Browse by Artist: PARLIAMENT

Artist:	PARLIAMENT
Title:	Up For The Down Stroke
Label:	CASABLANCA
Format:	LP
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	NB 7002LP

Exact reissue of the 2nd Parliament album, originally released 1974; this is the chronological followup to the Osmium album. Produced by George Clinton, featuring the Parliament group w/ Bootsie Collins, Gary Shider, Cordell Mosson, Eddie Hazel, Bernie Worrell, etc. "Kicking 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." --All Music Guide

Artist:	PARLIAMENT
Title:	Chocolate City
Label:	CASABLANCA
Format:	LP
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	NB 7014LP

Exact reissue of the 3rd Parliament album, originally released 1975. The Casablanca follow-up to Up for the Down Stroke. " This album is 100% funk, all the way through. The early eclecticism is abandoned for jam after rump-shakin' jam. While it makes for a great party record, it doesn't make for the Funk Mob's greatest work of art, but it is certainly a good time. The album is solid from beginning to end, and even if it sounds a bit derivative of other funk acts, it doesn't matter much because of the raw talent of Bootsy & Bernie, the two people who completely dominate the album." --Rob Clough

Artist:	PARLIAMENT
Title:	Mothership Connection
Label:	CASABLANCA
Format:	LP
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	NB 7022LP

Exact reissue of the 4th Parliament album, originally released 1976. "The definitive Parliament-Funkadelic album, Mothership Connection is where George Clinton's revolving band lineups, differing musical approaches, and increasingly thematic album statements reached an ideal state, one that resulted in enormous commercial success as well as a timeless legacy. The musical lineup assembled for Mothership Connection is peerless: in addition to keyboard wizard Bernie Worrell; Bootsy Collins, who plays not only bass but also drums and guitar; the guitar trio of Gary Shider, Michael Hampton, and Glen Goins; and the Becker brothers (Michael and Randy) on horns; there are former J.B.'s Fred Wesley and Maceo Parker (also on horns), who were the latest additions to the P-Funk stable." --All Music Guide

Artist:	PARLIAMENT
Title:	Osmium
Label:	EARMARK (ITALY)
Format:	LP
Price:	$21.00
Catalog #:	EAR 44008LP

"Formed in 1968, George Clinton's Parliament / Funkadelic took the soul music of the 1960s and Hendrix-esque psychedelic rock and 'tore the roof off the sucka'. Combining bass-heavy party music with a theatrical live show and innovative rhetoric, P-Funk was not only a band, but a revolution that used music as a means of breaking the chains of the dominant culture and achieve a heightened self-awareness (while not forgetting to have fun in the process). A motto perhaps best summed up in the tile of Funkadelic's 1970 album Free Your Mind, And Your Ass Will Follow. Osmium, their classic 1970 release on Invictus Records, was the group's first release under the Parliament moniker and included 'I Call My Baby Pussycat' and 'Little Ol'Country Boy'."

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