Parliament - Up for the Down Stroke
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Artist: ParliamentEdition: Music CD
Format: Extra tracks, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2003-04-08
Music Label: Island / Mercury
Soundtracks:
- Up for the Down Stroke
- Testify
- Goose
- I Can Move You (If You Let Me)
- I Just Got Back (From the Fantasy, Ahead of Our Time in the Four Lands)
- All Your Goodies Are Gone
- Whatever Makes Baby Feel Good
- Presence of a Brain
- Up For The Down Strokes (Alternate Mix) (Bonus Track)
- Testify (Alternate Mix) (Bonus Track)
- Singing Another Song (Previously Unreleased) (Bonus Track)
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Free Music Review: Just buy the first two tracks as MP3's
Hit: 3 Stars
By the time of this album, P-Funk had been recording for a while under the Funkadelic name, but "Up For The Downstroke" was their big relaunch as Parliament. Unfortunately, after two absolutely essential songs - "Testify" and the title track - the album proved to be a dud in my opinion. Other decent tracks include "The Goose," "All Your Goodies are Gone," and "Presence of a Brain." However, the first two's intriguing ideas are held back by a lack of refinement, and the last is good but not great. Elsewhere, "I Can Move You" is an entirely forgettable funk song, "I Just Got Back" is a bland stylistic detour with cheesy whistling, and "Whatever Makes Baby Feel Good" has the same hard-to-place amatuerish feel mentioned earlier.
By all means, get the first two tracks (either by Amazon MP3 or via Best Of albums), and don't rule out investigating the other okay tracks I mentioned. However, this truly isn't a competitive album, either with later Parliament or the excellent albums Funkadelic was releasing around this time ("Standing On The Verge," "Let's Take It To The Stage," etc). 3 stars.
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