Search And Destroy: The Chic Organisation

Destroy: 'Let's Dance' and 'She's the Boss'.

SEARCH: "Le Freak", Bowie's LET'S DANCE

DESTROY: Duran Duran's NOTORIOUS, Steve Winwood's "Higher Love"-era.

Destroy: Remixes. It's theoretically possible to remix Chic successfully but it's not been done yet. Covers and samples are another matter.

That’s a very hard one.. because it depends on definitions of course. I suppose you could argue that the obvious white bands to discuss re: this question are discoist-rockers (Blondie, Roxy Music ‘Angel Eyes’, PIL). What about the Bee-Gees? Essential disco band, but aren’t they a late 60s rock hangover as well? They certainly release albums and act quite rockist (well rockist-lite!). When do we begin disco? Is Sly Stone disco? He’s more of a rock god than Chic… and very album orientated.

here's a question for any who around at the time. it's obvious now that chic are critic's darlings, but what kind of reception did they get at the time?

i think they are the most rockist disco group, and for a simple reason: they played their own instruments. rodgers and edwards were highly accomplished players and, a big plus, they had a human drum machine in the form of tony thompson. instrumental virtuosity has always been big with the establishment and the interplay between all involved was dynamic and, unlike most critical darlings, funky.

and their influence on prince, talking heads, duran duran, blondie, and madonna can't be overstated.

Nile R. just tweeted this

http://www.nilerodgers.com/blogs/planet-c-in-english/203

fucking awesome

Is anyone going next Thursday at the Forum?

that cover is so goddamned good

Wow, that is amazing. What a line-up - who's the singer?

Also, incredible that this was them trying "to get high school prom gigs"!

WHEN THE STARS COME OUT TONIGHT
AND SHINE SO VERY BRIGHT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFIIjhREA2Y

A life-size cardboard cut-out of American musician Nile Rodgers, a heart monitor, a wheelchair and a sack of potatoes are among the lost property found on Dublin’s Luas over its 10 years of existence.

sounds about right

fuck me Real People is a great record

just me, or does the opening of this song (and the whole song, really) lay down as bold a gauntlet as anything by the ramones or the sex pistols?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCkRDEhQtsY

two more things

1) does anyone even recall the "they shoot horses..." reference in that song anymore?
2) i don't know why it didn't occur to me before that ESG owe about 85% of their shtick to Chic

re #1, i guess this is a better version to post

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0eIg4wZryc

Agree with most everything said above but just want to single out the always swoon-inducing "Thinking of You".

what the heck is "spacer" about anyway?

"Dance, Dance, Dance" is one of my favorite songs with my least favorite vocals.

In his book Nile gets into his idea of "Deep Hidden Meaning," or "DHM," but I find the concept as inscrutable as harmolodics.

Few songs have meant more to me than "Lost In Music"

this has got to be some sort of high water mark of human civilization

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWcCl-EhRVE

jfc that bass

is it just me or is there pretty much a straight lind between some of the piano chording in chic songs and detroit techno?

uh, straight *line

Guitar in that song is like Johnny Marr 101.

Surprisingly little live (no miming) footage of them from the late '70s on youtube..

Thought the revive would be about this, should be great:

https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/festivals-series/meltdown

forgot about how much i love this not-Chic Chic song. just put on the 12-inch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjxckE2R-I0