to admire this man’s chutzpah into taking 3 - 4 minute pop songs and turning them into 10+ minute psychedelic soul epics.

Ah yeahhhhh. Cool n funky & 100% sexy. REALLY dig the instrumental portions of the record. solid 3/5

Dad- 3 Mom- 6 Mike- NA Lori- 5.5 Michael- 6 Miles- NA Cole- NA Avg-5.13

MmmMm that smooth buttery head. 46 minutes 4 song R&B/soul album from the 60s, you can count me in. And then the second song was just kinda whackadoodle I didn’t really match its freak, and the one after that was just about him trying to choose between his mistress and his wife, and I wasn’t really about that, and then the final song it took him 8 minutes to even start, although I will say once he did it was BUS. And of course the first song was excellent. Despite all those gripes though, this was all around a pleasant listen, I’ll probably revisit the 18 minute By the Time I Get to Phoenix cover often enough.

Nice! I think I’d bump it up a star if that last track wouldn’t drag so much.

Pretty good, not the type of jazz that I was expecting. Probably wouldn’t listen again bc it’s not rlly my thing

For only 4 songs it’s pretty great.

No hate love Isaac Hayes but didn't gel with the longer instrumental sections

Crazy this album was made in the 60's, sounds much more modern. Chef can sing a lil bit! Maybe a little weird that there are only 4 tracks, but it's a very creative and well-produced record.

3.5

Feels like he invented like four genres at once. Some really good soul jams

Songs were very stretched out. But I didn't mind. Good vibes.

Issac Hayes for 18 minutes - okay.

When I left Phoenix, I left a piece of my heart

Enjoyed this one even though I probably won't find myself coming back to it. Vibes were good.

I found this album interesting. Wasn’t what I expected at all - long, ten minute plus songs, some meandering grooves and some unique ideas. I expected short soul tunes and more focus on actual songwriting. I enjoyed it though because it totally blindsided me. As an album I felt it did come up a little short. I either wanted it to go deeper and darker or lighter and snappier. I’m left curious about Hayes’ other work, particularly around the same period. The 8 minute-odd spoken word section in By The Time I Get To Phoenix left me wondering what the fuck was going on though.

I hate to admit that this is some sexy-ass misogyny

Not my go-to genre but enjoyed this very much. When it wasn't groovy/funky/soulful, it was freakin hysterical

I enjoyed it. Not something I'd listen to every day but really powerful messages in here. Also, many many rap samples have been lifted from this album. Props to that. 3.4 / 5 stars

The elements of greatness are there -- but they come too performative altogether.

I liked his voice and music. Didn't care for the story he shared. It was fun to hear Chef from South Park in his prime.

Love Isaac Hayes but he gets a little over indulgent on some of these songs. Way too long but still enjoyable listen.

3.5

Only 4 songs - but don't let that fool you. They are long. A little psychedelic funk in some of them - which is enjoyable. Isaac Hayes voice is deep and smooth. I would imagine he has better works.

Interesting and jazzy (it's soul actually)

Really a 3.5. Solid album for the most part. I enjoyed a lot about it and know that if it came on I probably wouldn’t turn it off. So that’s pretty decent

kinda boring tbh, but i'm just not much into this kind of music

Nice! Vor allem die ersten beiden Titel. Den ersten kannte ich, konnte ihn bisher aber nicht zuordnen.

4 songs, 45 minutes long. You'd expect that of a twiddly prog rock album. There are elements of filler, but its soul in some form of long form wizardry

Last track drags on for a bit long

6/10

Walk on by is great, but it's a thin album.

Soul, last song seemed like some kind of oral story

Holy song length

7/10

"I'm gonna make love to you woman, gonna lay you down by the fire" is now stuck in my head and "Hot Buttered Soul" makes me think of the deepfake Gary Busey "Hot buttered Sausage" meme. All joking aside, this is a very soulful album with some interesting lyrical twists. I prefer the single edits, the others are unnecessarily long. "One Woman" is smooth af. I skipped the interview, no time for that. I hoped for more, I can't lie. But it's alright.

holy shit the longest intro in history

A nineteen minute song is absolutely insane. Walk On By, the single edit, was actually really good! 12 minutes was excessive, but the shorter version was top notch. Probably going to give this one a two/three star?

Felt like a lot of filler.

I like this album, very energetic soul album Fav song - Walk On By 3/5

This is a THICK soul album. Repetitive in some areas, and I am not the biggest fan of straight talk storytelling for 10 min; but dripping with hot butter. Quite a good album when you are looking to slow down. 3/5 not bad

The last spoken word thing took a bit too long and I stopped focusing on. Was overall a good album. Can see how he had as much success as he did

Smoooooth as! Although it’s quite daunting seeing 4 songs stretch over 45mins, it doesn’t feel like it once you start listening. ‘One Woman’ is a tune and a half.

Hmm, two Isaac Hayes in the space of a week. I prefer the Shaft soundtrack. This one was ok but unnecessary for this list.

I really enjoyed the 1st and 3rd song, but the 2nd and 4th (intro part) really dragged for me, so it's hard to gauge my overall opinion. Definitely like the instrumentation and overall sound, I feel like edited versions of the song would be my preference. Walk on By: I am enjoying the sounds, love the character all the instruments have, especially the keyboard and funky guitar sound. At first when the vocals came in, I almost missed the instrumental. But it won me over, especially the brass section at 5:00. I really didn't notice the length of the song on first listen since its dynamic enough to keep my interest until about 9:00 when it gets a bit drifty for me, and I was ready for it to wrap up. (Wish I knew more about the original version of the song since it's a cover!) Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymistic: This one had some sounds I really got into, but it didn't really stick the landing to me. Enjoyable enough but not particularly memorable, not including its hilarious title. Middle section of the song had me a bit bored, it doesn't seem to build or go anywhere for a while. One woman: What an awesome love song until the part where I went, excuse me? I enjoyed the sound of this song a lot, and I thought the vocals felt particularly strong here, probably due to the more stripped back instrumentation that lets him shine. Maybe just slightly long for me but I liked the sound. Like the song, definitely want to ignore the lyrics. By the Time I Get to Phoenix: The spoken intro was interesting at first but I was ready for it to wrap up. I get why he did it, but I literally got so annoyed by the end I almost wasn't going to listen to the main song. That part is pretty good but I admit my focus was diminished by the time it actually started. Best Song: Walk on By

This album is silky smooth and satisfying. His voice, the beats, lyrics, and timing all marry so well to create a vibe. I really enjoyed the first two tracks. The album dropped off a bit for me on the last two tracks. Overall, I can see why it’s on the list. Impressive, cinematic, and full of soul. Giving it a 3, but really it’s a 3.5.

Excelent!

Chef can sing

Cool for what it was. Had a great song name

Never listened to this one before, and quite liked it, especially the opening track.

3 stars I enjoyed it, although the ultra jam soul can feel a little overindulgent. But perhaps in just not used to it and with time it will grow on me. For now, this was an enjoyable experience I will return to, but has not revolutionized my perspective on soul.

1969. Walk On By

Isaac Hayes: Hot Buttered Soul: CHEF SOUTH PARK??? Its a cool album, a lot of chill songs, his voice is good, and the instruments are soothing. The first 3 songs were very enjoyable, but the last one is way too much speaking and droning on. Not an awful song, but 18 minutes of that is too much and I did not like it. Not super my thing as a whole, but the first three songs were rather good. 7/10

Good for a long listen of the whole album. Great stuff!

Sounds like a landmark artist coming into his own - Lush, groovy and dramatic. Well composed soul music that hints at the heights of Shaft! to come. The payoff after the long monologue in the final track does not quite justify itself to me.

Great music, however I doubt I'm often going to find the time to listen to a 12 and 18 minute song in one go.

I can’t believe it’s not better.

Pretty good

I think right off the bat the songs were just too long. Apart from this being something I’m not usually into, but this was refreshing. I see influence, and it was peaceful and exciting.

a lot of nothing for those 2nd 2 tracks. super soulful/funky for the first two. he's full of himself? HELLO THERE CHILDREN! HEY CHEF!

7.5

walk on by is a masterpiece

Lot of covers

Has some hits but the rest is pretty mediocre.

Ok, so at first glance I thought "sorry, 4 tracks?!?!?! An album, with 4 tracks?!?" ... Then I looked at the length of the songs and shut my mouth! Here's an interesting thing I found with this album - it's not a collection of songs like you'd typically get on an album. It's 2 mammoth tracks - "Walk Ony By" and "By The Time I Get To Phoenix" - have a total of 30mins of listening time. Both are... a vibe, to quote the yutes. Very cool background listening, both an epic journey through... I guess I'd describe the genre as classical-R&B? The harmonic decisions in "Walk On By" really create a stunning listening experience. The integration of more orchestral sounds makes each song grand and epic. Here's one thing I would say about our longer songs - they really are too long haha. I was enjoying "WOB" until around 4m30 ish, then I completely zoned out. My attention on "...Phoenix" was lost almost immediately as the sustained chord, ride cymbal and monologue continued... and continued... and continued... Nothing happened in that song until around the 8min minute mark. "Hyperbolic..." is also a hefty track, coming in at 9m36. To it's credit, the actual song started way earlier than it did on the other 2 long songs. I would add that my attention was lost after 3 or 4mins of this song as well. Don't get me wrong, the playing, composition and artistry on these songs are great, but songs that are that long need to mix things up a bit more often (for me at least) to keep the listener's attention. Our shortest song, "One Woman", was stunning. Nothing more to say on it. A beautiful track. Overall, a good listening experience, but hard to compare with the other albums experienced so far as it's more conceptual. Eh, 3/5 seems fair? Clearly talented musicianship and songwriting, but someone should've told Isaac to cut the songs and put a few more actual songs on the album. Nice background music though.

Another album I've never listened too. Really good stuff.

It felt like a four at first but then a two so I guess three?

6 inch heels…

love the bass lines and instrumental overall!! v lyric heavy but still v cool

Very cruisey. Good background.

You know I wasn’t initially a big fan of this album before I listen to the interview following the album, then the album just clicked in place. I’m like man this is actually really cool. Love this style of trying to pioneer soul music.

schöner, langsamer R&B, aber leider sind die Songs a bissl zu lang für den daily genuss

Didn’t finish but I liked what I heard

Soul music easy to listen to. Good album.

Is there anything to say about this one? It's Isaac Hayes singing/speaking soul in his uniquely Isaac Hayes style. Even if it's not the kind of music you typically like, it's hard not to have fun with him.

Smooth stuff here. Really sets a mood. I went into this listen knowing how influential it was. I enjoyed most of it but I have a little pet peeve about music being interrupted by a long talking monologue. I know it is not unusual for this genre and time period but it still takes me out of the groove when a guy just starts telling a story over music. It didn't ruin the album for me but it did affect my enjoyment of it somewhat. Overall though it was a great listen.

He lost his hair but not his soul

This was fine. The song about picking and choosing between two women, followed up by the guy just talking into the mic detracted from my enjoyment of the overall package. Good instrumentals, meh vocal work. 'Walk On By' was my fave by a country mile. Such a cool opening riff.

Not bad at all, but not amazing. Good dinner date background music.

It was 45 minutes of Chef from South Park singing his heart out to teach me about life and love. The entire time I listened, I just pictured a montage with Chef being superimposed over Kyle, Stan, Cartman, and Kenny teaching them things they had no business learning. Oh my god, they killed Kenny!

Me ha gustado en general y me he guardado "Walk on by", ya sé de donde saca Kiwanuka parte de su inspiración. El disco original parece corto, 4 canciones pero al final son unos 45 minutos que se pasan volando.

I liked parts of it a lot, but way more talking than I wanted

C'est nice mais y'a pas Chocolate Salty Balls. 😢

The last track was a little much but some great grooves before hand made up for it.

It's got some good grooves in here. Hot Buttered Soul honestly is a good description on how this music felt.

I like this, the songs are enjoyable and interesting, but I’ve got to be honest 4 tracks at 45 minutes is a little long for my attention span. There is so much noodling and jamming that I find myself waiting for the end sometimes. Still it’s great background music for working and I definitely like the style more than some of the other albums we’ve reviewed I have to say 3 stars.

Would have been higher, but the spoken word part of “By the Time I get to Phoenix” was too much for me.

Nothing incredible in n this album but also nothing bad.

Solid first half, but the second half is pretty mediocre.

Walk On By is a fantastic song, and Hyperbolic is great, but One Woman is just offensive and By The Time I Get To Phoenix needs to cut out the first 10 minutes before it starts to become a song. So all in all it's a bit of a confused mess with some brilliant material.

3 Sterne

12 minute songs is crazy work but it was quite good.

Chill soul.

Slightly quiet funk / smooth and soul for my taste (Thats my prism of view and hard to shit that). Anyway the review. At first it just seemed to blend into a blob of music with limited character. However my view has changed a bit as for some reason I ended up listening to it about 4-5 times. I do think its great music and while I would not choose it necesarily I did find it engaging and grabbed me in the end. It was chilled and especially liked it when driving where I could listen to it carefully. I feel like I have been brainwashed by a preacher but hey ho. I just learned he sang chocolate salty balls (South park) so thats something too. Haha. Worth a listen to bring you back to earth. "I hate when my balls stick"

Second song is really nice, but all the songs seem very long. So I think this is a album only listening situation.

I really enjoyed this album. The first song was my favourite and I particularly enjoyed the instrumental. I liked that the album kind of told a story. I would possibly listen to this again.

Chef!

I liked this album. I was breaking down boxes and taking out the trash while I listened to it. It starts with one of my favorite songs of all time. I feel like this is an album I'd like to own, it just has a coolness to it. Like it just feels like a recording of a session or show that no one intended to make an album of. There are some spots where that spontaneity feels overworked, and some of the technical elements that they lean into feel like they could have been shortened (a few guitar solos or intros), it's like they don't have to care because you are just listening to them do their thing. They didn't ask for you to come in. 3.75

walk on by- 6 hyperbolicsyllababicsesquedalymistic- 6 one woman- 5 or 6 by the time I get to Phoenix- 5 very funky but this has to be background music. I can't just sit down and listen to it

Not bad not bat

Really good first half, faded in the stretch. Still, a fun experience with a lot of attitude.

Man, I loved the first half of this album! Especially Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymistic, which knocked my socks off. Unfortunately it fizzled for me after that - the second half is alright, but didn't quite capture the same magic for me.

Good album. Can definitely see how it would be very influential.

Deep soul, laid back instrumentation, beautiful heartfelt tones, what's not to like?! Just a teensy bit meandering at times maybe...

I can see the vision, but not my thing.

So smooth! A great listen, the extended cuts and spoken words to music were a bit much for me (I can't be dealing with a 19 minute song) but overall 👍

I liked the music, but don't enjoy the spoken portions

Good but nothing too revolutionary for me

It's a good album. One of the tracks has a sound that has been sampled into modern music, but I can't put my finger on where I've heard it. 3/5

3.5

Super long soul love songs, not something i'd add to playlist though

The spoken word intro on the last song should have been cut. Almost half of a nearly 19 minute track is him just speaking and not music. That is ridiculous. It’s a good soul album but there are better ones out there.

Chad move putting an interview at the end of your studio album, gotta respect that.

3.5 very good album, just not quite my style

This is #day256 of my #1001albumsyoumusthearbeforeyoudie challenge, and… the first track instantly rang a bell. Portishead or some other trip-hop band must've sampled it. Just checked: it was actually Hooverphonic... The rest of the album? Progressive/psychedelic soul, just like Wiki says. Not my cup of tea, really. Also, the last track drags on for way too long. Let it be a 3 out of 5. Looking forward to #day257.

Ne prepoznam niti najbolj popularnega komada: Hyperbolicsyllablecsesquedalymistic

As a South Park fan, I was incredibly excited to get an Isaac Hayes album. His voice never disappoints. If you are an R&B or Soul fan you will undoubtedly love it, but for me the songs were too long. There are 4 in total, and one of them lasts almost 20 minutes. I love Hayes's voice, and I didn't feel that the songs were bad. They were just lengthy. That being said Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymistic is an absolute banger and doesn't feel at all like its 10 minutes long.

Guay

Ohhh yeaaahhhh. Smooooooth babyyyyyy. 3.5/5

Hard to believe this was Chef. Genuine baby making music. Some of the songs dragged on for far too long though.

Better than I expected. I don’t love a 10 minute song but it was a nice vibe throughout.

5/10

Listenable.

Heeeeeeeeel rustige muziek. Goed gezongen en goed gespeeld! ***

A radical reinvention of soul music, Hot Buttered Soul is Isaac Hayes at his most fearless and cinematic. With only four tracks, Hayes stretched the boundaries of the genre — layering orchestras, wah-wah guitars, and sprawling monologues over heartbreak classics like "Walk On By" and "By the Time I Get to Phoenix." It's raw emotion dressed in velvet, a record that trades radio-friendliness for uncompromising artistry. Bold, hypnotic, and deeply influential, it set the stage for soul to become grand, philosophical, and endlessly expressive. A masterpiece of mood, groove, and vulnerability.

Butter me up, baby.

Fantastic. The only thing holding this back is the length of the songs. The last track is upwards of 20 minutes. But, this album came out in the 70s, that's how things were done back then.

o instrumental é impecável e mesmo que as músicas sejam longas, elas não ficam cansativas o que tira a quebra do clima no álbum é a última música