Seeded from mtv.com by Lucas DiGia at 10/1/07
Take a bow, Madonna, and ch-ch-check it out, Beastie Boys — you’ve been nominated for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
In addition to Madge and the Beasties, hip-hop pioneer Afrika Bambaataa, veteran rocker John Mellencamp, disco queen Donna Summer, jazz/funk band Chic, English-beat group the Dave Clark Five, surf instrumentalists the Ventures and moody singer/songwriter Leonard Cohen are also up for the high honor, it was announced Thursday (September 27)…
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CHIC is easily the most influential of all the nominees for the R&R Hall Of Fame. They influenced a whole generation of Punk artist: The Clash and Blondie being the most notable. Rock artists wanted a bit of CHIC’s sound so Queen, David Bowie, INXS and The Power Station all used it.
For rappers CHIC has been the holy grail, arguably no other artist has been so sampled by Hip Hop artists. Todays Dance music and pop music still use the CHIC sound. Madonna got her breakthrough with it (the “Like A Virgin” album).
And if we are talking their own productions we have Era defining hits like Good Times, Le Freak, I Want Your Love, Everybody Dance, We Are Family, Upside Down, I’m Coming Out, He’s The Greatest Dancer and Spacer. The last five having other artists on lead vocal, but being in all other ways very much a CHIC release.
For those who still suffers from the anti-Disco germ; If you listen to a CHIC record there is much more Jazz, Samba, Rock, R&B and other stiles, on them than Disco cuts. And many CHIC songs are commentaries on society and history. In short, CHIC meets all the criteria for getting in, and then some!
Here are clips of some of CHIC’s more rock sounding songs. They are all written and performed by CHIC. Lead vocal may vary:
1: http://www.chictribute.com/chicrock/IGotProtection.rm
2: http://www.chictribute.com/chicrock/FlashBack.rm
3: http://www.chictribute.com/chicrock/ILovedYouMore.rm
4: http://www.chictribute.com/chicrock/RealPeople.rm
5: http://www.chictribute.com/chicrock/SoFine.rm
6: http://www.chictribute.com/chicrock/Surrender.rm
7: http://www.chictribute.com/chicrock/RockBottom.rm
8: http://www.chictribute.com/chicrock/ChargePlates.rm
9: http://www.chictribute.com/chicrock/CoverGirls.rm
10: http://www.chictribute.com/chicrock/KingOfTheWorld.rm
11: http://www.chictribute.com/chicrock/Mayday.rm
For more info check out my site on CHIC: http://www.chictribute.com