Up For The Down Stroke
by Parliament
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Parliament bestography
Up For The Down Stroke is ranked 6th best out of 16 albums by Parliament on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Parliament is Mothership Connection which is ranked number 700 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 2,461.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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Up For The Down Stroke track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Up For The Down Stroke rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 2 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | xhitmanx | Top 15 Music Albums of 1974 | 13/15 | 1 |
| 2026 |  junodog4 | Top 20 Music Albums of 1974 | 11/20 | 3 |
| 2026 |  AAL2014 | Top 100 Music Albums of 1974 | 89/100 | 1 |
| 2026 | bonnequestion | Funk & Soul | 51/100 | - |
| 2026 |  neilgee | FunkSoul-Brother | 55/100 | - |
| 2026 |  videoheadcleaner | videoheadcleaner's 301-400 | 41/100 | - |
| 2026 | Jakor | Top 100 Music Albums of 1974 | 22/100 | 4 |
| 2026 | videoheadcleaner | Top 80 Music Albums of 1974 | 8/80 | 5 |
| 2026 | videoheadcleaner | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1970s | 71/100 | 6 |
| 2026 | bonnequestion | Top 44 Music Albums of 1974 | 25/44 | 2 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 41 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 70 | |||
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Up For The Down Stroke ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 07/19/2026 20:10 | xhitmanx | 1,604 | 75/100 |
| ! | 05/08/2026 14:39 | Jakor | 5,550 | 70/100 |
| ! | 01/19/2026 07:43 | brent13 | 2,179 | 66/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 71.8/100, a mean average of 71.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 71.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.8.
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Up For The Down Stroke forum mentions
pedro1976 07/03/2024 16:21 in What album are you listening to? (cont.) neilgee 09/12/2020 22:02 in What album are you listening to right now?Up For The Down Stroke comments
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Tamthebam TOP 100 COMMENTER 06/29/2014 15:23 | #115586
This album is now 40 years old and it still sounds new !! George Clinton at his best you can dance to Testify and lay back with All Your Goodies... and Whatever Makes My baby.... his albums with Parliament & Funkadelic are so spaced out, he deserves much more recognition.
Mercury TOP 100 COMMENTER 02/16/2014 18:52 | #103317
How is this ranked 23,000+ on our rankings? Eff off BEA! It's great!
Funky as hell, and sexy and just downright filthy! Listen to "Testify" and dance whilst doing so. You'll get it.
junodog4 TOP 100 COMMENTER 09/19/2017 03:17 | #198257
Right after he started using Parliament because he couldn't use Funkadelic, George Clinton launched the Mothership with this masterpiece.
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