Risque

Pleasantly groovy. Some songs go on too long. 3.5

I mean, it's disco. Massive tunes that last too long, so credit to everyone who sampled them to change it up. Legit don't know how these songs last so long, every time I check i'm like "it's only been that long?" They're tight and musically sound but man, 36 minutes that feels like an hour.

It's fine.

Pleasant enough, watered down Funk/Disco. Couple of famous ones. But nothing really to write home about. Uninspiring is probably the best way to describe it. 2 for the quality of musicianship and production.

Really excellent, but after a track or 3 it just starts to become repetitive

Yeah baby! The distinctive sound of Nile Rogers' Chic. It's so distinctive that I can tell his guitar work from 100 paces. That's the only problem, it's a bit repetitive, but a nice sounding repetition. I really liked this.

Substantive dance music tinged with melancholy, the agues of the day – who says disco couldn't be just a little bit sad? "Good Times" as "Happy Days Are Here Again" is quality insight from the editors (though calling this dark overstates the case) – and one can dig a song that combines and references to "the sporting life" with lyrics like "rollerskates, rollerskates," not to mention the leisurely wide open spaces mellowly explored for the last several minutes, which makes this seeming trifle actually quite epic. "My Feet Keep Dancing" is also tinged with a weighty sort of self-consciousness, as if one's out ot control and knows not what else to do – the almost mechanistic repetition of the vocals and the sharp strings emphasize the potential seriousess of the situation, with the chiming bells adding a note of contemplation and perhaps gravitas. "Forbidden Lover" swings a bit more loosely. "Will You Cry" is lushly sad, wallowing in post-break-up bad vibes. "What About Me" – with the repeated riff from the opener totally justified for its quality – was/is an anthem most apropos to the me decade. Quality playing abounds, well accessorized with grace notes galore –the squeaky/edgy guitar, the steadily-bouncing and vamping, and then romping-roaming bass lines the quartering little piano figures, the pointillistic/staccato strings, the bells here and there offering a churchy solemnity as if disco is about solace from pain as much as having a good time. Disco's gifts have long outlived its demolition and death. This record delivers an epic when many were perhaps expecting a trifle.

who says disco is dead? I'll subject my whole office to it

Very repetitive to the point it gets annoying

solid disco grooves! Some of my all time disco favorites. bassline of 'good times' is amazing.

It’s got a good beat — you can tap to it.

It’s CHIC sounding like CHIC. It’s funky when it should be, but some of the songs drag a little too long. Super influential.

Amazing timeless album!

Solid disco album with one stone cold banger, but overall it just isn’t my cup of tea. Still, brilliant musicianship and can’t be mad I spend some time with it.

undeniable

Who knew that Good Times was 8 minutes long? Didn't really have any issues with this but it was also fairly bland and I kinda zoned out from listening to it to be honest. Standard album of it's genre

Nice music

2.5

Good, but not for me

I mean, it’s disco. It’s certainly not my favorite genre of music, and there are definitely songs that drag on for too long, but it’s still a pretty good album. Also Will You Cry is the best song. 3.5

3.5 - Good

I love me some disco, but as a full album this one was just OK. The songs are too long, too repetitive or a mix of both. Good Times should be sent into space, but the rest of this is just fun, even if a bit verging on annoying.

This was good fun. Idk if it’s a theme for disco but it’s only downside was the songs went on too long. They were pretty funky though!

Essa banda é muito boa. Gosto de todos os elementos. O baixo é saboroso (a linha de Good Times é uma das melhores ja feitas), a guitarra é otima, os vocais, tudo perfeito ! Mas sei la, bem dificil avaliar esse disco. Ele abre com Good Times. Muito dificil. As outras faixas não me prenderam totalmente. São grooves agradaveis, não da pra ficar parado ouvindo, elas servem seus propósitos perfeitamente bem... Mas o que falta pra eu dar 5 estrelas pra esse álbum é replayability. Não consigo me imaginar colocando esse album pra ouvir de forma espontanea. Apenas a faixa Good Times ! Por isso, acho justo um 3/5.

Everything is really good besides the 2nd song.

Fine 2.5

Really not interested at all in this. Wallpaper, indistinguishable from so much else out there.

Love you mom! You’re favorite album is here

Very nice on the sunday morning. Great vibes

A Warm Summer Night is perfect for just that. Feels lovely. Great album. Short but very sweet

It's hard to start an album with a much better song than Good Times, so the question is where it goes from there. Thankfully there is a lot more to enjoy, especially My Forbidden Lover. Things don't feel quite as rewarding when the tempo lowers, but overall still a great album.

Funky and repetitive. 7.4/10

Entire album is great, Nike Rodger’s absolutely kills it on guitar and Bernard Edward’s the same for bass, I can see how some people say it gets a bit repetitive especially with good times being 8 minutes but the guitar and bass was all that was needed to keep me hooked for the entire run time, vocals were classic disco style, all that was needed but the funk brought by the instruments is what makes this album for me. Overall 8/10.

Classic and will likely always be so-5 stars

The first few songs on this album are catchy and fun, but this does tend to wear out its welcome by the end of the album. I think the album is still carried pretty heavily by the first two tracks, though.

GOOD TIMES 🕺 THESE ARE THE GOOD TIMES 🕺 LEAVE YOUR CARES BEHIND 🕺

Garbage.

okay but not for me

Classic CHIC goodness. Awesome songs with awesome vibes. Something you can sing along to and can't help but dance to it.

That was interesting to hear. I was expecting soul, maybe even some jazz. I knew the first track straight away. I thought it was a bit too disco but good. I noticed the disco sound more and more. Although I grew up in that era, it was never my kind of music. And it never will be. 3/5

Welp, I had a review for this. I accidentally exited out of the tab though. Guess I have to write a whole new review for Chic's Risqué album. I'll be brief. This is a disco album, which I haven't gotten a ton of. I really like it though. This album's pretty good. The basslines are the stuff dreams are made of. Obviously, "Good Times" is an absolute classic of a song, but Bernard Edwards manages to be a source of consistently great bass playing throughout the entire album. And of course, I have to praise Nile Rodgers for his work too. How could I not? The other members of Chic deserve their recognition too though. So to people like drummer Tony Thompson and vocalists Alfa Anderson and Luci Martin, good job! The album's a little repetitive, but when the songs are as fun as they are, who even cares? I don't. I'm just over here enjoying the music! The writing isn't perfect, but it does the job. The album does peak at the beginning with the aforementioned "Good Times," but the other songs are still good. This album's cool. 4/5.

Nice groovy stuff here. A littel dated though

Cool

Good listen

Oh come on, there's two CHIC albums on here???! And this one sounds exactly like all the other songs on the other album??! It's just the Le Freak beat going on for way too long every song. Get the fuck out of here this shit sucks

A noticeable improvement from C'est Chic! This album is a lot less cheezy and easier to appreciate the amazing guitar and bass. It still is a disco album but it's probably the best a disco album can be for me. Plus, that bass line on the first song is killer!

++: Good Times, My Feet Keep Dancing, My Forbidden Lover, Can't Stand to Love You +: A Warm Summer Night, Will You Cry (When You Hear This Song), What About Me? 7,6/10

First thought was I had never heard of this group, but as soon as the 1st track started I was like "oh yeah! I know this song!" Not fond of the repetativeness of the lyrics though, probably wouldn't listen to it again but I did add Good Times to my favorites list.

Enjoyable listen, good disco grooves and range between the songs. Each song basically one chorus repeated tho. The disco themed radio spotify started playing after this ended was better than the album itself

Again the disco vibes. I really like it. Makes me wish there were still some pubs around playing tunes like these.

I wanted to like this a lot more than I did. It was pretty bland for disco.

It is what it is. Not my favorite genre, but not bad, not something I'd relisten to

This is a thing, it's just not my thing.

It’s hard to just sit and listen to dance music. This is meant to dance and that’s what it does. It starts with a bang but keeps pretty stagnant after a while.

Not as good as C'est Chic, but still definitely worth listening. Vocal work from the ladies is pretty good as always, electric guitar has some great mini solos and melodies, but the king of this album, to the surprise of no one, is the bass. Amazing bass lines, inspiring generations of new bass players to come. It's so hard not to bop your head to the rhythm. Album is quite good overall, but in my opinion has only one, opening song worthy being a hit. The rest is just pleasant to listen to, nothing more than that. But it's confirmed - Chic is a great band.

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The first song "Good Times" is a classic. Even though it is very disco the production holds up

Album 715 of 1001 CHIC - Risque (1979) Rating : 2.5 / 5 A pretty decent album. They are more than their disco hits from back in the day. Some nice funk. Not only for the dance floor.

"Risque" by CHIC is undeniably one of the greatest albums of the Disco era, capturing the vibrant essence of the late 1970s with its infectious grooves and sophisticated production. The album not only solidified CHIC's status as pioneers of Disco but also left a lasting impact on various genres, influencing artists across funk, pop, and even hip-hop. Its timeless tracks, characterized by slick instrumentation and heartfelt lyrics, continue to inspire musicians today, showcasing the enduring legacy of Disco music in the evolution of contemporary sound.

Beyond the title track, which is kind of a disco classic, the rest was a bit forgettable. I’m just not that into this kind of thing.

Really enjoyed this one only knew the hits and of course Nils Rogers work with David Bowie, but enjoyed the listen

It's cliche calling disco smooth but like how else can you describe music this nice and easy-going? It's genuinely just a great time to hear all these well crafted but mid tempo grooves do their thing especially the bass, I didn't realize Good Times was a bassline I learned when I tried learning some basslines a while ago, which really just hits how this stuff could inspire anybody (especially when thinking about how part of this bassline could have inspired Queen with the Another One Bites the Dust). Fun album and more reasons for me to check out more disco

3.4

Några riktiga klassiker på detta album. Deras bassist är en gud och Nile Rogers är ju en legend. Jag älskar CHIC men tycker generellt att deras låtar tenderar att vara lite för långa faktiskt, de drar ut på vissa partier så väldigt. Velar mellan en 3a och en 4a men håller mig faktiskt till en 3a här. 3 av 5.

The epitome of disco music. I kind of liked My Forbidden Lover, but in general I just wasn’t a fan of the album. Good Times sounded very familiar, but apparently some members of the band wrote We Are Family the same year, it was just released by a different group.

Wedding tunes

Good Times VERY GOOD

Put off listening to this one on account of it being disco, which is ridiculous, because I kinda like disco? And if this is the disco I'm being served, then I really like it. Good Times is a masterpiece. The rest keeps up the energy. I have nothing bad to say about this. Didn't realize this was Nile Rodgers!

The bass playing is *by far* the best thing about this album. It's so goddamn good. I could listen to "Good Times" for about a half hour straight, as well. None of the other songs really truly live up to that one, though. It's very much a downhill kind of album. By the end, even though it's a shorter album, I was ready to move on to something else. That bass playing is special though. I could listen to that isolated and be happy. Favorite Song(s): Good Times

Disco is not dead so long as it lives in the hearts of men!

I gave this a one a few months ago, then went back and listened again. What was I on?

****A very enjoyable album

First? 3 /5 Again? 1,5 /5

Short fun album that comes tearing out of the gate with ‘Good Times’. The rest of the tracks pale in comparison but still was a nice listen. 3.25/5

Disco

Nice!

That’s the thing anout risco tracks, they’re too long. Some bops for sure, though, especially “What About Me”

Good times plus ostalo

I rate good times a 5 star because I've listened to this song many times and I liked it ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐. I rate A warm summer night a 5 star because I've listened to this song many times and I liked it ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐. I rate cant stand to love you a 5 star because I've listened to this song many times and I liked it ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐.

Song: Good times i like this song because i think I have heard this song before and this just sounds good and i just like that it is saying good times Song: A warm summer night i like this song because it just reminds me of summer Song: cant stand to love you this song is good but i like the others songs better and it just reminds me of spring and fall which i dont really like fall so i like it a little bit

This album is not my favorite, but it is not bad. I do not like the genre of music.

I don't like this song because the beat is not that good i would not recommend this song I don't like this song because it's too sad I would not recommend this song

I like this album because it sounds really nice. I think that the beats are nice and the voice sounds good with the background music.I like the slow pace of the second song. I don't like the way his voice sounds in the sample though. I would recommend this to people who like up beat, funky music.

Do you want to listen to some music that has a lot of trumpet? Well in Good Times you can! I rate this song a ⭐⭐⭐⭐. I recommend this song. Do you want to listen to some music that has a lot of guitar? Well in A Warm Summer Night you can! I rate this song a ⭐⭐⭐⭐. I recommend this song. Do you want to listen to a song that has a lot of drums? Well in Can't Stand To Love You you can! I rate this song a ⭐⭐⭐. I kind of recommend this song.

I don't like this song because I don't really like disco music and I'dont like the beat. I don't like the second one because it is to slow and it is boring I do not recommend this album

Have you ever wanted to listen to some jazzy and snazzy music? If so, then this album is for you. In my opinion this album is actually pretty mid. I personally don't really like this because it is disco music and I don't like that. Another reason why I don't really like this album is because the singers voice doesn't really sit very positively with me in my head. It's too soft and when it sings those songs and lyrics, I don't like how it sounds. I would probably not recommend this album to someone else because if I don't like it then someone else probably also wouldn't. Also, I feel like people in this generation in general don't like and listen to this music. I would give this album a solid 3 stars out of 5 stars. I think that someone else would probably not listen to this without being forced.

i give it a 2 because i like the song lyrics the second one is good to so a 3 the third one i dont really like it

the first song is alr not that good but not that bad the background music is good the second song is not really good its not ad tho the last song started off lowk weird

Are the people on the cover the singers? I thought "Good Times" was great. I like the music and I like the singing voice. I liked "A Warm Summer Night" because it was pretty. The music was delicate but not boring. I liked "Can't Stand to Love You" because it was fun. The music was fun and the singing was pleasant. I would definitely recommend this album.

the first song "good times" is good i like how it sounds. the next song "a warm summer night" is good too I also like how this song sounds. the last song "cant stand to love you" is also good. overall I might recommend it.

I son't like this song because I feel like it is saying the same word over and over agian a warm summer night I like this song because I think it is talking about like summer because I like summer can't stand to love you I don't like this song because I feel like it is saying the same word over and over agian

How can one man go so hard on the bass this much that it didn't rip a hole in the space-time continuum? Roger's guitar scratches the unscratchable itch. The vocals are liquid satin and glitter. Undeniable classic from beginning to end.

It's amazing to hear a funky and iconic song like Good Times. But other than that I found the rest of the album pretty one dimensional. I don't think I would listen again.

Risqué Lahore was Lens drag name when he lived in Pakistan in the 80s. It didn’t go well. 2.7

Nawet fajne

Fun and funky

Hell yeah, I loved this almost as much as C'est Chic. More tap dance solos, please!

Basically every song was too long. Good grooves though.

album of hits

full risk.. alkaa uskomattomasti.. 8 minuuttia fuck it incredible pop song.. kokoajan pikku läpsäytystä käsillä, eka hiljalla nopeudella kädet lähestyy ja sitten loppuakohten kiihtyy järisyttävästi kunnes kohtaa toisensa... läps, läps, läps, läps, läps, läps, läps, läps, läps, läps.. kapakas. kapakassa tämä albumi pyörimään ja kaikki nousee robottimaisesti ylös palleiltaan ja alkaa läpsyttään käsiä tahtiin. läps, läps, läps, läps, läps, läps, läps, läps, läps, läps, läps, läps, läps. 36 minuuttia ja 52 sekuntia myöhemmin kaikki istuvat palleilleen ja keskustelu voi jatkua. näin viikonloppu kapakas. iilimatoi kapakas... good times

-So it’s not terrible, but I was honestly very overwhelmed. most of the songs felt very repetitive and dull? I know the repetition was probably intentional but it was still not particularly enjoyable at times -still had a pretty fun vibe at least… disco at its most disco -Favorites are My Feet Keep Dancing and Can’t Stand To Love You

had fun with this one, pleasantly surprising. too often people label a genres like disco as outdated. While disco certainly is centralized to a time period, the music itself stands up isolated from the context with which is was born.

It's a real shame how Disco was pretty brutally massacred in the US by the time the late 70s hit, considering it pretty much single handedly went on to inspire and be the basis of dozens of other genres in the next 30 years. CHIC proves here just how influential the groove would go on to be. Any aspiring bass players should make this album mandatory listening. Bernard Edwards takes us to school. This is how you keep bass playing interesting while not overstepping the other musicians.

The sound of five musicians willing to Risqué it all for the groove.

Day405 - i wonder what kind of music nile rodgers would make if he was a twenty something now

This was so boring. "Good Times" is a great song, but even then it doesn't need to be 8 minutes long. I know Nile Rodgers is great, and the music is fantastic, but this falls into all the bad disco traps like being overly long and repetitive. There's worse on this list, but there's also a lot better.

Discoklassikkoa pukkaa, mutta ei tämä levykokonaisuutena niinkään oikein futaa. Irtobiisit on way to go. Kylmäksi jättää siis albumimuodossa. 3/5

Menevä diskolevy, mutta ei ihan saa punttia vipattamaan neljän tähden tahtiin.

Good times indeed

Bij bierkeuringen wordt er niet eens zozeer op de kwaliteit gelet, maar vooral of de bieren binnen het hokje van de stijl passen... En hier hebben we een plaat die volledig binnen de lijntjes kleurt van de disco. Funkritme, samenzang, de blikken met violen die worden opengetrokken, bierstijlgoeroe Derek Walsh zou hiervan gaan knorren van plezier. Maar ook los van de stijlhokjes wordt hier een lekker potje muziek gemaakt die de oortjes binnenglijdt als honing, en daar ging het tenslotte om.

Hé, nog een album van Chic na het eerder verkregen Très Chic. En toch niet onterecht. Disco is niet mijn genre. Maar Chic weet met sommige nummers toch bij de grootste disco-haters de voetjes van de grond te krijgen. Hun top-nummers zijn catchy en funky. De hit die dit album maakt is Good Times. Iets minder dan Le Freak van het vorige album, maar nog steeds een enorm sterk nummer. Het is niet voor niets dan het overal werd en wordt opgepakt. Zelf zo erg dat ik in mijn hoofd steeds Grandmaster Flash over dit origineel heen hoor. De rest van het album is wat minder gevarieerd dan het vorige. De helft valt onder de categorie vergeetbare 3. A warm summer night en My forbidden lover staan daar aardig boven. Met de tophit erbij, kan ik ook bij dit album niet onder de 4 sterren uitkomen.

Als je met 1 gitaartrucje al meer dan 40 jaar relevant bent en blijft, dan doe je toch iets goed. Het is herkenbaar uit duizenden en toch ongeevenaard. Hoe dan? Verschrikkelijk knap hoe Nile Rodgers met die funky gitaarriff zichzelf op de kaart heeft gezet. Disco is niet per se een muziekgenre dat ik snel opzet, maar het is wel bijzonder aanstekelijk en daardoor word ik er best vrolijk van. We kregen al eerder een albumpje van CHIC, dat ik een 4 heb gegeven. Dit is dezelfde wijn in dezelfde zakken, met de megahit Good Times (die we ook herkennen uit vele samples en mixes). Maar dat dondert allemaal niet. Wederom een vrolijk dansbare 4.

3.5 groovy funky. Fav song can’t stand to love you

# Album Name: # Risque # Artist: Chic # Rating: 3/5 # Comments: Good times - absolute banger. Great opening to the album. The album cant live up to the opening. song. Theres some good soul and funk but not at the same standard. # Top Tunes: Good times / Forbidden Lover / WIll you cry # Would I listen to it again? Dont think so.

Good times, followed by ok times. They really knew how to take a song and extend it twice as long as it needed to be. 6/10

recently i've been thinking about expensive music -- stuff that sounds expensive, like it was high grade, buffalo mozzarella and gold leaf in the metro area. Invincible cost 30 million of Epic's own money to make, but i couldn't tell you if any of those songs sounded like they cost a couple million to make. Risque has the opposite problem -- i don't know how much "Will You Cry (When You Hear This Song)" cost to make, but i can definitely tell it was a lot more than i make in a year. there's something so lush about it, like there's a party going on but you should really put down a coaster cause that's mahogany it's sitting on. forgive me, but it kinda feels a bit Weimar to me. decadence, the cabaret and celebration during the rise of reactionary conservativism in the US and UK (and yes, the death of disco). it's all so bittersweet -- you could fault it for being romantic or frivolous, but at least some point good times were had. it's literally the name of the first track, after all.

Taken individually the songs are more or less ok but a whole album of that is really repetitive.

Skimmed through but I have a good idea

This is extremely cheesy, and while I like a bit of cheese, this kind of goes over the top. Lots of repetitive sounds - all the good songs sound too much like "Good Times", but none of them reach that level. "Clams on the half shell and roller skates" is an incredible lyric... this gets half a star for that alone. 3.5 stars

I saw Niles Rogers/CHIC open for Madonna last year. It was a phenomenal performance. If your toe is not tapping or your head is not moving when you hear Good Times, I don’t want to know you. Overall, this album is meh. After the stellar opening track it all goes downhill. The second track is awful. I would call this disco with some funk infused into but I would not listen to most of this album again.

ok

I had a good time listening to this funky track. A couple songs drug on a bit too long, but this is fun '70s Disco music. Favorite Track: "Good Times"

Way too cool for me to ever have been into. A bit too clinical and clean for my taste as well. It’s OK, but nowhere close to stuff like Parliament.

I'm living the '70s era now, and the album found me at the perfect time!

Classic, iconic, and much sampled bass playing. Funky guitar work by Nile Rogers, and drumming just just grooves along. Sadly the songs themselves are vapid, but that's typical for disco.

I can't say I ever heard any CHIC apart from "C'est Chic", which included what is probably their most well-known track, as well as some other tracks I immediately recognized. As a whole, though, I may have enjoyed this album more than their previous one. The songs don't seem to drag on as much, and offer a more pleasant total picture. I'm not sure if it works as well in a proper disco, but when I'm sitting down and picking an album to listen to, Risqué would win out for sure.

Good R&B/Disco. Enjoyed it.

I like this album far more than I thought I would. I’m not too into disco and dance but the music and the vibe are great. Much closer to funk than what I was expecting.

• 3/5 • can’t help but love Good Times, but not as fond of the rest of the album

Sometimes a record will take a test that it compels me to invent as I listen to it, like here, when during the breakdown in “My Feet Keep Dancing” I realised that CHIC were near guaranteed to present more than three moments on this record at least as great as the stuff I’m already familiar with, which is only “Good Times”. Unusually, the verse-chorus-verse parts are just the mise-en-scene - it’s the interstitial bass sprints and the sudden, odd grooves that this excels and revels in.

High quality disco, obv., but not as much going on as for C'est Chic, and for too long. The eternal "Good Times" qualifies this for the rating; RIP Alfa Anderson

1.9 2x

Tricky one this. On the one hand it's one of the great bands of disco, on the other hand it's a bit tedious and the lyrics are banal. There's so much to admire about Chic but there's a sense that an album of it is listening in the wrong way. It's for on the floor.

This is more joy than it seems appropriate to enjoy right now

very funky and groovy. “good times” indeed. Favorite track: good times other picks: my feet keep dancing, what about me, my forbidden lover

Nice one.

Good. Funky. Not blown away. But Good Times is the shit.

Enjoyed this, good vibes all round. Nile Rodgers' guitar playing is great, no surprise there. The band added those extra little flourishes that round off their sound, like the piano and string parts, I really like that. It almost has a city pop style at moments I did think one or two tracks could get a bit repetitive, I'd occasionally check my phone thinking it was somehow repeating again but it wasn't a major issue Pretty good overall. Glad I heard it Highlights: Good Times, My Forbidden Lover

Upbeat disco songs are incredibly repetitive, and the slow ones are just unlistenable.

OK DISCOOOOO - Great groove and cohesive sound, but the songs feel so long and repetitive, especially near the end.

If you had asked me a year ago whether I like disco I would have said no, but I'm all about this album. The first track (Good Times) is a clear standout, but the rest of the album slaps. Quite a few times I thought I'd heard bits before - not sure if that's from copying, sampling or influencing, or if I've just heard it without knowing who they were

Good Times never last is the one line review of this album We kick off with one of the greatest disco songs and then meander about a bit Never bad but never Good Times

Such incredible bass lines...

This is above average background music for your cocaine party

Om 10 dage er det præcis 1 år siden CHIC sprang min hjerne i luften. Jeg har hørt det her album allerede, og står ved min rating

Det eneste gode ved det her album er at det indirekte gav os Rappers Delight

I didn’t love this album, but the musicianship was top-notch and the bass lines were great.

This is probably the most unexpected album I've loved. The songs aren't bops and yet they are? The power of disco✨

Peaks early, as basically every Chic record does, with the eternal "Good Times," but then it settles into a simmering groove that is perfect to put on while you're cooking a fancy meal for someone you wanna sleep with

ok, fine, fuck it, just about any time Nile Rodgers is involved, give it the five, what the fuck ever,

The bass and the guitar work were really, really nice and groovy The songs were too stretched out. 9/10 I'm all for longer and fewer songs in an album but I don't think the music was suited to that. Each song would have benefitted from being 2-3 minutes shorter in length, because after that it got repetitive and tedious. It's a shame really, it could have been a great album

A good record that is a victim of being listened to outside of the context for which it’s intended. Sure, if you are listening to it hoping for it to be imbued with some deeper meaning, it won’t be for you. Sometimes music is just intended to be danced to. Even so, it’s far from one speed, the slower songs are still groovy and showcase some great musicianship and song craft. I think generally discos thrives as more of a singles format, but this is one of the better albums of the genre

I Liked the sound but the first few tracks were 12inchers (6mins long) and became repetitive.

Ohhh me gustó este disco. Menos de 40 minutos de pura onda

Je suis partagé par rapport à cet album. Clairement CHIC savent faire des excellentes mélodies disco qui donnent vraiment envie de danser. Je pense que c'est parmi les meilleurs artistes de ce style que j'ai entendu. Malheureusement, la majorité des chansons étaient trop longues et répétitives pour leur bien. J'aurais préféré que les chansons soient plus courtes et qu'il y en aille 2 ou 3 de plus. Reste que je risque très fortement de le réécouter. 7.5/10

i wish it was more consistently dancy, but this was a pretty fun time.

Delightful

forgot to rate this one when i listened — I have a fondness for this because "early hiphop that samples disco" is one of my favorite genre river deltas and Good Times is iconic for being the sample behind Rapper's Delight. also i just rly like disco bullshit 3.5

I personally would not have done the slow love ballad on track two, but the rest was indeed good times!

Rating: 8.5/10 So damn funky.

Nice background music to bop along with your day. 3/5

I put this on loud and next thing I knew I was instantly transported to a 1980s Long Island wedding. There were all the trappings of a luxury ceremony, including clams on the half-shell AND roller skates. Unfortunately I got a venereal disease from one of the bridesmaids and someone stole my wallet when I passed out in the toilet.

Vibrant, sharp, stylish, full of hooks - a great listen. It is sad that the contributions of Tony Thompson and Bernard Edwards are less remembered, a fabulous rhythm section.

good disco

Without this album there'd be no Giorgio Moroder, no Daft Punk, and no countless other musical acts than make us get up and dance. Well done.

Definitely some good grooves in here but I felt like the tracks were dragged out too long and wasn't too inspired and skipped around a bit. 2 star for me.

Classic grooves. Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards absolutely kill.

It's enjoyable enough, but every track sounds same-ish and repetitive to the point that if you listened to the first song then you're more or less done with the album because it's just the same thing over and over. It's still nice and fun though, and I don't necessary not like the album but I suppose I wouldn't go back to it on my own accord. Fav track: Good Times

Играла в кальянной на Санторини

I didn’t realize I needed to hear another chic album. It’s good though. Well written talented musicians. Well produced. I’d give it 3,5 but gonna round down. Sorry.

Good times song

There’s a lot of reviews that have mentioned the lyrics, but even having read some before listening it didn’t prepare me for how out of pocket some of them are. This is getting a five purely because my experience listening to A Warm Summer Night was something to behold. I thought I heard in the background ‘Te quiero, Papi’ and thought, oh that’s weird, wonder what that lyric is really, kept hearing it to the point I thought I was going mad, and then the last line of the song is ‘Te quiero, Papi’ in a really unnecessary stage whisper. Perfect, no notes. And then in Can’t Stand To Love You you get the double whammy of ‘Little Punk, do it for me or I’ll number your days’ and ‘You’d think I were into S&M.’ Where did that come from?

Disco. :/

One of disco’s most iconic albums that also helped pioneer hip-hop and new wave. This is classic Nile Rodgers dance floor funk with the right bass line at the right time Good Times is the obvious stand out, a truly perfect opener, and the rest of the album is pretty good but nothing else really comes close to that unstoppable groove

If I’ve heard one disco song, I’ve heard them all.

Very groovy , love that bass 3.75

Even though I was not into discos when they were the thing, I still liked a lot of what was considered disco music. Not sure why, maybe it was just the rhythm and being able to just have a happy beat as part of the soundtrack of my life. This album is terrific. Of course there is the monster hit Good Times but the rest of the album is quite good and at just under 40 minutes does not overstay it's welcome.

Not much of interest other than the one radio hit.

Great, not listened before, liked it very much.

I dug it, but it felt a little all over the place. I prefer the pure disco albums.

Meh I mostly enjoyed this to hear the original samples that better songs use (see daft punk). It's a tad too disco for me and every song goes in for too long. Good Times does not need to be 8 mins long

Mmmh, du bon disco pour digérer les albums des derniers jours. C’est pas l’uppercut de C’est Chic, mais t’es très bien en écoutant et en réécoutant l’album

É um album bem divertido de ouvir. Gostei muito de Good Times (óbvio), My Feet Keep Dancing, A Warm Summer Night e Can't Stand to Love You.

Disco music é definitivamente uma das melhores coisas que a humanidade já foi capaz de inventar. é dançante, contagia, é resistência, traz a tona tudo aquilo que faz o ser humano ser o que é. eu amo música disco e esse álbum é uma amostra perfeita do potencial do gênero.

When did clubs stop playing this?? It's literally designed for dancing!

Previously rated: C'est Chic (3/5) *********************** More of the same from the previous CHIC album, though maybe not quite as good. Still has the long, repetitive dance songs that don't quite have the intended effect when listening in the car, but still decent stuff.

Didn't enjoy this one as much as C'est Chic, mostly because it didn't have an anchor song like Le Freak. Good Times is solid but nothing else stood out to me.

This album opens with the iconic “Good Times,” which is 5 minutes too long for my liking, despite its importance in musical history. “Can’t Stand to Love You” was probably my favorite track on this album-it’s the funkiest. Still, I couldn’t get through it-it’s too disco for me. Learning about this band and its influence and later works by various members was fascinating though!

Loved the disco album, what a way to start the morning. Even gave it a second listen, I was not aware of many songs by chic but I knew I loved the ones I’d heard. I was not disappointed with the rest of the album either, it may not have the same revere as a Bob Dylan or David Bowie album but for my personal taste this is a much better album than any other theirs

I was excited for this, and it was good, bit repetitive though.

I didn't realise I was familiar with some of Chic's work prior to putting this album on... then I hit play, and felt like I'd been catapulted straight into a furniture advert. I don't know why I know the song so well, I can only imagine it's because of one of those never-ending DFS sales from back in the day. A fact I immediately learned upon listening to 'Good times' is that it's impossible to walk normally whilst playing it. I found myself bounding against my will to the rhythm.. and by the time I'd finished walking the dog I felt like my moustache had grown thicker and my hair had slowly started to perm itself. No word of a lie, when I returned home having just finished the first song, my Mrs turned to me and asked if I was okay. I responded, "Why'd you ask, sugar?" She then says, "Because you're looking like one jive motherfucker right about now, ya dig?" I span on my heels, peered over the top of my star shaped sunglasses and quipped, "Listen sister, this soul train ain't got no off ramp", and then I bounded out of the room, one cuban heel at a time. My new found groove was short lived anyway, as the next song felt a little too much like softcore porno music. It was too early in the morning for that.. I hadn't had my weetabix and my joints needed a rest after being goaded into action by the bass guitar on the previous track. All in all I enjoyed the album, and felt it was bookended by its best two songs. A lot of it felt quite samey and it meant some of the tracks just melded into background music. Luckily the album was nowhere near long enough for that to become a major issue. For me it sits between 3 and 4 stars. I'll keep it at 3 just because it was a little repetitive, there were a few too many comedowns in terms of tempo/mood and frankly, my knees can't deal with that level of funk on a sustained basis anymore.

Disco funk soul. The surprise that was the first song was absolutely perfect for my morning. I didn’t know that I needed it but when the sun come on, I absolutely loved it and he started my Tuesday off the best way possible and then the second song started and I don’t know why there is such a difference it loses its energy. I was quite disappointed but I’m putting that down to purely being because of how high the first song made me feel Rather than the second song letting me down so much. The rest of the album seem to just happen it was disco. It was fun. It was sold. It was black but it was okay. It then picks up with the last two songs and I felt like I was enjoying myself again. I even replayed the last two songs as I felt like the album finished on such a high note. No funny comments from me today just an okay album with some good songs and some nowadays would just be called fella. I’ve written this review using the microphone on my keyboard so if anything doesn’t make sense, I’m blaming Steve Jobs three stars

I felt nothing at all while listening to this. It's the musical equivalent to canvas wall art in an office complex.

pretty good.

It was alright and think it would work better if dancing to it in a club then listening intently to it. Then the 8+ minutes runtime would work great. Still very talented musicians with fantastic production Rating: 3.4

Good, not my style really. Super influential, though, and has been sampled everywhere.

Nice grooves and very listenable.

He ich has würkli nöd esoo geil gfunde. Bernie edwards rettet scho

de bass. de bass. es isch sehr guete disco. sehr sehr guet. mengmol chli zu wischi waschig. d text sind straight up insano arsch. de breakdown teil SLAPPT. warm summer night het au schöne bass aber de shit isch nöd so guet? aso moll schön und so aber es isch zu easy listening für mich. my feet keep dancing isch au z lang aber ich loses au zf chopfhörer und ha nöd kokst da isch mini schuld. jo es sind halt songs für im club. forbidden lover passiert au afoch. de sound isch super aber de song isch etz nöd de hammer. boh das tuet gad easy weh aber das album isch bitz arsch.

ahh good times kenntmer ja so mega fest d bassline het so en riese wiedererkennigswert warm summer night isch iwie au mega perfekt zunere summernacht, soo schön und smooth my feet keep dancing isch recht repititiv und ener langqilig ÖÖH öhm ja de rest hets geh, es isch alles chli ah mier verbii, nöd schlecht aber nüt speziells? mega fest es 3, die erste zwei lieder banger, de rest han ich scho wieder vergesse

Helt okej grej. Cool bas ändå

Nothing worse than slow paced disco and this had plenty.

Mile Rodger is the master of funky production. The songs themselves left me a bit wanting, though, as a few of them maybe dragged repetitively on a bit longer than strictly necessary.

Disco

Another fun album by CHIC! This music is so bright and delightful that its creation seems to be effortless, though I know better. But Risqué sure is easy to listen to. Delightful and smooth are probably the adjectives I'd use the most, I think. I think it's fair to say Risqué, despite its name, wasn't as daring as C'est Chic, but hey, both were enjoyable just the same. Thankfully Risqué wasn't a cookie cutter copy and leaned more towards R&B. Still, there was enough disco that I was dancing!

Another excellent funky disco album, courtesy of Chic! This album was the direct follow-up to the iconic "C'est Chic", and while this is not quite as good in my opinion, it's still a solid album! If I had to highlight something that this album brings to the table that is different from the previously mentioned Chic album, it's that this album leans even heavier into the R&B sound, which would become even bigger at the turn of the decade to the 1980s. I really wanted to love this as much as I loved "C'est Chic", but it didn't quite hit that same high for me. That said, it was still a high 3, at the very least, and so I'm rounding it up anyway!

Byrjar með sprengju og maður kemst í þvílíkan fíling og svo er bara skipt yfir í rólegt og rómantískt. Svo kemur barabland í poka fram að næsta hressleika sem er síðasta lagið. Það er að vissu leyti fjölbreytni sem er gott en það þýðir að ég veit ekki alveg hvenær ég myndi hlusta á plötuna aftur

Love the ringing guitar riffs of Nile Rodgers and some of the basslines are just too funky. Some of the tracks wandered off from the party vibe and weren't as infectious so this is a 4/5 from me

The Good: We start our listening experience off by being told we will have a “Good Time”… The Bad: The Good Time, so it seems never ends… The Ugly: Maybe we are being fooled; it is not about my good time, but about other people’s good, and be damned my good time! Undeniable that Good Time is a classic disco song… Undeniable that CHIC knows how to stick to a beat / rhythm / concept Undeniable that, as with the other damn album by CHIC on the 1001 list, I got bored, nay, BORED real fast. While I gave the other album 2* as I was acknowledging the musicianship on the album, this time around I am going to dish out a solid 1* Thank goodness disco died a quick death!

Didn't know what to expect but I loved it. So funky and I love disco. I never realised Good Times was 8 minutes long. Highlights: Good Times My Forbidden Lover

Muy chulo pero por momentos un poco hortera y aburrido (pienso en la de Warm Summer Night sobre todo)

What Marco said

Few good songs. The rest is a bit underwhelming

Nile Rodgers really knew how to make songs to get people dancing. 45 years later and you can still fill the floor with Good Times. 4/5

Classic pop album. Sounds great. One great and very-radio-friendly song, and then a bunch of nonsense that makes you suspect that the one song was accidental. Nile Rodgers is a great producer and he and Bernard Edwards make great backing tracks. Chic was just missing songwriting and interesting leads.

By my own scale this is a solid 3, but I have to admit I was disappointed. Maybe I wanted less disco and more funk? Good Times was amazing, and some of the other songs were fun, but reading the CHIC bio I kept wanting to hear songs that weren't on this album, like Le Freak or stuff the produced for Diana Ross

Yeah, I don’t think I was able to get through any of the songs without skipping ahead. It’s disco, its fine, but it’s so repetitive, sonically and lyrically I get bored.

Boy it’s a kick in the crotch to hear “Good Times” first thing on 11/6/24. Sigh. Look, it’s a fine disco album, but it’s still a disco album. So, it’s probably great for finding breakbeats but otherwise it’s not exciting to me. Can’t fault the musicians - Nile Rogers and Bernard Edwards are great here. Just not today.

Disco! Not my thing! Good Times is familiar, the rest are forgettable

Bardzo przyjemne. 4/5 można słuchać wielokrotnie

no geral, o baixo desse álbum foi uma das coisas mais bem executadas que eu já escutei na vida. o álbum é bem bom, muito dançante das ideia, disco é bom d+

O SAMPLE DE 2345meia78!!!!!!!!!!! só guitarrinha safada que delícia hein. disco é bão demais!!!

Certainly a very influential album to a lot of late 20th and 21st century styles. Very carefree music, as is the nature of disco music. Love the basslines and Nile Rodgers’ infectious riffs.

Excellent album, Nile Rodgers is metronomic on Guitar, the bass is some of the best I've heard

At least half the songs drag on for minutes longer than I would want them too. Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards can't carry the album forever.

1. good timez - 1 2. night - 1 3. dancing - 0 4. lover - 0 5. ztand - 0 6. cry - 1 7. me - 0

Hadn’t heard of them, but have definitely heard their hit songs. Didn’t enjoy the album that much. Not my favourite genre.

Solid album.

Classic disco

joa, schön für zwischendurch

I dig the mid-tempo grooves on this album though nothing quite compares to Good Times.

Pop-Music

It's okay just not my thing.

They dragged out these tracks way too much for it to be an enjoyable album

Every track here hits the spot.

Uplifting

Some Good Times indeed. Some of the tracks are so long and repetitive that it's kind of a miracle that they don't particularly feel it.

Good times carries this album hard, all the way up to 4 stars, but not quite enough for a full 5.

Pure, slinky, glitter-soaked disco perfection. Bernard Edwards and Nile Rogers were an unstoppable team.

Beyond the hits, these are real songs that just happen to use that smooth CHIC sound.

Those bass lines kept me engaged. Not a ton of diversity of sound in this album, but its a short little ripper. I would totally be in a CHIC cover band.

Classic good beats

Nile Rodgers 🙌

4 - better than this genre usually is

Definitely a solid disco band with some funk elements. I think when it comes to disco BeeGees will always be the king for me but some decent tracks on here and very easy to listen to. I also, and this may be a lack of knowledge or a stretch on my part, feel like this band probably had a huge influence on city pop with the synth styles and general pop songwriting. It all sounds very beachy. Not all tracks hit but the highlights for me are "Good Times", "My Feet Keep Dancing", "Will You Cry" and "What About Me".

More good quality recordings.

2+ Stars (6/15)

High quality disco. There is some filler that is a bit lightweight, but the big hitters are absolutely fabulous.

Good disco album

I don't like CHIC. There, I said it. It's probably criminal and means I can't leave the house for fear of running into Nile Rogers performing at a festival, or put the telly on in case he's on the BBC. But there we go. I'M SORRY.

This was more fun than I knew I needed. I never realized that first track is literally almost 8 minutes long.

An enjoyable romp around the dance floor. Is What About Me about what I think it is about? 3.5 but rounding up because it put me in a good mood.

Good disco album. Good Times an all time classic

A really good album, I liked Good Times, My Forbidden Lover and Will You Cry (When You Hear This Song) the most.

Good Times good. The songs are too long + I don't really care for the genre

I have some amount less than 583992 hours spent awake left in my life and having spent 36 minutes listening to this has been a great use of my time It's insane how much my mood improved when the first song came on. It might be impossible to not be in the mood hearing that. This happiness buff lasted throughout the entire album and I was half-dancing in the rain and singing along with the bassline just jamming along to the rhythm

To all the idiots saying that this is an album full of incredibly repetitive songs that could be a minute long and would contain all that the song had to offer, I refer them to My Feet Keep Dancing, which has a tap-dance solo in it. Take that, dickheads! This album makes me think of pressing a 9V battery onto my sweaty balls - yes, it may make my leg jiggle a bit, but it is otherwise horrible and makes me feel a bit ill.

The first song on this ("Good Times") is definitely the only hit off it for a reason. It's not a terrible album, but there are a lot of slower (not great) songs that really change the feel of the more upbeat numbers. I liked it well enough, but not enough to really listen to it again.

repeat listen, but can't complain about the classics

Not only is it disco, it's very repetitive, but it's also... well... it's good. It really deserves a 4 or higher but, well, it's disco. Rating: 3

prety cool, songs go long and repeat but they were still enjoyed

Great album! I especially liked the faster songs like the classic Good Times, great beats.

Early days disco fun

Disco feel

chic are the best they just groove so hard how can u not like this shit

I liked this! Ended up listening to it twice by accident

Started strong and faded fast. Just not my jam

Just 40 minutes of pure vibes. Does it drag on a bit at times? Yes. Does it matter? Absolutely not! The production is also buttery smooth and clear. Take a bow Nile Rogers

Iconic Album

Funktastic - never been the biggest fan though solid album

Classic Bernie Edwards bass and Nile Rodgers guitar, but does get a bit repetitive after a while. Good times is still a classic though.

Some funky sounds on this but gets a bit samey.

Pretty but repetitive

Great Tunes.

Good album,

Meh. Too disco-y

They just don't do interludes like this anymore. Smash

Did not like this one

Absolutely exciting.

Dear artists, If you have “album versions” and “single versions” that are half has long, your “album versions” are too long. Very repetitive album. If I was a teen when this came out, I would have been “disco sucks” really hard. However, I might enjoy this in the right environment.

Enjoyable, fun listen with some good energy. A few songs are longer than they need to be, but I like a lot of prog rock, so who am I to talk?

Ah, yes, the true origins of Hip Hop. Mostly forgettable album, but the bass is groovy as hell throughout. Favorites were Good Times and My Forbidden Lover

This one peaks with Good Times then is just alright for the rest. The bass is consistently great. Favorites were Good Times and My Feet Keep Dancing.

Some of these songs genuinely felt like a sanity test. The rest were pretty good ig.

Ok

Disco fanstastico

È un peccato perché la prima canzone mi ha acceso in un modo assurdo e se fosse continuato così poteva essere 5/5 - purtroppo la fiamma si è spenta subito dopo

mi stavo per sbilanciare sulle cinque stelle, ma c'è qualcosa che mi frena. quattro stelle siano, ma sarebbe un 4,5 abbondante. che funk, che bass lines, soprattutto nella prima canzone.

*gif di persone che ballano con capelli afro, vestiti sbrilluccicanti e palla luminosa che lancia luci strobo nel locale*

Quite good. Not quite as good as their previous album, but still a 3

Decent album. Would be a vibe in the 70s at a disco

Really funky. some lows but i had a good time

First things first: this is my 545th album to review, which officially puts me past the halfway point for all 1089 albums on this list. I was hoping for something great to pop up today, and I was excited to see Chic's Risqué be a milestone album for me. I loved reviewing C'est Chic several months ago, and I read Nile Rodgers' autobiography earlier this year, so I have really high hopes for Risqué. Unfortunately, I didn't love this album as much as I loved C'est Chic. Edwards and Rodgers' songwriting, producing, and musicianship are still great on this album, but the album's shortcomings are due to the success of "Good Times." Risqué starts off with one of the most dance-inducing songs of all time, but the rest of the album feels like it has tickets to a different party. The bass playing on "Good Times" is absolutely out of this world, and even with a run time clocking in over eight minutes, those eight minutes don't feel long enough. The piano, string arrangements, and lead guitar are fantastic as well, making this one of the best songs of the decade. "A Warm Summer Night" delves more into soul influences, with lyrics and a bass line that are equally sultry, but from this point on, the funk driven party is mostly over. "My Feet Keep Dancing" kicks things back up a notch with another great, yet distinctly unique, bass line, accompanied by some great keyboards. Like "Good Times," this song kept me wanting more, despite its long run time. The songs on side 2 of the album are well written, feature more great musical arrangements, and give the album more diverse sounds, utilizing a sound that's closer to soul than traditional disco. However, I think that most people would agree that side 1 is the clear winner on this album. Overall, Risqué is good, but I didn't think it lived up to what I expected from Chic. Still, I could listen to Edwards and Rodgers' guitar mastery all day, and this album's biggest weakness is that it's not just 40 minutes of "Good Times."

3.5/5

Tailor made for solid gold dancers.

Iconic boogie music, a bit repetitive.

This was pretty rad. They have some depth beyond their hit single that I didn’t know about.

Not suitable for running

all time entry in the "oh! it's THIS song!" genre

Really short album, but Good Times is a masterpiece track.