May 18, 2026 · 2 hr 2 min · 13 segments
This episode’s meaning is neither deep nor hidden: the Nile is a river. To good times, that is. If the savoir faire, stellar musicianship, and seismic influence of Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards’…
And I was like, "Bro, what the fuck is this?" And he was like, "Chic." And I was like, "Good Times Chic?" And he was like, "The very same."
And thus began the journey that I'm still on all these years later of, oh, wow, I should appreciate all of this, particularly Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards, but definitely all of this a lot more than I do.
Normally, with a band so interested in being cool on purpose, I would use that as the entry into why I like the band.
Yeah, I love that they are pseudonymous people on purpose because they noticed that Kiss could do different things as a band because they didn't, uh, identify themselves as individual people, and then therefore, not only are we not going to put ourselves on the album cover, but we're gonna use this really specific aesthetic on behalf of the band and, like, brand the whole thing.
Normally, that would be the door that I would go, "See, that's annoying in a cool way, and I like it." But instead, the enduring thing I can't get over about listening to this record over and over again is I have yet to become tired [laughs] of listening to this record over and over again.
It's like a full day's thing, and I can attest because it's happened to me for multiple full days where I'm like, "Wow, I think I've been listening to this for, like, 12 hours straight."
I, I think in addition to all the things that work just on their face musically and aesthetically with, you know, the Black Roxy Music, as Nile has described them, there are few records that are direct pneumatic tube connections to so much music.
In some ways, if Chic isn't the quintessential American project, you know, where if you're, like, golden record in space, what's the thing that you tell the aliens or a time traveler about? Like, where's the first place you could start that could get you to all the other places? I could make a case for Chic.
And I was like, "Bro, what the fuck is this?" And he was like, "Chic." And I was like, "Good Times Chic?" And he was like, "The very same."
And thus began the journey that I'm still on all these years later of, oh, wow, I should appreciate all of this, particularly Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards, but definitely all of this a lot more than I do.
Normally, with a band so interested in being cool on purpose, I would use that as the entry into why I like the band.
Yeah, I love that they are pseudonymous people on purpose because they noticed that Kiss could do different things as a band because they didn't, uh, identify themselves as individual people, and then therefore, not only are we not going to put ourselves on the album cover, but we're gonna use this really specific aesthetic on behalf of the band and, like, brand the whole thing.
Normally, that would be the door that I would go, "See, that's annoying in a cool way, and I like it." But instead, the enduring thing I can't get over about listening to this record over and over again is I have yet to become tired [laughs] of listening to this record over and over again.
It's like a full day's thing, and I can attest because it's happened to me for multiple full days where I'm like, "Wow, I think I've been listening to this for, like, 12 hours straight."
I, I think in addition to all the things that work just on their face musically and aesthetically with, you know, the Black Roxy Music, as Nile has described them, there are few records that are direct pneumatic tube connections to so much music.
In some ways, if Chic isn't the quintessential American project, you know, where if you're, like, golden record in space, what's the thing that you tell the aliens or a time traveler about? Like, where's the first place you could start that could get you to all the other places? I could make a case for Chic.
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