Tuesday, March 5, 2013

'C'est Chic' & 'Risqué'

I went in expecting a gigantic disco jerkoff, but instead got two pretty fun R&B albums with the bare minimum of schlock.

Chic is a pretty interesting band because it was started by Niles Rodgers and some friends. Over the years, the band is constructed by about 10 members and about 40 ex-members.

They had two gigantic albums at the end of the 1970s and it was promptly sampled by about every hip-hop act over the course of the next 30 years. They probably made more on royalties from sampling than they did selling records.


Now their music is played on Rush Limbaugh's radio show.

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