Track Listing

1. He's The Greatest Dancer
2. Lost In Music
3. Somebody Loves Me
4. Thinking Of You
5. We Are Family
6. Easier To Love
7. You're A Friend To Me
8. One More Time
9. We Are Family (Sure Is Pure Remix)
10. We Are Family (Steve Anderson Dmc Remix)
11. Lost In Music (Sure Is Pure Remix)
12. Lost In Music (1984 Bernard Edwards)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #32194 in Music
• Released on: 1995-07-10
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Import

Customer Reviews

great disco album, pointless remixes
There can't be many disco albums so lacking in filler - I'd never heard any of the non-single tracks here until I bought this, and they're all good songs with the fine Sledge vocals and peerless Chic rhythm section, mostly relatively downbeat but definitely still disco.

Meanwhile the three classic hit singles are present in longer versions here. The first two tracks, He's The Greatest Dancer and, particularly, the awesome Lost In Music, benefit hugely from being longer but are essentially the same mixes as the single edits. We Are Family, however, at well over 8 minutes, definitely outlives its welcome. This is entirely because Kathy Sledge is allowed to adlib solo over much of the track and, given the overall quality of the album, never mind the actual song, this is a major disappointment, wasting one of the greatest rhythm tracks ever committed to tape. You probably wouldn't be too bothered in a disco, but from a purely listening p.o.v. this is probably the low point of the album.

Finally the original album is augmented by two remixes each of We Are Family and Lost In Music. It's very unusual for such after-the-event remixes to equal, let alone improve on, the originals, and these certainly don't. The first three now sound dated anyway by virtue of being from the early 90s; the last is at least a Chic remix.

Buy for the (almost) flawless original album, disco didn't get much better than this; stuff the remixes.

Disco Masterpiece enhanced
Before this team-up with Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards Sister Sledge had some minor hits but We Are Family placed them on the map big time. They sound almost like a carbon copy of Chic on tracks like the exquisite He's The Greatest Dancer and Thinking Of You. The following songs were huge hits: Dancer, Lost In Music and the rousing We Are Family, all hook-filled tunes with irresistible rhythmic patterns. The rest is great too, especially One More Time and Somebody Loves Me which is a beautiful soulful ballad. The album has been enhanced by 2 x 1990s remixes each of Lost In Music and the title track. For more Chic magic, give the album Norma Jean by Norma Jean Wright a listen and don't forget the mothership in the form of Dance, Dance, Dance: The Best of Chic. Read all about the Rodgers/Edwards legacy in Everybody Dance: Chic and The Politics of Disco by Daryl Easlea.

Chic At Their Very Best
What more can I say but a classic disco album from Rogers and Edwards, only matched by their 1980 effort for Diana Ross.

This album has all the disco monsters of 'Lost In Music', 'We Are Family' and 'He's The Greatest Dancer'. Chic even try their hand at some slower balads for some of the tracks ('Somebody To Love', 'Easier To Love', and 'Your A Friend To Me'), which is unusual for Chic, but really works for this album.

My favourit tracks have to be 'Lost In Music' and the remaining two tracks 'Thinking Of You' and One More Time'. The latter two have such a catchy groove to them that they have been sampled many a time in modern day house music.

Being a fan of house music I was glad to see that this album has been updated to include two remixes of 'We Are Family' and 'Lost In Music', which round off the album nicely.

If you like this try 'Diana Ross - Diana (Delux Edition)..A great double disc that has all of Diana Ross's disco records on disc two. A must have for any real disco fan!

Also try anything by 'Soulsoul Orchestra' or 'Loletta Holloway', both products of the Salsoul Record label. This for me has to be the no. 1 records label of the mid to late 70's and early 80's, with so many good disco records signed to it, it is difficult to know where to start. I bought an album called 'Chilled Disco' and this was full of Salsoul disco/Salsoul funk records - superb!!