Reviews (page 12 of 14)
Als Vinyl bestimmt gut. Bekanntestes Lied: LaFreak
Could not get past the second song - just not for me
A few weeks ago at work, I needed something to listen to, so I picked this off the list, but before that, I'd never intentionally listened to Chic (I'm sure a lot of people have heard "Le Freak" and "Good Times" to some degree in their lives). This album is a lot of fun, and I found myself nodding along to the beat with every song. Nile Rodgers' guitar playing is fantastic, Tony Thompson's drumming is clean and precise, and Bernard Edwards' bass playing is funky and fun. Disco is not something I gravitate towards, but this album was a treat for the ears. I loved the tracks that featured strings, and the bells on "I Want Your Love" were great too. Chic is so talented and influential, and this album definitely deserves its place on this list. I just learned that Nile Rodgers has an autobiography, and that's definitely going on my list of books to read.
Chic is echt een van mijn favs als het op disco aankomt, Nile Rodgers is een swingende genie. Toch moet ik zeggen dat ik meer van het album had verwacht, de hitjes zijn heerlijk funky maar is niet echt een geheel waar ik naar zoek in een album Kan niet anders zeggen dat ik lowkey teleurgesteld ben in dit albm
Ik kende wat nummers hiervan, nooit het hele album gehoord! Gewdig album! Kan niks anders doen dan 5 sterren geven!
chic cheer - 2. misto le freak - 1. misto savoir faire - 6. misto happy man - 3. misto i want your love - 4. misto at least i am free - 5. misto ostatni me nezaujaly vubec
I’m a simple man. I just need the funk.
Liked it. Fun dancey vibes. Meaghan was about it too and knew one or two of the hits.
Outside of le freak this is the most background music ever.
Muito bom!
5 stars for I Want Your Love and At Last I Am Free on their own. Contains plenty other intricately constructed widdly wee widdly woo. Stonewall classic
I hate to say it, but it's soulless. Very accomplished and groovy, but there's no point to it.
Disco alright. glad to have listened to other songs than the Radio hit.
Love the last lyrics of the album “whole world is a circus don’t you be a clown” Glad they didn’t keep it to disco dance, loved the ballads. But nothing really stuck besides le freak
Solid. Only one real hit, but the rest are great songs in their own right.
Tidewise ok funk.
Songs are pretty similar, but it is a great sound
i adore 70s disco but was sadly underwhelmed by this. i expected more from the band that made "le freak."
Like the beats, not something I would listen to all the time.
Funky disco funk. Oldshool kinda funk. Not the cool Vulfpeck kinda funk. Still funk tho.
I feel like I really tried. Some of the more-or-less instrumental tracks featured great guitar and a solid rhythm section. Otherwise, I'm not much of a fan of disco. Funk and soul I like - just not disco.
Highlight: Le Freak In a nutshell: slick but repetitive. This made for the dancefloor or at a late 70s discotheque. You just need to hear Le Freak, not much else from this album. Overall: 5/10
This record feels like being at a nightclub during the 70s wearing a flowy shirt and flared jeans, with not a single care but to have fun
Decent enjoyable listen. Rating: 3.8
le freak AKA "Freak out" is good, everything else boring. So repetitive and not much stands out.
Excellent first half, falls off a bit in the second half, good album experience.
Pretty cool music!
Good
Bangers! Not something I’d typically seek out but really fun. Favourite songs were I Want Your Love, Sometimes You Win, and Le Freak.
This is my first time hearing this album although I definitely know Le Freak. The rest were new to me. It's pretty good, but probably not something I'll come back to. I like Nile Rodger's guitar throughout, but a lot of the songs seem repetitive and overly long. That may just be par for the course for a disco album. Best song other than Le Freak is Savoir Faire which is a cool jazzy instrumental. I Want Your Love is pretty good as well.
Heard before: yes The most charming part of this record is the "one, two" count in to Le Freak. I don't know if it's Tony Thompson or Nile Rogers or some other disco genius, but it's just the voice of a dude in a tiny studio room. In the middle of this slick, lushly orchestrated, ice cold production, there is a red hot rhythm section and a bunch of great, funky players. I love the cool down, quiet storm jams after each hit single; it's a disco standard. Top tracks: I Want Your Love, Le Freak, Savoir Faire
funky beats to fuck to. chic cheer top 10 songs to walk to. is that Bruno mars?
This one is very city pop, definitely a vibe. I would absolutely listen to this again
Cool funky album, recognized a few songs
super funky wunky
Ah, disco. That most maligned of the musical genres. Thing is, the "disco" stuff is great. The slow numbers are kinda not. The disco does outweigh it though, so drag yourself through the end of the night cooldown tracks and boogie like it's 1978 to the good stuff.
À jamais associé au nettoyage de frigo
allez je vous l'accorde (mood tracker)
First song had me dreading the next 40 minutes. Enjoyed Le Freak but I just thought it was going to be them trying to see how many times that could say "Chic" in one album. After that it was surprisingly alright. Something that my mum would listen to back in the day. Not my kind of music but I could vibe with it. Savoir Faire was an absolute banger. Great guitar.
Not a fan overall, classic, obviously, but the 1970's disco/funk is hardly my jam. Plenty catchy melodies on this one, Le Freak is a classic, obviously, so is I Want Your love, but I likely won't be coming back to this one anytime soon.
the famous song is good but its just not for me
mm.. funky...
3.5
A perfectly executed feel-good disco album. Nile Rodgers is a sensation. Little wonder that he'd be recruited by both Bowie and Daft Punk.
This album is really good; ‘Freak Out’, ‘I Want Your Love’, ‘Sometimes You Win’, it’s all great. Except for one song. ‘At Last I Am Free’ is long, repetitive, and overly dramatic and not very fun - on a disco album. I cannot stress enough that this would be a filler song anyway, since the chorus is annoying to begin with with (especially the last line). But otherwise, I enjoy it, so 4.
This album is a little too bland for me. Elevator music vibes
Some classics on here, 3.5 great production
Solid disco music. A few classics and a few new ones for me that are fine.
Fuck disco
At their funkiest, they're great. When they lean more disco, not so much.
Better than I anticipated. Still very redundant and with very little changes, but some decent grooves
um grande MOOD
Lögin misskemmtileg svo sem, en þetta er allt mjög chic. Gott grúv í gegn, frekar strípuð production og smekkleg, og einhvern veginn bæði heppilegt sem bakgrunnur í kvöldverðarboði sem og á dansgólfinu. Mæli með.
This one flew by, good stuff
Funky.
5.5/10 Tres underwhelm
Pleasant, but nothing special. Decent disco music that puts you in a good mood. No deep thought or emotions in it, but I guess that is standard for this gener.
okiii 7.5/10
I was between a one and a two on this one. It’s got some OK grooves. But when I’m pulling my hair out about how the album is still going with three songs left…
Really don’t like disco. But I am a fan of a funky baseline. Has its ups and downs, I think 2 stars is fair…
This is actually quite good for a disco album. Love how catchy and groovy it is, without being too long or too monotonous.
Some good funk music, fun album overall. 4/5
Disco baby
I have a love-hate relationship with disco. I admire it for its history in gay and black scenes and enjoy the beautiful use of harmony, but on the other hand, I don't do cocaine, and it feels like everyone involved in this album did. You can't deny le Freak and I Want Your Love are classic tunes, but nothing else on the album reaches that height. I'm used to 8m long dance tracks, but usually they have some level of progression and variety, and some of these just go on and on. Again, as a collection of songs this is fine. Does it really work as an album? Not sure.
I liked it
Le freak, c'est Chic.. Besides the songs I already knew the rest felt like filler. I appreciate their influence and the amount of other hits he's written or been involved in, but this album fell flat and was underwhelming.
Definitely a Mood improving album (at least for me yesterday) interesting to hear the hits in the context of the album. Favorite Tracks: “Savoir Faire” “ I Want Your Love”
Not really my thing despite sounding familiar to or influenced by things I really enjoy such as Steely Dan or Jeff Beck's Fusion albums. Yet, this is fun listen. I was impressed by the incredibly tight rhythm section and the bass grooves are the kind of thing I would want to learn to show off.
Ok so obviously the singles are the highlights, but who made Savoir Faire sound like the most nostalgic options menu theme from a video game soundtrack lmao
Lavish, tuneful, funky, fun. Disco executed about as perfectly as it can be. Best song: I Want Your Love
good disco, the popular tracks (le freak and i want you love) are the best ones, the rest aren't too shabby either, i specifically like happy man, but those 2 are the big ones.
Very instrumental, not my cup of tea
I couldn’t help the corners of my mouth rising up for the big bold disco beats.
It was very good!!!
Upbeat, feel good disco-y music. I liked most of the songs, but wouldn’t go out of my way to listen to them.
I'm a sucker for a dancey-funk tune. These songs were good, but not much more than that. I recognized a couple of these. Won't go out of my way to relisten
Very much a disco vibe. Not super crazy about it. But the song happy man definitely went in my library.
Didn't move me all that much. Feels like an overbloated album with two well known songs surrounded by filler. It's pleasant enough and I can understand its importance to multiple genres. But, I don't see me listening to it again. Thanks to its over exposure, I really don't care for "Le Freak." Also, I've never really cared for the singing style in Chic. It was a style that repeated so often through the 70s and 80s and it never worked for me.
too disco-sounding and slick for me
Well... with Chic, you know exactly what you're getting - that classic, funky disco sound with the seemingly neverending tracks is their signature sound. This was an easy, if somewhat long, listen. 3/5
Made it three songs in before needing a break. Not digging it so far. More to come. Nevermind. I'm done with this one
funky
Fun but repetitive
Who doesn't like a bit of disco funk?
4/5
There was one well known song. The rest of it was disco. The songs went on a little to long. It wasn't bad but I don't have a desire to revisit it.
I just saw Nile Rodgers and Chic live so naturally I love this music.
Background listening music tbh
C'est relax Chic. Good mood, donne le goût de danser un peu. Légèrement dans la sensualité ou le romantisme des fois. On fait le tour vite par contre. Style unique, mais pas mon choix d'écoute #1.
not really my vibe
Exactly as i expected. Late 70s American disco music, there were a lot of bands in this genre, i prefer The Crusaders to this though. Found it a bit repetitive and the lyrics weren't very imaginative.
Good chic album, but not great. I can't get enough of Nile Rodgers funk
Nice album, very enjoyable to listen to
Funky goodness that I could listen to a lot, but in some parts the energy goes down a bit too much.
Great album, amazing production. I have been conditioned to expect a Chic album to be filled to the brim with hits which is not that true for this one.
Fun dance album with some really good funk instrumentals. It feels like the songs drag on forever though. There needs to be more improvisation when it comes to tracks of this length. Favorite track: Le Freak
My second Chic album in a week! Still just as fun as Risqué. Excellent instrumentation and smooth delivery. Absolutely love “I Want Your Love” especially the bells throughout it. Nothing really offensive here but not going to blow any minds either.
Disco, always down for some disco
I experienced road rage while listening to “Happy Man”. 4/5 stars.
I liked some of the songs, 3 stars
3.5
A fun romp
Some of the tracks were far longer than they needed to be, although if you're sweatily dancing around a light up dancefloor you probably aren't bothered. I wasn't, for the record. I loved the guitar playing. Nile Rodgers is great.
I can see it’s value I suppose but it’s not for me.
Esta bueno. Temas largos y repetitivos (como malo). Los instrumentos muy limpios.
Muy bueno. Me dieron ganas de danzar con la gente grande.
Any project with Nile Rodgers as guitarist and producer is a project very much worthy of attention, and this album is no exception. I absolutely love his work -- just soooooo good! I know that "disco" (which is really R&B and dance music made in the 70s to my ear) gets dismissed easily -- and I readily admit in the 70s and 80s, I did that, but now I realize it's no different from any other genre or style of music as I hear it: I like what I like and I move on from what I don't -- but to me, this album is super fun, incredibly well performed, and keeps things going. Excellent stuff!
This album is fun, obviously Le Freak is super catchy and the energy is really upbeat and fun, but the sound is just not my bag.
SO FUNKY SO FUN
Incredibly based
Light to decent 4, classic catchy disco riffs
so much fun!!
Partly heard before Saved 4/8 Top track: Le Freak
Favorite track: Le freak
Dance music while at home is not a suitable situation. Ok, I did move a little in my desk chair...
Le Freak has been stuck in my head for hours now. It's fun disco music, but not really anything I'd want to sit and listen to. I'd need a few drinks to really enjoy this.
Like the Chic album that came after this, it's a good disco record where the singles make up the best songs. favs: Le Freak, I Want Your Love, Funny Man worst: At Last I Am Free
Most of the songs a little too long. At last I am Free is dreadful. However, it grooves. The musicians are talented and the album is sequenced well.
LE FREAK! C'EST CHIC!! I WANT YOUR LOVE! CAPS LOCK!! I am quite surprised with this album, listened back to back with Culture Club, and I'm not feeling it as much as 'Colour by Numbers' but again, this record has a couple of bangers and the rest isn't terrible. 2.5 / 5 stars.
Entretenido pero a todas las canciones les sobran un par de minutos, tanto que resulta tedioso. Música hecha para bailar y olvidarse de los problemas sin pretensión alguna, pero con mucho glamour.
Enjoyable, but it is disco, which has to involve at least a one star demerit.
Well this was a lot more enjoyable than I expected... more than just a disco album, there are some cool jazz influences here.
Hey - Le Freak is an amazing song. The rest of this album? Well, it’s high-end disco, right?
2 Chic albums on the list. Very generous. They're not bad, but they're pretty much the same. The songs are long and repetitive, with subtle changes in the arrangement. Perfect for dancing, not as much for listening. I'd keep this one on the list and remove Risque. Favorite song: funny bone
Le GROOVE man il était bon
I would say fine. Got some jams, but not something that will have me leaping out of my chair.
kind of groovy songs feel like they’re taking forever to play out so minus some points
Classic disco record. Fun, catchy tunes, great production, killer bass and guitars here and there. Le Freak is great. At the same time, there are repetitive, easily consumable songs that are often longer than they should be.
None of these songs were bad per se…just twice as long as they needed to be.
Not sure how to rate this .
Feels harsh but I'm never going to touch this again
disco shmisco
le freak classic
Leuk, Le freak natuurlijk een classic
Pretty good
Je suis un peu partagé sur cet album. Les beats, les mélodies, les arrangements sont tellement du disco pure et littéralement le son blueprint super bien exécuté. Mais justement ça implique un aspect que je n'aime pas du disco : c'est très répétitif. Les mêmes mesures répétées à plusieurs reprises, ça devient un peu drainant. 6/10
Disco. Good disco, but still disco.
I would die for having a guitar tone like the one used in this abum
I'm not really crazy about disco in general, but as far as disco goes this is pretty good. It leans less on the cheese which really helps it.
Good album
PREFS : Le Freak, Savoir Faire, Happy Man, I Want Your Love (Funny) Bone MOINS PREF : Chic Cheer
Meh
Both better and worse than I expected. Best track: Le Freak
It’s got some of that funk. Some of that bass that’ll droop your face, some of the drum that’ll move your bum, and some of that sauce that’ll… make you wonder what it was like to be in a disco club when this was dropping. Odd genre, but the funk is why it remains relevant.
Disco, for the most part, hasn't really aged the best but this was alright. C'est Chic is an odd disco album because as much as it is disco, it's also R&B, which is nice. I think that's part of the reason it's aged pretty well. The further implementation of funk music (something that is usually present but never the main part of disco) is also pretty nice. The songs Le Freak, Savoir Faire, and At Last I Am Free are the highlights. Le Freak is a pretty funky track with a nice riff, Savoir Faire is a really nice R&B instrumental with a nice and mellow solo, and At Last I Am Free is a slow R&B ballad that has probably the best vocals on the entire record. The only complaint I truly have about this record is that the lyrics and vocals aren't that good. The lyrics are shallow and aren't all that good, while the vocals just feel generic. That's kind of what's holding this record back honestly. Overall though, this disco and R&B record is nice, warranting a 7/10 in my opinion.
Le Freak.. So damn good song and brings me back to being a little kid. The album is good but not great. Totally a 3.5 but rounding down on this one.
I don’t know why, everything I like musically would indicate that I shouldn’t enjoy this record, but I really like Nile Rodgers and the disco funk of Chic. I refuse to feel shame about this.
Some top of their game Disco production on this record. I liked the more up tempo tracks.
Fine? It was fine. Disco isn't really my thing, but the good songs on this album are super catchy and I understand why I hear them at every wedding I go to.
Pure funk. The first song I recognized as being sampled in the 90s, and Le Freak was the major hit off this album. Everything else was classic Disco and funk. This influenced so many other musicians, definitely a classic album
Includes great songs for a party. Le Freak obviously. But also somehow boring, listening to the whole album from start to finish
I already own this, and it is exquisite. Both the guitar and bass wriggle about like they're trying to escape the songs and join in the party. Chic are just incredible.
3.5/5
my dad was surprised i was listening to disco and i guess it’s true that i don’t listen to much of it - shits fire tho
Some classics on here, but man are they looooong classics. There’s just enough melodic fuel to keep these tracks churning for the full runtime without wearing on the listener, and at about 800 albums in knowing when to quit gets huge points in my book.
Wow
Ahh...disco!
not super impressed with this album. feels like a lot of funky filler. le freak is the only one I knew beforehand and liked. decent background music but all the songs are like two minutes too long. favorites: le freak
I'm starting to think it's chic. What is it? Nobody knows, that's what's so chic. Was ready to give it 2 stars for not being actively unpleasant, but those last few tracks were brutal. Which is mostly to be expected. Next.
Not for me
Hit: Le Freak. Funky.
Damn bruh this shit funky This is a great morning album Very fun
The songs are decent for a disco album, good even. Some of them felt long though and didn't change much. Everyone knows "Le Freak," but "I Want Your Love" and "At Last I Am Free" were also good ones.
Always good background and dancing.
Fun and groovy, le freak is great, the rest was still fun but not quite to the level of memorable.
p419. 1978. 3 stars. The sound of a thousand late 1970s nightclubs. Dated, but still fabulous - if you can't dance to this you need an undertaker. As with all disco albums, out stays its welcome after 15 mins when played outside its native habitat.
I can appreciate the disco roots of a lot of modern dance music, but a lot of these songs sound like easy listening, adult lite music.
Groovy and danceable. Not a huge amount I can say about this one, it was just a fun companion to my weekend activities. Favourite: Le Freak
Honestly, excellent. Always thought they were a bit cheesy and lame but sweating up a large Spanish mountain in my bicycle to this really helped. Is it real funk? No, not really. Disco? Not that either. Does it matter, only a little bit.
Monster grooves, although the slow ones aren't as good.
Lots of albums on this list seem to be arguments that 1 hit wonder bands deserve more attention. Not sure this album really makes the case.
Really cool.
Really liked the album
I love Le Freak: just have vibes of the barbie in Toy Story 3, all I can think about is Ken. Other than that, the album was background disco music and let me groove through my revision with ease.
LOVE IT
Highlights: "Le Freak", "I want your love", "At last I am free". More than disco, great musicianship, a maturing and developing band right in front of you.
amazing disco album. probably the album that plays in heaven's club. 8/10
It’s kind of fun but not really my disco bag, man.
4. Not my usual style, but really liked it.
Fine in small doses but it got repetitive.
Coke dreams.
Le freak is an ear worm of course. And let’s be honest Nile has milked the same style of guitar playing since at least this album. But it works. And Bernie’s bubbling bouncy bass is a global treasure. For me not an album to sit and listen to. It’s an album to dance to.
Enjoyable album to play again and again, plus if you use a streaming service, the algorithm will go on to provide an endless stream of groove based on this, as a tasteful follow-up. This albums is the kind of music that A) DJ Sarcastic Elbows plays at Cotton Mouth records B) cool seduction music to play in sunken lounges beside a lava lamp c) fun groovig beats to drive to. put youy in a GOOD mood. The warmth of a 70s hifi ... Only funky. 5
It’s all pretty listenable, but aside from the absolute banger of a single, not very memorable. To be fair I only played it once through, and while cooking, but while I enjoyed it at times, it bored me at others and it’s not calling me back for more.
Well listening to this album certainly set me straight on one thing. For over 40 years I’ve owned & listened to a 1980 Robert Wyatt single with Billie Holiday’s Strange Fruit on one side and a song called At Last I Am Free on the flipside - always assuming this was a Robert Wyatt tune. No siree Bob!!! It’s the longest track on this album & one of the best. And it couldn’t be more different than the other album highlight - the iconic Le Freak. The rest of the album is fine, but not compelling for me.
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 was playing a party just last weekend, where there was a break for speeches and cutting the cake. I played Le Freak to get people back on the dance floor after the interruption. And it worked, because it is just impossible to resist. I confess that I've never listened to this whole album before, and it is a dead-set winner all the way through. It's disco, but funkier than a lot of disco. Check out the break in I Want Your Love at 4.30; it's 8 bars of Bernard Edwards, Nile Rogers and Tony Thompson in the pocket, with nothing else. And they are deep in the pocket, as for the whole album. Vocals by Alfa Anderson, Luci Martin, Luther Vandross and David Lasley are exceptional. The orchestrations are classy and compelling. The whole album is classy, cool, smooth and funky, almost irresistible on the dance floor. Daryl Easlee, reviewing for the BBC, says "C'est Chic isn't even Chic's best album (that was their next one, Risqué) but it is a bright, shining example of what mass-produced, intelligent dance music should be. Thirty-two years old at the time of writing, it remains irresistible." Le Freak is the monster single (the biggest selling single of all time on the Atlantic label, apparently), but you could spin any track from this record and people would dance, and that is awesome. Five stars.
Toe tappin funky good tunes.
There's some iconic guitar work in here but overall just a bit too silky smooth for my tastes.
An undeniably enjoyable groove. This is an unavoidable toe-tapper. The lyrics are’t incredible and I’ve never been too big a fan of instrumentals, but they make up for it with simply how fun all these songs are. 3/5
Accidentally listened to this on repeat all night and enjoyed it the whole time, good stuff
I can’t stop dancing and doing cocaine.
41m 42s of CHIC is just about enough CHIC for any day.
Katya was robbed.
Fantastic disco album from start to finish. Easily a 5/5. Favorite Tracks: Happy Man, Le Freak, Sometimes You Win, I Want Your Love.
Second 5* given. This album is funky front to back. Loved it.
Very good and super funky for disco, because of that I'd say I enjoyed it a lot
This one was surprisingly bussin'
2/3
There are bits and pieces that are funky and fun, but damn near every song goes on too long. This is the same response I had to the other Chic album. Hopefully there are no more.
Taas aika perus chicin funkkia nilen funkkaavalla kitaralla. Ei kuiteskaan mitään erikoisinta.
Surprisingly good. I did not realize who CHIC was. I had obviously heard Le Freak before but didn’t know it was them. Overall pretty good. Some songs are kind of corny now. At Last I Am Free goes on about 2 minutes too long. But overall good.
Ik vind de muziek van CHIC erg leuk. Toch is dit niet zo'n heel bijzonder album. Gewoon goed te luisteren.
Absolute funky origins. Love the bass, love the musicianship through all the album. Simply amazing and should be always rated 5 stars except if there's more stars to give.
Groovy
My stance on disco has softened the older I get. Now, I can listen to something like this and hear how great the musicianship is. I have been a fan of Nile Roger's guitar work for a while now and it really shines on this album. The funk influences are undeniable as well and the whole album overall is a perfect blend of repetitive dance music and great performance. My only complaint is that each song is too long (probably to dance to), and could be shortened by a good minute or two.
I have a soft spot for disco, and will argue that it directly inspired a lot of artists I love today. But boy oh boy am I glad this era of music died violently. For an album consisting of 8 tracks, C’est Chic sure does drag. But still, Le Freak has one of the most recognizable commands in music history, so I won’t be too harsh on this one.
C’est chic, oui, et oh si funky mais dans l'ensemble juste comme ci, comme ça.
A nice fun listen.
Funky stuff. Nile Rodgers is a legend.
And Nile said, “Let there be funk,” and there was funk. - Genesis 1:3
Vecchie canzoni anno 70, noiose ormai
disco excellence. tbh the back half of this is better than the more well known portion. best tracks: I want your love, Savoir Faire, At Last I am Free
Not my style
With the disco boom flourishing, CHIC waste little to no time planting their flag in the ground with these all killer, no filler platform boot sweeping, body twirling bangers aided by gentle swoons on the side. Opulence was the meal of the day and the ever reliable hitmaker duo of Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers come through in spades, delivering classics that would surely outlast any backlash, any demolition night and any other living entity. Aw, freak out!
Fun and funky album. Starts to drag a bit in the back half, but otherwise pretty solid.
Certainly funky and groovy enough as an album, although it does go on a bit much for my taste at points, which was normal for the disco era, I suppose. Perhaps it would be better to listen whilst dancing, but not today, please. Otherwise, alright.
Super-fly and funky fresh
I don't have much to say about this one except it was an extremely easy listen. Pretty enjoyable too. I feel like the last 3 songs aren't as good as the others. Score: 65 Art: 70
Disco didn't suck. This album is really funky with great grooves. The songs are long and repetitive, but it's DISCO, you're supposed to be coked up, non-stop partying on the dance floor. You don't need progressive instrumentation and full story telling in this music. Still sounds fresh, Nile Rodgers is incredible.
Godt album!
Can’t get enough of that bass.
Nice soul record with some ripping bass and guitar playing. Silk Sonic was 100% inspired by this record. Songs go on a little too long imo. Will come back to this from time to time.
Solid funk. The musicianship can't be faulted. A few stand out tracks - the singles. Some songs stretched out so far they fell flat.
I really, really wanted to like this album. An initial funky bass riff kicks things off, and it feels exciting, discoriffic, and reminiscent (if you're of that age)... But after about 15 seconds, things turn sour. We get, you're called Chic. We don't need to be reminded. After a minute of repetition I started to feel like I was in a class for those with Alzheimer's. What was your name again? Oh yeah YOU'VE TOLD US FOUR HUNDRED TIMES. Anyway, maybe things will get better in the next track. I really hope so because it's almost six minutes long. Nope. Turns out Le Freak wins the award for the most repetitive song of the 1970s. I shouldn't be too horrible. The music was catchy in some parts. For about 23 seconds. Before feeling like I'd fallen into a recurring nightmare involving a stack of loop pedals and some disco singers. To some up, this album was uninspiring, repetitive and generally quite dull. I listened to the end, in hope it got better, but instead I ended up wasting my life. I'll try not to 'Freak Out' on my way out.
The album starts really great. The upbeat songs are really fun. Just not suburb quality end to end. 3/5
little long but good
ok, not all late-70s disco, R&B, funk is bad. This is some funky shit
Nile & Bernard were badasses. I’m not a disco fan, but I’ll always listen to Chic!!
Look, it's great. Nile's guitar work, I mean, come on. But is it for me? I don't think so.
Great. Made even better by the memory of the late, great, Sean Lock using samples of Le Freak as a buzzer sound effects on "8 out of 10 Cats does Countdown", accompanied by a completely non-apologetic shit-eating grin.
Le Freak is the most recognizable. Only listened to front half of the album. Funky.
Classic disco with a little soul and funk thrown in. Good stuff that has aged better than a lot of music of that era.
Rad
somewhat enjoyable
Nile Rodgers is a musical genius, and the singles are all classics (as they are for damn near every song Chic released as a single). Sure, some of the songs may seem like they go on just a little too long, but that's what coke do baby! It keeps the party going to the point where you never want it to end. Take another bump, hit that dance floor, and stay on the ride.
I wish I could separate the music from the horrible disco images in my brain, but I can't.
Only liked le freak the rest was I amusing
Not as good as other CHIC records
Riding the shimmering cosmic groove on a sea of funk. Disco perfection.
You can see (or hear) how much it has impacted on music. 4.5
Very minimal vocals, really restricting what the singers can do. Instrumentals are just super repetitive. Le Freak was really the only decent one, possibly due to it's pop culture status.
Pretty fine
Interesting sound just not for me
This is such a fun album. I didn’t realize how much of the music I grew up with used samples from C’est Chic. I don’t really know what I was expecting walking in, but I loved how varied the songs were. I think I figured it’d be very lyrical and vocal, but was surprised to find instrumental tracks. Even vocal heavy songs give a lot of room for instrumental expression.
So glad to see this pop up! Le Chic just gives me happiness when I think about the hilarious scene in The Replacements film.
one hit does not mean whole album is good
It's music for all night. Low-key for Chic, acoustic even. Every song uses a different instrumental palette, which emphasizes the album as cohesive without diminishing any of the hits.
I swear ive heard this one but its another album from them. It's catchy and fun though.
Background music.
First time listening. "Le Freak" is the choice cut here, "Savoir Faire" is a smooth instrumental and "Happy Man" isn't too shabby. Classic disco/boogie maybe, but serves better as background music when you get to side B; the ballad "At Last I Am Free" is absolutely dire, and surely one of the most boring songs in the genre. This seems a smidge overrated to be considered bucketlist listening.
Now I understand what and why they're saying "c'est chic" after "freak out"!
Funky and nice sounding. That Le Freak song is a stone cold classic, but the album feels long overall.
Simple, deceptively easy. Great record.
"C'est Chic" is the second studio album by American R&B band Chic. The music genre isclassified as disco, funk and R&B. I'd add a little bit of jazz too. It was produced by guitarist Nile Rodgers and bassist Bernard Edwards and was their most successful album peaking at #4 in the US and #2 in the UK. A crowd cheer and horns open "Chic Cheer." The groove sets in. Nile Rodgers' guitar and Bernard Edwards' deep bass. The whole band and others are singing a repeated "Chic, Chic." Let's party! Awwwwww..Freak Out and we're off with "Le Freak." Now this would be at the very top of my list if you had me name a disco song. Great production with the groove, horn and strings. "Savoir Faire" is lush with strings. A prominent bass. I would categorize this as jazz with the guitar. And a guitar jam too. The familiar bells, horns and bass announce their second big single "I Want Your Love." Smooth. The much-copied "scratchy" Niles Rodgers' guitar. Alfa Anderson killing it on the vocals repeating "I Want Your Love." Almost a Sister Sledge song. A great deeper cut is "At Last I Am Free." This is slower, a ballad, with strings and piano. One of the best songs on the album. The album ends similar to how it began with crowd noise on the mostly instrumental "(Funny (Bone)." A disco/R&B jam. There's disco. There's what I would call R&B nowadays. There's a ballad. There's a jazz song. There's the much copied Nile Rodgers' guitar sound. The songs are in the five to minute range and most of the songs get a great groove going. There's a lot to like here.
This sounds interesting.
I liked it very much, funky disco pop, I want your love.
C'est Chic is the second album by American R&B band Chic. It contains the hit song "Le Freak" that topped the US Hot 100, US R&B, & US Club Play charts in October of 1978, and remains semi-popular today. This funky disco, R&B album was Chic's most commercially successful and has been certified platinum in the US. I think it's always cool finding and listening to an album on this site that contains popular songs I heard when I was younger like "Le Freak". It's nice hearing the other tracks on the famous album for the first time and being able to enjoy them. C'est Chic is a funky album that's upbeat & easily danceable, and although it's not normally my music of choice I did like it.
Pretty much the epitome of disco. Fun but feather light. Sure gets you moving, so perfect when that's what you are after. Sometimes music is just for dancing to. Does it belong on this list? Yes, I think so. 3.5
I have to point out how awesome this album (and band) is from a design standpoint. I think visuals aren’t too far removed from music and its content. It’s great how in line the visual design is with the songs on the album. So utterly smooth with classy imagery. It’s nice to see an album cover that was created with a purpose and not a photo that looks like it was pulled from a random photo shoot with a parental advisory logo lazily slapped on. Anyway, some cool songs here, you can get why disco was a mostly era specific “fad,” but you also see why it was so popular. Faves: Le Freak, Sometimes You Win, Savoir Faire, Happy Man
2 wah wah wah
There are some classics, but that's it.
HL: "Le Freak", "At Last I Am Free", "I Want Your Love" Where does this rank between the 70’s discotheque jams I’ve got so far on this list? EW&F’s “That’s the Way of the World” comes out on top, but this is pretty good too 3.5 February 5, 2023
I don't think my head stopped bopping the whole time. Happy Man and Sometimes You Win highlights, I Want Your Love a lowlight (too long) "The whole world's a circus, don't you be the clown" ✨
So this is the band that sang the song freak out from my childhood in the 90's. The full song is not great. Neither is the album. 2.5
I now feel awful for rating Risque so low, Chic are disco masters and I did not know what I was listening to. Disco is not my jam, but this is some of the best out there.
Classic Jam!!
Funky disco freak out
le freak is one of those songs i know really well but had no clue who the artist or song name was
Un megahit. Alguna canción de funky animado, pero más de funky demasiado melódico. Un 3.
Hit: Le Freak. Funky.
Idk, not really into this sound.
This album has so many bangers that it’s a shame everyone only puts Le Freak on repeat.
Yes, disco bops. Less keen on the slower ones, but big ups Bernard.
Är ju ingen utpräglad discokille, men om jag var en utpräglad discokille skulle jag spela den här discon.
Jävla bra när det är bra och riktigt tråkigt när det är tråkigt. Nile är bästa gitarristen så det så.
9/10 - really loved this there’s some really great disco stuff here
Disco tunes that got me a agroovin :)
Some good upbeat songs on here. Some nice chilled grooves otherwise and some little hidden gems. I really like Happy Man.
A good disco album, though for some reason I didn't feel like I was able to get all the way into it
Hress og skemmtileg plata. Diskó ofar rappi.
AMEI!!! As três primeiras músicas são muito boas. No final dá um enfraquecida mas ainda sim é legalzinho.
I bopped to this
I enjoyed this, though the most popular songs are a bit annoying. Too repetitive for 4 stars
3 for me. It was a fun listen but I don't know if I see myself remembering to listen to it again in the future.
Free Cow! Some chicks and sheep. Not the lyrics, but this is what I always think of. An uneven album with some great songs, and some instrumentals that leave you wanting something more.
groovy sin ser fome/superficial, pero no va mais alla. 6.5/10
Chill vibes. A lot of cool riffs I can learn from.
Timeless album. It is purely filled with intimacy, love, happiness and tremendous groove. Whether you want to dance or make love - just pick this record and play it loud.
PARTY
Ultimate party album to keep things moving in the right direction. Don't even mind some of the long track run times
Le freak c’est chic!! Very disco, very fun, pretty enjoyable to listen to (just not the first song, it runs wayyy too long for what it is).
At the time this album came out, I despised all Disco and couldn't stand anything this funky to dance to. Years later, my views and listening habits have "matured" and I can appreciate the musicianship and production that went into this music. I still don't purposely listen to Disco, but I won't turn it off or rant about how it's ruining rock 'n' roll if it comes on. It is what it is and it's not the worst way of spending an hour.
Some interesting grooves but each song feels very long
A widely influential disco album with two of the most well-known hits of the era. This can be a divisive album, as there are many haters of the commercialization of disco, but this is disco at its best. They take the cinematic power of 70s funk since the days of Curtis Mayfield, and turn it into an accessible and fun platform of groovy dance tracks. The geniuses here are the bassist Bernard Edwards and guitarist Nile Rodgers, musicians who have changed the state of pop music so much, working on highly influential albums from Sister Sledge to Madonna to Daft Punk. To me, the instrumentals are the star here. These tracks are long, with memorable deep basslines, string-like synths, and a twingy guitar hit to the max chorus setting. The gospel vocals are the cherry on top, turning many pieces into pop sensations by inviting the audience to sing to the top of their lungs and express their excitement in dance. There's a lot of variety in these tracks. The instrumental "Savoir Faire" sounds very much inspired by Superfly and the contemporary yacht rock movement, soothing and entrancing, like a Miami drive, but also fitting in for someone to dance to the whole album. "At Last I Am Free" is a dreamy relaxing song that anticipates "A Warm Summer Night" from their Risque album. Love the vocals especially. Some people have trouble with the repetitiveness of these tracks, but as a fan of shoegaze and post-rock, I'm an all for the long arrangements and their subtle changes. It's much easier to digest 8 long tracks than a series of cheap pop filler. And with the diverse palette and excellent unique playing, I always have plenty to focus on. Or, I don't need to focus on anything, and can just mindlessly dance to it or play in the background without feeling like I'm missing anything. Either way, I enjoyed it all, especially the milder 2nd side.
Musically Magnificent. Nile Rogers and Bernard Edwards at their funkiest.
Imagine thinking this was a greatest hits, because I did. It's just another great album. Who knew?
Really cool. Made me stand up and dance on several occasions. Actually made me bake as well.
Not really a fan of disco but two songs stand out to me was Le Freak and I Want Your Love
I went in expecting to really like this album considering that I like the general sound of disco but ended up being fairly disappointed. While the songs may be better in a disco club setting, the extreme repetition of lyrics and the unneeded extra minute or two of each song does not make for a great listening experience at home for me personally. The production and instruments were nice though and the singles were definitely the strongest songs on the album.
Disco funk purity!