Interestingly, once again, as so often, the Japanese, the first, in 1990, all published to date seven studio albums published again in digital revised form and their outstanding quality very quickly identified ("CHIC" / 1977 "C'est Chic "/ 1978;" Risque "/ 1979" Real People "/ 1980;" Take It Off "/ 1981;" Tongue In CHIC "/ 1982 &" BELIEFVER "/ 1983)! Today, these CD's are practically no longer get close; The latter album "Believer" I had to Amazon from a provider for grotesque 78, - Euro recently discovered what a completely absurd price of course!
Another absurdity is the fact that ALWAYS CHIC has been sorted as a pure DISCO lineup; especially in conjunction "hopelessly outdated" and the "pseudo-progressive as bombastic rock" embossed music journalist with the established record companies (Yes, at that time there were more than Sony Music and BMG / Universal Music!), whose sales were so slumped dramatically that the only way the "declaration of war" on the "Disco Movement" was considered. At the same time launched the beginning of the RAP / Hip-Hop Revolution in the late seventies with Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five ("The Message") and The Sugarhill Gang, among many others! The irony of history is that The Sugarhill Gang with "Rapper's Delight" did nothing else than CHIC's "Good Times" 1 to 1 basis as instrumental track used and thus a mega-hit landed world; practically just "on" the instrumental version of "rapping" BLONDIE like KISS had their ostensibly as a parody imaginary song "Heart Of Glass" as "I Was Made For Lovin 'You" all their greatest hits within each COMMERCIAL her career! Queen approached with her worldwide hit "Another Ones Bites The Dust" as well as the 1982 album "Hot Space" such "dangerous" the "Black Soul / Funk / Disco" sound, which so decisively by Bernard Edwards & Nile Rodgers (with -) was coined that today inevitably have to wonder why disco music could be so "demonized" his hedonistic, as well as sexually so cosmopolitan, liberal approach (Blacks, gays, Latinos, drag queens)? Probably it especially the basically ALWAYS "reactionary" religious approach of American society on the one hand, as well as the ever-responsible with the chauvinist "Viewpoint" "white" rock music! Nile Rodgers & Bernard Edwards Bass as electric guitar "work" ALWAYS were deeply rooted in the blues and "black" radio; sexually colored, ambiguous and always LIBERAL! Not to mention the BASIS of CHIC, namely the always brilliant vowel harmony sets by ALFA ANDERSON, LUCI MARTIN and just Fonzi Thornton, which created an irresistible and always re-recognizable sound !!!
For all these reasons I would recommend this box set only place any / m warmly recommend, a milestone, no less !!!
