Shaft

Oh yeah. Quick aside, if soundtracks are allowed on this list, then where's Saturday Night Fever? Because Saturday Night Fever is a 5. Also, the Spotify link here does NOT include the entire album, it only allows you to hear 4 songs from the album. If you intend to listen to Spotify, make sure you listen to the remastered Deluxe Edition, which has all 16 songs. Theme from Shaft (the song) is an all-time classic. The rest? Well, it's not Saturday Night Fever. Since I was already familiar with the theme song, the rest of it made me a bit disappointed. It's fine overall. I'm not sure it belongs on the list. It could get kicked off to make room for, gee, I don't know...Saturday Night Fever maybe?

There is no way this album should be on this list to me. It’s not because I hate the music. The music is fine…for a soundtrack. You know…where there is a visual presentation ongoing simultaneously. This album is devoid of much meaning on its own. Admittedly, I’ve never seen Shaft. So maybe the album would feel more tactile if I had the memory of the action to harken back to while listening. From the sound, I can tell that songs like Ellie’s Love Theme and Early Sunday Morning fit the mood the song title implies. To me, an album shouldn’t be on this list if it is only impactful when paired with its movie. This album would be better fit for a list of movies with great soundtracks you must see/hear before you die, assuming it fits that mold. I’ve definitely had a vastly more profound negative visceral reaction to some other albums on the list (The Cramps, System of a Down I’m thinking of you), but at least I can understand how someone can get into them. This album it’s hard for me to understand how this is a go to listen for someone without the movie. And it does not do anything to make me want to see the movie either. I don’t get it.

Who's the black private dick that's a sex machine to all the chicks? Anyone who gives this less than 3 stars knows their chick would rather be eating chocolate salty balls then their limp bizkit. Laid back funk and groove for days on this album. You're damn right this is 5 stars.

Instantly a classic. Fucking phenomenal, soulful and yet the times of psychedelic rock start showing near the end.

Such a soulful album. The use of horns and strings alternates between peeping you up and mellowing you out, much like Shaft himself when he’s on the job. I forgot how much gospel influence there is as well. Use of vocals is smart and timely without overdoing it. I loved this album!

I see no reason to listen to these songs other than if you are actually watching the movie...

Amazing album overall can not believe it had such a cultural impact as the score for a film 4.8

Gotta be my next find at the record store.

Wow! A special treat. Forgot about this album - As a kid, I loved the Oscar winning title track, and the album holds up with nice, smooth R&B/Jazz. nice . Man this is one "Mother-f*cking albu... WATCH YOUR MOUTH!!!"

A masterclass in soundtracks. Character-driven melodies and arrangements, so much pace and movement, long-form instrumentals and vocal pieces, and that chunky, solid full orchestral backing. Spot on.

Awesome soul/funk music. It’s weird to listen to Isaac Hayes because I always think of Chef from South Park, but the dude is legitimately talented. This album is a bop.

Every. 👏🏼Fucking. 👏🏼 Track. 👏🏼

You know that Shaft is one bad mother... (Shut your mouth!) But I'm just talkin' about Shaft! (We can dig it)

Je me réveillai hier matin avec la même curiosité quotidienne : qu'allait me proposer aujourd'hui ce généreux générateur ? Mon doigt tapa soudain le lien de ce dernier dans la barre de recherche et, une fois ma critique de l'album précédent rédigée ainsi que les quelques étoiles attribuées, l'album Shaft apparut au milieu de l'écran. Je cliquai sur le lien Spotify lorsque je fus pris d'effroi ; seuls trois chansons étaient disponibles. YouTube fut dès lors ma seule alternative. Après quelques minutes d'écoute, la supercherie se découvrit progressivement : il s'agissait de la bande son d'un long-metrage. Je laissai échapper un long soupir amer. C'est désemparé que je poursuivis tout de même l'écoute. "Comment as-tu trouvé la musique ?" me demanderiez-vous si j'étais en face de vous. "Pas mal" vous répondrais-je avec assurance. J'ai seulement regretté les trop nombreuses similitudes avec la bande-son du film Amélie Poulain, personnage qui intervient d'ailleurs à de nombreuses reprises dans le morceau de 19 minutes. Une belle collaboration en somme.

Anyone who doesn’t like this album doesn’t know 1) what great music is 2) how to have fun.

I mean, it's Shaft, right? Baby, if you can't groove on this at least a little bit, I don't know if we can jive, dig? This is prime, buttered funk. But ... well, it's a bit dated at this point, you know? For example, "Cafe Regio" sounds like it should be playing in an elevator at some resort in Miami. Still a great album filled with sick grooves, though.

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Fun and groovy. Watch yo' mouth!

I *love* this album. Every track. Sure, everybody knows the theme song, but the real good stuff is on the B side.

Surprised by how much I’m enjoying these funky jams. Great music to focus on work to as well.

Awesome album. Classic for a reason.

Really fun album. Great score

This was a funky album. But also... my life doesn’t need to have shaft music in the background? I’m not a black man with an Afro wearing a purple coat and a Steve Harvey mustache...

Shaft was a bad mother (shut your mouth), but you wouldn't know if just from listening to Isaac Hayes' soundtrack. This album felt like chillin' in the jazz club, not chasing down some mobsters or risking his neck for his brother man. There were some cool guitar elements on "Cafe Regio's," but overall I was surprised by the lack of excitement, pace, and action implied in most of these instrumentals, you dig? Does most of the movie "Shaft" involve scenes of Shaft lying in bed relaxing with a good book or a post-coital cigarette? Or walking through the park on a sunny day? The energy finally picks up at the end of "No Name Bar," and "Do Your Thing" does a lot of different things, some of which are pretty great.

Kakav lik, kakav album ❤️ apsolutno obožavanje Hayesa! Da čak i album snimljen za potrebe filma može ovako dobro zvučati i uopće se ne činiti kao da je za film je meni fascinantno. Dala bih mu najvišu ocjenu za bilo koji album, i sredinu palačinke 😂. Ne smijem ni reći šta bih mu sve dala jer mi je muž u projektu. 5/5, 9/10

It's amazing.

Really awesome jazzy funk. Instant classic.

Excellent. Added to list of favorites

Holy crap, Do Your Thing just GOES OFF. The rest of the album is pretty smooth and funky, but that track is GOLD.

Groovy as hell and smooth as a motherfucker

I was expecting this to be a "this is pretty good but not really my thing" type of review but I really ended up digging this. Do Your Thing is an epic jam. Most everything on here is ultra-groovy and funkalicious. 4 stars.

I feel bad giving this a 2 considering the cultural significance and the fact that the sound is perfectly pleasant. The problem for me lies in the fact that it was designed to be background to what was happening on screen. It is not designed or intended to be digested on it's own.

It’s great and perfect and funky.

Chef from South Park is such a smooth, sensual, caring lover. I often dress up as Shaft for children's parties. They love it. I love it.

Very cool 70's vibes, feels like this must've been what set the tone for this to be riffed off so much. Love the theme, the rest is good, but still a movie soundtrack. Bumping up to a 4 for the influence.

Ja shaftar din mamma!!

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I..what..I don't understand. Maybe it was just too sexy for me.

I feel too white to listen to this but I also don't care. Cause this makes me feel like a baaaaad son of a something.

2 seconds and I already love this. This album is amazing oh my god, jazzy, funky, and a bit experimental. you bet I'd fell in love. Every part of the musical body is well fufilled, there's always something to keep the music going. the narrative and singing voice is amazing too. Beautiful. Can't tell it's a 1971 album, age so well! 5/5.

9.5/10 Kakav album! Bas trazim nesto (polu)instrumentalno u ovakvom obliku i doslo je kao deseta piva u 5 ujutro ili dobar seks nakon duze nejebice! Odlicne melodije i atmosfera kroz cijeli soundtrack, mogu zamislit da gruvam na ovo u bilo koje doba dana ili noci. Sve mi je toliko sjelo da film uopce ne trebam ni pogledati ali stavit cu ga negdje na popis! Među većim favoritima za sad na ovom projektu i nešto s čime nisam bio upoznat. De toga još!

Isaac Hayes just got a new fan. Five stars and it's going in my Tidal library.

Шафт!!!!!!!!

Great soundtrack!

only brilliant. Loved it

The album that really shows the godlike genius that is Isaac Hayes. The arrangements are the equal of Per Sounds.

Spotify was missing about 9 songs from this album sadly. Still a wonderful album!

Funky, soulful and keeps it up for the whole double album (though it could be one disc if not for "Do Your Thing"). You can't go wrong with it.

Прекрасный саундтрек. Осталось посмотреть фильм.

Holy hell this album is groovy.

soundtrack music is the best, why isn't there more

Knew and loved many of these tracks already. This was surprisingly fun to work to, and I expect I'll be coming back to it on occasion.

Good funk, Elevator music.

Amazingly good.

Never heard anything but the Shaft theme by Hayes. Some really good background vibing tunes.

Can you dig it? Best track: Theme from Shaft

Perfectly cheesy in every mother _______ (Shut your mouth) way!

This album is smooth and creamy. Digesting a double album soundtrack should be daunting, but this one was quite pleasant and the time flew by. When the 19 1/2 minute funk fest of Do Your Thing came on, the party hit. Otherwise it’s mostly Sunday morning chill. It’s the first day of a vacation. It’s Friday night with the entire weekend in front of you. Glorious!

I enjoyed this listen. The kind of music that makes me feel super cool, and like I should be driving my El Camino around shooting people. Perfect stylistically.

The name is Shaft, John Shaft, can ya dig? Shut your mouth! (but I'm talking about Shaft!)

There’s a lot of other funk I’d rather listen to.

5/10 - 3/5 I was surprised to see a soundtrack come up. It sounds pretty good, but it does just end up being background music. I struggled to stay present and invested.

Bland

Before going any further, I salute Charles Pitt for ruling the wah-wah with a precision that puts alongside demi-machine Jaki Liebezeit - imagine that band! - and who led me on a short digression to The Isley Brother's It's Your Thing, where he plays one of those riffs that you could listen to for hours. I bought this album more than twenty years ago, and never had much time for it, title track aside. It's gorgeous as pure soundtrack, too much so: it's decorative, mise-en-scene, and therefore faintly anonymous - there's a style, personality, but barely any voice, melodies and riffs designed for ambience rather than focus. Cafe Regio's is a relaxing type I wouldn't mind spending an afternoon in a bar with. The near 20-minute Do Your Thing is the standout oddity, and might be close to the Can-collaboration I imagined earlier: I like it a lot, though I cannot remember any particular moments from it as I type this. Anonymity strikes again. This is the second double-album in a row that we've been dealt, and I note that this passes a lot quicker and easier than Ryan Adams' grand statement of nothing.

This was very entertaining, if not very engaging outside of the vocal tracks. Never seen the movie but I bet it's lots of fun! Love me some Isaac Hayes in general. RIP Richard Roundtree

A soundtrack? Really?

Album 281 of 1001 Issac Hayes - Shaft Rating : 2 / 5 Aside from the theme song, this is nothing but background music. No songs to be found here.

extremely fabulous.

amazing chill

The late 60's sonically epitomized and performed masterfully. What a wonderful and moving romp.

Damn right! One of the best albums ever.

Classic. Ushered in an era.

Absolut banger perfekt musik till en sådan bra film

Too brief, too good.

This is a clinic on how to make a soul album. It's just one non-stop groove. One of few double albums that deserves the format.

Absolutely sensational. Really captures that 70's sound. Black soul and funk is so much nicer than hip hop rap. Beautifully arranged and produced. Just brilliant.

The last two tracks are some of the best funk tracks of all time. Just absolutely phenomenal musicianship. No way Do Your Thing is a soundtrack song

Brilliant soundtrack designed and arranged like an infinitely listenable funk album. From those opening iconic hats and wah pedal to the end. This soundtrack is as fun as it is life-affirming. I'd put this right up there in a class with Curtis Mayfield's soundtrack for "Superfly" and Marvin Gaye's soundtrack for "Trouble Man", which rival this for soundtracks that stand up as perhaps more relevant than the movies themselves. Not to say the movies don't rip, because they absolutely do, but Superfly's soundtrack actually alters your perception of the characters, for instance. I digress. Parts of this remind me of Sly Stone, parts of the first Funkadelic album ("Mommy, What's a Funkadelic?") in their raw & gritty approach, like being a fly on the wall in a funk band's practice space at 3 in the morning. Then you got smooth tracks like "Bumpy's Blues" with an air of classy sophistication to them. This soundtrack is like a movie in and of itself. It really transports you to cinematic scenes in your mind. Might not be for everyone, but as for me, I can dig it.

Groovy, smooth, eclectic but thematic. Can fade into the background or dominate your foreground, depending on your mood. Always something new to find here.

Smooth as silk, cool as hell. Mostly instrumental, but makes sense as a movie soundtrack. Nice background music with groove and grit and a perfect example of everything great about the 70's and Isaac Hayes.

This was fucking awesome. Not sure what else to say other than I really enjoyed this.

Nice and funky. Mellow, yet upbeat. I thought that there would be more vocals on the album, but it was mostly instrumental

I love the way Isaac Hayes’ music makes me feel. “Do Your Thing” is my new favorite song

Starts and ends funky Melodies of life between And an air of cool

During my big Isaac Hayes phase I somehow never got to this. What a daftie.

Great

Would have been great if all the songs could be played on spotify

I was skeptical about this. I was wrong. There were some compositions that I would have been happy if they never ended.

Great theme and no name bar is fun.

Great music from a great film!

Woah

One of the greatest theme tracks, like how the album begins and ends with theme track. Album has great music notes on all tracks except song 10, that one didn’t fit the music style for this album.

Isaac Hayes will ALWAYS be cool. As will his music.

fuck yes fuck yes fuck yes seventies exploitation score let’s goooooooooo listened on a vinyl i’ve had for like three years but never actually played shout out to the goodwill in san diego where i got this for like $3

Just awesome :) I love the 70s. One of the tunes from The End Theme sounds like one of the Lovage songs I know...

Amazing soundtrack. Such a classic.

Amazing album. A real classic.

Isaac Hayes is certainly one of the greats of the last 50 years of music history. This album maybe is a bit too much film-music-like but it does not really matter. The songs are still great and the album as a whole also.

SHAFT!

I can feel this music on the surface of my brain. The mix is so good. Do yourself a favor and be sure to listen using headphones. Groovy. The bass, the horns, the beats. Do Your Thing is a song that should get way more play. At just over 19 minutes I never grew tired of it. Just get lost in it.