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  "slug": "parliament",
  "name": "Parliament",
  "description": "Parliament appears 2 times in our Funk and The Waxonia Desk — Where the Accent Moved lists, placing as high as No. 6. Hand-curated, with a reason for every pick.",
  "updated": "2026-08-29",
  "url": "https://waxonia.com/artist/parliament/",
  "appearanceCount": 2,
  "distinctRecordings": 1,
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    "last": 1975
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      "title": "Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof off the Sucker)",
      "year": 1975,
      "label": "Casablanca",
      "isrc": null,
      "whyItMatters": "Clinton turns funk into cosmology — a mythology with its own spacecraft, villains and liturgy. Underneath the theatre is Bootsy Collins playing the most disciplined bass line on this list.",
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      "title": "Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof off the Sucker)",
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      "label": "Casablanca",
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      "whyItMatters": "Enormous theatre over a bass part of complete discipline. The theatre is what everybody remembers and the discipline is the reason it still works fifty years later.",
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