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One banger on this album, i dont think they tried too hard for the rest of it 2 stars
I Chic provengono quel periodo degli anni '70 durante la quale praticamente l'umanità ha subito il fenomeno funk/disco-dance. Li trovo sfiziosi e divertenti ma molto limitati. Le freak e I want your love le conoscevo già e penso che siano le uniche due canzoni valide dell'album. Il resto è abbastanza anonimo. Voto 2 citando l'ultima traccia : "Just one more thing Remember the whole world's a circus Don't you be the clown"
Secondo me le freak è un pezzo un pò pacchiano, scontato e tutto il resto ma alla fine quando lo senti non puoi non esaltarti. Però il resto del disco l'ho trovato brutto, spesso con pezzi troppo lunghi per un ascolto casuale e con un sound patinato. Insomma si regge un pò troppo sul singolo questo disco, anche se molti pezzi penso abbiano avuto un'influenza grossa anche sulla disco degli anni moderni.
Pretty good, enjoyable but not amazing
well i know 'le freak' thats it. its not a live album right? nice nice start. this is disco music right. well intro got old about halfway through but here is the hit i guess. third songs nice, surprised there were no lyrics at all, Spotify lyrics were showing something i wonder if there's another version or where musicxmatch got the lyrics from lol. fourth songs nice but im already bored of this sound. whole album flows weird. 'i want your love' is the other (smaller) hit i think. 'at last i am free' is very nice, going to my playlist for songs over 7 min long. im done and im merely whelmed.
Groovy for sure, but fairly repetitive with very little variety. The songs could have been cut in half and nothing would have been lost. The worst song on this album, "At Last I Am Free" is the longest at over 7 minutes, and it did not deserve the fire bass runs it featured. I did enjoy the vibe, though, since disco strings are my aesthetic, but I wouldn't listen to this again. Listen to "Le Freak" and call it a day.
Great at the start, goes down hill fast
p funky.
All this does is bring back memories of the "Sounds of the 70s" compilation CD commercial that was always on TV in the 90s.
Na pierwszy rzut okna, nie kojarzylem albumiku, badz bandu, ale juz na 2 kawalku zmienilem zdanie, bo le freaka z pewnoscia gdzies juz slyszalem, nie jestem pewny czy orginal w jakims filmie czy sample, ale kawalek kojarze, gatunkowo jest to funkowe disco, chociaz niektore kawalki brzmia nawet soulowo, jak at last I am free, ktory jest kawalkiem utrzymanym w najspokojniejszym tempie, przy czym jest najdluzszym utworem plyty, brakowalo mi troche charakterystycznych chorkow jak przystalo na disko, ale nie mozna miec wszystkiego
Not my type of music
Wahnsinnig grooviger Shizzle, glasklarer Sound, 3 von 8 sind im Kanon unserer Kollektiverinnerung feststehende Über-Hits. Epic wenn auch nicht mein Turf. Jedoch verleiht das restliche B-Seiten Material - ganz zu schweigen von den knallhart lächerlichen Intro/Outro Tracks - eine redundant-aufgeblähte Belanglosigkeit. 1.8
Too 70s for me
Las primeras canciones muy bien: música Disco energética y alegre, pero en general el disco me pareció bastante intrascendente. La canción de LeFreak ya la tenía registrada en un playlist de disco.
2.5| Se nota que andaban en su onda Disco de los inicios por que no es tan rápido como 'Boogie Wonderland' por ejemplo. Si alguien me diera una explicación lógica sobre el por que el disco es considerado en la lista lo entendería pero mientras pasa desapercibido
Pues sí, los músicos que escuchamos aquí son el origen de la música disco y sentaron las bases para cosas que incluso hoy seguimos oyendo en fiestas. El bajista (que es también el compositor y líder de la banda) y el guitarrista (que inventó un estilo de tocar que hasta Daft Punk ha usado) son excelentes y se escuchan en cada track, así como los metales en 'I Want Your Love'; sin embargo eso no quita lo tremendamente repetitivo que se vuelve, y que para apenas 42 minutos, hacia el final estaba ya cansado del sonsonete.
It's fine. "Le Freak" the obvious standout. Some good grooves, but I like it more funky George Clinton.
Funky. Just not something I'll listen to.
I'm definitely not a chic guy
what a ride.. lol
Bardzo fajny basik. Przyjemny disco/funkowy klimacik, le Freak oraz I want your love są moimi faworytami z albumu, ale ogólnie nie jest to album do jakiego bym wracał, bo nie mój vibe.
lit just repeats chic over and over again
I have not heard this before. I know Le Freak but that’s it. This starts off with a good funk beat and goes in Le Freak, so it seems promising, then it moves on from dud to dud until the final track which brings back some of the energy of the first two. Surprised to see such a dull disco record in here when there is so much better disco out there. It might make sense if this was a really influential album or the best of a certain style, but all this really has going for it is one hit song.
katastropha
Ugh.. Disco Sucks. 1
Ugh more of the same crap...
Nice
Just because an album includes one wildly popular track doesn't mean it's an album I need to listen to before I die, exhibit H
Thanks to this album I learned a bit about Disco Demolition Night at Comiskey Park. Reading about this event was definitely better than listening to the album. Perhaps going forward I will be less vociferous in my criticism of disco music, though.
👎🏻
Sucked
Sehr repetitiv, das musikalische Material wäre in jedem Song bereits nach 2-3 Minuten völlig ausgeschöpft. Durch die Überlänge nervt es stellenweise sogar.
Le Freak was great, the rest was not. Merely average work, with his best way in front of him!
Too groovy and not my taste in music
Bad elevator music
boring boring boring boring
I like the band but boy that album was boring. Most songs were dull.
I appreciate the inclusion, but I sure don't like the music...
Repetitive. Smooth. Yeah, this conjures up everything chic.
Not really my thing. Found myself wanting to turn it off or skip songs. 1.5/5
0.5/5 "There's no doubt that Chic are the greatest and most enduring disco band..." (Spotify bio) - yeah no, you're actually far from it. Never heard of them apart from "Le Freak", and for this band to think that they're the epiphany of disco/funk music is beyond reason. Their arrogance will be judged upon. Just go ahead and ignore Boney M., ABBA, the Bee Gees, Kool and the Gang, Ottawan and so many others who made better and more influencal music than you did. Objectively it's not great disco music either, I could come up with a dozen songs from the top of my head that can outmatch this whole album by themselves. So yeah, Nile Rodgers, please go and fuck yourself, thanks. Originally 3/5, but -2.5 stars for arrogance. Don't think you're more important than you are, because you're not.
Awful, awful, awful. Didn't even make me jiggy.
No a fan of disco in general and this doesn’t seem the best of it. One star for their hit Le Freak.
Kind of cheesy. And like most cheese after 4 decades, it didn't age well.
Very difficult to listen to.
Boring
This might be the worst album I’ve ever heard.
Not so good
Well-played music on generally boring disco, funk, and r&b tracks. Even the best songs outstay their welcome a bit. The technique is good - instruments are well played and everything is crisp. I just didn’t dig the songs.
You’ve got to be kidding me, two Chic albums in two weeks. Not how they can justify including two Chic albums when there is no Louise Armstrong.
Really bad
I didn’t realise there was such a thing as background incidental funk music. Now I do, and I don’t care for it one bit.
Yes, we get it. You're chic. Stop beating us over the head with it. Le Freak is the only one I've heard before, and it's a decent song. The rest was pretty meh. Very repetitive. At Last I Am Free was decent, and could have been great, if only they'd just hit the stop button at 4 minutes. They drag it on to over 7 minutes long, just repeating the same line over and over again. And what was with Funny Bone? An instrumental with this weird laughing sound in the background all the way through.... yeah pass. Best song: At Last I Am Free
Not coked out enough for this on a Sunday morning.
1’5
Not for me
one like one song in the album
Sometimes I forget how much I really don't like 70s disco, I just find this music so cheesy and annoying. This is just another one of those where I can tell that if you're into this kind of thing it is actually a really good album, but this simply couldn't be further from my thing.
I would say I was shocked to see this turd on the list. If Kenny G had made porno disco music, it would have been this record. It's not good, and it edged out some greats from 1978, assuming 1978 is not over-represented on the list. It is not an essential record in any way, shape, or form. If anything, it's a nostalgia piece, and that is about it.
barf. i just cant. made it to next to last song and that was a struggle. 1/5
One good song does not a good album make
Not my bag
C’est Chic. C’est mal ou c’est bien? The fates shall decide. If this is where that disco song comes from, we may be holding our noses for about 41 minutes. Oh no. It’s not that song, but I imagine it’s coming up. 4 note disco/funk riff and canned applause. Oh sweet Jesus no. Not this. Anything but this. Well. Not anything. But this is like thinking you’re going to Disneyland and showing up at a haunted sewer plant tour. It’s not that it’s terrible, it’s just boring and I hate the atmosphere. Don’t spell chic. Jesus. Maybe it is terrible. I’ve never experienced a longer 4 minutes outside of physical pain, so there we go. And there it is. “Le freak.” Ugh. If school of rock was a terrible disco movie, this would be the final song. Cheesy, childish, and unfortunately, bad music. Ugh. We’re going to get into the god damn Chic deep tracks? Why are they trying. To get meaningful here. I can’t say I hate the guitar solo. It’s pretty good. Decent tone. No group vocals is a win. Again, just too sappy and pedestrian. I’ll probably be living for this song to come back after the rest of this thing, so not too shabby. Happy man. Not me pal. Boring, bad. Bad vocal line, terrible disco guitar. Dead behind the eyes repetition meant to be danced to on barbiturates. The song “At Last I am Free” almost fills me with an emotion. I can really relate to this song. I wish to be free of this album, but this is only track 6. A vocal ballad. End it. Please. The good people of Chic, if any of you remain on this cursed earth. End this album. This is Disco on 5 RPM. Did this need to be 7 minutes?? This has been the same for FOUR MINUTES and it wasn’t good to start. Interminable dreck. Hey, they’re right. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. Chalk this puppy up to a crushing defeat. Boring outro about nothing in particular. Easy activism. Some albums have an atmosphere. A general feeling of, well, something. Anything. C’est Chic feels like a linoleum floor in a Motel Laundromat. Which I suppose is an atmosphere of some sort. One that produces despair, and has the listener questioning what it is they did wrong to end up here. C’est très mal. 0.5 HIGHLIGHTS: Savoir Faire is the best of a rotten bunch.
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.
Not for me. 1/5
No thank you.
fleeting
I just didn't feel like there was anything here for me
Disco in Reinkultur mit Riesenhit Le freak, und darum berechtigt in dieser Liste, aber ich mag Disco halt nicht
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...
Disco still sucks.
Not my type of music
I won't make excuses, I didn't like it. 1/5
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
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.
Disappointingly boring .....
If all your old disco records from way back when are gathering mould buried under a pile of junk in your parents' basement, you could go dig them out and play them. But why would you want to?
I think the cool rock fans in the late 70s would've said that disco sucks. Not a fan of this music, it's mostly because it feels like it lacks substance. I did enjoy the solid guitar playing on track 3 ("Savoir Faire").
So gar nicht meins. Gepflegte 70s Pop-Langeweile
- Didn’t make it the full way through - got bored.
Not for me
Shit
Bass heavy disco dance music. Not being a dancer, I have no use for this drivel. Yes the bass player is good. But….the lyrics are so trite they sound like they were written by an eighth grade girl….who’s not very talented. And then the ridiculous number of times a phrase is repeated within a song is almost cruel. Could you dance to it at the discos in the 70s? Hell yes. Any reason to LISTEN to it now? None whatsoever.
Yep, that’s disco
A lot of people think disco sucks. They’re right.
No
Absolute garbage. I don’t care how catchy you think a song is. . . There is no good reason that a pop disco songs needs to go on for more than 3 minutes- let alone almost 6. The lead off track to this album is complete trash. Sounds like it was written and recorded by 3rd graders. So many songs that I had to skip because they were completely unpalatable. This album made me seriously question the taste and sanity of the author of this book as well as life itself. I am terrified that Chic Cheer is going to haunt my psyche for years to come and end up being my ultimate demise as though it were some demonic ring-like track. Never again.
2 songs
LaFreak is a classic
I am sure it is a good album but I could not get into it
I heard one good guitar riff. The rest is a study of monotony.
Repetitive. Repetitive. Repetitive.
not my jam
Not for me
So that's where the "Ahhhhh, freak out!" sample comes from. Didn't realize they stretched that out for a whole 5 minute song though. This is some seriously repetitive and basic stuff. Wasn't a fan.
only enjoyable by the deaf
Disco is bad. The guy can't save this.
no
not for me
Úff, þetta var nú bara sama lagið með rétt mismunandi texta og ööörlitlum breytingum í laglínu. Örugglega voða skemmtilegt á diskótímabilinu en þetta fannst mér þreytt.
Nothing special about this album
Could not get past the second song - just not for me
This album is a little too bland for me. Elevator music vibes
Fuck disco
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…
Very instrumental, not my cup of tea
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.
Feels harsh but I'm never going to touch this again
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
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.
I wish I could separate the music from the horrible disco images in my brain, but I can't.
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.
one hit does not mean whole album is good
What a slog to get through. Songs lingered too long without much to say. Repetitive as heck. Guess that's disco and guess it's just not my thing.
The first track reminded me of how unfortunate the late 70s were. So self indulgent. There are redeeming cuts later in the album, but overall this was the aural equivalent of a cocaine binge in a toilet stall.
blehh
Listened to a few . Not a great fan
GOD, PLEASE MAKE IT STOP!!!!!!!
Gostei apenas de Savoir Faire (2018 Remaster)
Ugh. I hate disco.
Hier had ik nu echt geen zin. Zeker dat gepiel niet..
not for me
Not my thing
Not a massive fan of this. Le freak is a classic however.
Good production . Tracks too long. A couple of stand out tracks, I want your Love being the main one but too many instrumental offerings.
Not a disco fan.
ne nicht so nice
ehhhh disco is not for me
I’m going out to dinner tonight with the family so I’ll see you tomorrow morning at about nine o clock love to talk bye ✌️ see if I get any of the other girls 🧒 tomorrow or Thursday I have some time for myself I can talk tomorrow if you’d rather talk tomorrow night if that’s easier I love 😍 and I’m not a good 😊 and I’m sure 👍 but I’ll let it slide 🛝
3/5
Very acoustic, hardly any vocals at all. Made me want to listen and explore jazz some more. Inoffensive, repetitive, groovy.