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Chic Freak & More Treats

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This album is a collection of some of the biggest smash hits from one of the top groups in the 1970's musical era. However, for those of you expecting the selections on this cd to be exactly as you remembered them, you are in for a disappointment. This offering is a re-engineered production by Nile Rodgers, who embarked on this project to create a retrospective interpretion of the original music. I suppose that someone out there might find this album to be of academic interest, but to my ear, the result is a set of songs that lack the depth and harmony of the real thing. In many cases, the tempo has been significantly slowed. The bottom line: The emotional content, which is the centerpiece of Chic's musical genius, has been all but stripped out. If this was the original soundtrack, Chic might have gone down as just another wannabe group. This album exemplies the old adadge "If it's not broken, don't fix it". I cannot understand why anyone would choose to mess with the brilliantly succesful Chic originals, as the outcome is destined to disappoint.

I LOVE Chic and the Nile Rodgers-Bernard Edwards team and I am surprised Nike Rodgers would allow his name and his group's name to be anywhere on this. I sold this after one listen, it is horrible and nothing like the Chic funk my ears like to hear. A penny is too much to pay for this trash.

Some people don't like change,this album was not made for the timid...it is a superb remake of the original hits with a modern approach.The sound quality is absolutely superb and the music is creative and ultimately different from the originals but great....higly recommended.

I'll admit I was surprised when I first heard this, because I didn't know that they were going to be remakes, and I wondered why Nile Rodgers would want to cover his own music, but I'm glad he did, because he did himself better in the case of at least one song. Female session singer Sylver Logan Sharp takes over for most of the vocals, and while she doesn't take most of these to heights bigger than those that the group saw in the 70s, she does make every song sound fresh and exciting. Nile Rodgers' best work here is chopping a couple of minutes of needless length off of "Everybody Dance" and giving it a fresh but understated glossing over, so that it's groovy enough for 2003-o-philes to dance to without sounding like it was butchered by a mixmaster. If you're having an old school dance party, I'd use this version rather than the original. Only the most hardcore disco-philes should be able to tell the difference.