Risque

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

Not very risque tbh

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

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

Infectious rhythm and basslines just the lyrics that are a bit too silly.

708/1001 2026.09.23 🌕🌕🌑🌑🌑

2.5, no es lo que mas me gusta escuchar, pero estuvo bienn. debo admitir que no le preste la mayor de las atenciones

01) Good Times - 10,0 02) A Warm Summer Night - 7,5 03) My Feet Keep Dancing - 7,5 04) My Forbidden Lover - 8,5 05) Can't Stand to Love You - 7,5 06) Will You Cry (When You Hear This Song) - 7,5 07) What About Me? - 8,0 TOTAL: 8,07 (81/100) Current ranking: 269/1044

Geil

Confirms my belief that the best of any genre is pretty good.

It's always hard when an album starts with its best track, but this album is still a fun and groovy ride from start to finish. There's just something about it that makes it hard not to enjoy. If you can't enjoy this album, maybe you should stop taking yourself so seriously. Enjoy life a little bit.

I'm not a huge Disco guy but this was enjoyable

3.9 it was good

damn the best in too long

Great opening track

I don't think I understand disco. Why are the songs so long??? These songs would be fine if they were shorter. I knew Good Times, but why is it 8 minutes long?? They repeat the same words over and over. These songs are so repetitive.

Fantastic album. So soulful and funky. Realized the first track, Good Times, was the sampled for the Sugar Hill Gang's hit. Also loved A Warm Summer Night, and My Forbidden Lover.

Listened before?: only Good Times Good Times - 5/5 A Warm Summer Night - 3/5 My Feet Keep Dancing - 3/5 My Forbidden Lover - 4/5 Can't Stand to Love You - 3/5 Will You Cry (When You Hear This Song) - 4/5 What About Me - 3/5 Average score: 3.6/5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️ it's not as good as C'est Chic, but i didn't hate it either. it's about what i expected it was gonna be; one or two good tracks with a handful of filler spread out through the album i can't find it in me to complain too much though. the album's only 7 tracks long and about 30-ish minutes of runtime. while i wasn't blown away by most of the tracks, they were also pretty inoffensive to my ears. i'd easily let this play in the background or something

First listen (aside from Good Times). The bass and rhythm guitar are fantastic, I could leave the rest. Still, there are some bops.

It must be hard to play these songs for the bands kids. Each song has like 5 lyrics.

"Good times" is so good.

it's chic tho, isn't it? damn they're groovy. not sure if it's their best, or if they have more albums on the list, but cannot but give them 5 for this

Too much disco and not enough funk. Vocals aren't very interesting and way too repetitive. There are 2 songs I will add to a dance playlist but the rest is pretty bland.

Razor sharp