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Close your eyes and remember...

The Warhawk | Baltimore | 12/20/2007

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Man! I can see it clearly... me and all my friends at the club. Everythings right. It's part of you! Anyone who grew up in that era knows CHIC and you cant help but flash-back. If you were listening to CHIC... you were absolutely in your groove. All of those good times come rushing back - and all it takes is for me to sit back, pop on my headphones and listen to ... "I want your love","My Forbidden Lover", "Soup for one"... Awwwww Yee-uh!"

30 songs compilation of top pop music!

M. Povoa | Rio de Janeiro, RJ Brazil | 01/01/2009

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Super musicality.

Super swing.

Super compositions.

Super sound quality.

A generous 30 songs compilation of top pop music -- elegantly selected from 10 titles ranging from 1977 till 1992. One of the best CD collections I have ever heard. Chic is definitely, very chic."

Best Chic compilation on the market.

Kevin H. Dudley | Roanoke, VA (USA) | 03/17/2009

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Rhino released a 2 disc compilation for the disco/R&B act CHIC as part of their "Definitive Groove Collection" series. These releases always have 30 tracks (to keep the price at a budget minded 14.99 in terms of royalties) and feature great liner notes about the artist in question along with brilliantly remastered sound. They also have a line of Definitive Rock Collections out as well for the rock field.



The only slight complaint I have is that the 30 track limitation usually with most of the sets leaves space on each CD that more tracks could be put and sometimes Rhino inexplicably puts single edits on them when they had plenty of extra space to put the full album version (like they did on the Foghat Definitive Rock Collection).



The great news about the Chic 2 disc Definitive Groove Collection is that on disc one (which contains all of their huge hits from the 70's and is the best of the 2 CD's) Rhino wisely chose to put the full album versions of the songs on there instead of the edited single versions.



What this means for instance is that you get the full 8 minute 21 second album version of "Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsa, Yowsa, Yowsa) the complete 8 minute 15 second version of "Good Times" for example. Disc 2 (which covers their post 70's output which wasn't as good) has a couple of radio edits on it though.



But even with the couple of edits on disc two, the inclusion of all of the album length songs even with the Definitive Collection limitation of 30 tracks causes each disc to time out close to the 80 minute mark.



Disc one contains 13 tracks and is a little over 78 minutes.

Disc two contains 17 tracks and is just a little shy of 77 minutes.



As with all of the Definitive Collection releases, the liner notes about the history of Chic is extremely insightful and they also list all of the album sources for each song in addition to the chart positions of the single versions. The sound is absolutely breathtaking as well being remastered with great care that preserves the original sounds while also bringing out clarity that I hear things that I never noticed before in some tracks.



So, even if you just want a single disc compilation of Chic, this is worth picking up for just the first disc alone. The second disc contains some good music but as Chic went along into the 80's/90's they really started to lose their way.



But as a 2 disc anthology/overview of this band this 2 disc Definitive Groove Collection winds up being the best Chic release to date. Pick it up!"