Wackside featuring Chic biography, Wackside featuring Chic discography
Every track that used to cost 35c is now ONLY 20c!We have made an agreement with the trusted payment processor located in USA.Le Freak's origin is one of the great stories in Disco history.They were invited to see her perform at
Studio 54 but were turned away
in the usual chaos at the door.According to Nile, they were yelling obscenities
along with the music such as 'Fuck Studio 54..Fuck them,' and, finally,
'Fuck off!They were having a great time, but it also occurred to Bernard they may have something with
what they were playing.The lyrics began to evolve from 'Fuck off!Within 25 to 30 minutes the
pair had the nucleus of one of the biggest hit singles of all time.Tom Moulton was hired to produce the
Grace Jones album, but Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers had a bigger
project in the works with Chic's next album and their leadoff single.Released in the
fall of 1978, the song initially
met some resistance at radio due to the word 'freak,' but it wasn't long before it was catching
on nationally.The song also became associated in clubs with 'Freak Dancing,' a form of
highly suggestive, intimate partner
dancing.Pop singles charts with the Bee Gees, Barbra Streisand and Neil Diamond.Le Freak helped provide a
springboard to the successful production careers of Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers.Nile Rodgers
finally did do production work for Grace Jones on her 1986 album
Inside Story.Casey Kasem's American Top 40 radio
show enshrined Le Freak as the top Disco hit of all time on it's special July 4, 1979 production.Le Freak returned for a second run into the Dance chart top 20 in a remixed version in late 1987.An updated version by the dance act Wackside with cooperation from Nile Rodgers was released in 2003.B, jazz, punk, and rock songs by
artists like Earth, Wind and Fire in bars, but when they later created
their own material they became a worldwide phenomenon and developed into
the finest disco band of all time.Like an expensive, silky
evening garment, their music seduced you with sensuous, luxurious layers,
all cunningly designed and carefully arranged..."Unlike many disco producers who started out as deejays,
Edwards and Rodgers owe their phenomenal success largely to their prowess and
experience as musicians....They merge a loose and funkily precise rhythm
section with stately strings and graceful female voices."Disco Fever: The Trammps' Earl Young remembers" by Patricia Romano,
in Arizona Style (Summer 1995).Saturday
Night Forever: The Story of Disco by Alan Jones and Jussi Kantonen
(Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing, 1999), page 127
"This is a diverse set from the group which has a major disco hit with
'Dance, Dance Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah).That good timey cut is
included, along with several less gimmicky tracks which could move the
group strongly from its disco base into pop, soul and MOR radio formats.Best cuts: 'Dance,
Dance, Dance,' 'Sao Paulo,' 'You Can Get By,' 'Falling In Love With You.Funny) Bone
"I Want Your Love", with its famous bells, is one of Chic's most popular
songs and got plenty of radio play in the 1970s and early 1980s."Savoir Faire" is a superb instrumental that mixes soul
with jazz.The rest is disco saved from being run of the
mill by the vocals of Alfa Anderson, Bernard Edwards, Diva Gray, Luci
Martin, David Lasley and Luther Vandross.Best cuts: 'Le Freak,' 'Happy
Man,' 'Chic Cheer,' 'Savoir Faire.It is rather the mood
that was magical.And then there's the ultimate disco anthem, 'My Feet Keep Dancing,' a
masterpiece of constructive repetition, with layers of sound adding
texture as the tune unwinds.Anderson's
intensely dramatic attitude on Will You Cry is inappropriate, but the
achingly simple What About Me takes on vibrancy and sincerity...."Pop
A segment of "My Feet Keep Dancing" features the tap dancing of Fayard
Nicholas and Eugene Jackson.Neither Alfa Anderson nor Luci Martin can match
Ross' buoyancy, and there isn't a single cut as compelling as last
summer's 'Good Times.And 'Baby Doll,' the
closing track, is a hot instrumental with a tenor sax solo worthy of Jr.Best
cuts: Those cited plus 'Your Love Is
Cancelled.The strongest dance numbers
lead off the album.TONY THOMPSON's drumming
is rock solid but full of little slippery surprises.It's
a Chic version of bubble gum...They rock, they
bop, they do the jazz and the funky Chic one, they make jungle music for
Park Avenue and cool jazz for the jungle and everything good in between.City Lights
"Chic's latest is far short of past creative and commercial peaks.Problem may lie with the apparent reluctance of Rodgers and Edwards to
showcase the talents of vocalists Alfa Anderson and Luci Martin, except
on 'Hey Fool,' a catchy, melodic tune that's the best cut on display, and
'When You Love Someone,' a mellow ballad.Instrumentation is faultless,
of course, but the spark is missing, even on the first single, 'Hangin.The Chic reputation will probably ensure reasonable sales activity,
however."Here
is a clip from the video for "Hangin'".It did not result in any hits.In place of Luci and Alfa are female vocalists Sylver Logan
Sharp and Jenn Thomas.David Browne, Entertainment Weekly (1992)
"...Rolling Stone (March 19, 1992): page 89
"...Music Factory, and funk fatter than
the Brand New Heavies..."Spin (May 1992): page 80
"...Billboard
Magazine (week ending March 14, 1992)
The 1996 Japanese album "Chic Freak and More Treats" was Bernard Edwards'
last studio album with Chic.It features new house versions of several
songs that Bernard and his partner Nile had created over the years, including
"Dance Dance Dance" (Chic) "Le Freak" (Chic), "I Want Your Love"
(Chic), "Good Times" (Chic), "Let's Dance" (David Bowie), "We Are Family"
(Sister Sledge), "He's the Greatest Dancer" (Sister Sledge),
and "Upside Down" (Diana Ross).But other artists filled
in for Diana, David, and the Sledge sisters on these remakes.In early 2001 at venues in New York and Nevada, Nile Rodgers performed
Chic's many songs along with bass
player Jerry Barnes, two drummers (one being Omar Hakim), two keyboardists
(one being Merline Nelson), two horn players, and lead singers Sylver
Logan Sharp and Audra Lomax.They have a good thing going on and
crowds love them.King's Blues Club in New York
City on February 16, 2001, Nile said that a new Chic album would be
released in 2001, but this got delayed, and the new expected release date
is during or soon after April 2006, with release to come first in Japan."Rush
Hour 2", which was released in 2001."Ain't No Stopping" by Enigma (1981) includes a partial (25 second)
cover of "Le Freak" as the 2nd song in their medley
"Good Times Medley (Funkercise)" a."Good Times"
"Rappin' With Mr.English and French song with portions of the bassline similar to
"My Forbidden Lover"
"Wildstyle" by Timezone feat.THE SAMP I HEARD AT MSN
DOESNT PROVE THAT AT ALL, MAYBE IT'S A DFNT SONG ON NONA'S 1983 ALBUM?"Chic Cheer"
"Will You Be Free?""My Forbidden Lover" by way of sampling "Feel the
Beat (C'est Si Bon..."Chip off the Old Block"
"Santiago" by Reza pres."Will You Cry"
"I Won't Let You Get Me Down" by DJ Farouche vs."Le Freak", "Good Times," and "Lost in Music,"
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