“C’est Chic” by Chic - album review
features in: Album Chart of 1978 ● Album Chart of the Decade: 1970s ● 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die  |
The big production on their second long-player gave the stylish New Yorkers their biggest album success, hitting #4 in the Billboard 200 and spawning two huge hits “Le Freak” (#1) and “I Want Your Love” (#7). At the very core of the hypnotic and stylish grooves were guitarist Nile Rodgers, bassist Bernard Edwards and drummer Tony Thompson. Pulling the album down for me, “Savoir Faire” offers laid-back guitar-solo jazz refinement George-Benson-style which completely rubs me up the wrong way. Similarly spoking my wheel on side two, the sickly Three-Degrees-like “At Last I Am Free” is the kind of pop balladry that I can well do without. In my affections, some they win, some they lose.
The Jukebox Rebel
09–Mar–2016
| Tracklist |
| A1 | [04:42]  Chic - Chic Cheer (Bernard Edwards, Nile Rodgers) Disco / Funk |
| A2 | [05:23]  Chic - Le Freak [12" version] (Bernard Edwards, Nile Rodgers) Disco / Funk |
| A3 | [05:01]  Chic - Savoir Faire (Bernard Edwards, Nile Rodgers) Jazz |
| A4 | [04:17]  Chic - Happy Man (Bernard Edwards, Nile Rodgers) Disco / Funk |
| B1 | [06:55]  Chic - I Want Your Love (Bernard Edwards, Nile Rodgers) Disco / Funk |
| B2 | [07:08]  Chic - At Last I Am Free (Bernard Edwards, Nile Rodgers) Pop Ballad |
| B3 | [04:26]  Chic - Sometimes You Win (Bernard Edwards, Nile Rodgers) Disco / Funk |
| B4 | [03:41]  Chic - (Funny) Bone (Bernard Edwards, Nile Rodgers) Disco / Funk |
