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Feel (Chicago song)

"Feel" is a song by the American rock band Chicago. It was included on their twentieth studio album, Chicago XXX, which features two mixes of the song: the single mix and the hot horn mix. Danny Orton and Blair Daly wrote the track and Robert Lamm sang the lead vocals.

The song was released as a single and peaked at No. 19 on the US Billboard Adult Contemporary chart. It was their first single to be released on Rhino Records.

Background

Lamm recounted his initial thoughts on "Feel" in the liner notes of '.

Commenting on the two mixes of "Feel" on Chicago XXX, the band's trumpet player, Lee Loughnane told Tulsa World that he was "not quite sure why we had two different versions, but that's the way it came out." He also said that "when you hear us live, you're going to hear the one with the brass."

Critical reception

Jimmy Nelson of Something Else! Reviews believed that "Feel" was a formulaic song with a "mechanical rhythm structure" and generic lyrics, although he was more complimentary of the song's horn mix, saying that the brass was "particularly effective".

Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic felt that the hot mix of "Feel" was the only track on Chicago XXX that suggested elements of 21st-century production. Christa L. Titus reviewed the song for Billboard, where she expressed her belief that the brass on the "Horn Mix" were less prominent than some of Chicago's earlier singles such as "25 or 6 to 4". She also found the lyrics to be unoriginal but effective at conveying the concept of "break[ing] free from a miserable existence."

Chart performance

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