Risque

The "Good Times" go on for quite a while, but the forgettable times go on for far longer. So yeah, the opening track is a fine accessible disco track. I, however, have never been much of a disco fan and this album is not going to change that. The remainder made little to no impression on me. 2/5

Disco certainly had a time and place in music history, and like all genres, not all of it was created equally. I get that the point of disco was to lengthen the tracks for dancing purposes, have immaculate beats and flare, and generally inspire a fun atmosphere, and this album does all those things in spades. But it's also kinda boring and repetitive if you're not three drinks and a line of toot into your day. "Good Times" is the big draw here, and while it somehow never occurred to me that it clocks in at over eight minutes, I felt every one of them on this listen. The remainder is varied and peppy/funky enough to be engaging, and the remaining tracks, while less memorable, didn't overstay their welcome nearly as much as the first, an overall, the 37 minute runtime felt appropriate. It's a 3.5/5 that I'm not sure that I'd round up, but don't dread seeing their other entry on the list, either.

(3/5) This is a good example (not a great example) of final-stage disco. As usual, we have a heavily underrepresented category (disco) for the list with a moderately representative album. Chic is fine. "Good Times" is legendary and the rest -- aside from "Will You Cry" which wasn't good -- is stock standard stuff for the time. I guess I'm just disappointed, again, we get 130+ "New Wave" albums and Disco is only allowed 13 entries three of which aren't really 'Disco' albums.. The term 'Disco' CHANGED LANGUAGES. 'Discotheque' and it's variations are now almost universally recognized. Samples taken from the genre and era are ALL OVER music today. "Good Times" was sampled into one of the earliest, biggest Rap tracks ever. I'm not asking anyone to like it, but it was a global phenomena. The backlash (especially in the US) was proportionally huge when people finally tired of it but it's presence and reach are undeniable. Who in the fuck still gives two rats' asses about Dexys Midnight Runners' three albums aside from Dimery? I don't hear many samples from Heaven 17 in Hip Hop. If this were a better album, I'd bump it, but the only reason to come back is "Good Times". I'm just pissed as usual over the slant of this list. It's truly mind boggling. This and probably a few dozen more SHOULD be here to represent the genre better. We can skim off all the New Wave and Britpop curdled fat from the list to make room for them.

Risque Good Times is pretty much the perfect Chic song, a musical and thematic distillation of everything great about them; an unimpeachable (and endlessly repeated) bass line, Nile’s guitar, swirling and stabbing strings, the piano lines, the female vocals and the call to the euphoria and freedom of dancing and hedonism, although with a subtle subtext. A Warm Summer Night is a classic Chic ballad too, lush and hypnotic and a great flip side to Good Times. My Feet Keep Dancing may feel a little like Chic by numbers, but it’s still a superior disco song, with customarily excellent bass. My Forbidden Lover is a top tier Chic banger, yet another precision tooled production. I really love Can’t Stand to Love You, the bluesiness of the lead guitar and the rhythm give it a different flavour. Will You Cry isn’t as strong as A Warm Summer Night, feeling a lot like a song written to fulfil the ballad requirement between the upbeat songs, but its enjoyable enough before ending on another excellent disco production in What About Me? I gave C’est Chic 5 and there’s no reason to not give this the same, for exactly the same reasons, plus it has Good Times. 🪩🪩🪩🪩🪩 Playlist submission: Good Times

The production is great, there’s variety, the dancey songs are super danceable and the ballads aren’t boring. It’s only 7 songs long. “Good Times” is a classic. Some of the songs go on for too long in a repetitive way, but the whole thing is only about 40 minutes long, so I can’t really complain.

‘Good Times’ is obviously fantastic. The rest is mediocre. 2.5

Good times is the best bassline ever written and you can't change my mind. Some of the best musicians ever making some of the funkiest tubes you've ever heard

Good times

It is tres chic, but also tres repetitive. the album has an upbeat and classy feel too it.

Great funky grooves but it gets repetitive. Its music for dancing but not necessarily for listening.

Pre-listen thoughts: I'm not in a disco mood. In fact quite the opposite, today has been a day for aggressive, venting metal music, but we'll see how this album goes. Review: Eh, it's middle of the road and forgettable even discounting how disassociated I feel from the albums vibe. I don't have anything against disco proper, but it's apparent why most of it's best stylings got absorbed into pop, new wave and select electronic music going into the 80's; the modern person simply doesn't have the attention span for this kind of repetitive and safe music.

I’ve gotten this album previously on a different project. I expected it to be completely different from what it is. I didn’t remember this when I started it today, and just as before, I was expecting something else entirely. I realized immediately my mistake. And I now realize it’s the album cover. Unconsciously that image prepares me for a different genre. And I think I would rather hear THAT album, whatever it may have been. 3 Boolean: … null

It was a good genre album. I saved a few Songs from it.

Good disco tracks that I enjoyed more than their previous album

Good times!

Cohesion: 4.75/5 Theme & Narrative: 1/1 Sonic Identity: 1/1 Arrangement Synergy: 1/1 Genre Authenticity; 1/1 Transitions & Flow; 0.75/1 Production: 4.75/5 Clarity & Balance; 0.75/1 Vocal Delivery; 1/1 Sound Design; 1/1 Dynamic Depth; /1 Mastering; 1/1 Enjoyability: 4.07/5 Immediate Engagement; 1/1 Replay Value; 0.5/1 Emotional Resonance; 1/1 Playlist Potential; 0.57/1 Sticking Power; 1/1 Songwriting: 4.5/5 Lyrics; 0.75/1 Melody; 1/1 Structure & Contrast; /1 Hook; 1/1 Prosody & Emotional Resolution; 0.75/1 Favourite Songs: 4/7 - Good times - A warm summer night - My feet keep dancing - Can’t stand to love you Final Thoughts: - Themes of love, dance, disco, accountability - When song speaks of love it becomes slower, the groove slows down to create a warm romantic atmosphere for the listener and incorporates bits of Spanish as people sometimes find the language attractive - At times transition from one song to another can feel sudden like A warm summer night to My feet keep dancing, the ending took me by surprised as I did not expect the singer to whisper to me in Spanish after the song appeared to be finished. - My feet did indeed keep dancing - The use of repetition of the little lyrics there are in the songs creates the hook but also does not sufficiently create much of an immersion

*Risqué* by Chic is a fun album, full of fantastic musicianship, infectious rhythms and some brilliant disco music. It's the sort of record that instantly puts you in a good mood. "Good Times" is disco at its absolute best. What a tune! The bassline is simply stunning, and the combination of funk, groove and energy makes it one of the great disco records. It's impossible not to enjoy it. What surprised me most about this album was how much I enjoyed the slower songs. Tracks like "A Warm Summer Night" are lovely and provide a nice contrast to the more upbeat disco numbers. They give the album some real variety and show that Chic were capable of much more than just filling dancefloors. I enjoyed *C'est Chic* when I listened to it earlier in the challenge, but I actually think *Risqué* is the better album. It flows beautifully, there's more variety in the songwriting, and the quality remains consistently high throughout. The production is excellent too, with some wonderful bass and guitar playing. Favourite track: "Good Times". An absolute disco classic with one of the greatest basslines ever recorded. Least favourite track: Nothing really. Every song is worth a listen, and I enjoyed the album throughout. Album artwork: Cool album cover. I like it.

256. Risque - Chic (1979) 11.5.26 Variety: 2 Adequacy: 5 Listenability: 3 Uniqueness: 3 Emotionality: 2 = 3.0 "Now my name is up in lights/ And I hoof here every night/ They were right/ My brains are in my feet" Chic is a band that got a TON of play in my house for quite a while. There was one song in particular I would spin on the record player that me and my kids would go crazy and dance around the living room to ( they were young enough to be in no way self conscious)m and at just over 8 minutes it was a nice bit of cardio. It became a favorite, and the positive associations of a pure fun I have with it will stay with me forever. And that song was... not "Good Times". It was "Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah)" off their self-titled debut. It's amazing guys, seriously - go listen to it now. The album is great as well, and I think has suffered in comparison to the fact that the next two were light years ahead in production quality and they had a pair of giant, international megahits on them. That first one though I think is underrated and is at least AS influential to dance and disco music as "Good Times" itself is to Hip Hop and dance. But, unfortunately we're not here to discuss the debut ( it's not even on the list!) and instead we're going right for the last one in line chronologically on the list. The one that DOES have "Good Times". We'll get more into it below, but who has not heard this one a zillion times? I think as solid as the album is overall, it's reputation is largely dependent on this one song, and the rest can seem like a bit of a let down. Especially if you are not expecting the slower, sexy-times songs. I much prefer that debut to either of the other two on here, though I would not kick them out of bed as the saying goes. This should be pleasant enough though. THE TRACKS Side one "Good Times" - One of the most sampled songs in history, and a piece of bedrock in the early days of Hip Hop, this one has gone on to be the basis of Sugar Hill Gang's "Rapper's Delight", Daft Punk's "Around the World", and countless other Hip Hop and dance tracks, and was a primary inspiration for Queen's "Another One Bites the Dust" as well as Blondie's "Rapture" which would go on to influence quite a few people as well ( despite the protestations of one Robert Van Winkle). It's very obviously the main reason for this album's inclusion on the list, and rightfully so. In fact, this album is SO weighted in favor of this song that even the very good stuff on the rest of it pales in comparison. It's titanic, and the waves of it I think are still pulsing outward through time. Is here a more iconic bass line in the history of popular music? Some would argue "Billie Jean" by Michael Jackson, "The Chain" by Fleetwood Mac, "Roundabout" by Yes, or maybe even "Under Pressure" by Queen ( heavily inspired by this song though) and those would all be great choices. This is the one for me though I think. It's SO prevalent and such a large part of the track that everything else becomes secondary, even the also iconic chorus with its impeccable vocals and possibly THE best hand claps on record. Bernard Edwards deserves a Presidential Medal of Freedom for this contribution. The song itself is a dance/ funk masterpiece. I think the disco label gets thrown around pretty liberally around this time, and still has negative connotations. All it really is though is just a lusher, poppier form of funk, with a four on the floor beat. I think people automatically go to "Stayin' Alive" and ignore stuff like this. But it's all good. One of the greats, that has somehow not been ruined for me by the countless parties, weddings, needle drops in terrible movies. ---Sampled in: https://www.whosampled.com/Chic/Good-Times/sampled/ "A Warm Summer Night" - This one is smooth as hell bit of bedroom music with a touch of Lati flavor that has also been sampled a ton. The playing, arrangement, and vocals are impeccable ( Rodgers does not deal in half measures), and it's got a super chill vibe with all the repeated elements coalescing into a sound that does a stellar job of representing exactly what is advertised in that title. I can almost feel the warm breeze blowing through the curtains. Can you dance to it? Maybe. Sure. But I think it's meant for some other sort of activity. ---Sampled in: https://www.whosampled.com/Chic/A-Warm-Summer-Night/sampled/ "My Feet Keep Dancing" - We get back to the main subject on this one, but with more of a midtempo approach. As good as the song is, it feels a bit restrained and classy, and a touch sad for a song about dancing. But that hardly matters with how catchy it is. You can dance when you're sad. No one says you can't. And that tap dancing break in the middle. Holy shit, that was ballsy. ---Sampled in: https://www.whosampled.com/Chic/My-Feet-Keep-Dancing/sampled/ Side two "My Forbidden Lover" - Another midtempo number but it has more energy and a bigger sense of drama about it. It's a testament how easy these all go down given the song length and the repetition. I can see people who are not already primed for the genre getting bored, but I find it all super relaxing. It helps that the melodic hooks in this one are pretty killer. Daft Punk must have had this album burned into their brains. Sampled in: https://www.whosampled.com/Chic/My-Forbidden-Lover/sampled/ "Can't Stand to Love You" - A much more straight ahead funk song, it feels almost out of step with everything that's come before. It's a big rubber band of a song, twangy and with some naaaaasty bass work, and nice electric organ, but it's not what I come to Chic for, and it had me feeling a tad bit of that boredom that I mentioned previously. Smartly though, it's the shortest track on the album.. "Will You Cry (When You Hear This Song)" - oof. This one is easlity the worst track so far. It's got a glacial pace, a too maudlin ( if well performed) vocal, and at 4:06 is felt three times as long. I did cry on the inside when I heard this song. Does that count? Sampled in: https://www.whosampled.com/Chic/Will-You-Cry-(When-You-Hear-This-Song)/sampled/ "What About Me?" - Thankfully we end on a bright note, with a very funky little number that's got a very upbeat feel despite detailing a very one-sided and seemingly soon to die relationship. As a "woe is me" track it's a bit of a headnodder. As with every track the playing is superb. Shoutout to the person playing what sounds like a clavichord ( assume it's a keyborad setting), which is responsible for about 80% of the funkiness. HIGHLIGHTS - "Good Times" - "A Warm Summer Night" - "My Feet Keep Dancing" - "My Forbidden Lover" - "What About Me?" MIDLIGHTS - "Can't Stand to Love You" LOWLIGHTS - "Will You Cry (When You Hear This Song)" FINAL THOUGHTS Chic remains a great act, but I think overall they are a greatest hits band for me. There's a lot to like on this one, but it's weighed down by several factors. The one stinker of a track, along with the not amazing middling one, pulls side two down way lower in the equation, and when you're working with so few tracks, no matter how long the good ones are, it feels like the misfires take up a lot of real estate. "Good Times" alone counts for most of the goodwill I have towards this album, and the band in particular, but it's maybe the only track anyone really needs to hear off of this. The great production, note perfect and soulful playing, and the top tier vocals raise it up in my estimation a bit as well, though I do wish it were a happier record. We've got one more Chic album on here, and I think I might like it better than this one, but in my opinion if you're going to have those two, you need the third. Or at very least, the first and the last if influence if the main metric the list makers are going for. This still did not feel like a chore in anyway, and I'm glad to give it a pass. Possible turn-Offs might include: - a too polished, immaculate production sound - some real downbeat vibes for a band that excels at the upbeat - some extreme top heaviness You Might enjoy this if you: - dig some real funk chops in your dance music - are a fan of great playing - Rodgers and company are the tippiest top of tip top in that regard - want something chill and easy that won't take too much of your time PLAYLIST ALTERATIONS - Just the highlights please ( and then REALLY just "Good Times", but those others can come long for the ride fi there's room FURTHER LISTENING Precursors: - Look-Ka Py Py by The Meters - The Payback by James Brown - Rags to Rufus by Rufus - Fresh by Sly and the Family Stone - For Your Pleasure by Roxy Music - Rhapsody in White by The Love Unlimited Orchestra - Wild and Peaceful by Kool & The Gang - Funkentelechy vs. the Placebo Syndrome by Parliament - Breezin' by George Benson Contemporaries: - All 'n All by Earth, Wind & Fire - Sunlight by Herbie Hancock - Off the Wall by Michael Jackson - Prince by Prince - Bad Girls by Donna Summer - We Are Family by Sister Sledge - Norma Jean by Norma Jean Wright - Twice as Sweet by A Taste of Honey - Winner Takes All by Isley Brothers Descendants: - The Sugarhill Gang by The Sugarhill Gang - The Game by Queen - Autoamerican by Blondie - Diana by Diana Ross - Rio by Duran Duran - Pelican West by Haircut One Hundred - Thriller by Michael Jackson - The Queen Is Dead by The Smiths - Homework by Daft Punk - Justified by Justin Timberlake - Random Access Memories by Daft Punk

album carried by one song. too repetitive and almost all the tracks could be like a minute shorter

Not very risque tbh

Chic part two, the chicqueal.... It's weird to listen to some of these songs again that are so overplayed that they barely feel like songs to me anymore, somehow I never fully realized "good times" is a song that exists in the context of genre and history and isn't just something that emerged from the ether or perhaps heaven to grace phone commercials and elementary school field days. It's obviously a fantastic song but I also have heard it so many times that I kind of just felt myself waiting for it to end, I think I've hit my max listenings on that one In the context of the larger album, nothing really glitters like good times does but there are some lovely hits, the vocals especially on Will You Cry are heavenly Likelihood that the members of this band lezzed out IMO: 4/5 it was disco, it feels pretty likely to me

short n sweet, with cest chic on the list i don't really think this needs to be on here but hey how about those basslines , disco forever party baby yeah

HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM. ovaj album već sam preslušao, samo što je imao svjetliji omot i zvao se »c'est chic«... šalu na stranu (no u svakoj šali pola istine, a u ovoj negdje devet desetina), bezvezno, repetitivno, dosadno, naporno. trideset pet minuta a kao da traje trista godina. jedan hit (»good times«), ali u originalnoj, neskraćenoj inačici od OSAM minuta. da odmah kažem: nije problem što pjesma traje osam minuta, problem je što si nakon dvije već dozlaboga isprazne minute praktički čuo sve, i onda još triput slušaš te iste dvije minute. a cijeli album ne samo da je manje-više isti kurac nego zvuči gotovo isto kao i prethodni. zašto su oba na popisu, zašto ne, ako se već mora predstaviti chic (a iskreno mislim da ne mora), samo jedan? tako npr. imaju ramonsi, kojima su isto sve pjesme i svi albumi gotovo pa na istu foru. sve u svemu eh [odslušao i napisao 3/11/26]

Not really into this but i guess it has its place.

Wasn't the best but still a vibe

Chill vibes, good album

Classic!

It's funny how I love disco's impact on modern pop music, but I kind of loathe disco music proper. It just feels like the same song over and over and over and over and over again. "Good Times" is probably the Platonic ideal of a disco song and there was admittedly *some* variation throughout.

Classic disco record, all great stuff on here. First three songs are absolutely outstanding, the second half isn't as memorable but still very good. Very fun.

Rubbish

Listened

One of the many, many sounds of 1979, it's as smooth and cultured as you'd expect from Nile and Bernard, but there's also an edge to it which lifts it above the ocean of disco which was somewhere on the edge of my consciousness at the time. Another for the 3.5 score, I'm moving to 4 because it's impossible not to like, and really did mean something more than just a dance beat at the time, even if I wasn't the one dancing to it.

Some songs were too long but as in everything disco the bass is nice. Favorite Songs: Good Times

A genre that never fails to make my head bop

Good stuff

Діско значить) Діско-діско)))

Not as good as I hoped :(

Having heard one of their albums already, I was not as surprised. It was good kinda soulful and disco but not obnoxious

I wasn't expecting to like this at all beyond "Good Times", which was the only song I was familiar with. More often than not with these sorts of albums, I find you have a banger hit or two and the rest is lift music-esque, but I was pleasantly surprised to find that wasn't the case here, even if there are a handful of tracks which are clearly a cut above. The rhythm section throughout is really good and consistently engaging, finding just the right balance of groove, tension and release, meaning that even some of the lesser tracks on here are able to get your foot tapping. The production is also noteworthy here – a bit on the clinical side perhaps, but there's no excess and there's also an understanding that the space left between notes is almost as, if not equally important to the notes that you actually play.

Fun but is a lot of disco in one go for me

Funk my disco up

Yessss

3.5

The fire song “Good Times” is a good single driven by its amazing Bass line and nice wah wah Guitar in the back “A Warm Summer Night” is mellow slowish song that just washes over you. Really like this song Now a lot of the songs are on the longer side but it makes you get stuck in their grooves and with it being only 37 mins overall the albums on shorter side. Either keep some of these longer or shorten them and add couple more tracks. Think for this type of music sometimes Longer tracks work more times than not. “My Feet Keep Dancing” isn’t one of those times , for me. After two long songs it might of been time to go with a shorter track and move this one down the track list Think overall the tracks could use a little More variety. I love the groove based as said above but most songs start one way and keep To that sound through whole run time. Few bridges could of helped make these songs more fleshed out High 3.5/5 (Close to 4 but not there) I’ll round up anyways , cause it doesn’t over stay its welcome

Album #312 Chic: Risque Repetitive choruses, constant rhythmic loops, an emphasis on style over substance- all criticisms that I level against every 90s electronic/dance/rave/house album this list throws at me: yet all descriptors could also be aptly pointed towards this disco release by Chic. Yet, guess what? This album is actually good! Dance music was already great in the 70s with disco, and the combination of dance and electronic was perfected by the Pet Shop Boys in the late 80s with Introspective; everything after that was a mere overindulgence into noise. Sure, this music may be a little too sincere, but if you’re willing to just let it take over you, this is nothing but non-stop grooves. A really enjoyable listen from a band which I wasn’t familiar with, and further proof to me that I need to listen to more disco. Best Songs: Good Times, My Feet Keep Dancing, Will You Cry Worst Song: Can’t Stand to Love You Score out of 10: 7.5

Cool

I even know one of these :)

Other than Good Times, (which is too long) This is too long, too repetitive & too polished. A bit too poppy, although it is very danceable & fun, just too long. 2

Starts off fantastically with Good Times, after that I found it a bit same-y but enjoyed the final two tracks more and Bernard Edwards' basslines are always on point. Just read up that his final concert with Chic which took place at the Budokan in Tokyo was released as a live album, which seems kind of morbid when you learn he fell ill before the concert but refused to cancel the gig.

Groovy, the good side of disco.

пойдет..

Helt OK voksenpop

Love this currently, fav “A warm summer night”

I have nothing against disco but this was too repetitive and sappy for me

Of course I remember Good Times. I grew up on that track. I was less familiar with the rest of the record. I like it. It’s the definitive disco sound with a mix of upbeat dance and slow jam tracks. I grew up in the “disco sucks” era and, later in life, I have come to see the inherent racism and homophobia in that attitude. I think this was a pretty consequential record and I enjoyed it so I am grading generously.

Yet another group I know about, but haven't listened to. Good Times is great, super classic. Will You Cry is amazingly terrible. Everything else is in between, mainly good, fun songs. Good album. Not great, but pretty dang good.

what can I say about an album that hypes roller skates??!! woohoo! they songs do go on forever though so that's not great.

I guess I expected to like this more. I got bored during all the slow songs, and there were more of those than I thought there would be. I had never heard "What About Me" before now and I liked that one a lot. "Good Times" is so overplayed that it was good to find a new-to-me Chic track I can listen to without feeling bored.

Very pleasant listening.

They can write so of the most fun, energetic and groovy tracks and then it goes on and on and on and it's the same sound until all of the fun, energy and groove is beaten out of it

I dig this. Consider this album dug. Not particularly risqué or unique, though.

"Good Times" is a great song, but maybe the album version is a little long, as the groove really doesn't go a lot of places after about the 5 minute mark. Unfortunately, the rest of the album doesn't go anywhere, either. I found this incredibly dull and repetitive. Disappointing.

Groovy and chill perfect for relaxing or studying

A few summers ago, I was driving to play tennis with my now wife. We were on a backroad I had driven dozens of times without incident. Good Times by Chic played as I drove along. Out of nowhere, a deer jumps over the guardrail and goes flying off my front bumper as I slam on the brakes. The smell of burnt rubber was in the air as I pulled over to assess the damage. A small dent in the hood of my 2003 Toyota Corolla, purely cosmetic. Far from a Good Time, but one I'll always remember when I think of this album.

7

My somewhat hot take maybe is this album is way better when it's songs aren't an eternity long. Some really cellist tunes in the back half.

like the previous Chic album, this one features a very r&b centric style of disco. it doesn't quite live up to C'est Chic, but Good Times is a classic disco hit and My Forbidden Lover is another good track too. deserves to be one of the 1001? the disco choices for this list are weird. i think i would cut this if i could be certain it’d be replaced with a contemporaneous Donna Summer album. C’est Chic deserves its spot though

Dancing through the transition between Disco and Yacht Rock with a splash of funk.

Disco is nice and all, but it's meant to be played on a dance floor and not just in one sit down session. I can tap my feet to it but I also have to deal with the excessive repetition on every song

Mjög þétt og gott diskó og Nile og fjölskyldu. Gat alveg vel leyft þessu að rúlla nokkra tíma þar til haustlægðin og grámyglan tók yfir. Þetta er meira svona vor og sumar, eða haust með bjór.

Gott diskó og góður hljóðfæraleikur. Nile Rodgers er snillingur.

so enjoyable i listened to it again because i couldn't believe it was so short Would I listen again: clearly Deserves to be on this list: yes, good soul 4.6

Chic is always fun. Though this time around the disco couldn't keep my full attention for the whole thing

46

Listening to great albums by the likes of CHIC are what keeps me slogging through the infinite brit-pop swampiness of this list.

It's nuts how many times I thought I knew where a little riff/sample/whatever came from only to hear it somewhere else and realize that I was wrong. Now I have to look up this bass line in Good Times that I know as the bass line in Rapper's Delight. I guess I should have guessed that when it was used in Rapper's Delight it was borrowed. Anyway, it's an unstoppable little bass line, and for that alone this album earns at least three stars. Unfortunately, the rest of the album didn't do much for me. "Will You Cry (When You Hear This Song)" is intolerable.

While it seems weird to describe a dance-music album as laborious, Risqué felt that way to me. It's all a comedown after "Good Times," and the dropoff is steep into "A Warm Summer Night." Chic did their thing well—it's just that thing gets repetitious for me quickly.

We all need some CHIC in our life

Nice Disco beat. Never gets old

Pretty fun, seemed like pretty straightforward and across the plate disco. I enjoy it but it's not like, one of my main things.

To me, this feels like the quintessential disco album.

Gut zu hören, "Good Times" ist ein bekannter Hit. 4/5

Lots of relationships here...and not many of them cheerful. Disco at the end. It was ok but not one I would rush back to listen to.

Essential disco and foundational to hip hop. Kept waiting for Grandmaster Flash to show up on Good Times. Some parts sag a little bit for me, but overall you could do much worse.

A couple of all-time classics in Good Times and My Forbidden Lover, a couple of nice new finds in A Warm Summer Night and My Feet Keep Dancing and a few fillers. Good stuff though. Heard it before? ❌ Listen again? ✅ Rating out of ten? 7️⃣

One memorable song. The rest was fine.

I absolutely love this photo!! But I wouldn't have known that it was a disco album. This was pretty good. It was kinda short though. But I'm giving it 3 stars.

Didn't know the bassline from Another One Bites The Dust came from this band. It's from the song Good Times, and for me that was the only stand out. Great energy though

Disco shall never die

Another solid outing by CHIC.

Fairly forgettable outside of the opener

This album has good songs. Songs that are too long, but with a proper *editor* they can be great songs. I understand the long songs for the dance floor. But sometimes, while driving in a car say, people want to hear the word "dancin'" 200-800 less times.

Good Times indeed, great Chic grooves

Disco gets a lot of grief, but many of those bands were quite talented honestly. Chic and EW&F are proof positive. So this is a worthy representative of the genre for sure. I'll give it a 3 personally as I'm not likely to ever listen to it again.

Pure disco of the late 70s. Album was decent but nothing spectacular beyond the lead track Good Times, which has been sampled more than a cheese tray at a wine bar. The rest of the album is average and most will not even recognize it. I was generous and gave it 3 stars mostly because Good Times deserves it on it's own.

Good loved finding out where the sugarhill gang got one of the most iconic samples from and this was just a nice little album of r and b

I find it easy to be tempted into thinking of Chic as a sort of less-honed test bed and pitch deck for its two creative forces, Bernie Edwards and Nile Rodgers, to show their skills and sell themselves to go work elsewhere on more locked down acts (largely because I love Diana and their contributions there are obviously incredible). But then you listen to a Chic album and that kinda has to be washed aside by obvious truth, which is they were still bringing that absolute heat to their own work. A Warm Summer Night is a bit of a ballad lull (I accept you need the slow dance tracks), but otherwise, it’s just kind of heater after heater, absolutely throw your day out because you can’t stop grooving along type shit. Deservedly influential.

Boring and not danceable at all

LOVE IT

hell ye that behsss