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Bernard Edwards and Nile Rogers, whats not to like? Chock a block of great bass grooves.
I like Motown, hits this Michiganer just right
Loved it
It's just very very good 😵 a bass players dream
Smooth listening. Very chilled vibe.
Certified classic
Disco-tastic classic!
This stuff is like the Disco Template. Flawless execution. We make fun of Disco still but this sound penetrated pop music deeply at every level.
Indeed
We know what we're getting from this. Yeh, Good Times!
As they say, I had “Good Times”.
literalmente el advenimiento de los 80
Would like to give a 3.5; Iconic for the amount of times it's been sampled. You can also hear a lot of influence that it must have had on current R&B artists. However, too much of the same guitar accents between Good Times and My Forbidden Lover for my taste of a great album.
Hot damn but that funky bass will get you movin'. I got into a disco groove a few years back, but this was the first time I listened to an entire disco album. In short, I dug it. Killer musicians, of course: The interplay between Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards is thrilling. Great arrangements, too. The songwriting is slight, perhaps, but that never really bothered me as the grooves were too much fun. Overall, it's probably more of a 3-star album, in terms of how much replay value this has for me, but I'm giving it an extra star just because the bass on Good Times is one of the greatest things ever and also how influential that song was. Plus, I dig that album cover.
This was a good one, love the older funk, would be fun to play on bass
Setentero disco.
Disco is dead but I'm not! My feet keep dancing! Dancing, Dancing! To be honest, the songs get a little repetitive so I'll say 3.8/5
Really enjoyed this, of course song like good times are great but there's also some new songs to me really enjoyed, sadder than I expected to, 4 stars
An album where the first song (and single) is worlds better than anything else that comes later. This was a fun dance/disco album and I can see why Daft Punk remade this sound on "Get Lucky". The production was really great, with great grooves to keep you dancing, but the slow songs did feel jarring given how the album begins. "Good Times" is fun, and while long did not feel obnoxious to me. I can tell why that song is still played on dance floors everywhere. Overall thought I was not moved by this album and did not find it exceptional. I'd give this a 3.5 if possible.
Me copó los temas largos
7.5/10 F.t.: Good times. That baseline, man, that baseline.
Fun disco album.
I really liked this! Funky, danceable, can keep working while listening to it. Really really good!
So great, Nile and Bernard are legends and all the players are top notch. The strings are iconic. 4.5 cause I don’t love the ballads and I think there are better chic records
I really enjoyed listening to this and disco is so fun to dance to. Negative points for not knowing when to end a song.
Can definitely hear how this influenced future music. Also just super fun and high energy by itself.
A feel good album full of enjoyable songs
Godt, men sange føles lidt for lange og udtrukne
Very cool. It usually into disco, but this album kind of ruled. Plus, the bass line and slapping ham-bone on My Feet Keep Dancing; hell yeah!
I knew the hits but not the sequence, so listening in full helped me to appreciate the sound here. It’s a damn fine dance album and keeps the groove going like nobody’s business. Not necessarily my thing, but worth celebrating. B
Opening cut track just slays, one of a funky decade's funkiest drops, and somehow restrained too (from whence its unique power perhaps emanates). It’s a groove so good they redo it on the closer (the height of forgivability, that choice is). Vocals don't seem 100% required on several tracks. There’s almost a baroque effect here (baroque in the best sense) with the world-historical steady and to-die-for basslines, the spicy, intercutting strings, the just slightly more-upbeat-than-languid tempos and the ample space for grooves to open, expand, ripen. And all so much chiller than one might expect, too. One finds this much more refined than in any way risque.
so slick and tight
Slapper. Disco rules
Bosss
sonzao massa
very chiicc🤭 but seriously fun to listen to on a drive, am still listening🤣
It's got the Good Times song and then some older love songs. Not bad overall, good jams.
Solid disco album
Very funky. Would definitely add this one to my permanent rotation.
Good Times is a classic, but Can't Stand to Love You is also a banger. Bernard Edwards is an amazing bass player.
3.5 stars. I’m glad I listened, but not a record for me
Classy
disco-y pop goodness ft. a truly legendary opener. hilariously sample-able album
Solid album. Good times is a classic but the rest was new territory. Pleasantly surprised by the sleek RnB and disco-esque blend. Would recommend.
Apparently I just have a soft spot for 70's disco/funk
Classic disco!
Good album, still think that the songs could use more changes for the song length.
While the rest of the album is OK as far as disco goes (not exceedingly far), the impact of Good Times cannot be overstated. Also, Nile Rodgers is a verifiable music production deity.
It's 1979 and CHIC is here to show people disco isn't dead yet. My two favorite tracks are the first two for completely different reasons. The only thing they have in common is how they manage to make 6+ minute repetition sound amazing every second of it. "Good Times" is one of the most famous disco songs of all times and is just a great club track to have in the background, especially during the instrumental. "A Warm Summer Night" is a personal favorite of mine, reminds me of vaporwave: soulful, calming, and mesmerizing. Next are two more great disco tracks to sing along and dance to. What makes this album stand out from all the marketed trash of the disco era is the masterful combination of the arrangements of the CHIC Strings, the New Wave-esque synths (although often soulful), and the cool, punchy, chamber-like harmonic vocals. Despite a million sounds going on at the same time, you can make out everything, from the simple yet fun drums, foundational bass, and the distinctive funky guitar you can immediately recognize as disco. There's even some brass. The last three tracks are weaker, but I still really enjoyed them. "Will You Cry" is just as mesmerizing, especially with Alfa's ghastly melodic singing. The closer "What About Me" felt generic by CHIC standards, did not contribute too much, and ended the album anti-climatically. I personally don't mind the lengths. It's already a fairly short album at 36 minutes, so that gives me time to appreciate each of the 7 tracks.
Oh damn already with "Good Times". I'm into this disco. "A Warm Summer Night" is the right kind of slow sexy. The harmonies in this song is so good.
Happy and catchy songs from the disco era that represents a lot of the 70's. I know the songs are repetitive, but it's a characteristic of disco music and it works, especially in a dance club. Overall a good album. Favorite tracks: Good times, My Feet Keep Dancing
The first track alone deserves a 4*. It was great and of our time completely. The other tracks weren’t quite to the same standard but nevertheless !
Very funky, makes you want to dance! -1 star for the sheer length of some of these songs and the fact that they are overly repetitive. Favourites: Good Times (if it was 4 minutes shorter), My Forbidden Lover.
3.5/5. Very disco. Very groovy. The opening track, Good Times, was my favorite here. The album was good, it was just a little stale, and didn't blow my mind.
Actually slaps.
Great dance album for the time. Really held the beat even with very different songs at times. Really beautiful vocals as well with harmonies that fit right into the era.
smooth!
I mean, thanks for the sample. And for the rest of the great songs. This record sounds INCREDIBLE! Perfect production. But, when you come out of the gates with "Good Times," where do you go from there? There are worse answers to that question than "six other totally solid songs that will have you swaying and shaking your white suburban ass, what the fuck else do you want from me? Oh, a sample for one of the most iconic hip hop songs ever? Ok. Boom."
Nice
Very relaxing
This is actually really underrated. Super catchy with "Good Times" being the obvious mega hit but all others are great too. Maybe the easiest album to listen to, 300+ albums into this. 8/10.
Great album & group!!! Loved the songs!!
Great kick off to the week. Good times is a classic. And while I have never heard the rest of these songs, I felt like I had to some degree. I'm sure they were on radios at some point. Every song was really catch and could easily be danced too. This also might be our first Disco album?? Either way this was a great album.
Classic record! "Good Times" is the most infamous sample in hip hop history, the one that started it all for "Rapper's Delight." Other great songs on here too that would lend well to samples, if they haven't already. I thought the structure was really interesting, only seven tracks and the first three front-loaded the runtime. A great experience. Favorite tracks: Good Times, Warm Summer Night, My Forbidden Lover. Album art: Is this the band? Looks like an old timey saloon where a shootout is about to occur. Pretty cool shot, don't love the black and white. 4/5
Very good listen. I love the disco vibes, and I think it's a fitting album for when you want to relax and just dance. I liked the first half better, but the second one is also strong. Favourite track: Good Times.
Good times
I really wish someone had had a quiet word with Nile Rodgers and told him to swerve the ballads and stick with the disco bangers. I guess he was keen to show his range, because he really does have range, but if you can write Good Times, We Are Family, Le Freak, Upside Down et al, just do more of that. This is a 5 star all day long if you exclude A Warm Summer Night and Will You Cry. Shame.
Lot of songs one here just as good as Good Time, but you can see why that was the hit. Not bad.
This is funky fun and uplifting. The bass throughout is so good. Stand out tracks - Good Times - My Forbidden Lover 4/5
Disco
I am not familiar with CHIC and their third album RISQUÉ. As a punk / post-punk listener, I remember distinctly there being an anti-disco vibe in the late 70’s here in America, so this will be my first disco album that I’ve listened to. After listening to RISQUÉ, this album is decent. First, surprised that how much “Good Times” influenced QUEEN’s “Another One Bites The Dust”. Also surprised that the songs started out on the longish running time. In 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die, with CHIC - RISQUÉ, there is one previous album listed: C’EST CHIC (1978) Rate Artist: CHIC (3.0) Rate Album (Year): RISQUÉ (US 1979 Original) (4.0) Ranking of CHIC - RISQUÉ songs No. Title Length 1. "Good Times" 8:08 08.5/10 2. "A Warm Summer Night" 6:10 07.5/10 3. "My Feet Keep Dancing" 6:38 08.5/10 4. "My Forbidden Lover" 4:39 08.5/10 5. "Can't Stand to Love You" 2:56 07.0/10 6. "Will You Cry (When You Hear This Song)" 4:06 07.0/10 7. "What About Me?" 4:09 08.0/10 US 1979 Original Release 55.0/70 = 7.86 / 2 = 3.93
Second Chic album to come up.The first album had one great song and a lot of filler. This album also has one great song but the rest of the album is pretty good too
Superb smooth and funky disco. I think it is better than it’s predecessor, C’est Chic due to the comprehensive and mature quality of all tracks - no filler here although there is still the repetition of refrains that keep Chic songs in clubs. Excellent.
Listened Before? P Well, THIS was a surprise. I loved this album. Solid funk/disco stuff from the 70s. Awesome! Pros: Groovy, catchy, danceable songs beginning to end. Not too long! Cons: Not many. Maybe the individual length of some of the songs, but for the big hit on the record: Good Times, I know for a fact a radio edit exists. Added to Library? Y Songs Added to Playlist: Good Times,
Good Times, enough said.
Excellent. Such musicianship and sophistication. Loved it.
Party time!
I really liked this, I hadn't heard of the band but I had heard many of these songs.
Great band, but every song sounds like something else. Still enjoyable though
Pretty solid record, I'm not a huge disco fan but I can appreciate the musicality and just making some groovin' tunes. Was definitely bobbing my head along.
Love the bass lines
Ah yeah - we got the funk. Get ready for some interpolation. Super interesting to me how *long* funk songs are - very similar to jazz in the sense that the musicians just get 'in the groove' and get after it.
Disco når det er bedst, sprøde baslinjer, stryger, groovy, funky
The best band of the disco era hands down.
Disko
Звук напоминает диско.
Groovy
Solid disco hits
Enjoyable, very early disco vibes
A fun fusion of disco/r&b/soul that doesn't over stay its welcome and has aged fairly well
Awesome
Classy disco, Rodgers and Edward create brilliant compositions with that unique Chic sound - intricate bass parts and that double recorded funk guitar let’s you know this is a quality record from the Chic organisation.
A much better album than I'd imagined. More cohesive, less single-driven. Great.
Aawwwwwwwwwww sheeeeeeeeeit. Yeah, that opening on Good Times. This album is great. The bass playing alone on this album makes me want to listen to it.
Good Times is a great song, a classic! But is it enough to raise this album to Must listen status? The 2nd song...A Warm Summer Night is a boring, formulaic sounding balad that just lies there for me. 3rd song My Feet Keep Dancing; Meh! Too long, not a great hook. I won't bore with a song by song analysis. I will say that Will You Cry (When You Hear This Song) is a very good song breaking forom the disco formula very successfully. All in all a good album from the era with one absolutely classic tune. 3.75 stars
Un excellent album. Je vais d'ailleurs très prochainement apprendre la ligne de basse du morceau Good Times et la jouer dans une story Instagram sur mon compte @robnucléaire.
Straight up disco-funk. It's peppy and absolutely resonates with the time in history it's from. I like it.
Good Times is a multi-generational party anthem. The bass and guitar are timeless and have been sampled by many over the last 4 decades. I was half-expecting the other tracks to be filler, but I found most (5/7) of them catchy and danceable, especially Forbidden Lover. And Spotify kindly sent me to Dimitri from Paris remixes of Chic afterward. What a bonus!
C'est fantastique
Absolute class… derided a bit in its day, but this has proved to be an absolute disco funk classic!
Very talented musicians and singers. But after 8 minutes of good times, I didn't need to listen to the rest.
Setentero disco.
July 23, 2021 Enjoyed this, although I have to admit it kind of turned into background music and I didn't notice when the album ended and autoplayed something else. But it's funky!
Chic. Say no more !!!! Good Times !!
It’s boppy and I like it.
Luscious late ‘70s funk/R&B. Borders on disco (shudder), but that bass is oh so nice. Remember the name Bernard Edwards!
essential. somewhat repetitive but very influential
-"Good Times" was good. Also the bass in the bridge sounded like Uptown Funk -Quite a few catchy tracks, an overall solid disco album
it was great nothing I've ever really heard before
Classic music for classic times
Groovy classic! Música de festa de casamento!
Disco guitar fun, will be revisiting
God, disco is the best, but every track is so goddamn long without really introducing new stuff
This clearly inspired Daft Punk and the likes. Great upbeat disco, bouncy bass lines, funky guitar riffs.
Bisher nie mit beschäftigt aber viele Wiedererkennungs-Lieder und tolle Songs insgesamt! Weiss jetzt wer Chic ist!
Detailed and beautifully crafted dance music. It got kinda boring after the second half though, I think it was not supposed to be an album rather than a collection of Dance songs. Another interesting fact was this album was released in the same year which "Disco Demolition Night" happened.
Immediately recognized Good Times but did not know the band that made that great song. Now I do!
When this record flies, it soars! Even for "Good Times" alone, it deserves a place on this list. But I also can't help but feel like tracks like "A Warm Summer Night" fall too easily into this kind of soft radio disco mode that just hasn't aged all that well. Rating 3.5/5 Favourite Tracks: Good Times, My Forbidden Lover, My Feet Keep Dancing, Best
Good album. The whole sound top to bottom is pretty consistent, and a really strong introduction with Good Times. Some of the tracks drag on a little, no doubt because of the dance floor audience, but a very listenable album.
Very decent album songs are kind of samey but theres some classics on there
Nice soft disco
It feels goooooood. Unique sound that seems more substantial than other disco. Deep grooves. Attitude. White guy dancing at my standing desk. Sustained songs - they're not rushing anything. I thought A Warm Summer Night felt repetitive but I think that's exactly the point - it repeats the same romantic pattern like the evenings it describes. My Feet Keep Dancing is six minutes of joy, chimes, and incredible bass. The songs are long and the album is short. I love it. A-
VERY short and very sweet, it’s saccharine, molasses thick. This album is vibes central and the vibes are good. It starts out with one of the most memorable bass lines ever and the vibes keep coming. I had an epiphany while listening: this is proto hip hop, all the songs stay on the break the whole tome so people can keep dancing, the songs don’t have the traditional verse/chorus/bridge format. Which, if intentional is revolutionary. In the slower “Will You Cry” is basically vapor wave before vapor wave. I bet this album has been sampled a million times and for good reason. Put it on and the party gets going. It’s a 4, maybe even a 5.
Good times
These are the good times
that's what i'm talking about
37 minutes of straight up boner music.
Super chill, ligerito, digerible y con una cantidad moderada de especias, como una pechugita de pollo a las finas hierbas. ¿Qué puedo decir? me gusta Chic mucho y fue agradable oir el disco. Canción fav: Good times porque soy basic bitch I guess. Mención honorifica: Will You Cry, porque es una balada que me agradó y a mi me gusta una balada una vez cada mil años. Mood: Tomando mi tecito caliente en un día frio pero soleado.
Divertido de escuchar y con ritmos pegadizos y bien elaborados
8/10 Good times es un rolololon que ya esta en el olimpo de las canciones
Jams
Good Times is perfect.
who said disco is dead?
the best band to put on at a party
Some really lush tracks on this album, that's the best way I can describe it. I liked it a lot more than the other CHIC album I listened to.
Aw hell yeah... soon as I heard the first little riff I knew I was gonna like it. I think I need to admit that I really, really like disco haha. edit: the ballad-y songs are kinda bland, should be all upbeat numbers like the first one. 4/5 cause they're not all bangers.
Ou yeah
Good Times plus a lot of filler. Disco died so better genres like hip hop could be born and thrive! 2.5⭐️
Strong start, can't beat that bass line and those rhythmic claps in "Good Times". Things flow well from there, but it can also be easy to lose yourself in some of these 6+ min tracks. Disco tends to run on and be repetitive, but Chic were among the best in the genre as a whole. The influence shouldn't be lost on any either, early hip-hop obviously owes a lot to disco.
Musicians are great, Nile is a legend, but I don’t feel engaged thru most of it.
These are some freaking khole songs. They lock in to a groove and repeat until you forget your name. Drugs may have been involved.
This album is immaculate vibes, and only vibes.
sympa comme d'hab
old classics. These songs feel past birthday parties i attended as a child lmao. nostalgia aside, decent album with a good groove.
Great chill album. Very musically interesting!
Enjoyable little funk and soul album. Not the most exciting, but fairly solid.
I don't understand the disco hate. This album was a fun listen. Great musicianship and 36 minute run time gets right to the point.
Epitome of disco. Really fun record and provides a lot of positive energy and good vibes. The music is polished, engineering sounds great, and production is in alignment with what I dig about disco.
Sexy disco has been parodied enough that it is hard for me to appreciate the real thing.
Disco. Tracks are soooo long and samesies. Love the beats and funky grooves.
Cool cover photo. I like the funk but it's sooooooo repetitive.
The first song is amazing. And I think there’s great but not necessarily iconic expressions of 70s disco/funk/soul in the rest of the album.
Another one that I’ve not heard of before and enjoyed it but won’t be looking it up to listen to regularly.
I played in a band that had a 25 minute non stop Chic medley and it was great fun to play, but unfortunately I find their music wayyyyy more fun to play than to listen to. An extra star for the experience.
let's be real: this album is only here cos of the opening track. i never heard of these guys before but as soon as i heard that funk guitar i immediately knew what the fuck was going on. its the "good times" album, baby! its unfortunate that the rest of the album isn't as strong as it opens, but it's still ok. "my feet keep dancing", "my forbidden lover" and "what about me" are kinda just more of the same sound at a lower strength, but my favourite (other than "good times", obviously) is "a warm summer night", which is an r&b banger in its own right and imo it's kind of a shame it got stuck directly after such an iconic track as "good times" rather than being given a little more breathing room further down the tracklist. although.... i might be biased due to having misheard every instance of the word "papi" as "puppy" on my first listen..... :O3 i definitely enjoyed this album overall but for the most part it's nothing incredible. its really hard to justify anything higher than a 3 given how hard it's leaning on the strength of a single track. i could just put the first 2 tracks on loop and not feel like im missing anything, yknow?
foundational yet repetitive; disco when separated from the dance floor loses a bit of its magic, but it isn't hard to recognize this album's place as a keystone for many genres. and a very particular flash game.
Disco ass disco, if you typed disco into an audio dictionary this would come up. The tap dance solo in the middle kept this from dipping too low. Important to note that disco is for dancing and not necessarily for listening to on its own so it doesn't lend itself well to a project like this.
Fun album from a bygone era. It’s not something I’d normally choose but definitely worth a listen.
Surprisingly solid album. Lyrics can be a bit goofy at times, but the music is funky.
Kicking off with the funky heavyweight hit "Good Times" before segueing into a chilled out soul mood with "A Warm Summer Night", this is packed with good vibes to get dancing too. The album starts out incredibly strong, but isn't quite able to keep that high mark of quality. That's the issue with opening an album with one of your best tracks - sometimes you need to make the listener earn that high! After immensely enjoying their previous record 100-something albums ago doing this project, I was delighted to discover Chic's next record was more of the same, even if I wasn't wowed the entirety of the runtime.
Disco
I hadn't heard any of Chic other than a small portion of "Good Times," which is because it's sampled in the song "Rapper's Delight," but never the actual full song. I knew so little of Chic that I thought they had a male vocalist whose voice was high-pitched (a la Michael Jackson) not multiple female vocalists, so yeah. I didn't have the highest of expectations because my disco experiences in the past have made me believe that it's bland and repetitive - which this album mostly was. Though it did do something unexpected from a very predictable genre. That is having melancholic and slower songs (maybe those ones aren't fully disco.) I think this one is fineeeee. Nothing crazy or radical, just alright I suppose. Highlight Song/s: Cant Stand to Love You
Alright, strong vocals and instrumentals but really repetitive
Look, this belongs here because 1,001 is a lot, and this is an important disco album. It has the smash hit. And that's really all there is to say about this album.
It was alright. (7 songs, 36 mins)
Funky treat! Some really exciting moments, but a bit repetitive.
tres cool
Really not bad. Pleasant enough listening, even if a bit repetitive.
At its best, this is phenomenal, but lot of it feels like filler. Filler from talented musicians, but filler nonetheless. This album has an impressive legacy and is foundational to hip-hop, but only a few songs are worth going back to. Glad I listened to it though
Memorable songs and although it sometimes feels a sometimes a bit samey, I enjoyed listening.
On the one hand, this is funky, pop sugar and the defining sound of the disco era. Extremely original and some truly terrific dance bangers like the one and only "Good Times." On the other hand, there's some definite filler and the songs are all stretched out unnecessarily long - both suggest a paucity of ideas. But, when they hit, they definitely hit. More of a singles band, perhaps?
Not something I'd pick to listen to every day, but as far as disco goes, not bad!
Good vibes, first track too long.
I'm obviously aware of a few of these tracks, but I've never sat down to listen to this start-to-finish. I'm not a fan of disco. The track "Good Times" is too long. But I didn't hate the other songs though.
Not a huge disco fan, but this was okay.
Cool vibes, but why are the songs so long?
Couple or three great classic tracks. Whats up with the guy slumped over the piano, looks like he has a knife in his back. Anyway, the cool dude with the white gloves and shades, he's having a great time!
6/10 Had a fun listen, thought it was pretty good.
3.5 the opening track Good Times is carrying a lot of the load on this rating. And I think Chic knew that when they released it.
Catchy and ahead of its time but gets very repetitive
Some fantastic funky basslines, but the songs just never go anywhere. They all have excellent openings but then just repeat the same parts over and over again. If each song was 3 mins long this would be an easy 5. Good Times in particular is such an iconic banger, but I don't want to listen to it for 8 mins.
Meh
“Good Times” is a banger but afterwards it becomes too sappy sweet 3/5
Cheeky
Me gusta mucho Good Times y está chido que empiece con esa. Excelente mood groovy
Incluye temazos, sin embargo no es un álbum que pueda mantener mi atención, De igual manera amo sos voces, sus grabes de bajo y piano impecable. Es lindo de escuchar pero me pasa que dejo de prestarle atención, sin embargo lo banco es lindo Pa escuchar mientras vas haciendo cosillas de fondo, música Pa bailar mientras cortas cebolla. No hay drama con estos tipo
Cuánto disco puede escuchar un hombre
Some fun dancing music and some really good beats. I do love the singers voice, but I don't always love the repetitive nature of a lot of disco tracks.
3,0/5
Good Times is one of my favorites disco songs ever. So funky and fun. A warm summer night is a very simple and repetitive tune, by the production is so lush and gorgeous you want it to last forever. Love the keys and bass (of course) on track 3. The break a minute 3.30 is so cool. Love the string arrangement. My forbidden Lover is another bangre in this track list. Super impressive consistency so far. Track 5 is nice but not as first 4 6 is a very sweet ballad. The closing track is another super funky one, but in my opinion still not at the level of the first four masterpieces It had the potential of being a five. Went down to a high 3 Enjoyable, no doubt
Straight groovy. Some songs dragged a bit, but the bass lines were class, and I know the length of the songs just affords more time to boogie, so I can't fault them for that.
groovy
Good Times not withstanding, this is fiiiiine. It’s far more interested in the groove rather than the song, and the musicianship is truly outstanding and the grooves are fantastic the songs do wash over you a little. Good times is an all timer though
Songs that have been sampled a million times in the last 40 years. Nice to hear the originals.
Fun music, but not into disco to listen on the regular
Fun album. I enjoyed the tap dance solo percussion bit.
As I would expect most people have, I have heard the first track "Good Times" many times before but not any of the other songs on the album. The rest of the songs were very much in the same vein and has the same feel. Not really music I listen to daily but definitely pleasant music that I wouldn't switch from or that I would expect to hear on the radio. Several times I felt like I had heard parts of other songs before but that might just be sampling from more modern songs. I had a fun time listening through the album as a whole.
I wanted to hate this but I couldn't 😅 Although it's still pretty mindless...
Ok, not a go-to but a fun listen. Also, the recording quality was air-tight. So good.
When you do one thing but you do it better than anyone else
A fun bop. Put me in a Halston dress and take me to Studio 54.
Good times is such a great song and I enjoyed all 8 minutes of it, but the other songs are a bit samey and not as fun as the opening track. They are still good just they didn't stand out.
Pretty Goog pretty good
Not bad Starts great with Good Times and then fizzles to something listenable, but a bit forgettable
I had never heard of CHIC before this album so this was my first real exposure to them. I definitely have heard some of these songs at some point because they sound vaguely familiar. “Good times” is the first track and is the one that sounds the most familiar. There’s no reason for this track to be 8 minutes though. This seems to be a pretty common theme across the album of having a groovy fun original 1-2 minute segment and stretching it out way further than needed. “A Warm summer night” and “my feet keep dancing” are the other 2 biggest offenders of this making the first half of the album kinda a slog to get through. The second half continues the trend but because the songs are 2-4 minutes rather than 6-8 it’s a lot less noticeable and more manageable. I really do like the songs here and they sound good just not when I’ve heard the same thing over and over again. “Will you cry(when you hear this song)” is my favorite on the album because I find it to be the most interesting. While this one does have some repetition it’s only 4 minutes long. Overall this album wasn’t bad but also wasn’t anything too special. I can’t see myself coming back to this one anytime soon. The album gets 2.5 stars, decent
6.5/10
You’ve heard one Chic song you’ve heard them all. Great song though.
It’s imminently enjoyable. Not amazing, but more than good.
Bright and joyful disco-soul! The production is great. I like that even when the tempo is danceable, the vibe feels easy. Almost like when you’re a little drunk and tired at a club and need a cooldown track to help pace yourself. Very enjoyable and something I’d be happy to play again. I can hear how this was influential too. This album has a killer rhythm section that must have set the gold standard for the genre.
Good Times is a real party track, and the rest were decent and only infrequently veered into irritating. The strings on some of the tracks were really well showcased, which you don't see too often.
Wasn't expected to enjoy this but was much better than expected mostly. It was at its best when it was funky and dancey, didn't enjoy the more downbeat ones so much which soured it a bit towards the end 2.5
Groovy!
Hyvää discoa ja funkkia. Levyllä on hyvät soundit ja hienoa musisointia. Kovin usein ei tee mieli kuunnella tämän tyyppistä musiikkia ja biiseissä oli liikaa toistoa.
This was a fun listen. I wouldn't go out of my way to listen to it on my own but I enjoyed hearing the full album that Good Times came from
3/5
short, sweet, and plenty of awesome-ness. didn't think i would go for this disco album, it it was really fun. it wasn't so long that it overstayed its welcome, but i even let it run through a second time because i was having a good time listening to it. solid album
I positively hate disco, but this was way more palatable than I thought it'd be. And, those bass lines... *chef's kiss* Most songs are about 3 mintues too long, though. 3 stars seems too low a score, but 4 seems too high.
This is my first time listening to the song that "Another One Bites the Dust" sampled. "Good Times" also happens to be the best on "Risque". Unlike Chic's previous album, "C'est Chic", "Risque" has a decline in track quality during the second half. "My Feet Keep Dancing" would be a 5-star song if it weren't for the tap dancing. It somehow bothers me a lot. 3 stars for "Risque".
Fine listen but each song felt like it ran for way too long. Aside from Good Times, none of them felt very distinct. Still catchy stuff.
Fun songs
Good stuff
- Enjoyed the grooves on this album, and the musicians are all good, nice vocals and bass, especially. - A couple songs didn't do it for me - My Forbidden Lover and Can't Stand to Love You. - Overall, the songs were fun, but could have evolved a little more.
I love disco but this was a bit boring ngl. Where if the drama? The groove?
Guitar and bass are outstanding
3 for creating one of the most influential and funky bass lines ever
Well, it's disco, what can I say? I guess it's fine if you like this sort of thing. Guess it has that influential bass riff on the first track.
Very enjoyable disco
A pleasant disco entry that embarrassingly doesn't live up to its name (at least by today's standards). From the opening unmistakable hook of "Good Times" all the way to the end of the album, disco almost feels like more than just a bad genre and more like a sugary denial of 70s excess. Still, Disco led to three great films by Whit Stillman, so it can't be all bad.
We are family made me mum cry
Late 70s funk, soul. One big hit. Disco tracks.
It's okay. I don't hate disco, I quite like it when it's well made and performed, and of course with Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards on guitar and bass it's going to be well made and performed. The issue with this album is the varying quality of the songs. The slow ones are frankly a little boring and the fast ones that aren't "Good Times" aren't as good as "Good Times." A fine listen but I won't return to it.
CHIC has a cool sound but it's definitely rooted in a specific time period. It's fine but didn't blow me away. There is some awesome stuff on here but overall I just sort of listened and moved on with my day haha
very nice
Funky. I can dig it.
Nile Rodgers basslines are absolutely filthy. Even if you don't like disco it's worth listening to for his work alone.
This is pretty standard disco music. Good Times is a classic party song. The rest is fine.
I really like the bass and grooves, but the songs start to feel repetitive pretty quickly. The songs are very long and didn't feel like they evolved/changed much.
Yes. Risqué. Its fun! It has good songs. It has okay songs.
Five stars for the guitar, bass, and drums of Nile Rodgers, Bernard Edwards, and Tony Thompson, respectively. Everything else goes in the ol' Disco trash pile. Tack on a half-star for providing the famous bass line that anchors "Rapper's Delight".
Generally pretty good, just not personally into it.
In the ignorance of my childhood, I would have said “Disco Sucks; now I’m more inclined to say “Disco f**ks!” Excellent instrumentals! Excellent vocals! Great sound engineering. But those 19870’s arrangements, where the chorus is repeated endlessly (sometimes for >8 minutes) — that makes me lose interest. Still, I’d spin this at a party without a 2nd thought. A 3.
Known for "Good Times," this disco album stands with the song. Outside of Good Times, I liked "My Forbidden Lover.”
22% of this album is “Good Times”, and the rest is just good times; I had no idea that song was 8 minutes long. I always thought disco was dead by 1979, but maybe that was just an aspirational dream (or revisionist history) here in America. Certainly, this feels much more like peak disco than the last gasp of an already dead genre. I'm not sure there's a bass player alive who hasn't at least attempted to learn the bass line to "Good Times" as an intro to playing disco/funk. That's an enduring legacy all on it's own.
3.5 - LE FREAK, C'EST CHIC !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I wish I could give the first and last songs a 5, but the middle ones didn't have the same impact to me. Good Times is perfectly, timlessly, the ultimate best mood song of all time. Album cover is 10/10 tho.
I don’t dislike disco-funk at all, and I can clearly hear how tight and refined the groove is on this album. The rhythm section is precise, everything feels clean and controlled, and the bass lines are consistently impressive. I enjoy the groove, but I remain slightly outside of it emotionally. “Good Times” is undeniably iconic, though I can’t help picturing John Travolta dancing whenever it plays, even if that association isn’t technically accurate. It carries such a strong late-70s cultural image that the music almost comes with built-in visuals.
Risqué by Chic was release in 1979. It's a disco album with soul and funk mixed in. This is one of those albums that iconic outside it's own genres. R&B, Pop, and Hip Hop still sample songs from this album to this day. It's unsurprising for a band as well beloved as Chic to have both glowing reviews of the time and in the retrospect. It's a testament to Chic's success that they had as much success as it did with a disco album in the late 70's. The time considered the rise of Pop and the death of Disco. Though I imagine it's more due to the cultural elements of disco dying under the weight of it's excess and hedonism rather than the music not being relevant anymore. As Pop, R&B, and Hip Hop's disco inspirations are still evident. This album's a groovey one. I think it would be hard for most people to sit still while listening to it. You can find the cultural excesses and free-spirit energy all over the lyrics of this album. All in all, it's a good album but I don't think it contains much substance being a series of bops that endured.
So repetitive but still alright
Easy to forget how effortless they make this seem.
Mind if a white boy catches a funky vibe? Pretty decent listen to a funky disco album. The beat from 'Good times' is really iconic and recognisable as well as being the 'sampled' in Queen's 'Another one bites the dust' and SugarHill gang's 'Rapper's delight', two big hits come from this one so you have to give some respect. I did feel like there could of been some more variation in the songs though did feel a little samey. Another standout song is 'What about me' I feel like on this last track they switched it up a little bit. Overall a fun listen but didnt completly wow me.
cool chill vibes. I was a bit pit off when I saw it was disco, but I heavily misjudged the genre. If I'm ever in the mood for some less depressing music, then this is definitely something I think I'll consider
Enjoyed it more than expected. Nice groove.
Very good disco here.
224/1001 CHIC - Risqué Heard before? ❎️ Revisit? ✅ There were Good Times listening to this, this morning
Background chill vibes
This album messed with me. I swear everyone and their uncle mixed this album or took parts to use later. So I'm sitting here listening going, "Oh it's....wait no it's not." Disco spun itself into about a dozen genres when it died. Well I guess died is the wrong word, evolved I think fits better. Great bass lines on this, I need to look up who did bass and see what band they played with afterwards.
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Yeah let's have a good time and celebrate. Das esch so chli s Motto vo dem Albom. Rächt funky ond happy droffe. Halt so chli Disco style. Es bliibt au rächt i sinnere Rechtig, was dezue füehrt, dasses emmer e chli gliich tönt. So esches fascht meh öppis för e Hendergrond. T Songs i dem Albom send emmer rächt ähnlech ufbaut. Als Basis geds es Schlagzüg, wo emmer chli de gliichi Beat vorged ond e Bass wo chli sini passage Spellt, wo aber s ganze Lied zämebendet. Die zwöi Intromänt send eigentlech die ganz Ziit imne Loop ond speled die wenige Akkörd, wobi sie e rächt stabili Basis belded. Mängisch send au anderi Intromänt i dere Basis enne, wie öppe e Rockgitarre oder t Basis werd för ei oder zwöi täkt onderbroche. Söscht esch sie aber emmer öppe gliich. Dröber send mehreri Elemänt verteilt. Gwössi Songs hend no e Synth wo t Akkört mol spelt ond mol ned. Au werd de Song zo gwösse Ziite vo anderne Instromänt wie öppe Giige usgschmöckt, wobi au Gsang dezueghört. Do send t Lyrics aber emmer ächnlech ond diened au als Intromänt. Es god also ned drom gnau änezlose, was gsonge werd, sondern chli die Musig im Hendergrond z ha ond sech guet z fühle. Zo all dem chömed mängisch au no wiiteri Instromänt wo ab ond zue chli e Sound Effekt möched ond so t Musig chli uffrösched. So passiert insgesammt ned super vel. Dodebi esch Good Times, s Härzstöck vo dem Albom, no es guets Biispel: Schlagzüg ond Bass speled zäme die zwöi Akkörd (Hoffentlech stemmt das) wo aber zäme relativ guet fonktioniered. Ufbauend chömed de no einigi Instromänt wie au Gsang dezue, wobi dä aber vorallem us "Let's have Good Times" mässigem bestohd. Emmerhen werd guet of dere Basis ufbaut. Im Song geds debi au längeri Passage, wo nome t Basis gspellt werd. Trotzdem geds no e rächt gueti stemmig ond es passt emmer rächt guet zäme. Es send sogar gwössi Verbendige erkönnbar. Das esch klar es Symptom devo, dass s Genre sehr gnau ighalte werd. Schlossändlech esches halt ned so es Albom zom gnau zuelose. Es ged emmer weder Passage wo lang nüd passiert. Au werd e chord progression us 2 Akkörd noch 10 Minute de au mol Langwiilig. För e Hendergrond esches aber super. Es ged e super Stemmig, wo öbrigens au a Boogie Wonderland oder Celebration erenneret ond för das bruuchts au ned meh alses esch. Chli schad esches trotzdem, dass ned meh Variation vorhande esch.
That was great fun, Nile Roger’s at the top of his game!
I started liking this, but then every song was probably 3-4 minutes too long.
Kind of fun. Very disco (obviously).
I get why there are two CHIC records on the list, but I’d rather listen to the hip hop songs that sampled them.
Could be a four star album but every song is just too long and ends up outstaying its welcome. You could cut a minute plus off most of these songs and it wouldn't impair enjoyment in any way.
Well this was disappointing! Way too long and very repetitive!! The songs were good, but could have been cut down massively Musical equivalent of 'could have been an email' 3 ⭐️
3 stars. Disco isn't for everyone but I like it. Niles Rodgers is a phenom. Boring at times sure. But if you like this you can dive a but backwards into parliament, funkadelic, the chi lites, etc.
Third album after hitting with Le Freak from C'est Chic. Opening track Good Times was sampled for Rapper's Delight by Sugarhill Gang.
Some fun but gets old quick
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CHIC created the baseline for "Another One Bites The Dust" - as can be heard in "Good Times", the first song on "Risqué. The rest of the album is not very remarkable, but OK to listen to. For me, this is more or less the definition of average in the given context.
This was fine. But it was still disco, and so I found it hard to love despite it being fun and positive. Nile Rogers does as great job though.
Fine for what it is, a disco album meant to be danced to.
Okay. A bit dull but not too bad
This one is going to be really hard to review for more than a few lines, seeing as Disco music is almost unanimously known for being repetitive by design. I haven’t rolled many, if any Disco albums yet to my knowledge, but this one was surprisingly easy to listen to on repeat. I’m for sure not always going to be in the mood for this kind of music, but when I am, it’s just simply charming to hear. Musically, there isn’t a ton here, it’s 36 minutes and 7 songs of just good vibes basically. I was kind of shocked that I’d heard of any of these songs at all, and yet the opener, “Good Times” is a classic Disco staple as well as the best song on the album. Hilariously, the songs are pretty easy to differentiate from each other, so luckily it’s not just 36 minutes of the exact same Disco flourish. Generally speaking, the songs are more often than not easily identifiable by the name of the song being sung on repeat, and that’s basically the loop of the entire album. You only needed one song to take off to get sales, and I think for CHIC, this particular album had “Good Times”. Even though that’s the one that took off, I did rather enjoy the whole album, and found other songs like “My Feet Keep Dancing” and “My Forbidden Lover” to be a worthwhile listening experience. It’s fun, it makes me want to dance, and it caught me on a good day where I could afford to just bob my head up and down the office, looking like an idiot in the process (Worth it though). This is the first of 2 CHIC albums I have rolled so far, and I think it’s hilarious that of all the artists to get 2 albums, they’re letting a Disco band have them. How different could the other album be, really?? It came out the previous year. I can’t imagine it would be radically different than this one. In fact, I guarantee it won’t be. I digress. Fun album, not exactly mould breaking, but still fun and accomplishes what it was meant to do, which is make me get up and dance.
chill background music. can't imagine dancing to it. boring
Nice bit of funk
3.5
3.5
Better than I expected. I had some good times. 3.5 stars
3.5
wow i did not know that good times was over 8 minutes long. still, that's the towering achievement of this record. the rest of the songs are fine but don't hold a candle to the first one. that bass line is just *chef's kiss*... oh and the album art is pretty slick too. 3.5 but i couldn't make it through a second listen in the same day since it's just boring after the opener. favorites: good times, my forbidden lover
that's a banger to shake our asses
Over the years some have been played to death. Felt like I was in a Harvesters Great musicians and singers though
A decent groove and hard to actively dislike but all the songs sounded the same and most went on too long. Can sense the influence for acts like Daft Punk.
I think this album suffers from context. I should be listening to this in a club or roller rink, I should be imbibing some kind of psychoactive substance, I shouldn’t be listening to this at work. It really would make the 8 minute repetitive intro track tolerable.
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Cirka lige så god som det andet CHIC. Men er ikke kæmpe fan af disco, meeeen det her er fedt!!
Never a big disco fan for reasons highlighted in this album: most of the tracks are nearly indistinguishable musically. Still, if that's your groove, you could do a lot worse than this. "Good Times" is an earworm of the highest order.
This is a hipster soul album. Not much too it. Again surprised this is one of tops 1000. There were probably 2 songs that I couldn’t see being techno
Fairly standard disco music.
I really liked C’est Chic, this one less so. Same great rhythms, vocals and pulsing Disco beat but it seemed less soulful and less interesting.
Good Times My Feet Keep Dancing My Forbidden Lover
A dance album which contained tracks we used to cover in the clubs.
A nice funk album that's got a couple really standout tunes.
Groovy!
Nice start of with Good times I really enjoyed the beats and little synths to the song and the bass but VERY REPETITIVE AND ANNOYING after a bit A warm Summer Night very calming and quite good vocals
I really like the sound of CHIC but definitely just felt myself getting bored halfway through every song. Good Times is an unmistakable great song though. This is a rare case where I think hearing songs separately from the album might actually get me more into them. Idk left with a weird taste in my ears. High 3.
it's decent, not spectacular a mi
Its alright i mean nothing to write home about. got a famous song and all that, so that's kinda cool.
Rogers and Edward's were such a funky duo - both incredible musicians. That Good Times bass line is iconic. I still don't like disco - especially those disco strings - but this album made me respect it a tiny bit more. Liked Songs Added: Good Times
the bass line is crazy Will I listen to again: 20%
Classic of course, great musicianship, timeless tracks…just not really my cup of tea