Best Bernard Edwards Production

alphabet city

These are FULL productions by the way; he produced tracks for Rod Stewart, Duran Duran, and Diana Ross.

and Jody Watley

Nile has Nard being a bit of a mess just prior to this era, it's a decent workload considering.

didn't know about Air Supply.

Air Supply is good it's listed twice

Slightly less impressive workload, then.

he loved it so much he recorded it twice

He only produced a couple of tracks on Alphabet City if I recall correctly.

i'll just assume Nona Hendryx is the least reprehensible thing here and leave it at that

Def "Smokey" and "Night You Murdered Love." Also "Chicago" And "Minneapolis" b-sides. The rest was produced by Fry/White.

There's a blurb about it in (I think) the Easlea Chic book.

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voting nona, not by default but because i liek

The Nona album isn't super good, but that's mostly because the songwriting is pretty mediocre, the sound on it is nice.

agreed her early 80s albums are better

The right chic died

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Uh x2

o_O

Oh come on -- we all thought it when we looked at those options.

At any rate; I love 'Nard and every time I go on a Chic binge bemoan the fact that he never made it to the Aughts to do a proper reunion with Nile, post rediscovery. Given how relevant Nile is right now, does anyone think that would've been anything other than incredible?

Chic were already being "rediscovered" at the time Bernard died.

Yes and no -- I don't know Chic-ism very well but if memory serves he died on a tour in Japan with the reunited Chic. I feel like it wasn't exactly in full swing yet.

It doesn't really have anything to do with Chic-ism

Oh come on -- we all thought it when we looked at those options.

Not true. Speak for yourself.

You think Nile should've died? That's pretty cold.

What are you smoking? Because it is just making you say things that don't make sense. You're the only one here focussed on death. The rest of us are just talking music production.

I wish no one in Chic had died. Okay?

Jeez, you'd think the dude died last week not 17 years ago (this week, actually).

Semi-related topic: sometime around Let's Dance, I think, Tony Thompson's drum sound on Chic productions went from being a disco sound to a more gated whomping sound. You hear through Believer and Power Station, IIRC.

It became a pretty signature sound -- pretty different from what Chic (and Thompson) were known for and one that for some reason I tend to associate less with Nile for some reason. Not sure if there's any reason behind it.

Anyway, that's what I think of when I think of 'Nard productions.

That and that fact that most of those records suck.

And that he's dead.

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Wow. Those Hendryx records were rereleased last year, and Nona was a revelation. But xhuxk's comments made The Heat sound most unattractive.