C’est Chic

C'est Chic was certainly a pretty solid album. The only song i knew from this album was Le Freak which i have heard in a few places but i still pretty much knew what to expect from this album. It's a disco album and it pretty much has all the strengths and weaknesses that you would expect from the genre. For the strengths, there is funkiness, good vocals and smooth basslines. And there is the weaknesses with 70s cheesiness to a bit of an annoying degree and there is also the fact that a good majority of the songs here go on for at least a minute longer than they should. I still feel that the good outweighs the bad here but not enough to put this album above a 3. Still decently solid though.
Best Song: Le Freak
Worst Song: Chic Cheer

Did they add that applause at the start to make it sound more interesting than it actually was? Yeah, there's some big hits on here as well, but I don't really like those either.

Remember this whole world's a circus. Don't you be the clown."

This is my 20th album in the 1001albums journey. We're at the point now where I have a variety of different albums occupying every rating possible on this site. I was not looking forward to sitting through disco, but of course I have to give every album on this website a fair shot. Someone loves it.

I wanted to give it a 1/5 initially. Even when it's pristine and crystal-clear with pretty grooves on every song, including Le Freak which I hear at work all the time, disco is still not my thing. But a 1/5...do I really hate this as much as I hate the sanitized anthem to gentrification that is The Suburbs, or the monotony that is the 90-minute Bob Dylan live album? C'est Chic doesn't have either of those problems, obviously. It's about loving one another and celebrating life, having a good ol' time. How could I look at this and give it a 1/5?

Somewhere around the song I Want Your Love, it hit me. One of the reasons I joined this site was to broaden my musical horizons. And with every new album I get, I keep looking backwards, comparing it to everything else I've heard and rated, seeing how it stacks up. These albums aren't striving to be compared with everything else out there in the world. They are moments frozen in time, the artists or bands involved simply doing what they can to make "good music," whatever that means to them. Likewise, each of my ratings and reviews, these are all snapshots of my life. I cannot change my ratings, nor do I want to anymore. Typos and all.

I shouldn't be going into these expecting something fantastic, and being disappointed when it's simply not my thing. This is no longer a quest to find perfect albums that have been hiding from me. This is journaling, and having 1001 albums accompany me the whole way. And only at the very end do we look back and tell ourselves "This is what meant the most to me when I heard it. This is what I will take home with me as I move on my life."

But until then, fuck it. I don't like disco.

I'm not really crazy about disco in general, but as far as disco goes this is pretty good. It leans less on the cheese which really helps it.