The Isaac Hayes Movement

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Total Tracks: 4   Total Length: 36:22

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Ron Wynn

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04.22.11
A skillful combination of lush, extensive arrangements with multi-part songs and symphonic influences.
2001 | Label: Fantasy / Stax

Fans curious about how Hayes could follow the innovative Hot Buttered Soul were delighted when his mighty cover of Jerry Butler's "I Stand Accused" became this album's lead single. Hayes fully matched Butler's dramatic reading, while adding some intriguing flourishes of his own. Again he skillfully combined lush, extensive arrangements with multi-part songs and symphonic influences. Hayes concluded the session with a dashing, over-the-top version of "Something," punctuated by John Blair's slicing violin lines.

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Slow Grinding Music

Peevis

This album is about good music, period. This music sounds as good or better than when I first heard it. Ike was the savior of slow dancing with your girl, or somebody else's. He was so inovative, being among the first to have extended record play.

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Slow Grinding Music

Peevis

This album is about good music, period. This music sounds as good or better than when I first heard it. Ike was the savior of slow dancing with your girl, or somebody else's. He was so inovative, being among the first to have extended record play.

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Great Album!

siddithers

This was only the second proper album I heard of Isaac Hayes(after the amazing Hot Buttered Soul) and I was exceedingly pleased with it. I have 3 different greatest hits compilations (2 stax and 1 polydor) but the original albums, in their original context, are always better. EVERY song is excellent!!!

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album #3

duggie

This album is from 1970 and was his third album, right after his best one, Hot Buttered Soul. "I Stand Accused" is excellent. The others are pretty good but not essential.

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Although this is Isaac Hayes’ third long-player, he had long been a staple of the Memphis R&B scene — primarily within the Stax coterie — where his multiple talents included instrumentalist, arranger, and composer of some of the most beloved soul music of the ’60s. Along with his primary collaborator, David Porter, Hayes was responsible for well over 200 sides — including the genre-defining “When Something Is Wrong With My Baby,” “Soul Man,” “B-A-B-Y,” “Hold On, I’m Comin’,” and “I Had a Dream.” As a solo artist however, Hayes redefined the role of the long-player with his inimitably smooth narrative style of covering classic pop and R&B tracks, many of which would spiral well over ten minutes. The Isaac Hayes Movement (1970) includes four extended cuts from several seemingly disparate sources, stylistically ranging from George Harrison’s “Something” to Jerry Butler’s “I Stand Accused” and even Burt Bacharach and Hal David’s “I Just Don’t Know What to Do With Myself.” These early Hayes recordings brilliantly showcase his indomitable skills as an arranger — as he places familiar themes into fresh contexts and perspectives. For example, his lengthy one-sided dialogue that prefaces “I Stand Accused” is halting in its candor as Hayes depicts an aching soul who longs for his best friend’s fiancée. Even the most hard-hearted can’t help but have sympathy pains as he unravels his sordid emotional agony and anguish. Hayes’ lyrical orchestration totally reinvents the structure of “Something” — which includes several extended instrumental sections — incorporating equally expressive contributions from John Blair (violin). Both “I Just Don’t Know What to Do With Myself” and the comparatively short (at under six minutes) “One Big Unhappy Family” are more traditionally arranged ballads. Hayes again tastefully incorporates both string and horn sections to augment the languid rhythm, providing contrasting textures rather than gaudy adornment. These sides offer a difference between the proverbial “Black Moses of Soul” persona that would be responsible for the aggressive no-nonsense funk of Shaft (1971) and Truck Turner (1974). – Lindsay Planer

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