Chic - Original Album Series (2011) 5CD Box Set EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 1.12 Gb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 460 Mb | Scans included Disco, Funk, Soul, R&B | Label: Rhino, Atlantic | # 8122797595 | 03:15:42 The supreme disco band, led by Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards; released four Top Ten singles and collaborated with Sister Sledge and Diana Ross. Five classic albums in wallets housed in a new slipcase. Nice and simple, no frills just great music! Includes Chic, C'est Chic, Risqué, Real People and Take It Off.
There can be little argument that Chic was disco's greatest band; and, working in a heavily producer-dominated field, they were most definitely a band. By the time Chic appeared in the late '70s, disco was already slipping into the excess that eventually caused its downfall. Chic bucked the trend by stripping disco's sound down to its basic elements; their funky, stylish grooves had an organic sense of interplay that was missing from many of their overproduced competitors. Chic's sound was anchored by the scratchy, James Brown-style rhythm guitar of Nile Rodgers and the indelible, widely imitated (sometimes outright stolen) basslines of Bernard Edwards. As producers, they used keyboard and string embellishments economically, which kept the emphasis on rhythm. Chic's distinctive approach not only resulted in some of the finest dance singles of their time, but also helped create a template for funk, dance-pop, and even hip-hop in the post-disco era. Not coincidentally, Rodgers and Edwards wound up as two of the most successful producers of the '80s, and the sound they developed and perfected remained relevant for decades.
Rodgers and Edwards first met in 1970, when both were jazz-trained musicians fresh out of high school. Edwards had attended New York's High School for the Performing Arts and was working in a Bronx post office at the time, while Rodgers' early career also included stints in the folk group New World Rising and the Apollo Theater house orchestra. Around 1972, Rodgers and Edwards formed a jazz-rock fusion group called the Big Apple Band. This outfit moonlighted as a backup band, touring behind smooth soul vocal group New York City in the wake of their 1973 hit "I'm Doin' Fine Now." After New York City broke up, the Big Apple Band hit the road with Carol Douglas for a few months, and Rodgers and Edwards decided to make a go of it on their own toward the end of 1976. At first they switched their aspirations from fusion to new wave, briefly performing as Allah & the Knife Wielding Punks, but quickly settled into dance music. They enlisted onetime LaBelle drummer Tony Thompson and vocalists Norma Jean Wright and Alfa Anderson, and changed their name to Chic in summer 1977 so as to avoid confusion with Walter Murphy & the Big Apple Band (who'd just hit big with "A Fifth of Beethoven").
Augmented in the studio by keyboardists Raymond Jones and Rob Sabino, Chic recorded the demo single "Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah)" and shopped it around to several major record companies, all of which declined it. The small Buddah label finally released it as a 12" in late 1977, and as its club popularity exploded, Atlantic stepped in, signed the group, and re-released the single on a wider basis. "Dance, Dance, Dance" hit the Top Ten, peaking at number six, and made Chic one of the hottest new groups in disco. Chic scrambled to put together their self-titled first album, which spawned a minor follow-up hit, "Everybody Dance," in early 1978. At this point, Wright left to try her hand at a solo career (with assistance from Rodgers and Edwards), and was replaced by Luci Martin. It was a good time to come onboard; "Le Freak," the first single from sophomore album C'est Chic, was an out-of-the-box smash, spending five weeks on top of the charts toward the end of 1978 and selling over four-million copies (which made it the biggest-selling single in Atlantic's history). Follow-up "I Want Your Love" reached number seven, cementing the group's new star status, and C'est Chic became one of the rare disco albums to go platinum.
1979's Risqué was another solidly constructed LP that also went platinum, partly on the strength of Chic's second number one pop hit, "Good Times." "Good Times" may not have equaled the blockbuster sales figures of "Le Freak," but it was the band's most imitated track: Queen's number one hit "Another One Bites the Dust" was a clear rewrite, and the Sugarhill Gang lifted the instrumental backing track wholesale for the first commercial rap single, "Rapper's Delight," marking the first of many times that Chic grooves would be recycled into hip-hop records. Also in 1979, Rodgers and Edwards took on their first major outside production assignment, producing and writing the Sister Sledge smashes "We Are Family" and the oft-sampled "He's the Greatest Dancer." This success, in turn, landed them the chance to work with Diana Ross on 1980's Diana album, and they wrote and produced "Upside Down," her first number one hit in years, as well as "I'm Coming Out."
The disco fad was fading rapidly by that point, however, and 1980's Real People failed to go gold despite another solid performance by the band. Changing tastes put an end to Chic's heyday, as Rodgers and Edwards' outside production work soon grew far more lucrative, even despite aborted projects with Aretha Franklin and Johnny Mathis. Several more Chic LPs followed in the early '80s, with diminishing creative and commercial returns, and Rodgers and Edwards disbanded the group after completing the lackluster Believer in 1983. Later that year, both recorded solo LPs that sank without a trace. Hungry for acceptance and respect in the rock mainstream (especially after accusations that they had ripped off Queen instead of the other way around), both Rodgers and Edwards sought out high-profile production and session work over the rest of the decade. Rodgers produced blockbuster albums like David Bowie's Let's Dance, Madonna's Like a Virgin, and Mick Jagger's She's the Boss. Edwards wasn't as prolific as a producer, but did join the one-off supergroup the Power Station along with Tony Thompson as well as Robert Palmer and members of avowed Chic fans Duran Duran; he later produced Palmer's commercial breakthrough, Riptide. Edwards also worked with Rod Stewart (Out of Order), Jody Watley, and Tina Turner, while Rodgers' other credits include the Thompson Twins, the Vaughan Brothers, INXS, and the B-52's' comeback Cosmic Thing.
Rodgers and Edwards re-formed Chic in 1992 with new vocalists Sylver Logan Sharp and Jenn Thomas, and an assortment of session drummers in Thompson's place; they toured and released a new album, Chic-ism. In 1996, the reconstituted Chic embarked on a tour of Japan; sadly, on April 18, Edwards passed away in his Tokyo hotel room due to a severe bout of pneumonia. Rodgers continued to tour occasionally with a version of Chic. In 1999, his Sumthing Else label issued a recording of Edwards' final performance with the band, Live at the Budokan. More importantly, Rodgers compiled The Chic Organization Box Set, Vol. 1: Savoir Faire, a four-disc anthology released in 2010. Rodgers' career was boosted once more, through a string of collaborations with Duran Duran and Daft Punk, among others. He published a memoir, beat cancer, and kept the Chic name alive through high-profile performances, the 2015 single "I'll Be There," and plans for a 2016 album.
When Chic's self-titled debut album came out in 1978, many rock critics gave it very negative reviews and failed to see just how rhythmically and harmonically exciting Chic's blend of funk, soul, and Euro-disco was. But one critic who often gave Chic favorable coverage was Don Waller, who hit the nail on the head when he exalted the band as "an uptown version of Booker T & the MG's." It was a most insightful analogy – Chic's music was a lot sleeker than Booker T & the MG's raw, instrumental Memphis soul, but like Booker T., the Niles Rodgers/Bernard Edwards team turned out some of the most infectious and influential R&B party grooves of their era. Although not quite as strong as Chic's next two albums – C'est Chic and Risqué – would be, this highly enjoyable album put the group on the map commercially thanks to the infectious hits "Dance, Dance, Dance" and "Everybody Dance." Some rock critics saw Chic as just another faceless disco production, but, in fact, the opposite is true – with this album, Chic fashioned a very distinctive and recognizable sound that proved to be as influential in its era as Booker T & the MGs were in theirs. The sound that Chic established with this album was one that everyone from Queen and ABC to Sister Sledge, the Sugarhill Gang, and Madonna would benefit from.
Alex Henderson, Allmusic.com
Tracklist:
01. Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah) (8:20) 02. Sao Paulo (5:02) 03. You Can Get By (5:41) 04. Everybody Dance (6:42) 05. Est-Ce Que C'Est Chic (3:54) 06. Falling in Love With You (4:29) 07. Strike Up the Band (4:33)
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Released in 1978, just as disco began to peak, C'est Chic and its pair of dancefloor anthems, "Le Freak" and "I Want Your Love," put Chic at the top of that dizzying peak. The right album at the right time, C'est Chic is essentially a rehash of Chic, the group's so-so self-titled debut from a year earlier. That first album also boasted a pair of floor-filling anthems, "Dance Dance Dance" and "Everybody Dance," and, like C'est Chic, it filled itself out with a mix of disco and ballads. So, essentially, C'est Chic does everything its predecessor did, except it does so masterfully: each side similarly gets its timeless floor-filler ("Le Freak," "I Want Your Love"), quiet storm come-down ("Savoir Faire," "At Last I Am Free"), feel-good album track ("Happy Man," "Sometimes You Win"), and moody album capper ("Chic Cheer," "[Funny] Bone"). Producers Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers were quite a savvy pair and knew that disco was as much a formula as anything. As evidenced here, they definitely had their fingers on the pulse of the moment, and used their perceptive touch to craft one of the few truly great disco albums. In fact, you could even argue that C'est Chic very well may be the definitive disco album. After all, countless artists scored dancefloor hits, but few could deliver an album this solid, and nearly as few could deliver one this epochal as well. C'est Chic embodies everything wonderful and excessive about disco at its pixilated peak. It's anything but subtle with its at-the-disco dancefloor mania and after-the-disco bedroom balladry, and Edwards and Rodgers are anything but whimsical with their disco-ballad-disco album sequencing and pseudo-jet-set Euro poshness. Chic would follow C'est Chic with "Good Times," the group's crowning achievement, but never again would Edwards and Rodgers assemble an album as perfectly calculated as C'est Chic.
Jason Birchmeier, Allmusic.com
Tracklist:
01. Chic Cheer (4:44) 02. Le Freak (5:32) 03. Savoir Faire (5:05) 04. Happy Man (4:27) 05. I Want Your Love (6:58) 06. At Last I Am Free (7:12) 07. Sometimes You Win (4:29) 08. (Funny) Bone (3:42)
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Chic was very much in its prime when it recorded its third album, Risqué, which contained hits that ranged from "My Feet Keep Dancing" and "My Forbidden Lover" to the influential "Good Times." That feel-good manifesto is one of the first songs that comes to mind when one thinks of the disco era and the Jimmy Carter years, but Chic's popularity certainly wasn't limited to the disco crowd. The fact that "Good Times" became the foundation for both the Sugarhill Gang's "Rapper's Delight" and Queen's "Another One Bites the Dust" tells you a lot – it underscores the fact that Chic was influencing everyone from early rappers to art rockers. A group that many rock critics were so quick to dismiss was having an impact in many different areas. From hip-hoppers to new wavers in London and Manchester, Risqué was considered primary listening. And Risqué is impressive not only because of its up-tempo cuts, but also because of slow material that includes the lush "A Warm Summer Night" and the dramatic ballad "Will You Cry (When You Hear This Song)." Risqué is definitely among Chic's essential albums.
Alex Henderson, Allmusic.com
Tracklist:
01. Good Times (8:09) 02. A Warm Summer Night (6:11) 03. My Feet Keep Dancing (6:38) 04. My Forbidden Lover (4:39) 05. Can't Stand to Love You (2:57) 06. Will You Cry (When You Hear This Song) (4:07) 07. What About Me (4:09)
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CD4: Chic - Real People (1980) EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 249 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 87 Mb | 00:37:32 | Scans included
In the early '80s, Chic's influence on other artists was hard to miss. Change, Fantasy, Luther Vandross, the Talking Heads, Grace Jones and Queen were among the many artists who were incorporating elements of the Chic sound. It was ironic and quite amusing to hear some members of the "Death to Disco!" brigade blaring Queen's "Another One Bites the Dust" on their car stereos during the summer of 1980, for that funk-rock ditty was obviously based on "Good Times." But Chic itself was seeing its popularity start to fade, and fans were realizing that the group had reached its creative peak in the late '70s. Like other albums that Chic recorded in the early '80s, Real People is competent but less than essential. Diehard fans will find that while "Rebels Are We," "I Got Protection" and "Chip off the Old Block" are likable and catchy, they aren't in a class with "Good Times" or "Le Freak." This is a decent album, but it's also the work of a group that was past its prime.
Alex Henderson, Allmusic.com
Tracklist:
01. Open Up (3:54) 02. Real People (5:24) 03. I Loved You More (3:09) 04. I Got Protection (6:27) 05. Rebels Are We (4:55) 06. Chip Off the Old Block (5:00) 07. 26 (4:01) 08. You Can't Do It Alone (4:43)
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CD5: Chic - Take It Off (1981) EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 226 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 95 Mb | 00:40:31 | Scans included
In 1981, a lot of rock & rollers were claiming that the disco era was officially over. Disco, of course, never really died – a lot of the dance-pop, house music, Hi-NRG, and Latin freestyle that was recorded in the '80s and '90s was essentially disco – but as far as many of the radio stations and record company A&R men of 1981 were concerned, disco was dead. And that was bad news for Chic, a group closely identified with the disco era. Even though a lot of Chic's work had as much to do with funk and soul as it did with the Euro-disco sound, Chic was unable to live down its reputation as a disco group. But Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards gave it a try with 1981's Take It Off, an admirable, if uneven, project that finds the group downplaying the Euro-disco elements. With R&B and funk as the foundation, Chic tries to branch out by incorporating elements of pop-rock on "Your Love Is Canceled," and jazz on "Flash Back" and "So Fine" (which shouldn't be confused with the "So Fine" that Kashif produced for R&B singer Howard Johnson in 1982). In fact, a few of Rogers' guitar solos give the impression that he'd been listening to a lot of Wes Montgomery. But as likable as the LP is, it didn't contain a major hit – the single "Stage Fright" only made it to #34 on Billboard's R&B singles chart. And for a group that had enjoyed #1 pop and R&B smashes only two and three years earlier, that was certainly disappointing.
Alex Henderson, Allmusic.com
Tracklist:
01. Stage Fright (3:57) 02. Burn Hard (5:13) 03. So Fine (4:10) 04. Flash Back (4:29) 05. Telling Lies (2:40) 06. Your Love Is Cancelled (4:12) 07. Would You Be My Baby (3:34) 08. Take It Off (5:12) 09. Just Out of Reach (3:45) 10. Baby Doll (3:19)
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Read offset correction : 48 Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No Null samples used in CRC calculations : Yes Used interface : Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000 Gap handling : Appended to previous track
Used output format : User Defined Encoder Selected bitrate : 1024 kBit/s Quality : High Add ID3 tag : No Command line compressor : C:\Program Files (x86)\Exact Audio Copy\Flac\flac.exe Additional command line options : -8 -V -T "ARTIST=%artist%" -T "TITLE=%title%" -T "ALBUM=%albumtitle%" -T "DATE=%year%" -T "TRACKNUMBER=%tracknr%" -T "TOTALTRACKS=%numtracks%" -T "GENRE=%genre%" -T "ALBUMARTIST=%albumartist%" -T "ALBUM ARTIST=%albumartist%" -T "COMMENT=EAC Secure Mode, Test & Copy, AccurateRip, FLAC -8" %source%
Filename L:\2017\FLAC\Chic - Original Album Series (2011) [FLAC] (5CD Rhino Records 8122797595)\CD5 - Take It Off (1981)\01 - Stage Fright.wav
Pre-gap length 0:00:02.00
Peak level 76.5 % Extraction speed 4.3 X Track quality 100.0 % Test CRC DD703518 Copy CRC DD703518 Accurately ripped (confidence 59) [49A3133F] (AR v2) Copy OK
Track 2
Filename L:\2017\FLAC\Chic - Original Album Series (2011) [FLAC] (5CD Rhino Records 8122797595)\CD5 - Take It Off (1981)\02 - Burn Hard.wav
Peak level 76.3 % Extraction speed 5.0 X Track quality 100.0 % Test CRC 6957F174 Copy CRC 6957F174 Accurately ripped (confidence 59) [AAD3CADE] (AR v2) Copy OK
Track 3
Filename L:\2017\FLAC\Chic - Original Album Series (2011) [FLAC] (5CD Rhino Records 8122797595)\CD5 - Take It Off (1981)\03 - So Fine.wav
Peak level 74.4 % Extraction speed 5.3 X Track quality 100.0 % Test CRC 9063102F Copy CRC 9063102F Accurately ripped (confidence 59) [5F4F688C] (AR v2) Copy OK
Track 4
Filename L:\2017\FLAC\Chic - Original Album Series (2011) [FLAC] (5CD Rhino Records 8122797595)\CD5 - Take It Off (1981)\04 - Flash Back.wav
Peak level 65.5 % Extraction speed 5.2 X Track quality 99.9 % Test CRC DE852DC1 Copy CRC DE852DC1 Accurately ripped (confidence 59) [18C1B92B] (AR v2) Copy OK
Track 5
Filename L:\2017\FLAC\Chic - Original Album Series (2011) [FLAC] (5CD Rhino Records 8122797595)\CD5 - Take It Off (1981)\05 - Telling Lies.wav
Peak level 64.6 % Extraction speed 5.5 X Track quality 100.0 % Test CRC 67C2F661 Copy CRC 67C2F661 Accurately ripped (confidence 59) [4A0E8721] (AR v2) Copy OK
Track 6
Filename L:\2017\FLAC\Chic - Original Album Series (2011) [FLAC] (5CD Rhino Records 8122797595)\CD5 - Take It Off (1981)\06 - Your Love Is Cancelled.wav
Peak level 77.9 % Extraction speed 5.6 X Track quality 99.9 % Test CRC F811945F Copy CRC F811945F Accurately ripped (confidence 59) [8B63682D] (AR v2) Copy OK
Track 7
Filename L:\2017\FLAC\Chic - Original Album Series (2011) [FLAC] (5CD Rhino Records 8122797595)\CD5 - Take It Off (1981)\07 - Would You Be My Baby.wav
Peak level 73.8 % Extraction speed 6.3 X Track quality 100.0 % Test CRC 89320754 Copy CRC 89320754 Accurately ripped (confidence 59) [D62513F9] (AR v2) Copy OK
Track 8
Filename L:\2017\FLAC\Chic - Original Album Series (2011) [FLAC] (5CD Rhino Records 8122797595)\CD5 - Take It Off (1981)\08 - Take It Off.wav
Peak level 73.0 % Extraction speed 7.0 X Track quality 100.0 % Test CRC 70861929 Copy CRC 70861929 Accurately ripped (confidence 58) [F2A8386B] (AR v2) Copy OK
Track 9
Filename L:\2017\FLAC\Chic - Original Album Series (2011) [FLAC] (5CD Rhino Records 8122797595)\CD5 - Take It Off (1981)\09 - Just Out of Reach.wav
Peak level 78.0 % Extraction speed 7.0 X Track quality 100.0 % Test CRC 0C558CF0 Copy CRC 0C558CF0 Accurately ripped (confidence 59) [E03EB77D] (AR v2) Copy OK
Track 10
Filename L:\2017\FLAC\Chic - Original Album Series (2011) [FLAC] (5CD Rhino Records 8122797595)\CD5 - Take It Off (1981)\10 - Baby Doll.wav
Peak level 82.2 % Extraction speed 5.8 X Track quality 100.0 % Test CRC A37A9CEA Copy CRC A37A9CEA Accurately ripped (confidence 58) [2364BC6A] (AR v2) Copy OK
==== Log checksum ABEA1E1404295DF05E7788BA46CA900D87321681591982BD6CAE86843E968BEB ==== DR log foobar2000 1.2 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1 log date: 2017-10-25 00:16:35
–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Analyzed: Chic / Take It Off ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
DR Peak RMS Duration Track –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– DR15 -2.32 dB -18.68 dB 3:57 01-Stage Fright DR15 -2.34 dB -18.73 dB 5:13 02-Burn Hard DR15 -2.56 dB -19.81 dB 4:10 03-So Fine DR14 -3.67 dB -20.05 dB 4:29 04-Flash Back DR14 -3.79 dB -19.88 dB 2:40 05-Telling Lies DR14 -2.16 dB -18.23 dB 4:12 06-Your Love Is Cancelled DR14 -2.63 dB -19.36 dB 3:34 07-Would You Be My Baby DR14 -2.73 dB -18.80 dB 5:12 08-Take It Off DR14 -2.16 dB -17.81 dB 3:45 09-Just Out of Reach DR15 -1.69 dB -18.37 dB 3:19 10-Baby Doll ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
