This song should have been a hit.

[Dr. Cheese]

Forty-two years later, and I still think it is a masterpiece. Bernard Edwards was Superman on bass, and Nile Rodgers, Tony Thompson, and Bernard Edwards are still the tightest rhythm section of all time to my mind.

 

[bassGtar]

That's cheesy, hearing it once is enough for me.

 

[Michedelic]

Forty-two years later, and I still think it is a masterpiece. Bernard Edwards was Superman on bass, and Nile Rodgers, Tony Thompson, and Bernard Edwards are still the tightest rhythm section of all time to my mind.

Classic Edwards, and I like the bass notes that do harmony with the piano chords (always loved their piano voicings)but as far as it not being a hit…
That chorus hook is kinda weak to me, and there's no middle break, which means it just goes on and on. I hear elements of "Le Freak" being repeated on the verses as well. The fact that they squeezed out four big hits(as well as the Sister Sledge stuff)in a genre with a flurry of activity(even though the clock was ticking on that)was accomplishment enough.

 

[Dr. Cheese]

Classic Edwards, and I like the bass notes that do harmony with the piano chords (always loved their piano voicings)but as far as it not being a hit…
That chorus hook is kinda weak to me, and there's no middle break, which means it just goes on and on. I hear elements of "Le Freak" being repeated on the verses as well. The fact that they squeezed out four big hits(as well as the Sister Sledge stuff)in a genre with a flurry of activity(even though the clock was ticking on that)was accomplishment enough.

Cool, I see the logic of your perspective. Chic dried up after Good Times, but Rodgers and Edwards as a team, and each man separately continued to produce hits for others throughout the Eighties and later.

 

[hrodbert696]

Sometimes the thing about hits is context. In the heyday of radio before the digital revolution, a song could top the charts because there wasn't anything else really good coming out at the time and so it's the exciting new thing on the radio. Or it could get buried because there's lot of competition all released at once. There's also the song within the repertoire of the artist themselves. In 1978/79, Chic came out with both Good Times and Le Freak. With both of those already getting lots of airplay, a song that isn't quite as catchy like My Forbidden Lover just wouldn't get the traction.