Le Plus Grand Poll de Chic

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Inspired by seeing them (Nile Rodgers and Chic, more accurately) last week. They were wonderful.

Poll Results

Option	Votes
Good Times (8:13)	8
I Want Your Love (3:28)	7
Le Freak (3:30)	3
My Feet Keep Dancing (6:46)	3
Everybody Dance (8:25)	2
My Forbidden Lover (4:42)	2
Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah) (3:40)	0

― sonofstan, Thursday, 10 September 2009 13:12 (sixteen years ago)

i want your love.

― amarillo fat (jim), Thursday, 10 September 2009 13:15 (sixteen years ago)

i want

your love

― amarillo fat (jim), Thursday, 10 September 2009 13:15 (sixteen years ago)

I'll vote for "My Feet Keep Dancing," which should have been as huge a hit as "Good Times."

― vulva eyes (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 10 September 2009 13:46 (sixteen years ago)

HOW CAN I CHOOSE? Maybe 'My Forbidden Lover' because nobody else has picked that yet.

― Chewshabadoo, Thursday, 10 September 2009 13:49 (sixteen years ago)

One, two, awwwww FREAK OUT

― if I don't see more dissent, I'm going to have to check myself in (Matos W.K.), Thursday, 10 September 2009 16:13 (sixteen years ago)

Voted "Everybody Dance," now sort of wishing I'd voted "Dance, Dance, Dance."

― boring movies are the most boring (Eric H.), Thursday, 10 September 2009 16:14 (sixteen years ago)

Hm, my old cassette copy of Les Plus Grands has "Chic Cheer" instead of "My Forbidden Lover". Was that a mistake or is there a different edition? (A sensible substitution, since "My Forbidden Lover" was a minor hit and "Chic Cheer" wasn't even a single.)

Any other legitimate full-length "Greatest Hits" albums out there with a mere seven songs? None with that I can think of right now, which is some kind of minor achievement.

― Random trolling, brutal snubs, darted zings & decisive bans (Myonga Vön Bontee), Thursday, 10 September 2009 16:31 (sixteen years ago)

There does seem to be two versions alright - I went with the one I know.

― sonofstan, Thursday, 10 September 2009 16:40 (sixteen years ago)

"I Want Your Love" is my favourite song ever but I like the 12" version with the extended strings/brass section best. The "how really bad your love I neeeeeeed" harmony that leads into it is fucking mind blowing.

― Eugene Sander-Rygar (MPx4A), Thursday, 10 September 2009 16:57 (sixteen years ago)

Todd Terje does a pretty good edit of it.

― amarillo fat (jim), Thursday, 10 September 2009 17:05 (sixteen years ago)

Yeah that thing is a godsend.

― Eugene Sander-Rygar (MPx4A), Thursday, 10 September 2009 17:07 (sixteen years ago)

favourite bit in it, the bassline when it goes "badada bum bum, badada bam bam".

― amarillo fat (jim), Thursday, 10 September 2009 17:13 (sixteen years ago)

that's just in i want your love in general, not just the edit.

― amarillo fat (jim), Thursday, 10 September 2009 17:14 (sixteen years ago)

'I want your love in general'

lol

― sonofstan, Thursday, 10 September 2009 17:24 (sixteen years ago)

i want your love

― ❊❁❄❆❇❃✴❈plaxico❈✴❃❇❆❄❁❊ (I know, right?), Thursday, 10 September 2009 17:37 (sixteen years ago)

Another fun fact that never occurred to me until now: All five of their Top 40 (USA) singles were shortened radio edits. Only room for two of those five full-lengths on Les Plus Grands, however. To include the full "Everybody Dance" at the expense of "Le Freak" or "I Want Your Love" seems like a bizarre arbitrary decision, but it suits me fine (and gets my vote).

― Random trolling, brutal snubs, darted zings & decisive bans (Myonga Vön Bontee), Thursday, 10 September 2009 17:39 (sixteen years ago)

Still "Good Times" for me.

― Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Friday, 11 September 2009 15:34 (sixteen years ago)

"My Feet Keep Dancing" - the greatest song from this greatest of disco bands

― Kevin John Bozelka, Friday, 11 September 2009 15:39 (sixteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Tuesday, 15 September 2009 23:01 (sixteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Wednesday, 16 September 2009 23:01 (sixteen years ago)

eight months pass...

I've just come across Chic: Greatest Hits Live In Concert or A Night In Amsterdam (it dates from 2005 and has different titles depending on the edition) on Spotify. It's pretty great, even though Spotify only has about half the tracks up.

― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 2 June 2010 09:32 (fifteen years ago)

Would have voted "I Want Your Love", but the bassline on "Everybody Dance" is one of the most ostensibly incredible I've ever heard.

― village idiot (dog latin), Wednesday, 2 June 2010 10:22 (fifteen years ago)

^ is precisely where I am at on this fine day

― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 2 June 2010 11:51 (fifteen years ago)

Soup for One!

― iago g., Wednesday, 2 June 2010 14:40 (fifteen years ago)

seven years pass...

My Forbidden Lover (6:23)

That breakdown...

― Absolute Unit Delta Plus (Noel Emits), Friday, 18 May 2018 17:36 (seven years ago)

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