Isaac Hayes - The Very Best of Isaac Hayes (2007)

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Artist: Isaac Hayes
Title: The Very Best of Isaac Hayes
Year Of Release: 2007
Label: Stax Records
Genre: Soul, Funk
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue, log)
Total Time: 1:16:03
Total Size: 490.1 MB
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist:

01. Precious, Precious (2:44)
02. Walk On By (4:33)
03. By the Time I Get to Phoenix (6:56)
04. I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself (7:03)
05. I Stand Accused (4:04)
06. The Look of Love (3:20)
07. Never Can Say Goodbye (3:40)
08. Theme from Shaft (3:17)
09. Do Your Thing (3:19)
10. Let's Stay Together (3:47)
11. Soulsville (3:48)
12. Ain't That Loving You (For More Reasons Than One) (4:24)
13. Theme from The Men (4:04)
14. (If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want to Be Right (4:46)
15. Rolling Down a Mountainside (5:25)
16. Joy, Part 1 (4:38)
17. Wonderful (3:40)
18. Title Theme (From Three Tough Guys) (2:34)

This is not a bad start, at least as far as single-disc representations of Isaac Hayes' Stax years are considered. The Very Best of Isaac Hayes contains many of the necessities -- his reinventions of "Walk on By," "By the Time I Get to Phoenix," and "Never Can Say Goodbye," alongside originals like "Theme from Shaft," "Do Your Thing," and "Joy, Pt. 1" -- but since it contains a total of 18 tracks, there's no room left for the original full-length album versions, so you get the single edits. Ultimate Isaac Hayes: Can You Dig It?, a two-disc/one-DVD set released in 2005 by Stax, is easier to recommend because it is more expansive, allowing enough room for all 12 minutes of "Walk on By" and a few essential cuts that couldn't fit here -- such as "Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymistic" and "I Stand Accused."

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