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| NeuroJoe (Central mASS) | Posted: Feb 20, 2013 - 17:37 The real trippy thing is that the dancing banana emoticon keeps perfect time with the beat. |
| ce (The Netherlands) | Posted: Aug 11, 2008 - 01:58 Rest In Peace, Mr. Hayes |
| hacky | Posted: Aug 10, 2008 - 14:18 Isaac Hayes - What a musical talent and what a larger-than-life character! The PBS Stax special had a nice summary of his career. May he rest in peace. Howard |
| redeyespy (Haven of calm) | Posted: Oct 02, 2007 - 17:49 Zep wrote: "Keep Your Eyes on the Sparrow" IIRC...
I'm thinking that's Baretta. |
| Zep (Beating the bushes) | Posted: Feb 27, 2006 - 09:50 rascal420 wrote: I thought this might be the theme from "SWAT" when it started, but this is better.
"Keep Your Eyes on the Sparrow" IIRC... Kinda similar riff, especially if you haven't heard them in two decades... |
| algrif (Slightly west of Zero) | Posted: Feb 20, 2006 - 02:57 Really surprised to hear this junk on RP. But I seem to be in a minority looking at the comments. So I'll just click on the '2' (to avoid egg sliding down my head..) turn the volume waaaay down and wait for something good to come on  |
| LadyLovelyLocks (Otherside of the Mirror UK) | Posted: Feb 05, 2006 - 09:55 I hear this song and I am 12 years old, living in Vancouver trying to get a handle on 70's "cop shows". Eh?  |
| crowhog2000 (Cincinnati, Ohio) | Posted: Jan 21, 2006 - 18:13   |
| ScottN (An inch above the K/T boundary layer) | Posted: Jan 21, 2006 - 18:12 MCKY wrote: This is great-but I do think Sammy Davis Jr version nailed it better.
Anyone remember Issac hayes as gandolf on the Rockford Files. So cool. Yeah, and he WHOMPED on Angel! |
| ejmusik (MD) | Posted: Jan 21, 2006 - 18:12 CLASSIC TRACK FROM A GREAT SOUNDTRACK  |
| turnergirl1of2 (the one hundred eightieth meridian) | Posted: Jan 21, 2006 - 18:11 Yeah, baby... you know you love it! |
| dolfan (Kingsland, Ga.) | Posted: Jan 07, 2006 - 04:53 Man...I mean...MAN! Sooooo cool.   |
| Snagmaster | Posted: Jan 07, 2006 - 04:44 |
| n4ku (I found her in Francelation) | Posted: Jan 07, 2006 - 04:42  |
| ntoll (U.K.) | Posted: Dec 09, 2005 - 04:33 Wackadoo guitar done right....  |
| tupicetti | Posted: Nov 24, 2005 - 13:20 Was this a sort of Matrix of the 70s? or 80?... just asking for enlightment.. |
| kazuma (Austin, TX) | Posted: Nov 24, 2005 - 13:17 dmax wrote: Someone rated this a "1"?
Maybe it was the bald man with the raw egg sliding down the back of his head. |
| (former member) (Shadow Valley Condos) | Posted: Nov 24, 2005 - 13:16 Someone rated this a "1"? All opinions are expressable - true - but if there isn't a gradiant of value, then all opinions are worthless. |
| deanofox (Yorkshire, England) | Posted: Oct 26, 2005 - 07:28 This song just makes me slide down the back of my chair like a freshly cracked egg on a bald mans head. Smoooooooth. |
| lester | Posted: Oct 26, 2005 - 07:27 Oh, this one is just not played nearly enough! Too cool, way too cool. |
| MCKY (PEI, Great White North) | Posted: Oct 26, 2005 - 07:26 This is great-but I do think Sammy Davis Jr version nailed it better. Anyone remember Issac hayes as gandolf on the Rockford Files. So cool. |
| bindi (North Carolina) | Posted: Oct 26, 2005 - 07:26 Go Chef! |
| srbarry (Upstate NY) | Posted: Oct 11, 2005 - 15:13 Badass sideburns too. 
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| Faithful_Fool (Streets of San Francisco) | Posted: Oct 11, 2005 - 15:12 alright Chil'rens nah this here is Muzik. Dig it? I do.  |
| mojoman (Rocky Mountains, Colorado) | Posted: Oct 11, 2005 - 15:11 redeyespy wrote: That statement suggests that there are no high standards of art, no gold standard against which to measure. What distinguishes Dom Perignon from Boone's Farm Strawberry? The Last Picture Show from Texasville? If you have to ask.... Well, Cybil Shepherd gets naked in one. |
| redeyespy (Sunny, FL) | Posted: Oct 04, 2005 - 08:52 rcurrier wrote: I really don't get this modern "all opinions are equal" crap.
Me neither. That statement suggests that there are no high standards of art, no gold standard against which to measure. What distinguishes Dom Perignon from Boone's Farm Strawberry? The Last Picture Show from Texasville? If you have to ask.... You may like a particular piece of media, but that doesn't make it "good." Your opinion and the quality of the piece may be mutually exclusive. There must be some baseline, some criteria for excellence, or that very quality would cease to exist. Who defines such a baseline for music, film, literature? Those who know the respective disciplines inside and out, backwards and forward, have a reverence and knowledge of historical works in the field, and create something which represents the discipline at its zenith. Or, the artist creates new rules, on occasion. Having a sensibility of quality also allows the artist to know when to hold back. When someone is described as having "discerning taste," I take it to mean someone who has sampled many varieties, and discovered the pinnacle of quality. One may think Dave Koz is a better saxophone player than John Coltrane. "Better," hmmmm. Perhaps one may find Koz's smooth jazz stylings easier to listen to than Coltrane's notes, but if a knowledgeable person lays the charts side by side, and then listens comparatively, the answer as to what is of a higher quality should be patently obvious. Perhaps some of my comparisons are an "apples and oranges" thing, but hopefully you get the gist. Of course, one could get into a discussion of an individual's educational level (musically and otherwise) and environment and how such influence taste but I'll just stop right there. 
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| Baby_M (a 100-year old building in downtown Akron, Ohio) | Posted: Sep 12, 2005 - 07:55 mxdcec wrote: This song could make a Republican feel cool!
Coolness is a completely nonpartisan thing. |
| bergjr | Posted: Sep 12, 2005 - 05:43 Look around for the version that Sammy Davis Jr. recorded with Issac Hayes playing and producing. Even cooler than this version |
| mxdcec | Posted: Aug 28, 2005 - 06:50 This song could make a Republican feel cool! |
| mxdcec | Posted: Aug 13, 2005 - 10:43 Did anyone ever see Sandra Bernhard and Isaac Hayes do this together?mxdcec wrote: Isaac Hayes - Theme From Shaft
Who's the black private dick That's a sex machine to all the chicks? SHAFT! Ya damn right! Who is the man that would risk his neck For his brother man? SHAFT! Can you dig it? Who's the cat that won't cop out When there's danger all about? SHAFT! Right On! They say this cat Shaft is a bad mother SHUT YOUR MOUTH! I'm talkin' 'bout Shaft. THEN WE CAN DIG IT! He's a complicated man But no one understands him but his woman JOHN SHAFT! |
| mxdcec | Posted: Aug 13, 2005 - 10:36 Isaac Hayes - Theme From Shaft Who's the black private dick That's a sex machine to all the chicks? SHAFT! Ya damn right! Who is the man that would risk his neck For his brother man? SHAFT! Can you dig it? Who's the cat that won't cop out When there's danger all about? SHAFT! Right On! They say this cat Shaft is a bad mother SHUT YOUR MOUTH! I'm talkin' 'bout Shaft. THEN WE CAN DIG IT! He's a complicated man But no one understands him but his woman JOHN SHAFT! |
| Art_Carnage (DeepintheheartofTexas) | Posted: Aug 13, 2005 - 10:25 Daaaaaaaaamn right. |
| TheLoneIguana (Central California) | Posted: Jul 29, 2005 - 14:31 Someone once made the comment to the effect of Shaft having the best intro music, and all he does at the beginning of the movie is walk around. Kinda funny, that. |
| BooKitty (My Own Private Idaho.) | Posted: Jul 29, 2005 - 14:27 Among the most forgetable movie sequels was Shaft 2. He goes to Africa. The movie tagline was "The Brother-Man in the Motherland". Can you imagine that? |
| winter (hither and yon (mostly yon)) | Posted: Jul 29, 2005 - 14:26 That is some seriously badass s**t. |
| radiomao (Phoenix, AZ) | Posted: Jul 29, 2005 - 14:25 I never liked this song, but I have to admit it sounds kind of retro-cool, now. And I appreciate the diversity on RP. |
| rascal420 (Truckee, CA - 5000 feet above Paradise) | Posted: Jul 29, 2005 - 14:25 I thought this might be the theme from "SWAT" when it started, but this is better. |
| masterhead (Sacramento, Ca) | Posted: Jul 29, 2005 - 14:25 |
| ArbiterOfGoodTaste (Seattle WA) | Posted: Jul 29, 2005 - 14:24 Shut your mouth! We can dig it! |
| kaosmonkey (West Coast) | Posted: Jul 29, 2005 - 14:23 Derecho wrote: And all I can think of is The Tick. TAFT!!! mustache... |
| rcurrier (San Juan Capistrano, CA) | Posted: Jul 14, 2005 - 19:46 ploafmaster wrote: People are entitled to their opinions.
Sure they are. But that doesn't make them any less wrong. I really don't get this modern "all opinions are equal" crap. |
| CrowCommunicationsDOTcom (Warsaw, Poland) | Posted: Jul 14, 2005 - 19:42 |
| tony99 | Posted: Jun 30, 2005 - 02:35 technoshaman wrote: And yet, that just makes it all the better for me. Exactimundo !!!! |
| Derecho (A Land Without Traffic Lights) | Posted: Jun 15, 2005 - 10:44 Pyro wrote: Ever since Isaac started playing a character in South Park (Chef), I only hear "Chef" instead of "Shaft"....
And all I can think of is The Tick. TAFT!!! |
| ploafmaster (Richmond, VA) | Posted: Jun 15, 2005 - 09:37 kestrel wrote: 
OK, today, based on the goosebumps on my arm, I bumped it to a 10! And I guess that music hater is back on RP - a ONE!? How can someone POSSIBLY EVEN CONSIDER THIS TUNE TO BE A "ONE"? SUCKO BARFO? Go listen to Clear :puke: Channel for a daily dose of "real" SUCKO BARFO! Ah, the trademarks of the over-sensitive. The insulting of somebody who doesn't agree with his/her musical tastes. The suggestion to go listen to Clear Channel... I rated this an 8, but unless you're joking in your attack, chill man. People are entitled to their opinions. |
| technoshaman (Buffalo, NY) | Posted: Jun 15, 2005 - 09:31 Pyro wrote: Ever since Isaac started playing a character in South Park (Chef), I only hear "Chef" instead of "Shaft"....
And yet, that just makes it all the better for me. |
| kestrel (In the woods...) | Posted: Jun 15, 2005 - 09:30
OK, today, based on the goosebumps on my arm, I bumped it to a 10! And I guess that music hater is back on RP - a ONE!? How can someone POSSIBLY EVEN CONSIDER THIS TUNE TO BE A "ONE"? SUCKO BARFO? Go listen to Clear :puke: Channel for a daily dose of "real" SUCKO BARFO! |
| flandersdog (the sunny Pac NW) | Posted: Jun 15, 2005 - 09:29 I love the episode of The Simpsons in which Bart and Lisa do this song at a karaoke bar! |
| dschless (Geneva, IL) | Posted: Jun 15, 2005 - 09:29 A little hot buttered soul |
| Zep (The City) | Posted: Jun 15, 2005 - 09:28 Complicated. Dig it! |