Friday, January 23, 2025
Time: 6:30 PM
Song: Le Freak
Artist: CHIC
Mode of Consumption: Listening to vinyl of C’est Chic
Link to song: https://open.spotify.com/track/7Kszjzps0xbQXyo1pO4KfE?si=8edc588fb35b46ca
I feel like Monty Python: “And now for something completely different.”
I mean I hit you with Americana originators two days ago, and rock and blues heavy Jack White yesterday. Today, yeah, let’s do some 70s funk.
The C’est Chic album came from a vinyl lot I bought from a guy in Rock Island last summer. I pick about a half dozen albums at a time to bring up to our dining room to work through and decide to keep or sell, and this was in the current pile.
I picked CHIC not because I ever seriously considered keeping it. I knew the song Le Freak, so wasn’t surprised to get a heavy dose of Disco/R&B. Not a combo that is in my wheelhouse.
Still I play it while we eat supper because it’s a Friday night, and I rightly assumed it would be a fun way to start the weekend. I’m not a disco guy or a dancer, but whenever we play something like this Jodi and I go into a routine, the roots of which come from an old Boers & Bernstein caller on the 670 AM the Score.
This elderly gentleman called in one afternoon, and somehow got onto the subject of keeping young.
“I LOVE DANCING,” he proclaimed to the two radio hosts and their thousands of listeners. He was genuine. Good for him.
Friday night has for a long time been a night where I like to tune into songs with energy. Maybe the roots go back to high school and trying to hype myself for that night’s football game.
I remember in college I liked to put Buckcherry’s self-titled album late in the afternoon, something about it got my mind ready for whatever hijinks my roommates and I were stirring up that weekend once we all returned from classes and completed an appropriate amount of homework (appropriate being a relative term.)
Fast forward all these years later, and my mind still thinks much the same way. Its time to play a little music, let’s go for something fun and with energy.
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