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5.0 out of 5 stars
Over looked last album of the first era., 17 Jan 2007
So here it, the last one from Chic. The group that had been born in 1977 with Dance Dance Dance. So now 5 years later this album came out. Over looked by all. Nile and Nard were now super producers and disco had died. And chic were a disco group. or were they? They had never been a disco act, sure they produced great disco songs, but they were soul and funk and dance music as well. So they moved with the times, but the times refused to see this change. Anyway, the album. Opens up with Believer,a funky mix of nile and nard, plus keyboards. Stand back to back... It's a cool tune, still with high production values and classic chic vocals, with a nice calm break before it moves off again. You are beautiful moves us along, not as good, but still not bad. Take a closer look calms the album down before moving onto the best song of this album. Give me the lovin'. A Hard funky tune and you can listen again and again. Show me your light is still a good tune, but the album tails off until the final track. And here we have some chic rap on party everybody. When I first heard this Chic were no more with none of this reformation stuff, so for me this was the last song ever. Well it's different. I liked it when I first heard it, but later playings make me think Chic was not a rap band.
So there we have it, the last album of the first era of Chic. They had moved on, the public had not seen this and the album flopped in a massive way. Pity as it's quite good. I have this on tape, LP and CD
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Fading supernova's, 11 Oct 2007
Oh, how i felt the disappointment when as a young soldier in germany in '83, having bought this album in hanover, I got this to the barracks and played it... I loved Chic (I still do) but the writing was on the wall. "Tongue in Chic", had only a few gems, but mostly blandness. I disagree with most commentators about the slide. I thought "Real People" was clever."Take it off" is my most played album (ever!)& so different compared with the rest of the albums. "Believer", well, they tried too hard. "Party everybody" was like your drunk grandad trying to Karrioke-rap at a boring wedding. Dire. I quite like the title track, but the whole album is a bit too electro. Not at all like the "organic" earlier sounds, and as a consequence it sounds so dated. Tinny. Beat-boxes. 80's. This was Nile at his most...experimental... & poor. I've got a barely played 33 at home. I might be tempted to buy a CD to complete the collection of Chic CD's, but its not a priority. save your money & buy any of the previous albums. "Believer" was a sad end to a wonderful period of my life.
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