Up For The Down Stroke (Vinyl LP) discogimp

Up For The Down Stroke (Vinyl LP) discogimpKicking off with one of prime funk's purest distillations the outrageously great title track, with a perfect party chorus line and uncredited horns (presumably the Horny Horns were involved somehow) adding to the monster beat and bass Up for the Down Stroke finds Parliament in rude good health. As was more or less the case through the '70s, Parliament took a slightly more listener friendly turn here than they did as Funkadelic, but often it's a

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leading Bon Iver's Justin Vernon to describe them then as "the best band he'd ever heard"

Today even average condition copies can command £500 to £1

It was issued on vinyl only in Germany

but this remastered reissue version is now avaiable on 100% virgin vinyl at a snip of that price

only French connection is the lyrical language

Half poetic

16 page 'Hymn Booklet' containing lyrics and Download

Also includes 'In a Figga of Speech' track from Kosmik Gypsy

Is He Strange and The Common Snipe - referring to the wader bird that makes a unique 'bleating' sound by rubbing its tailfeathers together

Dos Jueyes and Yo Lo Puedes Decir

and 'Scary Monsters' as one of Bowie's finest and most consistent albums