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Isaac Hayes - Shaft: Music From The Soundtrack .gif) By Barney Hoskyns
The "Theme from Shaft" is now so ingrained in popular
consciousness as the blaxploitation-movie track that it's hard to
listen to it without a faint smirk. ("Who's the black private dick
that's a sex machine to all the chicks?"!!) But if you can get past
the inadvertent humor, it's still a devilishly exciting piece of
music--all hi-hat 16ths, wah-wah guitar, strings, and woodwind, like a
Norman Whitfield Motown production taken to a baroque extreme. The rest of
the album consists mainly of incidental mood music of no great worth:
"Walk from Regio's," "Ellie's Love Theme"--you know
the sort of thing. Only two other tracks feature the Black Moses pipes,
while the endless "Do Your Thing" takes its place in the catalog
of Hayes epics that began with Hot Buttered Soul.
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| 1. Theme from Shaft | 9. Friend's Place | | 2. Bumpy's Lament | 10. Soulsville | | 3. Walk from Regio's | 11. No Name Bar | | 4. Ellie's Love Theme | 12. Bumpy's Blues | | 5. Shaft's Cab Ride | 13. Shaft Strikes Again | | 6. Cafe Reggio's | 14. Do Your Thing | | 7. Early Sunday Morning | 15. End Theme | | 8. Be Yourself | |
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|  | Artist: Isaac Hayes
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| | Released: September 13, 1971
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