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Album 594 of 1001 CHIC - C'est Chic (1978) Rating : 4 / 5 Surprisingly good throughout. Was well familiar with a couple of tracks that were big hits. The musicianship on this is awesome. Great bass, guitars and horns. Suspect some of the same players were on the Sister Sledge album.
A couple well known disco songs that were big hits, but for the most part I found the album lacked that 70s groove that made the disco era so popular.
Disco
Le Freak is such a bop. Couple other decent ones on here too.
they've got like 10 minutes of content but 42 minutes of album runtime still sounds nice
I liked this well enough. It felt a little repetitive and a little long, which isn’t surprising since it’s disco. “Le Freak” and “I Want Your Love” are great songs, and the instrumentation and vocals are fantastic throughout the whole album. Nile Rodgers is such a talent, and it shows. Overall this album is pretty good, especially for the genre.
Really fun record.
Very classy disco and soul. The nostalgia kicked in quickly, and I was grinning the whole way through.
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This is totally not my usual style of music, but it's also the soundtrack of childhood and parents' parties and grown-up disco. I had no idea all these songs were the same band! Pure nostalgia.
Disco is wild. What a time to be alive. I was not thrilled about this, but then instantly recognized the big hit "le freak" on this record. Disco is fine and has a place as long as it's not something you listen to often. This is probably as good as it gets though.
hmm. not sure what to expect here. Sounds like disco! okay...I could probably use some of this today. Oh WTF!? I know Le Freak. That's a classic! It was a nice change of music. But only a 3 here. Would have given 3.5 if I could.
It's weird to consider that CHIC, one of the most iconic acts of the disco era, released their first three albums in 77, 78, and 79, right as disco was in its waning days. C'est Chic is the middle of the three, both chronologically and in quality, but it has the highest heights of any of the three - "Le Freak" on the first side and "I Want Your Love" on side two. Not many albums have *one* song that good, much less two (or three, or four). The only real drawback is the sequencing of the extremely mellow, contemplative "At Least I Am Free" right after "I Want Your Love". It's such a stark comedown that it kind of sucks the life out of everything after it; it should be the last song on the album.
The funk is good. the jazz is good. the slow jams are boring. and there's too many.
Very nice and melodious.
Instrumentally this is great, and the bass is just fantastic. A big shout out to the producer too. By my god is it repetitive, most notably in the lyrics. I can't help feeling if they had put some more time into the lyrics that this would be absolute dynamite.
Es un discazo con todas las letras. Un funky-disco proto 80s.
Big sounds. Smooth listens. Beautiful harmonies.
听了一点，流行金曲（？）
You can do much worse than having your hit song be about being denied entrance to Studio 54 bc Grace Jones forgot to put you on the door list.
immaculate vibes
Every song was inoffensive but WAY too long.
More fun than I expected
Sheer class. Anything that Nile Rogers is involved with has the midas touch. Superb
- First encounter with artist - 3/8 songs added to main playlist - Not a big disco fan - Songs are groovy, but many are repetitive almost to the point of boredom - Good background noise - Favorite song: I Want Your Love
I was reminded of a time when my mom would take me to JC Penney’s for what felt like the whole day (circa 1982) and this album was playing in the background.
I'm trying to imagine the use case for Chic Cheer. Is this what you put on when you're trying to get people to dance? It's groovy, then it's boring. Strong points: the funky beat, the strings. Low points: the lyrics.
Great album. Great reflection of a true disco album. All the songs are great. At 8 songs, this album is perfect for a little touch of disco in the day without drowning in endless songs. I Want Your Love, Savoir Faire and Chic Cheer are standouts
Fun
Some decent jams but *way* too repetitive.
Great album. And not just disco. For example, I love the vibe and the guitar on "Savoir Fare". Some solid R&B grooves on various tracks. But yes, the only epic song is "Le Freak", so I'm giving it 4 stars, not 5, but still a great album. Not just the disco.
Nile Rodgers er auðvitað snillingur og þessi gítar hans algjör stuðgjafi. En mér fannst "hin" lögin á plötunni óskök dauf.
I used to look down on everyhing with even a whiff of Disco - new wave and other cool music was where it's at! Getting older I no longer care, I listen to everything and anything, as long as it is good music. Chic has definitely been added to that list! I started to appreciate them when I started playing the bass. I'm an extremely poor bassist but I know a good bassline when I hear it and Bernard Edwards' are the best ever. Just genius. I could happily listen to just the rhythm section of any Chic song, the basics are all there and it would take rubbish musicians to completely mess songs with that good a foundation. Luckily, Rodgers' guitar is more than fine. The vocals, alright, but I couldn't care less. Very close to 5* even though Disco still isn't really my thing. My only minor nitpick is that the variation on the album isn't that great (within and between songs), they found a 'recipe' and follow it throughout. I'm never suprised by a sudden creative twist. Still an excellent album.
Groupe connu par le morceau 'le freak' (++) qui passait beaucoup à la radio à l'époque. Je n'avais par contre jamais écouté un album entier. Quel groove ! Les lignes de basse sont impressionnantes. Et la guitare aussi, en particulier dans 'Savoir Faire' (+++), 'Happy man' (++) avec leurs chorus Jazzy. Par contre les morceaux sont en général trop longs et répétitifs. Bonne découverte donc, mais je ne suis pas sur de l'intégrer à ma collection. =>3/5
Disco at it's very finest. A while since I listened right through and even longer since I danced to it. Doesn't pretend to be anything it isn't. Just banging dance music. Rhythms hardwired into brains of people who have never heard it.
Didn't expect so much instrumental jams!
Funky.
I didn't recognise the name but I recognised plenty of the songs. This was great, maybe I'm a disco guy? I'll definitely listen again
Couple of good jams but it felt too repetitive. Maybe if I was on the dance floor of Studio 54 I’d be more into it.
8/10. Great album. It does start off hotter than it concludes, but still added most the songs to the playlist.
Performances are off the charts on this one.
before listening i honestly expected to hate this but it turned out to be really great
Lekker discotheek Toko dixo vibes Gratis koe
Not for me. 1/5
Good music but my god it gets repetitive.
Not really for me but there are several catchy songs. I really enjoyed the solos in 'savoir faire'. Not a record I would purchase, but not something I would turn off if it was playing either.
Really great. Such an easy listen. As disco goes, best album on this list so far. An easy 4
3.8. Disco heaven
Wow, this is a great find - I don't think I knew this band existed despite knowing a couple of tracks. Funky stuff!
Not too bad of an album, enjoyed having this in the background, although at some point the songs would just be the exact the same 5 seconds but repeated over and over again (a great example being the last bit of Le Freak). Pretty decent, enjoyed it a bit.
No thank you.
Cest chic
I had a theory that any artist who chants or shouts their own name in any of their songs makes bad music. This album tested that theory. Overall I enjoyed it but it's not without flaws. The guitar and bass were both grooves hell but a lot of the songs got very repetitive.
Le Freak is a god damn classic. This album makes me want to be at the party in "The Nice Guys" and just be drunk and dancing with the mermaids.
3/5, songs are good but way to long for me Fav song: Le freak
Pretty generic disco (but may have been groundbreaking for its time). Got a bit samey
I obviously loved this. Thanks Chic. 4.5/5
Funky, bass, underrated
I had a 'Death Before Disco' T-shirt way back in the day, although I would have ditched it for a night out at Studio 54. Some classic hits on this album.
10/10 album art C'est Chic endures because of its production and performances.
Definitely liked this more than I thought I would
It was ok
Some classic 70s disco here. Couple hits for sure.
🎧Le Freak gets all the attention but I Want Your Love is the real highlight here. At Last I Am Free is 7 mins 8 seconds long which is about 8 minutes too long.
C'est Chic is the second studio album by Chic, originally released in 1978. This is right around the era that funk/R&B began to turn disco. Most people know the song "Le Freak", which is such a banger. Sure to get people out on the dancefloor. Most of the other tracks don't reach the same heights, but still make you want to dance. The production on this record is so good, as was the standard with most late-70s records. The bass player on here is such a beast. Just laying out those funky riffs. Although this sounds pretty dated, it was still a fun listen.
It took me my second listen through to fully understand what this album is. It’s nothing groundbreaking. Purely an album that existed in the disco era and succeeded at being a disco album. To my ears, many of the tracks came off stale and boring, even if the majority of the record was solidly produced. Once I went through again and understood how repetition was being used, tracks like the intro began to make more sense to me. Even though I’m not head over heels for this album by any stretch, there is some fantastic stuff on here, notably “At Last I Am Free” and the following “Sometimes You Win.” Those are easily the two most worthwhile on here, and you do have to commend the smash hit “Le Freak,” which is cool to actually see the origin of
Sounded exactly as expected, it's funky disco. Once you've heard le freak you basically have the measure of chic. Not a particular disco fan but it does completely nail the genre. Went by nice enough but would never intentionally return. They seem to have managed to make the most of the retro tour circuit, Nile Rodgers is everywhere too. 2.5 but more like a 2.
Would not return but I did enjoy the intense foray into disco - this is disco. Le Freak is a banger.
I expected I wouldn't like this, but actually didn't mind it. Less disco than I was expecting, and much more funky, which was a relief. Le freak does nothing for me, I want your love is better. Some of the guitars on other tracks were nice. I think it was savoir faire. Was losing interest by the end. Pleasantly surprised but still not quite my thing. 2.5
fleeting
Good funk/disco, not really my thing
Rythm n Blues, Funk, Jazz
pleasant, dancy disco
Incredible vibes. First track didn’t really grab me that much. Second track was recognizable and fun. Savoir Faire and I Want Your Love are my two favorites. This just makes you want to dance and sway and smile at the world.
this really absolutely blew me away
I just didn't feel like there was anything here for me
As far as disco goes, this was alright. Lots of songs that I recognized, so the iconic status made it an interesting listen. Probably won't listen again though.
Better than I thought actually.
4.7 - Yeah this was just great. No fluff and just really a tight album. Big tunes as well.
Don't really have a bad word to say about this. It's a tight 8 tracks of funky Chic vibes. It's not a 5 for me as there isn't really any real stand-outs on here for me, but a very solid album. Fave Tracks: Le Freak, I Want Your Love, Sometimes You Win 4.2/5
You can hear the influence this album has had on other artists.
Version live, écouter la version studio pour se faire un vrai avis.
This was the first album I purchased, I think I used money from my 12th birthday gifts.
70s groovin!
Every song just. Drags. On. For. Way. Too. long. It's decent enough for disco Must of been some good blow 7/10
Good instrumentals, very very cringe lyrics. When they aren't repeating the same phrase for 2 minutes the vocals sound like a parody song a middle school would make up on the spot. All of the instruments have a great groove and sound really good, I just wish that the vocals had more thought put into them. Mid 3.
There was a few good tracks on here. I can't say it was the most exciting play through. It's very stereotypical disco music. I didn't realize these guys do that Freak Out song though so that's cool. You've probably heard their other hits while walking through a Walgreens.
First few songs have been sampled
I will always enjoy the bass lines on “Freak out”
Meh. One or two songs I would listen to again. I need to read the significance of this album and why it was included to understand more
Best wel groovy en nice
I suppose this 4 rating is dependent on the context of listening on a Sunday morning. It's a great Sunday morning album - terrific grooves to get moving, but a lush production and comfortable tempo that remind you you're not actually going anywhere. Just enough pop song emotion to connect, but again, nothing that's a heavy lift. I also like the structure to this album - opening with Chic Cheer and Le Freak, and closing with (Funny) Bone, as reminders that disco is party music, around a generally smoother, more soulful middle. Like a good party.
Pretty fun
Funky!!!!!! Many great tracks, great for sampling (future thought). Favorite tracks - Chic Cheer and Savoir Faire
The slow ones were a bit cheesy for me, and the quick ones were great to walk with. It’s sounds like the musicians had a lot of fun doing their thing, I can imagine them being really in the zone. I was surprised at how familiar ‘I want your love’ and ‘freak out’ were. I’m going for 3/5 only because it’s not my thing, not because it isn’t well produced cohesive music
Repetitive vocals but the instrumentals are great, especially the guitar. Nile Rogers guitar style is iconic and heavily influential. Le Freak and I want your love are songs I've listened repeatedly to.
Very smooth production and sound. Each song seemed to drag on a while
The fundancy Disco when I listen to it the first time loud, a pretty chill reading background when I listened to it soft
Good
Great vibes, terrible lyrics. Hate Disco
Paar lekkere hits maken een anders redelijk saai album net goed.
Growing up in the 70s the hits on this album were in constant radio airplay so they’re imbedded in my brain. Some nice guitar on this.
It’s no Risqué but still a decent album with some great bass guitar work. 3.5 stars
Such long endings and some solids but not a big fan
Ah high school memories. 😊
This is sooooo much fun, and the groovy bass lines do not stop for a second! So chic!
Groovy and fun!
one of the goat of all time sounds !! always loved this band but not my fav album
BEST SONGS: - Savoir Faire - I Want Your Love
That last song is one of the creepiest things I've ever listened to
smooth
Nile Rodgers makes this album worthwhile. The songs seem to go a little long and the album’s fun begins to wane a little since I’m not coked up in a club dancing.
u can call me LE FREAK emoji diablo, no todas son tan pasables, pero tiene ese temonster y algunas instrumentales muy buenas!
Not really for me. Would be good if I were in a 70s disco, but not one I would just listen to.
Funk. A little too laid back for me. Decent background noise but that was about it.
Sept. 11, 2024 Ah yes, Le Freak. Groovy. I actually don't like that song much. I think cartoons and animated shows ruined it. Okay At Last I Am Free is driving me crazy!!!! Terrible and annoying! Also funny bc I could listen to Daft Punk's Around the World for hours so I feel like a hypocrite. But I need a groovy bass line then! Ah! I wanted to like it more than I actually did ): 3/5
Fun!
The music is groovy and lively, but MAN IS IT REPETITIVE. I found myself at multiple points checking the remaining time on a track only to find that it still has another 2 minutes remaining. I can only listen to someone say "I'm a happy man" so many times before getting sick of it. Overall, a fine album, but I wouldn't actively attempt listening to it again.
Not my thing.
I enjoyed this more than I should have. Yes it’s disco but great playing, great production and not obnoxious. Savoir faire instrumental may have been my favorite. A part of me wants to give it 4 stars but I won’t.
It’s a 70s disco album. Thought it might be French but it was not.
Top quality disco from Nile Rodgers.
This album was so much fun. Had a great time doing the dishes and tidying up today Favorites: "Chic Cheer", "Le Freak", "Savoir Faire", "I Want Your Love"
# 315 : sigh! A one line bio. Says all you need to know… Le Freak
I was never much of a disco fan back in the day, but the talent here is undeniable.
3.5
3⭐ Clearly good, just not my vibe, repetitive.
Disco sucks, man. Having said that, I love Nile Rogers' guitar playing and Bernard Edward's bass playing. Plus 1-star for the music and production quality! Even this can save this sucky disco album.
Very funky and groovy album. No song is bad, though there are some that are stronger than others. Still, very even and high standard throughout the record. Solid 4.
A second CHIC album!? My opinion is much like the first. "Le Freak", the main hit, I find annoying but many of the other songs are quite good. My favourite being "I Want Your Love". Funky and fun. Someone should really add some rhymes to this.... 3 star.
Freak Out! This album may not have aged all that well, but believe me that song was ICONIC. An important bit of disco history.! Enough to get this album an extra star.
Super smooth and catchy tunes all over this. Enjoyed.
Chic Cheer // Le Freak // Savoir Faire // I Want Your Love // Sometimes You Win //
Not really a disco person, but recognise they are the top of their game. Some catchy, well written tunes. 3/5
Rating: 7.5/10 Three fantastic songs and the rest are good enough to hold it down. So funky. Choice cuts: Le Freak, Savoir Flaire, I Want Your Love
Meh
Fun funky album.
I really like this
Varhaista soittelua... Flirting with the potential... Flirting is showing only a small frac....zzzz.... Z.......z.z.......z......Nukuttaa kun ei lyödä kovaa tässä.... Kutittelu albu....
A little boring, but good sounding discofunk.
Positiivinen yllätys! Tuttuja sample-biisejä, letkeältä ralleja ja hyvää musisointia. Pitää kuunnella vielä uudelleen ja lisää.
Probably one of the best albums of a generation. Disco worms
This was okay. I like disco, I like funk, and this had both. But none of it really stood out to me. It'd be decent background music in the right sort of bar, but I'm not sure I'd ever put it on to listen to myself.
I loved this. It was funky, groovy, and so joyful! Favourite track: I Want Your Love
Glemte å følga med
Would listen to Nile Rogers fall into his guitar in the night. This freakin rules.
Fun enough for disco, I guess.
Disco classic
01) Chic Cheer - 8,5 02) Le Freak - 9,5 03) Savoir Faire - 8,5 04) Happy Man - 8,5 05) I Want Your Love - 9,5 06) At Last I Am Free - 8,0 07) Sometimes You Win - 8,5 08) (Funny) Bone - 8,0 TOTAL: 8,63 (86/100) Current ranking: 51/284
Some fun tunes but overall I feel like it was less then the sum of its parts. Didn't quite make me bob my head.
i love this album nike rodger’s u are my hero
Fun and bouncy melodies but holy shit is it repetitive. I was curious to see what more there was to Le Freak after hearing it in movies all my life… but it’s mostly that 10 second loop for 5 minutes lol. I guess the royalty checks are fat at least (2.5/5)
4/5
This was cool as hell. Also Chic Cheer containing the sample for Be Faithful (at least I think) made this an instant like. Every song had something I liked, it blurs together a little bit, but how can you get upset at something this fun?
These folks know how to find a groove and stay in it. Sometimes too long but with an album this funky it’s hard to complain!
Pretty cool by disco standards, but sometimes repetitive.
Le Freak, C’est Chic A fun, danceable, delightfully goofy album.
This is what you want to put on at a house party!
Love this album.
That was fun - Chic Cheer my favourite (Le Freak is great of course, but I have just heard it too many times)
Freak is a great one. But generally this music gets old to me. Solid production. Disco is mostly a 3 for me.
A great little funky listen, but it's hard for an album not to be great OR funky when Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards are behind it. Lyrically, pretty inconsequential, but that's not what this is going for. This is dance music to shake your ass to, and it succeeds very well in that regard.
Disco is a genre sorely unappreciated by the general population, and I was wishin' and hopin' that Nile Rodgers would appear on this list! C'est Chic is everything and more. "Le Freak" is iconic by itself for good reason, but the other songs aren't flat or uninteresting. The entire album has great beats and is so smooth. It's even a great example of the intersection of disco, funk, and R&B. I love that there's an instrumental too! "Savoir Faire" brings such a chill vibe. The horns and strings in particular gave extra volume to already great songs. And honestly, this album was just fun. Chic didn't take themselves seriously, especially with that spoken outro in "(Funny) Bone" closing out the album. A worthy addition.
Chic has quite the reputation when it comes to "Le Freak", their most well known song. That song seems to be synonymous with campy disco and nearly defines the entire genre altogether in a lot of people's minds. And campy though "Le Freak" may be, it's still a hands down jam. But really, this album offers a lot more than just "Le Freak". It is a stellar disco album that also straddles a line between exceptional funk and R&B. And while I consider all disco music pretty easy to listen to and get into, I find this album to be extra smooth and polished. If I had to recommend disco to someone for the first time, this album would be up there. Probably about a 3.5 for me, gonna round it up!
Man I wish they turned Savoir Faire into a full album. The instruments (especially the bass) are fantastic. Most of these tracks would benefit from being cut in half though. 3/5
Since this album is basically exactly the same as the other Chic album on this list, I’ll just repurpose my review of “Risqué” for “C’est Chic”: I know the whole “Disco Sucks” movement was grounded in racism and homophobia from middle-aged white construction workers who throw batteries at Santa Claus and thought everyone should just be happy to listen to Bachman Turner Overdrive for the rest of time, but disco sucks. Disco music is music made for people to dance to. Is “The Electric Slide” or “The Cupid Shuffle” on this list because of their importance in giving boring people something to do at weddings? This music does not need to be heard unless you are wearing bell bottoms, being felt up by Andy Warhol and doing the hustle. I am aware that Chic was influential and people have sampled them millions of times to make other songs. But that just means these are bad songs with some good parts in them (mostly the bass which is, admittedly, bangin). So let’s listen to those better songs that reuse the good parts of these songs instead of this cheese-fest. Most of this is pretty lame, and even worse, it’s lame and way too long. If you’re going to be cheesy, at least get it over with quickly. In conclusion, disco sucks. *throws battery at Santa Claus*
Good disco album. I was a tad disappointed that it lost energy in the middle but, happy that Funny Bone brought it back up.
Very influential and funky record.
C'est Chic is the second album from Chic, and the most commercially successful of the band's work. It includes the band's first potential "one-hit," "Le Freak," and another hit single, "I Want Your Love." Chic was possibly the best band of the disco era, and C'est Chic is potentially the best album of that genre.
Verrassend
Le Freak was catchy and I found myself nodding along to a lot of the tracks :)
I freaked out when I listened to this disco album. I reminded me of all the crazy music used in 70’s dramas.
Good
chic doesn't get credit for being sort of an art project more than a hit machine. its much more congenial to group Nile Rodgers with cold krautrock avant-gardists and conceptual artists. chic was an experiment in personality-less music, not that the music has no personality but that it's monolithic with no central personality to attach everything to (cf Donna Summer or Marvin Gaye - even groups like Funkadelic are about personalities taking turns rather than the subsummation of personality itself). that's nothing like black popular music of the time, and that fact has been lost with how ubiquitous shit like Le Freak or Good Times ended up becoming. the whole album has this huge, chrome sheen to it. it isn't warm-sounding, and it feels like it's being beamed to you from a funky spaceship through like five enormously thick panes of glass. its no wonder disco imploded soon after chic because it reached its conceptual apotheosis; where else is there to go for a music premised on repetition and massed crowds if not complete effacement of identity itself?
Probably the greatest disco album of all time. Filled with amazing songs all the way through, greatly balanced between dance numbers and ballads. Key tracks: Chic Cheer Le Freak I Want Your Love At Last I Am Free
Le Freak - ikonenhaft! umgeben von einigen anderen tracks, bei welchen ich das gefühl habe, es wären seelenlose lückenfüller von kreuzschifffahrtskapellen .. 🤷♂️ ehrlicherweise muss man Edwards und Rodgers aber bewundern - was die beiden später noch alles erreicht und produziert haben: wow!
Disco in Reinkultur mit Riesenhit Le freak, und darum berechtigt in dieser Liste, aber ich mag Disco halt nicht
You know its well put together, but its not my thing
Funky, mais tourne trop en rond sur des tracks trop longues imo
Some are groovy, some are meh....
This is great! I had not realized that CHIC was "that band" on several of the songs. It is not deep or political, socially conscious or meaningful, but it is very fun! It is actually amazingly fun! If you just want to be happy this should be added to anyone's playlist.
Le Freak!
I like CHIC and some of the songs are great. But others were dated and very repetitive.
3.125
The disco-funk-jazz hybrid was quite good, but this felt like 15 minutes of music stretched out to 50
Solid disco fun
Hermoso disco. Derrama funk. Las voces impecables como también los músicos.
“Le Freak” is timeless, but what of the rest? The opener’s alright. The hinterland between soul, disco and yacht rock has “Savoir Faire” as its capital: some immense vocal effort, or maybe a Kraftwerk power unit would raise it up; the guitar solo is a butterfly where an afterburner is needed. “Happy Man” is as interesting as the experience of someone telling you they’re a happy man could be. “I Want Your Love” is inarguably fab and makes me realise how most of the preceding songs missed Alfa Anderson’s vocals, which rule without effort, and redeem the long instrumental outro when they drop back in. She can’t redeem the mawkishness of “At Last I’m Free”, though, quite a yawn. “Sometimes You Win” is better, but not by much. The closer is an extended piece of nothing. My review references a CD generously donated by Kevin Rowland. I am grateful this record is on this list, as I doubt the other gift, “The Very Best Of The Blow Monkeys”, will come up. The Wikipedia wormhole this sent me on was fun. Simon, are The Power Station any good?
Great stuff, some of their best tunes [EDIT - busy day, basic review but I did end up purchasing this]
There are some nice grooves but this is a very uneven listen. Most of the songs get rolling and then don't go anywhere. I remember even being disappointed with this release back in the day. More a dance album than a listening album.
Solid funk album with a few hit singles
I really wish I liked this more.
The groundwork for so much of what was to come, from samples of ‘Le Freak’, to Donovan frankenreiter and the “Happy Feet” soundtrack from ‘Happy Man’, to just about every pop song that we love to hate on but secretly love at some level.
As much as I like music with groove, and have listened to Le Freak throughout my life, this album showcases exactly how disco watered down funk and soul until it was flat and tasteless---and left the 80s in a funk vaccuum (or at the very least, took the heart out of soul). This feels.like yacht rock or muzak. Definitely not one I'll listen to again...
I love the bass tone of the first tune Chic Cheer (Osama ;). Awesome grooves and just feels good all around.
Brought me back to my teen years. Yeah I’m old. So what?! lol
A classic
Disco is so agravating
First listen. Oh I can tell I'm gonna like this when Chic Cher hit. Oh so THATS where that song came from??? That 15 second snippet "AwwwWW FREAK OUT!" THAT WAS IN EVERY COMEDY MOVIE ANFLD TRAILER IN THE 2000s?!? And it's 5 and A HALF minutes long???? Thank god the whole song is not just that snippet like Daft Punks Around the World is just "around the wOOorld". Really loving this album 3 songs in. SO FUNKY
it was ok. nothing overly memorable aside from the singles.
Das Album bietet eine nostalgische Reise zurück in die 70er Jahre, als runde Marmortische mit automatisch versenkbaren Aschenbechern und Hauspartys, bei denen noch drinnen geraucht wurde und Mettigel hipp waren, zum Alltag gehörten. Der Sound des Albums ist ein Paradebeispiel für intelligent produzierte Disco-Music. Die Interpreten haben mit ihren unverwechselbaren Bass- und Gitarrenriffs einen Sound kreiert, der sowohl cool als auch rhythmisch ist. Die Songs sind durchweg tanzbar und fangen die Essenz der Disco-Ära perfekt ein. “Le Freak” ist zweifellos der bekannteste Track des Albums und bleibt bis heute ein Klassiker. Der Song besticht durch seine eingängige Melodie und den unverwechselbaren Groove, der sofort zum Tanzen animiert. “I Want Your Love” ist ein weiteres Highlight, das mit seinem funkigen Bass und den sanften Streichern eine hypnotische Atmosphäre schafft. Mein Favorit, “At Last I Am Free”, bringt eine besondere emotionale Tiefe in das Album. Der Song, inspiriert von einem Black Panther Treffen, wurde von Edwards in eine wunderschöne Liebesballade verwandelt.
Fine. Nothing too essential. Would be good to dance to. Appreciate the instrumentation. Always fun to listen for the grohl influences in disco.
Tanta roba
Groovy baby
Pretty funky. Le Freak is a classic.
This reminds of back in my high school days when one of my teachers told the class - with a proudly carried shame, but shame nonetheless - of the time he bought this record right after it came out. He was going back to his side of the muddy river by walking across the causeway, and a big gust of wind hit him and pulled the record out of his hands and off into the mud below. Lucky guy.
This grabbed me way less than the previous Chic record, every song felt very repetitive and simplistic. Not a fan.
Love the instrumentals. Lyrics felt a little goofy in a few places. Overall pretty fun but not an everyday kind of listen for me.
Liked Song LeFreak
The name of the album is the review.
Boring, snooze-fest except for their one hit song.
Kind of not as upbeat as I'd hope for since it kind feels repetitive or at least boring in some way to me.
muito dançante, e só. repetitivo, como um salão de dança nos anos 70. Passo....
Disco still sucks.
Guitar tone is so strong. Guitar solo on “savoir fare” had me thinking about the drum solo on “Aja:” I didn’t want it to end.
Meh, should have stayed a one hit wonder
As a child of the 70s, I really enjoyed this one.
groovy man
Boring
chic chic chic chic chic chic
I liked the upbeat stuff, but really not into the slow stuff. More good than bad, I liked it.
It feels wrong to be snooty about the marvellous Niles Rodgers and a band that have been so important and influential in disco and pop. But this is half an album only. Two amazing songs, but as a whole it's fairly uneven.
Listened Before? N For what they are, Chic is a killer band. 70's disco/dance tracks including a couple of classics here. Enjoyed this one. Added to Library? N Songs added to playlist: Le Freak
Fun and super listen able
Very fun Big fan of any artist that makes sure you know they are
Great album, fine example of 1970's funk and soul
Undeniable is the fact that, for most of the songs on this album, one gets a Party vibe... freak out! Undeniable is the fact that the groove is Tight! Undeniable is the fact that, from a musician standpoint, they knew what they were doing! Undeniable is the fact that ALL songs last TOO long... which is a shame!
You'd have to have been living under a rock for the last 50 years to not have Chic indoctrinated into your consciousness. Familiar, and toe-tapping chic-ness.
Couple of all time classic songs and the rest is pretty good. Nile Rogers rocks.
Funky
It was ok
The grooviest of all time! Love me some Nile & Bernard. Timeless!
Not my type of music
Classic, foundational disco. Disco isn't really my thing but I did enjoy this.
fine
Not a fan of this…
I liked the two hits I knew and I generally have good feelings about Edwards-Rogers, and the rest was OK.
This was a fun little album to listen to. I liked disco more than I thought I would. 3/5
Can you call funky classic these days? It feels like that to me. Easy to listen to, though at least one of the songs could benefit from some more lyrics than just repeating pretty much one phrase over and over.
4-
60/100 Good disco album with a classic song. Some of the songs do seem to drag on for a bit and the intro is incredibly boring
Le Freak is the strong standout, but every other song slightly overstays its welcome.
I had another of CHIC's albums on here before (Risque). This album has that song Le Freak on it which is solid. The rest of the album was mediocre. The thing I hate about disco is the music is funky and usually fairly solid, but they sing a chorus, then keep repeating it for like 5 minutes and call it a song. The music has no substance. It always feels to me like they spend 95% of their time making the music and then go.... Oh yeah, we need lyrics..... Favourite songs: Le Freak, Happy Man Least favourite songs: At Last I Am Free, (Funny) Bone (I Don't need a song which is almost 4 minutes of people laughing. No one does). 3/5
As others have noted, it’s good disco music with some great instrumentation, but every song is too long. Which is honestly pretty standard for disco. I mean, Rasputin feels about an hour long, so I think this is par for the course
I dug the disco/funk vibes, but many tracks suffered from repetitive hooks and a lack of development. Also, songs tended to drag on longer than needed, usually simply looping the instrumental backing track without vocals, sometimes including a lackluster guitar solo. Didn’t age well in the genre, considering its contemporaries.
Classic Chic album. I like it just as much as Risque and an easy 5 stars.
Very entertaining and great fun to listen to.
I wasnt expecting it to go that hard, genuinely very fun front to back. It's very well executed
Le Freak carrea el album.
I get Le Freak is really famous, but it's really bland. Good for bg music, not so much for active listening. Some songs were quite good tho, just not the highest regarded ones
Solid disco album. Didn't know I knew a song by this band. Not my absolute favorite though.
Has a good song, but otherwise boring.
not my scene at all but it’s still genius
I didn't like it, but I didn't not like it
3 stars
Wonderful surprise. I've always thought of this as a "silly disco album" + "Freak Out", but it is actually a great album. Really loved the "orchestral landscapes" that enhance the rhythm vibe. Awesome!
Interesting that the genres don't include disco. This one definitely rises above its peers for me. So groovy. So tight. Those bass lines alone earn a star. I had I Want Your Love on repeat for a while. Really love it when artists give a song plenty of room to breathe. Pleasantly surprised 🙂
Let’s not talk about this as disco (which one thinks history will be relatively kind to, or at least more so than many haters / demolitioners might expect) but rather as smooth and sophisticated R&B inflected pop. The beats and grooves lilt and then elevate, make one tap one’s toes and then toggle one’s head. And isn’t the tempo sort of refreshing to the much darker, closed-off and frenetic paces of house, EDM and more recent vintages of (mere) dance music. This is infectious pop, with more soul and melancholia than is commonly recognized. The bass groove into the bank of horns, into the hustling guitar riff, and the return of the bells (plus strings most elegant) on “I Want Your Love” is so good (understated, too) and rewards careful listening. “Savoir Fair” is awesomely hip, swingingly melancholic, a most memorable groove. This is not an extremely disco record; it's an extremely good record period.
Party tunes...
First four tracks are fun and danceable. Then the table turns, and we get three boring and repetitive songs, before the album enda with a dance. 3 stars, quite fun
Fun listen that reminded me of all the sampling of theirs and similar music. I would listen to this again end to end which I don’t say about many of these albums.
Um bocado de disco para variar. Pelo que entendo isto é uma banda, uma banda muito catita inclusive. Os Chic chegaram no fim da era do disco quando esta já estava saturada, o que é uma pena, pois eles mostram-se muito competentes nesta área que é a musicalidade. Para além disto o Le Freak é extremamente famoso e conhecido por todos. Uma agradável surpresa foi o Savoir Faire que não passou de um instrumental. Eu muitas vezes sinto-me perdido sem saber o que dizer sobre estas coisas, o álbum é conciso, bem instrumentado, muito catchy com alguma diversidade. No entanto, não me vejo tentado a voltar a ouvir este álbum. A melhor música considero que tenha sido a I Want your Love. Nota: 7/10 Data: 21/06/2024
Konsistenter Disco dänce, savoir faire fällt angenehm raus
Classic disco
Hated it. HATE. Some cool beats I guess. But I don't like disco. At least I know they're whispering chic in those songs
I had looked up Chic after looking up a bunch of Nile Rogers after the release of Random Access Memories. Tapping my toes listening to this record, these songs were sooooo long though. Great album, at best incredible, at worst a little repetitive.
There are aspects of this album that I enjoyed. The instrumentation is solid and there are some great bass lines. However, for a relatively short album it felt long. Most of the songs were just one motif repeated for 4 minutes. At Last I Am Free is the worst offender, they took what would be an okay chorus and made it a whole song. So yeah, this album needs work, it really felt like they had ideas for songs and instead of fleshing them out just made entire songs out of one idea.
funky at times and chill at times. this exceeded expectations
Upbeat album, le freak is such a masterpiece!
This one really captures Chic's energy, kicking it off with a live one. Chic is are legends of the dance floor, bringing jazz guitar chords and bass gymnastics into the disco space, and all of this is on display in this collection. Chic is kind of like Van Halen in one way, almost every track is pure fire.. but you don't want to hear them pull out a ballad. If Chic were more comparable to say, AC/DC, we wouldn't have tracks like the 7+ minute "At Last I Am Free" which really panders to the R&B dial but in a wholly ineffective way. It's fortunate that the rest of it more than makes up for that. Nile & Bernard forever.
Disco Stu mag Disco Musik
Most any criticism I would have toward this album is toward Disco in general. In my opinion they are the best thing to come out of disco, the playing is super tight and the string arrangements which are normally super cheesy in disco sounds pretty fresh here.
C'est Chic, unique.
I don’t think this has aged real well. Music and lyrics are very repetitive. Other than the one hit, it all seems very bland to me.
Overall not bad, just funky. Happy Man was a jam. This band had waaay more hits than I remembered.
Funk & Disco is not really my kind of thing but I enjoyed this album more than I thought I would. Le Freak is a great track and the rest are ok as well and Nile Rogers is someone who's talent I have a lotof respect for. My main criticism is that all the tracks felt too long.
I won't make excuses, I didn't like it. 1/5
First one that I had never even heard of before. Funky disco album. It was fine, just not my thing.
Iconic funk, enjoyable but not necessarily the best. That said, undeniably an album everyone should listen to before they die. It feels fundamental.
1. cheer - 0 2. freak - 1 3. zavoir - 1.5 4. happy - 0 5. love - 1 6. free - 0 7. uuin - 0 8. bone - 0
Очень мелодичная, ритмичная музыка. Сочные бас-партии, вкусная гитара. Яркий представитель жанра диско/R&B.
Funky and fun, but not a lot stuck out to me. Don't really love the disco scene, I like moderately funky jams and some funky bass in my shit but this is a lot to digest.
I rarely seem to give anything but a 2 anymore. This seems to have become the standard for 'It didn't hurt my ears but I will never listen again (out of choice)'
Finally, something that isn't Br*tish.
Un poco de todo. Me encantó.
I think this is the platonic ideal of disco. If I loved disco more this would be a 5*. I do really like it though.
Nice groove through out, liked it more than I thought I would. Was good for a listen. Will I listen to again: 25%
If I were lazy, then I would just copy and paste my view of Risque in this space. That's not a bad thing. Bernard Edwards is still a highlight on bass and this is one of the few times in my life that I really pay attention to nearly everything the bassist is playing. It's like a lead guitar in some ways and the rhythm guitar in other ways. I have no idea why I enjoy his bass playing so much, but dammit, I do. I don't like disco and the songs are still too long. Again cocaine makes time go by faster and so no one wants to dance to Le Freak for only four minutes. I also knew I Want Your Love and it's also a jam. Even the instrumentals are interesting. The one nitpick I may have is C'est Chic is so similar to Risque that I am not sure both albums should be in the book. I would have preferred maybe the soundtrack to Saturday Night Fever being in. Sure, I know soundtracks (and compilations) are not supposed to be in the book, but this rule has been broken a few times already.
The songs are too long. I don't like disco or dancing to this style of music. This is not influential on almost any band or style of music I care about. It has good production. A 1 is too harsh, but I really did not like this. So it gets a 1.
This album fucking rules! The disco with the r&b added into really made for some catchy and entertaining songs. Bring this type of music back! 4.6 stars
Nice!!
Musically this album is great - that bass is grooving.
So silky smooth.
Perfection.
Nile Rogers is the GOOOOAOTTTOTTOAOOT
Richting 2.5
Really enjoyed the familiarity of "le freak" after hearing a sample from it in bbno$'s new single "lil' freak". Another standout was “I want your love” which was pretty cool. Other than that, it did get a bit repetitive so I have capped it at 3 stars.
3/5 very enjoyable
Couple of good songs, but not something that I'm overly fond of. Really liked I Want Your Love.
It was good