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I was just a callow youth when I bought this record on vinyl when it first came out all those years ago. The worldwide buzz was all about the massive club hits "Le Freak" and "I Want Your Love", and while I totally understood why and love those songs to this day, my personal favourite was always the album opener, "Chic Cheer".

Few people I met ever shared my view but I finally felt personally vindicated twenty years later when Ron 'Amen-Ra' Lawrence and Sean 'Puffy' Combs sampled the song for Faith Evans' 1998 megahit "Love Like This". I was a amateur DJ back then and was one of the first onmore… the circuit to get the 12 inch single. I remember playing it at a friends birthday party in Chiswick and remember the crowd going wild. And then, a few years later, in 2003, Fatman Scoop & The Crooklyn Clan used the Faith Evans tune as the basis of their similarly massive club hit "Be Faithful". People still go crazy for that one.

Anyway, almost thirty years after its release, this is still one album (I own it on CD now) I play on a regular basis and I enjoy it just as much as I did on day one. It never fails to make me smile, sing along and sometimes even dance, no matter what mood I'm in. Every tune is a winner and I especially love that they included the instrumental - dare I say jazz-fusion? - number, "Savoir Faire". All the songs were written, produced, arranged and conducted by Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards and those two will go down in history not just as the kings of disco, which they were, but as the architects of some of the best music my generation was to ever enjoy.

Say Amen for the days when you got just eight songs on a CD and still feel like you got your money's worth. That happens very rarely these days, if at all.

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Music > Albums

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CD

Release Type:

Retail

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Title:

Chic - C'est Chic (1992) Retail CD

Part:

Front

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1541 x 1541 px

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