yeah all the Mathis stuff is remarkable, every time a track creeps up on me on shuffle i'm gobsmacked
― Tartar Mouantcheoux (Noodle Vague), Monday, 16 July 2012 10:50 (eleven years ago) link
wonder when box set 2 is coming out?
― piscesx, Monday, 16 July 2012 11:44 (eleven years ago) link
Did the Mathis stuff finally come out on that European/French box or whatever it was?
― Naive Teen Idol, Monday, 16 July 2012 13:53 (eleven years ago) link
some of it
― Tartar Mouantcheoux (Noodle Vague), Monday, 16 July 2012 13:58 (eleven years ago) link
The Nile Rodgers book was OK. He's remarkably clear eyed about his career, and especially about his life and family. Everything from hanging with Brett Ratner's mom in Miami, and Madonna and Bowie, and of course Chic and Live Aid and all sorts of stuff. Surprisingly unforthcoming about some stuff, and if anything music is secondary to tales of growing up the child of hippie heroin addicts, doing tons of drugs, lifestyles of the rich and famous, etc. But worth a read.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 14 February 2013 20:20 (eleven years ago) link
isn't he too old to be the son of hippies? are we talking beatniks?
i love nile rodgers (and his music) so i'm inclined to get this book, but won't have time to read it until summer.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Friday, 15 February 2013 01:59 (eleven years ago) link
Nile is young! Or at least started really young. Recently turned 60; he was still in his teens when he and Bernard first hooked up. Pretty sure he calls them hippies, but yeah, I guess they were Beatniks. Black mom, white Jewish stepdad, open heroin users. He talked about how hard it was to rebel when his parents were an interracial couple in the 50s and early 60s, openly shooting junk. The rest of his extended family is rife with junkies and dealers, and a couple of products on incest (!).
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 15 February 2013 03:03 (eleven years ago) link
I loved Nile's book. He's quite the storyteller, and he has some extraordinary stories to tell. Strongly recommend .
― mike t-diva, Friday, 15 February 2013 10:50 (eleven years ago) link
It does tend to bury the lead with the same sort of faux-naive rhetorical devices that clutter Peter Criss's (oddly similar) book. Stuff like (I'm half making this up):
"I'll never know why he didn't let me into the club. Maybe he didn't like my music. Maybe he didn't like the way I looked. I may never know the truth behind the incident, but at the time I didn't care, because I was rich, dating a beautiful woman and had been up four days doing coke. Also, I was sprayed by a skunk."
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 15 February 2013 13:51 (eleven years ago) link
"He talked about how hard it was to rebel when his parents were an interracial couple in the 50s and early 60s, openly shooting junk. "
yes this would be a problem. alex keaton to thread.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Thursday, 21 February 2013 20:15 (eleven years ago) link
JESUS CHRIST Johnny Mathis - "It's Alright to Love Me" - no Youtube - unfuckingbelievable genius how the fuck did they never put it out? Nile and Bernard = GOD― Tartar Mouantcheoux (Noodle Vague), Monday, July 16, 2012 6:31 AM (9 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Tartar Mouantcheoux (Noodle Vague), Monday, July 16, 2012 6:31 AM (9 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tS1B-fe27sM
― Naive Teen Idol, Saturday, 20 April 2013 14:21 (eleven years ago) link
still ridiculously good
― Sarushima baby jive (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 20 April 2013 15:04 (eleven years ago) link
they should so totally bring out that album properly. everyone seems to love it.
― piscesx, Saturday, 20 April 2013 16:56 (eleven years ago) link
Noting this am that the Sheila and B Devotion LP really is Nile and 'Nard's Abba record.
What a year 1980 was for those guys.
― Naive Teen Idol, Tuesday, 23 April 2013 12:19 (eleven years ago) link
Would totally get the Chic Org box set but there are a couple of Amazon reviewers saying it's poorly mastered, not as full sounding as it should be. Anyone care to disagree?
Love this exchange from Nile Rodgers' twitter earlier today:Fan - When do you sleep?!NR - On airplanes.
― Supposed Former ILM Lurker (WeWantMiles), Tuesday, 23 April 2013 12:27 (eleven years ago) link
Doesn't sound poorly remastered to me at all, au contraire!
― willem, Tuesday, 23 April 2013 13:37 (eleven years ago) link
Why, given how protective Nile has been over his own mixes, are some of the singles in the boxed set represented only as Dmitri From Paris remixes?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 25 April 2013 18:41 (eleven years ago) link
love the Chic s/t so much, but have always been vaguely creeped out by the cover photo for reasons I can't explain
― huun huurt 2 (Hurting 2), Thursday, 25 April 2013 19:02 (eleven years ago) link
Never seen this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBKYUr9robI#!
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 29 April 2013 15:55 (eleven years ago) link
http://drownedinsound.com/in_depth/4145249
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 29 April 2013 15:57 (eleven years ago) link
Anyone else off to the show at the Forum tonight with Seth Troxxler/Derrick Carter/Nicky Siano/DJ Pierre?
― the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Friday, 14 June 2013 16:33 (ten years ago) link
ME. (any idea what the set times are? i've got to finish some stuff first but i'd rather not turn up having missed chic.)
― Fanois och Alexander (Merdeyeux), Friday, 14 June 2013 16:36 (ten years ago) link
Wondering the same thing myself - sorry I can't be of any use.
― the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Friday, 14 June 2013 16:44 (ten years ago) link
My girlfriend is going to this. I am very jealous.
― Random .mdb Memories (NotEnough), Friday, 14 June 2013 17:02 (ten years ago) link
Didn't know this was happening :(
― high inerja (seandalai), Friday, 14 June 2013 17:09 (ten years ago) link
fyi dwight, it's nicky siano 10 to 11:30, then chic.
― Fanois och Alexander (Merdeyeux), Friday, 14 June 2013 20:45 (ten years ago) link
(and seandalai, i'm sure the masses of touts would be happy to accommodate...)
― Fanois och Alexander (Merdeyeux), Friday, 14 June 2013 20:47 (ten years ago) link
yeah I say ":(" but going to a post-last-train gig in London would require a bunch of organising and planning
― high inerja (seandalai), Saturday, 15 June 2013 00:23 (ten years ago) link
that were fun, unfortunately the sound was muddy as fuck (from where I was at least) but not so much as to viciously diminish it. couldn't get my head in the right place for derrick carter so here i am home before 3am, boring bastard.
― Fanois och Alexander (Merdeyeux), Saturday, 15 June 2013 01:54 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, the sound wasn't particularly good but fuck me they know how to put on a show...Dance Dance Dance as the second song was audacious, think I nearly blatted when they did Spacer, I was very drunk but I swear they played Le Freak/Good Times for about 15 minutes each and it was incredible, 'Thinking of You' was jawdropping...god, the whole thing was brilliant. I've never had so much fun at a gig before.
Nicky Siano's set wasn't helped by the sound being particularly shocking when he was doing his thing...Young Hearts Run Free playing at that volume was wicked though.
Hung about watching Derrick Carter till just before three; had never seen him before and quite enjoyed how chunky/thick everything he played was.
― the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Saturday, 15 June 2013 08:13 (ten years ago) link
yeah, Good Times stretched into glorious eternity as I remember it. Thinking of You and Lost in Music were my two peaks I think, and I loved how fucking packed and hot the main floor was too, so much sweaty flesh on sweaty flesh felt just right (though that prolonged sensuous intensity was probably why I didn't have it in me to stick around afterwards).
― Fanois och Alexander (Merdeyeux), Saturday, 15 June 2013 15:50 (ten years ago) link
We Are Family is aces.
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 15 June 2013 15:56 (ten years ago) link
I took my sister to last night's Forum show, as a birthday treat. She ended up dancing on the stage, while Nile and the band played "Good Times". Result!
― mike t-diva, Saturday, 15 June 2013 19:41 (ten years ago) link
Pics or it didn't happen.
― Naive Teen Idol, Sunday, 16 June 2013 01:32 (ten years ago) link
Dead centre, directly behind/to the right of the singer at the start of the clip.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JuBUT9FG4U
― mike t-diva, Sunday, 16 June 2013 09:16 (ten years ago) link
Awesome
― Naive Teen Idol, Sunday, 16 June 2013 12:35 (ten years ago) link
enjoying nile rodgers interview bbc world hardtalk right now- talking about being bowled over by roxy music's "total immersive artistic experience."
― irl sweatpants (Hunt3r), Friday, 8 May 2015 21:21 (nine years ago) link
god damn this is good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLjyr2Sc3is
― cr.ht (crüt), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 21:14 (five years ago) link
hell yeah
― you bet, nancy (map), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 21:19 (five years ago) link
hot DAMN
http://exclaim.ca/images/chic_3.jpg
― piscesx, Wednesday, 13 June 2018 21:55 (five years ago) link
Nile keeps busy. Out touring the US now
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 14 June 2018 12:31 (five years ago) link
Nile's touring Chic playing Original Sin in Australia in 2012:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xgmdbc6rudM
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Friday, 10 August 2018 18:57 (five years ago) link
Dmitri From Paris remix album finally on Spotify. Holy shit are these good.
― Naive Teen Idol, Tuesday, 30 October 2018 23:30 (five years ago) link
His "Thinking Of You" remix works consistently very well with my Friday night crowd up the road, but his "Le Freak" has notably lesser impact than the original (and I've tried it several times, bah).
― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 31 October 2018 16:29 (five years ago) link
fuk yeah!
Lost in music/Saturday 1-2 punch from the chic boxset is all time.
― closed beta (NotEnough), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 18:06 (five years ago) link
How DO those productions rank?.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 23 September 2019 01:19 (four years ago) link
The Sister Sledge record is an oddity - three all-time classic singles and then... some other songs
― Josefa, Monday, 23 September 2019 01:35 (four years ago) link
I was going to say, don't you mean four classic singles, but then I remembered Thinking Of You wasn't a single until a remix came out in the mid 90s. Overall, I get way more out of Love Somebody Today as a whole album. Also, it has Pretty Baby which is one my favourite Chic related songs ever.
― kitchen person, Monday, 23 September 2019 01:50 (four years ago) link
And I totally agree about your assessment Josefa. I've heard that album many times, but I can't remember anything about half of those songs.
― kitchen person, Monday, 23 September 2019 01:56 (four years ago) link
I’d ask you to explain how Rod’s Out of Order is in the “Sound, Solid” category but ... I’m not sure I really care enough.
― Naive Teen Idol, Monday, 23 September 2019 03:50 (four years ago) link