Recording
Good Times
Chic
Independently chosen for3 of our lists. Here is what each of them said.
- Released
- 1979
- Label
- Atlantic
- On
- Disco, The Waxonia Desk — The Hundred, and The Waxonia Desk — What the DJs Kept
- Updated
- 2026-08-29
Ranked No. 3 in Disco
Bernard Edwards plays the bassline that hip-hop, post-punk and pop all borrowed within eighteen months. Nile Rodgers leaves so much space in the guitar part that other people's records fit inside it.
Picked by The Waxonia Desk — The Hundred
A bassline so useful that hip-hop, post-punk and pop all took it within eighteen months. Rodgers leaves gaps, and other people's careers fit inside them.
Picked by The Waxonia Desk — What the DJs Kept
The bassline that financed hip-hop's first hit, and the record a Ladbroke Grove sound system named itself after in 1980. Few records have been repurposed this many times and survived all of it.