Risque

Wow, where are my rollerskates? I'm going to wear out my white guy overbite jamming to this entire album again.

Good Times is a timeless classic and has been sampled more than I can remember. Lyrics are forgettable, but the production is solid on every song.

disco halt. nit schlecht, aber hörs wsl nimmer

I can see why Niles was such a massive influence on the music scene. An exceedingly entertaining album.

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solid disco great bass work

not my cup of tea

Highlights: Good Times, A Warm Summer Night, My Feet Keep Dancing, My Forbidden Lover, What About Me Chic saw the disco they pioneered be debased into parody and had to show the world once again how to do it right. A great, yet unfortunately timed swan song to the disco era, as the infamous demolition night occurred literally 2 weeks prior to the album's release. Admittedly not too experienced with the genre (and funk/soul), but I can't really find any major flaws here so I'm feeling the good times.

Confirms disco is not a genre I enjoy.

Good Times is an iconic song has been sampled over 200 times and deservedly so. The rest of the album does not get sampled and deservedly so 3.7/10

Fun songs, but man are some of them repetitive. Perhaps best for background music. The fact that the album is shorter redeems it slightly.

This isn't a perfect album, but the influence this has had is incalculable. Nile Rogers is a national treasure.

Good disco for sure, but beyond a couple tracks the rest are sort of just there. Almost a 4.

Funky, soulful and definitely Disco. It is clear the effect that Chic and this album have had on modern music and this album still holds up after all this time. Not something that I would listen to in my free time, but I couldn't help tapping along and found hard not to break into dance while listening.

Loved this album. It's all about the rhythm, It makes you want to go dancing. Loved Neil Rodgers guitars. "Good Times" is a classic, as well as the rest of the album. Highlight: "My Feet Keep Dancing".

Dimery s ridiculous ban on greatest hits albums shows up here. I know it’s well received, but outside the singles, there’s nothing here that requires listening. Dancing? Sure. But I’d rather hear a compilation of the hits. I do love the cover. And Niles and Bernard are just *mwah*

I expected to enjoy this more than I did. AMAZING bass playing, but most of the songs had very little else to them and seemed to go on forever with little development or variation. “That’s dance music”, I hear someone cry; if so then my beef is with the whole genre, but I’ve heard plenty that combines extended grooves with greater variation and interest.

If my kids never play another gig, they can always say they were on the bill at a dance festival held at Barrington Tops & headlined by the great Nile Rodgers. This album is more about dancing than listening to. And it achieves the aim of getting them up on their feet. The thing that irritates me with a lot of these tracks is the repetition - how many times can you put up with the same phrase being repeated over & over? (And please, don’t throw Hey Jude at me!) Pity Nile doesn’t give the guitar a workout more often. But it’s a lively listen, nonetheless.

If you are following my reviews, you will note that I tend to like my music and bit raw and noisy, not too polished. But all that goes out the window with Chic, here at the height of their powers. I always keep a couple of Chic singles in my DJ crates, because they are guaranteed floor fillers. I confess that I've never listened to this whole album before. It's disco, but funkier than a lot of disco. The rhythm section are always int he pocket, the orchestrations are classy and compelling, the vocals cool and classy. The whole album is classy, cool, smooth and funky, almost irresistible on the dance floor. This really is peak disco. But the really important track is Good Times. A #1 single in its own right, but the influence is enormous. The bassline is one of the cornerstones of hip hop, sampled a zillion times, most notably in Rapper's Delight. It's a terrific song, and has a massive footprint on musical history. The whole album is pretty schmick and I enjoy it, but really the only track, that you must, must, MUST hear is Good Times. Five stars for that song alone.

Disco Classic. Long songs. Sounds like if Rappers delight was the original song

Vibey funk for a chill listening session either at 11am or stock for a bougée party.

Good times - spank the monkey

Disco bleh. Every track sounds the same, all of them quite nauseating.

Essential disco album imo

Clams on the half shell, and roller skates! roller skates! These are the Good Times. What else does a party need? As excited as I was to listen to this album, there are some tedious moments. It gets a tad repetitive for such a short album. Apple Music skipped "A Warm Summer Night" the first time through. When I started playing it my heart kind of sank a little. It's the sort of slow sensuous song that made me ill when I was a kid...and to be honest still does. However, the extended silence at the end of the six minutes of smoldering passion, finishing with an echo-y "te quiero.......papi!" made me laugh out loud and brought me joy. A string section and tap sequence made "My Feet Keep Dancing" my favorite by far. I love the aspirations of the narrator who wants to go to space or play a good game of golf. Side 2 isn't remarkable, but who cares, it's Chic! Yay!

If not for the love of CHIC from my childhood, then this album (that I had never heard before today) probably would have been rated lower. But I could not bring myself to mark anything other than 5.

A delightful dance party. More like this please.

Wow this album gives us some iconic disco but also has more storyline that I ever noticed before. Listened to this several times today and it just gets better and better.

Cool and funky, songs have been heavily sampled by classic hip hop, but not an album I could see myself regularly listening to.

Rating: 8/10 Best songs: Good times, My feet keep dancing, Will you cry

enjoyable album. Mood changing. SmoooooothNfunky. Love organs and wah-pedal guitar No complaints. Added whole album to Apple Music Library

A album that made you happy. Lot of nice beats and nice voice of the vocalist.

9/10 yeah, I really like Chic — these folks write hella good music

I was in my youth during the disco era -- it peaked in my pre-teen years -- and I was too dismissive of the music that fit the times. I was getting into rock and hard rock and didn't let my ears appreciate this music back then. I sure do now. This album is incredible. So tight, so catchy, and so fun. All layers work superbly well here, and all performances are delivered with such skill. I'm glad I approached this music with a more open ear in recent decades. Some incredible albums made in this style, and this album is an outstanding example of it. Nile Rodgers and Tony Thompson...I mean, come on! Wow. Love the vocals that Alfa Anderson and Luci Martin give us here. All in -- such talent! The full version of "Good Times" (the 8:16 track that opens the album) is a masterpiece.

Fun times, some cool callbacks in modern music

Disco is not dead.

This is fantastic.

Honestly very close to a 5 from me. Couple songs dragged it down. But loved this disco funk action

ok

A great album by that essential band for disco, soul and funk. CHIC created great stuff. This album is more upbeat in a sense of tempo and forward. So it's more disco than other albums and essential for something you'd listen to on a Saturday night out. I love the quieter songs though like "A Warm Summer Night".

bangs

Now this, is music I love! One of those bands where I've never strayed too far from the singles. And there's some great material on here. A very sweet, short but cohesive album! The lyrical department might be a bit cliche, but I think the essence of Chic is to just dance, feel good and enjoy! 8 out of 10

Ridiculously smooth. Coke-sheened.

Great listen, great vibe. Track 2 is not great, but the rest of the album superb. 4/5

As much as I respect the subjective rationale behind the review currently topping this section, I have to argue that listening to *Risqué* without legendary opener "Good Times", even to better judge the other less familiar cuts, can't provide a clear picture of this album's dynamics. And this for one simple thing: "Good Times" might be a tower of a song, but the album version drags on and on and on (compared to the single version, I presume). And in a way, this initial self-indulgence foretells everything in that record that makes Chic a great 'singles band', but also an awkward act when it comes to albums and their very different needs and requirements. My main gripe with that record is not about its overall "disco" style, by the way--that beef between rock and disco is a battle from a long distant past no one in their right mind cares about now, fortunately. For one thing, I think there are not enough "pure", four-on-the-floor disco tracks on this thing: I only consider "Good Times" and "My Feet Keep Dancing" as being representatives of that style, really. Take very recent *Future Nostagia*, by Dua Lipa, and listen to how an album filled to the brim with four-on-the-floor galore can be exhilarating, by the way. This here is the sort of album dynamics that are cruelly lacking in this Chic LP. So no, my main gripe with *Risqué* is not about disco, my gripe is that the tunes in this album are so damn linear. Some of them seem to go on and on--just like "Good Times", but with less assets when it comes to instant catchiness and rhythmical power. And it doesn't matter what style the songs are displaying. When Chic tackles the torch songs, soul, rythm'n'blues and funk that were always on the margins of disco at the times, they're not fully convincing to say the least. If tracks such as "Can't Stand To Love You" and "Will You Cry"--obviously very decent compositions--had been performed by Sly And The Family Stone a few years earlier, they would be raucous, lively, hearbreaking, *outré*, unpredictable. In other words, they would be *alive*. The same if a similar ground had been covered by Outkast decades later. But in *Risqué*, those cuts sound innocuous, even aspectic, with a few hackneyed or hokey solo vocal performances on top of them to try to bring life into the proceedings--to no avail, unfortunately. As hard as Chic can try, there's nothing... *risqué* about those recordings. It's too goddamn safe. Much has been said about the powerhouse that Niles Rodgers and co. were, and how their many skills made them essential acts for black music. But there's a downside to those stellar skills: most of the times, Chic turn everything into an all-too-clean simulacrum. And this is why, album-wise, they sound so stale for many ears. Add to this a couple of obvious fillers inside what is only a seven-song album--fillers coming up as early as tracks number 2 and 4 ("A Warm Summer Night" and "My Forbidden Lover"), and what you get is a mixed bag. An endearing one at times, for sure. But nothing as "essential" as critics usually say it is. In other words, I would love to own a greatest hits album by Chic one day (possibly one not too expensive, granted I have room left on my shelves). But when it comes to their studio albums, I can live without them, clearly. 2/5 for the purposes of this list, translating to a 7/10 grade for more general purposes (5 + 2) Number of albums left to review: 450 Number of albums from the list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 256 Albums from the list I *might* include in mine later on: 132 Albums from the list I will certainly *not* include in mine (many others are more essential to me): 165 (including this one)

A lot of fun, but hard to really get my teeth into it.

So the grooves on the album are funky and the musicianship is tight and silky smooth But for me, it lacks depth and I occasionally found myself waiting for some of the long tracks to finish.

Quality disco, the groove abides

I'm sure this is fine if you like disco. . 'Good Times' is ok but even that goes on for far too long.

Another case where the music got massively better as soon as the album stopped and Spotify started playing similar hits. Each tune was a couple of minutes too long . Good Times was an inspiration for a lot of samplers in the eighties.

Oh damn, the bassline on Good Times, so good! Shame the rest of the album feels like filler. Though I was happy it had a short runtime.

Super smooth classic disco. The upbeat tracks work a lot better than the slow ones.

Meh really not the best of the best, good times is typically an alright single but 8 minutes is too long for this song, the rest of the album is solid but no real bangers. 3/5

Disco fun fest

It’s good,it washes over you pleasantly all the songs are good,some are too long but the funky disco guitar of Nile rogers is something I really like.

The bass lines are too good.

They have style and they have the funk in their grasps. All-around great and groovy.

It's another disco album. A couple of songs were recognizable. It was alright but I am not going to listen to it again.

Another fun disco album. As far as uses of soul and funk go, this is towards the bottom of the list for me. However, it is still soul and funk nonetheless, which means it's still good. Favorite track: Good Times

The production on this was pristine. The bass was amazing, in the first song obviously highly influential. But the drop off is steep, and the songs are way too long and repetitive.

Today's album is my first disco album that I've gotten on this generator. CHIC have those disco staples Good Times, and Le Freak. Good Times was actually the first song on this record, so it started on a high note! This was a relatively average album. Nothing too spectacular, and nothing horrible either. One thing I did find was a few songs overstayed their welcome. For example, if Good Times was a few minutes shorter, I would have enjoyed it more. One super solid aspect of the record was the bassist, Bernard Edwards. He is definately putting in work on this one!! The music is super funky with just the right amount of soul. They have the recipe for making music that makes you want to move. Overall, not bad, perfectly average. I listened twice today. Favourite songs: Good Times, My Forbidden Lover Least favourite songs: Can't Stand to Love You 3/5

actually quite enjoyed this! disco for cleaning & boogieing playlist incoming. tap dance solo was unhinged in a bad way tho.

Feels bad rating this so low, but genuinely each track is too long and repetitive. Some tracks aren't even that long and they still feel like they drag! Obviously what's there is good, which is why it's been sampled and reused so much, but at its core this is a record that kind of explains why disco was so maligned. I like disco, I'm European, but this was a bit tiresome.

Bernard Edwards on bass is one of the highlights of this album and I think that is part of what sets this album apart from other disco albums. If I had a complaint, I would mention the songs are a bit long. When it comes to disco, I think the chorus is probably the only thing that matters and once the cocaine started flying there was no difference in a 4 minute and 7 minute song. This album gets more interesting on repeated listens, even though I am not a fan of disco. I think this album definitely needs to be heard and I may even explore more CHIC, as it is good background music for when I'm working.

I love disco! but not this album that much. It's ok. It's good. But not something I would put on the speakers or in my headphones. I appreciate the album. The album went from good, to boring, to good.

Musically this album is fantastic. The issue lies in the fact that they lead off with “Good Times” and then struggle to reach those highs again.

This was great! Obvi heading the first song was a realization but the rest of this album is awesome!

Really like Chic. Unfortuntely this album doesn't really reach the highs to warrant a higher rating. Many songs, though very catchy, can get quite long and monotonous as well.

I generally like disco but found this a bit monotonous. Was never really a fan of "Good times" but some of the other tracks were ok. Personal favorite was "My forbidden lover". Hard to rate but since i found it a quite boring although it's only about half an hour in length. Maybe a 3?

It starts off with the jam Good Times and then all the rest is kind of the same song

I gotta say I was kind of disappointed in this album. With such a strong, funky opener like “Good Times”, I was looking forward to this album. The rest of the album was OK, but never quite had the same groove as Good Times.

What can be said about the classic "Good Times" - a staple of any party in the late 70s / early 80s, and still played today. But apart from "My Feet Keep Dancing", the rest of the album is meh.

vibey disco stuuff

Shockingly solid

2.5

Nothing to write home about. It's better than mediocre.

disco/dance bangers, great basslines and funky guitar by nile rodgers.

Disco Funk

Surprisingly not the all in disco album. The 3 singles are very fun and funky but the rest of the album is more "conventional" R&B.

Good times is obviously the stand out track. The rest of the album isn’t as fun or funky but it’s still a good time

Some of the best (and funkiest) pop music ever made.

I like disco music. I like CHIC. + Good Times + My Feet Keep Dancing + My Forbidden Lover + Will You Cry (When You Hear This Song)

This album has everything going for it that should make it something I quite like; it's groovy, funky, the riffs are satisfying, and all the music is technically well crafted. Yet, I cannot seem to care or get into this much at all. There is absolutely nothing wrong with this, but it is hard time to see this as more than something you know would've played at the roller rink, and I think even Chic knows that. There is definitely a place in music for that, but perhaps that "place" was torn down twenty or thirty years ago for a reason.

Would have been a 3, but + 1 due to Bernard Edwards bass - he is awesome

Was a short and quick album had a little bit of a feel of the staying alive

Upbeat and enjoyable album

One good song and no other memorables?

Fine. First song is the epitome of roller rink songs. Weak 3

Not really for me, pretty repetitive

I absolutely love the disco dancefloor fillers. Disco as a genre is much maligned and that isn't really something we can justify given the massive impact it has (still) on music. Giving young, gay black artists a genre to fully own and develop has been hugely important to western music and one cannot understate its place. That being said. The end-of-the-night slow dance numbers really ain't my bag. This is not the best disco album. But this album has some of the best disco..

There's no doubt this album had a major influence on hip-hop. Bernard Hopkins bass lines set the tone for the rap scene in the 80s, 90s and beyond. Good Times is a banger. Side two isn't quite as good but this is a decent album overall. Also what a talent Nile Rodgers is.

I ALREADY RATED THIS YOU IDIOTS

Apparently a great album if you like Disco. I don't like Disco.

There are some excellent Disco-era artists don't really get credit they deserve for their music, or its influence on future genres. It gets treated like a novelty, when really, we're still hearing the effects of Disco today in all kinds of music. Chic is among the best, most memorable bands of this era. In a genre that gets a bad rap for being all studio fabrication, Chic was a real band playing real music that Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards wrote and produced themselves. And this particular album was well crafted, both with songs built for the dance floor and some thoughtful ballads that I didn't imagine the band had in them. The sound is distinctive and self consciously aspirational, highly polished funk that embraces the decadence of the times. Some songs on the album are better than others, but the flow from front to back is flawless, and the vocals and musicianship are solid. The star track is obviously "Good Times," which is an era-defining song that is so much fun to listen to and hasn't lost a bit of its fire. Fave Songs: Good Times, What About Me?, A Warm Summer Night, My Feet Keep Dancing

Chic are one of those bands that everyone’s heard of, but only knows that one song. Fortunately, that one song is on this album so I’ll be listening to it today. I’ve never really looked into this hem before so it’ll be interesting to see if their other tracks are similar. Songs I already knew: Good Times Favourites: Good Times Firstly, I’m a bit later than usual with this because I had an exam this morning. Forgive me! Anyway, this album was pretty good but Good Times is a clear standout when compared to the rest. I would frequently find myself singing Rapper’s Delight instead of the actual lyrics, but that familiarity from the sampling definitely makes it more fun. The rest of the album is similar in bits, but just less effective. Overall, I enjoyed this album, but I’m not sure I’ll be listening again. I’ll stick with Rapper’s Delight.

Actually spaß gehabt das Album zu hören. Viel funk und groove aber fühlte sich nicht wie ein Album an sondern eher eine Single

4 for Good Times, 2 for everything else.

Bass is great. Good Times is a fun classic. Otherwise mostly whatever, but not bad at all.

fairly boring disco, nothing extra. The most commercially succesful song is 8 mins long for no fucking reason, while it could have lasted 4 mins at most and be semi-enjoyable. 2 stars at best, sorry boomers, enjoy your colonoscopy

Same conclusions as for the other Chic album we've had: not at all unpleasant in the background, but also not interesting. The music just sounds extremely dated and I don't see any reason to listen to it other than for understanding historical context.

first listen that's a funk fest

It's the first time I have had two albums from the same band/artist and I've been waiting for this: another hit from Chic. I enjoyed the disco vibe carried on from the last album with it starting off so so so strong with all I'm able to think about being the end of the Horrid Henry Movie (starting to realise Chic's influence in pop culture I've consumed). It seemed to slightly tail off towards the end but I'd still say that I really enjoyed it. Overall I may say that I'm an avid Chic enjoyer.

диско по все поля (это не мой жанр)

laid back disco

Killer bassline on Good Times. Love the tap dance on My Feet Keep Dancing. Besides the grooves, the backing synths, piano and strings just give the album a nice lush urban feel, which completes the style of the album. Things are repetitive here, but come on, how can you dance to a 3 min track? You couldn’t repeat a single song back then:) (Note for myself. I’m changing my rating system a bit to avoid giving everything a 4.🔥👄🔥

Great disco album

Disco still sucks BUT that guitar on Good Times, and really through out the whole album, is awesome. Wicky Ticky Ticky Ticky

Five stars for "Good Times" (although I prefer the shorter radio edit), and two stars for the rest.

Such fantastic disco funk. Pretty much anything Niles Rodgers touches turnstiles into gold. I'm glad I finally got the opportunity to listen to an entire CHIC album...I'll add them to my playlist cause this was fun & I'll see them in about a month opening for Duran Duran. Niles Rodgers helped revitalized DD's career, so it'll be cool to see both bands on the same night. 4 solid stars.

This really didn't wow me. Not a very big disco fan, so this fell flat for me.

really good!!!

Fun disco album, good mix of dance tunes that I would probably revisit. 3.5/5 rounded up to 4/5.

Some good moments and not just because of Good Times. This is good disco but was it really necessary to put two of their albums in here?

Those bass lines tho.

Nothing outstanding for the genre. The other album include was better.

It's difficult to understand that there is two Chic albums on this list. It's good, but average stuff that no one really cares about right now. I think? Anyway.

Música para bailar en el salón una mañana soleada de domingo.

Not a surprise that I enjoyed this, Nile makes excellent music

Great disco album. Not really any bad tracks. Actually was a lot better than I expected and had way more interesting writing than a lot of other disco groups but that's a significantly low bar. Overall though extremely enjoyable and a seminal disco record. 9/10

Full of great bass lines. Was disappointed when the album finished so I put it on again.

Oké 1 de muziek is classic 2 die cover is fire yooo....kom maar in die lijst der vijven

nice

23.04.23. Альбом оказался несколько качественнее, чем я предполагал. Добротная афро-американская поп-музыка. Классика диско.

Decent 6/10

Это дискотека века

Ok.

Not bad. Groovy background disco other than Good times.

meh

Groovy, men det klikket ikke helt for meg. Plutselig tenkte jeg "Wow, denne sangen var bra!", men så viste det seg at Spotify hadde gått videre til foreslåtte sanger etter at albumet var ferdig.

The first 3 songs on this album are borderline perfect. At times they can drag on a bit but the sounds are so addicting you really don't mind. Super close to 5 stars for me but I need this album on vinyl

First thought on opening up the page. Alright! Led Zeppelin! Wait, it's another sepia album cover. Not one I've listened to though. Good Times - There's a reason this has 146 million plays and the rest of the album doesn't. The bass line & guitar. 8 minutes is too long, but I can see how you'd want to keep that groove going on the dance floor. Rest of the album is forgettable as others have mentioned. Some nice bass lines and guitar playing, but nothing I'd revisit.

I don't think it was smart to start the album off with its most recognizable (and best) song, and it was an even bigger mistake was to follow it up with the album's absolute worst song. I still liked this album for the most part tho. 4/5 favs: Good Times, My Feet Keep Dancing, What About Me least fav: A Warm Summer Night

I don’t think the sequencing in this album is great. That being said, it’s a great record to get lost in. Deceptively complex. Dark brooding themes with butt wiggling beats.

Holy shit, one of the most recognisable bass lines right off the bat! Sampled 217 times apparently, according to whosampled.com Great start, although it should have finished about 5 minutes ago. What a come down. This one seems a bit better, needs a higher tempo for goodness sake! It's all a bit slow, can you disco to this?! And it's over, that came around quickly. Apart from the first song, which tries to stretch a bassline out for way too long, nothing much really happens. I thought a disco record would be a bit more upbeat and uptempo, but this is frankly rather boring. 2 / 5 stars.

Liked the vibe, good funk but the songs just dragged on for too long and lost their focus

- Never listened to a Chic album before - Good Times is a very good song, but it's 5 minutes longer than I thought it was - Rest is just okay

Two good songs, the rest was boring. It's a small album, though, so I didn't feel like I wasted my time.

Ok funk

It was disco

If I'm being brutal, it makes disco seem a bit boring

4/5 I pretty much loved this album. It was good old fashioned Disco. I didn't realize how repetitive the lyrics were, but it didn't really matter. It felt good to sing along and it makes you wanna dance. That was fun.

Another brief one but the songs dragged on too long for my tastes. I feel like if they'd all been trimmed a little and another track or two added it'd have been a straight up 4 stars for me. Funky and well performed but bloated, what a shame.

oh, Good Times čak i znam i My Feet Keep Dancing. dobar dance album. par pjesama ide na plejliste.

Just a really good album to jam and chill to. 1. Good Times 2. My Forbidden Lover 3. A Warm Summer Night

Nice way to start a Friday. Few classics in here and it’s all feel good

Mostly really good.

loved it

Disappointing very forgettable but not terrible

I am not a disco person

Started off really loving it. Bit of funk. Quickly went downhill though, by the time "will you cry" came on I was praying it would soon end. If they kept the same energy and enjoyment from the first track throughout it would have been a couple stars higher

Heard it before?: No Enjoy it?: Yeah very fresh and textbook funk Favourite song: Track 1 - Good Times

This feels like the swan's song of disco ... it was 1979 and disco was losing its popularity. Economic times were hard as well. This album encapsulates the entire genre, and does it so well I can't stop listening to it! Peppy beats but the lyrics are sad. The band is TIGHT. The songwriting is TIGHT. Musical and production skill practically oozes from this album. I love it. 5/5

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

A classic Disco record. I don't know if I'd say it is a strong 5 due to bloat (drugs be crazy), but I think it has such staying power, that it at least deserves that 5 position.

Very catchy & danceable music! Wouldn’t turn it on normally, but it was a fun listen for this project.

Ok

Disco is such good vibes. Some of the songs did get a big repetitive buy I enjoyed “Will you cry”, and obviously “Good times” is a certified banger.

I've got a weird relationship with disco. When I was a little kid, like 7, my brother had the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack on LP and I listened to it over and over. Bet I listened to it hundreds of times. But in general I haven't really liked disco except for the groovy bass lines and wikiwokiwikiwoki guitar. So in general, I've tried to convince myself I don't like disco, because I love rock. But the reality is they can coexist! Peace to all. This was a great album.

Fun

The question is do you rate the artist or the album or the cultural significance. I recognize the significance but I rate the album 2 stars.

This is one of those albums that is just nice and pleasant, with a song practically everyone is bound to know. It's a groovy and fun album full of disco with a couple of slower songs added in. I feel like Good Times is absolutely the best thing on here though, but I never realised how long it actually was. This made it a bit repetitive to be honest, and I feel like My Forbidden Lover, while much shorter, also just repeated itself after about about halfway. I suppose it wouldn't have mattered so much grooving to this in a club. Either way though, still a pretty good album, but definitely most known for just a single song. Favourite: Good Times

That first song starts pretty good...and then it wears out its welcome. And the rest...is just there. Not 1 star bad, but the best part of this album is the first 4 minutes.

First impressions: Sounds like ABBA. I've never been into disco music, but the basslines were kinda cool. There were a few songs that sounded proto Vulfpeck to me. Like funky basslines and all. Had a few ballads in the middle. I didn't like the overly simplistic lyrics. Production was really good. The biggest contributor to the low review is that this isn't a genre I particularly enjoy.

Twas good and would listen again

1/7, 14%

Meh, I'll appreciate it for what it is, but probably not coming back to this one.

The first track is Rapper's Delight without the rap, which is something I guess. Best track: Good Times

Теперь еще меньше уважаю рэперов- воооот откуда они все надергали!!! Прям растеребоньканный на семплы альбом Приятнейше, талантливо Диско как оно есь Супер груви

A strong start (obviously) but there just aren’t enough ideas on here to make a full album. All of the songs get repetitive and boring after a couple of minutes. Massive bass line from the opener keeps it a 4 stars though.

Bernard Edwards and Nile Rogers, whats not to like? Chock a block of great bass grooves.

I understand why it’s here but that doesn’t mean I’m happy about it. High 2.

The absolute pioneers of the groove and I'm a sucker for a good bassline. And this is about the best of them you can get. The basis of the music is of course Edwards' really fantastic bass and Rodgers' signature guitar playing. The strings and the vocals on Risqué are really great as well and add to the general funk, atmosphere and groove. And it's no wonder this is a classic and one of the most sampled albums I know of. Still. All songs feel about twice as long as they should be. It's made for dancing, but with only 7 songs on the album the long ended repetitions feel contrived. And that puts a little damper on the party for me.

Groovy funky party party

1/5. Honestly, sure, it’s definitely some disco but quite boring. Good times is old at this point and the fact that it is 7 minutes makes it worse.

In a wierd piece of synchronicity, I got this album to listen to on the day a local venue announced Chic are playing an outdoor gig in my town thus July. Snapped up tickets straight away.

5/10 not my thing.

I like Motown, hits this Michiganer just right

It’s bad y’all. Generic even by disco standards. Songs are highly repetitive and overlong. A well deserved entry on Mt. Ughmore.

Enjoyed it, but not in a rush to listen again.

It's a vibe. Not my typical one but it's hard to deny that this CHIC record draws you right in with the Good Times and mostly delivers on that manifesto.

Favourite song: Good Times

I must admit that in a former life I spent many hours in an open-necked shirt, platform shoes, and bell bottomed pants. I have done the Hustle, and it weren't for the cheap, easily accessible, recreational drugs and promiscuous, unprotected sex, I would have to say it was a hollow waste of time that can only be described as a guilty pleasure. Just like this album.

97 / 1069 Funny Disco

Loved it

It's just very very good 😵 a bass players dream

good beats super danceable

I think I would have liked this album if just about every song had been half the length. Best tracks: My Feet Keep Dancing and Will You Cry (When You Hear This Song)

A hidden gem and the kind of album I’m in this project for. Groovy, funky perfection that so well done. Will be coming back.

Not for me

Smooth listening. Very chilled vibe.

The first song was decent. I couldn’t listen to any of the rest without skipping. Not sure why this album was on the list.

I dig it, but too much repetition for my taste. Chic is perfect for a wedding and I can imagine they’re fun live.

Every track is 20%-50% too long. I guess that’s the disco style so you can keep dancing, but it sure didn’t feel like this with their other album. This has some fantastic grooves, but… does not reward focused listening.

The songs are basically long loops of a short chord progression with lots of subtle changes in the arrangement. It's played well. The songs are the right length for dancing, but very long for listening (only one song under 4 minutes). Favorite song: Good Times.

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

I won't deny that this is an essential disco album, and it feels like it was one that helped define the genre. Despite the great grooves, every song is incredibly repetitive and overstays it's welcome by a lot. 3/5.

Half of these songs I love, the other half are timeless in nature and are beyond convention. Its strangely positive, its simplicity is spiritual, but takes a strange downward turn to melancholic darkness on the B-side. An amazing record. 4.5 rounded up.

disco

Two Chic albums in two days! I liked the first one, but this one is just a bit too disco for me.

We know what we're getting from this. Yeh, Good Times!

Good Times, ikoninen kappale mutta sen ei välttämättä tarvitsisi olla 8min. Kovat bassolinjat ja Nile Rodgersin kitarariffit, mutta muuten aika perus discoa

Amazing, groovy, fantastic, definitely listen again

As they say, I had “Good Times”.

Was all on board when the first track started, then it just kept going and going. similar to the other tracks. All start well with a strong idea and then kind of just tread water for 6 -8 minutes. Gets better when the songs are shorter. Seems custom built to take samples from so easy to see how much it's influenced hip hop

literalmente el advenimiento de los 80

I absolutely love Nile Rodgers and have been inspired by him in my own guitar playing. I also absolutely love disco music, but I'd never actually listened to this album in full. It's hard to judge since it opens with one of the most influential songs ever written. Good Times is such a fucking amazing song and influenced an entire genre of music and it opens the album. Everything after that is going to pale in comparison. It's still really good music, but damn is it hard to follow Good Times.

Not bad at all, quite disco

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.

I was never particularly into Disco in its heyday. Subsequently, the floor-fillers have permeated into my bloodstream and I appreciate them for what they are. I understand how songs like ’Good Times’ are ubiquitous at birthdays and weddings because they are infectious and get people up dancing. That’s why they’re also six or eight minutes long to keep those people dancing to a beat and not have to change the record as often. Nile Rogers is an institution. He has improved with age and is revered almost everywhere. However it doesn’t make this album less boring. The first and last tracks do have a funky beat and are fun and encourage you to boogie. But the others just seemed to go on and on. Solid - but I stand by my ambivalence to most ‘Disco’ albums. It would be 2.5 but I’ll give it a 3 for the longevity of Good Times.

Good Times! Bernard Edwards is the bass player to know if want to play dance music. The song Good Times is a great song to get into the groove. I grew up listening to the C'est Chic album so Disco music has a place in my heart. I love the hits from this album but the deep cuts don't do too much for me. Like Culture Club, I'd prefer to have a Best of Album rather than the individual studio albums. This probably a condition of the industry pumping out album after album even if it's not all the artist's best work. I'm between 3 and 4 stars.

Nile Rodgers rules. And the album would get a 5/5 for ‘Good Times’ alone. But the fact that so many great songs came from it, like Rapper’s Delight and Rapture makes me want to give it a 6.

Man, this is a hard one to pin down. Musically, this band is so tight and so clean. Disco gets such a bad rap, and I'd hesitate to limit this band to disco, but this is the prototype for funky dance/disco music. [The Outkast references are inadvertent but appropriate.] Tony Thompson (who you'll also recognize from Power Station and Bowie's "Let's Dance" album) on drums is a massive time keeper/groove provider, Nile Rodgers knows how to play funky guitar better than just about anyone, and the rest of the musicians all play their parts to perfection. Yes, the tunes roll on and on, but that's the point. I'll take humans killing a dance beat over techo every single time. Then... there's the vocals. Well, I should say, lyrics, because the vocals are totally right on and immediately identifiable (I didn't love the vocal melody on "Will You Cry," but the rest are perfect for the music). But the lyrics seem like an afterthought, and it holds this record back. Yes, it was a different era, so I'll even overlook some of the misogyny, but even on the biggest hit, "Good Times," the lyrics are trying to bring the song down. ("Don't be a drag, participate; Clams on the half shell, and roller skates, roller skates.") At the very least, it seems they were happy to settle on the first rhyme they came up with. So, for me, it was a tug between being super impressed with the music and wondering why they didn't work harder on the lyrics. Clearly, they did fine for themselves, and it works for the dance floor, because you know the lyric the second time it comes around and you're locked in, but IMO, a little more variety and a little more attention to quality lyrics would have made this a five. As it stands... I'm at like a 3.5... it's Christmas, so this gets the Santa bump.

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

Disco-soul-funk. Un megahit. Venga, un 5.

Setentero disco.

Very dated. Still good, but not nearly as good as it was back in the day... 3.5

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

2.75

Not my favorite genre but the first song is a classic. Better than other disco. Skipped two tracks after halfway into them. 2 stars

So bad. Every song was 3x as long as it should have been and they all sounded the same.

Good Times is a classic disco track and after that the album is fine but nothing special

Album completamente carryato da Good Times. Il resto sono filler disco e ballad completamente dimenticabili. Belli gli archi e la chitarra di Nile Rodgers

It's Chic. It's Disco. That's it. Best Tracks: Good Times; My Forbidden Lover; Can't Stand to Love You;

It is a quick album at only 36ish mins with 7 tracks. The Opener Good Times is some great disco, the production great and would go on to be sampled by Queen for Another One Bites The Dust. The vocals are a highlight of this song as well. The only flaw with this song is that it is too long and loses momentum towards the end as there isn't enough evaluation in the vocals and feels a little repetitive. Out of 7 songs, 3 are over 5 mins and those other songs could also be shorter. My other issue with the album is the vocals on the less disco songs did not have the presence to match the production. The vocals are never bad but get carried by the production on the pure disco songs. The vocals on disco songs are great and match the energy of the production. The production on this album is the highlight and why I would come back to the album. 6.5/10 Fav: Good Times Least Fav: Can't Stand To Love You

Not horrible, but songs are very repetitive. Wasn't really for me.

Deserves to be on the list simply for putting down a groove that "inspired" both Rappers Delight and Another One Bites the Dust. All that said, the ballads here are equally impressive. The Edwards/Rogers team was humming at top gear throughout and writing, playing and producing at an extraordinarily high level.

Some good songs, but not really my style. Nile Rogers is a great bass player though.

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.

This album is great. I was nervous when I saw that the first few songs were quite long, but I was grooving and vibing to all the songs. There's some great funk and got me moving in my seat. Really enjoyable album to listen to. Favorite song: Will You Cry (When You Hear This Song) Worst song: N/A

Me copó los temas largos

🙏🏻

No clue this was the band. Listened my first day at golds and it was nice

Popular music owes a lot to disco, especially this album. So I guess it deserves the respect that it gets now. As a listen though, it's quite overlong and repetitive. Of course that's understandable if my guess that the practice of making lengthier pop songs began here. The story goes that disco DJ's find it hard to quickly switch discs since songs usually ends after 2-3 minutes. They need more time to find the next songs' discs. So the songs need to be longer. And how can a 3 minute song transform into a still danceable 6 minute whopper? By repeating the hook over and over again of course. It's hard to think that such a generic disco album is so revolutionary, but it is. Packed with irresistible grooves and carefree atmosphere, it's still an enjoyable listen and a quintessential disco album.

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!

A staple of disco and probably the finest showing of Nile Rodgers on guitar and Bernard Edwards on bass. Songs are tight, groovy, and fun. Eagle-earned listeners will recognize the opening track Good Times as it was interpolated in the Sugarhill Gang's iconic Rapper's Delight. By all accounts, we can credit this song for the birth of hip-hop as we know it. Side A takes a chance on longer disco tracks, which I can appreciate seeing how the genre was conventionally used for spinning songs at dance clubs. This does, however, lead to some of Risque's most interesting parts. Bernard Edwards, for example, will use an instrumental break to bust out a small bass solo that blows me away each time. That man could work his way around the neck, it's incredible. This is probably the best of Disco, which is good! There are some tracks on here that hold the whole thing back (slow songs and disco are not a good match), but it's worthy of praise regardless for it's progressive, fun, and talented sound.

Great grooves and hooks. Totally a unique sound with the group vocals and strings. Bernard Edwards basslines are super iconic. I like the long instrumental sections of just groove in Goodtimes. The tap dancing section in My Feet Feel like Dancing is cool. Can’t Stand to Love You is so great, probably my favorite song-I wish it were longer!

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.

Decent album, but not very memorable or interesting beyond Good Times

This is some fantastic funk. A good piece that’ll hav you dancing from top to bottom. Overall good stuff that I could see myself enjoying again even if it doesn’t fit my typical fair

Can definitely hear how this influenced future music. Also just super fun and high energy by itself.

Good Times is omnipresent but it's never been my favourite (gimme Everybody Dance any day of the week). Like the other Chic album, it's pretty hit and miss, and a few tracks are unnecessarily long. My Forbidden Lover and What About Me got me bopping though. 2.5

A feel good album full of enjoyable songs

À part la 1ere chanson que tout le monde connait, pas si exceptionnel comme album. On dirait que les paroles sont toujours les mêmes.

Godt, men sange føles lidt for lange og udtrukne

Disco is another genre I am very unfamiliar with outside of what you just get from cultural osmosis. I'm quite enjoying this though. It's upbeat and danceable (the best parts about disco music) without being overly corny like a lot of it is.

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!

Not bad, but nothing amazing. I enjoyed some songs more than others, but I probably wouldn't revisit it. 3.25/5

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

ok for background but kinda boring

About a minute into the first song: This is so good! Incredible baseline, rhythm, dancable as hell. About three minutes into the first song: Alright a bit repetitive, but it's a dance track so OK. At the end of the first track: Alright this is just like the last CHIC album I reviewed. Laying down funky, rhythmic, catchy beats even if a bit repetitive, and it goes on a bit longer than it needs to. At the end of the second song: Man, this is really repetitive, and not that good compared to the first song. At the end of the third song: Actually this just isn't good. By the end of the album: This sucks!! When I first reviewed CHIC (the album with "Le Freak" on it), I saw them as innovative and certainly inspirations to some my favorite music, mainly the electronic/funk/pop alternative stuff in the early 2000s like Daft Punk and LCD Soundsystem. Their songs were catchy and groovy even if they did run for too long. This album on the other hand, had one good song on it (the opening track). The rest were boring beats aside from some solid basslines and a few groovy guitar riffs. The vocals were horrendous: uninspired, repetitive, and at times cheesy.

ooh disco yasss. 3? definite 3. overplayed and dated, but i love the album cover.

Funky, yet bland. And very repetitive.

Good Times is great, but not my type of music overall.

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

Passade inte vibeserna när jag lyssnade men helt roligt ändå

De va good times :)

Slapper. Disco rules

Bosss

sonzao massa

very chiicc🤭 but seriously fun to listen to on a drive, am still listening🤣

one good song rest is just filler

Good Times is a great tune. As attested by the various (improved, imo) versions that have used that bassline. But the rest left me feeling like what I imagine a night at Stringfellows might sound and feel like: cheesy, sleazy and feeling a little queasy.

Possibly the most sampled album in history? I had no idea that De la Soul lifted the Roller Skating Jam line from here. The bass is the star throughout the album. Bernard Edwards' playing is sublime and tight. I wasn't expecting the ballads. This leads to the album drifting slightly in the middle. I'd forgotten how fantastic My Forbidden Lover is.

Fine music, nothing special.

Fun and funky. I'd heard a couple of these before, including the lead track. An enjoyable easy listen.

OK

It's not bad, give good vibes but I wouldn't listen to it again

It's got the Good Times song and then some older love songs. Not bad overall, good jams.

Solid disco album

Each song was as funky as the one before. Greatly recommend this song to anyone who is into funk and/or disco

Very funky. Would definitely add this one to my permanent rotation.

Awesome

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

Boring yet somehow still catchy. Can take one riff and two vocal lines and stretch it out to 8 minutes on repeat. Disco sucks.

I don't hate disco. Really. But I can understand the hatred. Particularly when songs are repetitive and go on WAY too long. But I mean, if you're out on the dance floor, all coked up and having a good time, an 8 minute song (like the first one) will seem like 30 seconds. So yeah, those first three songs went on WAY too long. I can imagine the single edits were more enjoyable. And "My Forbidden Lover," even clocking in at 4 and a half minutes could be cut down to a good three and I wouldn't mind. But maybe listening to it actively and not actually out on the dance floor was the problem. The time for the song would probably have gone zipping by if you were out there dancing the night away. But trust me, you don't want me out there doing THAT... Nile Rodgers did a lot of great work on this, "Will You Cry (When You Hear This Song)" was devastating. But the album versions of the hits are way too long and overstay their welcome for me. It's like getting a huge banana split when all you wanted was a small dish of ice cream. Too, too much.

Really, CHIC gets another album on this list? Meh. Second verse, same as the first. It is probably one of the finest disco albums you'll hear, but it's still disco. Great funk, great bass lines, upbeat tempo and lyrics but it's still just the same beat and simple message over and over. Did Good Times (a classic) really need to be 8 minutes? Thankfully the lesser songs on the back half of the album were shorter. Admirable but not really anything more than average in my opinion.

Such a chill music

Iconique

Decent

pretty good cool disco vibes a little repetitive but thats the point i guess

Classy

If disco sucks, then why can’t I stop groovin’?

Chic gets a 3, really nice in places but not enough.

Just a bit dull and repetitive. Good Times is a classic but it needs a radio edit, absolutely no need for eight minutes of it. Not the best disco record that we've had, it's fine but just a bit too slow and all sounds quite similar. 2/5.

Good Times is such an iconic dance/disco/funk song; if the rest of the album were as good, it would be phenomenal. But, alas, it isn't. The other songs are just OK, without anything really standing out. So between them and Good Times, it's 3/5.

Great sound for 3 minutes! Then the song goes on for another 3. Then the rest of the album is more of the same

gñalll

disco-y pop goodness ft. a truly legendary opener. hilariously sample-able album

Not my cup of tea