# Parliament — Every Record We Rank

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.

- **Ranked entries:** 2
- **Appears on:** Funk and The Waxonia Desk — Where the Accent Moved
- **Year:** 1975
- **Highest placing:** No. 6 in Funk
- **Updated:** 2026-08-29
- **Canonical page:** https://waxonia.com/artist/parliament/

## Appears on

### [Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof off the Sucker)](https://waxonia.com/track/parliament--give-up-the-funk-tear-the-roof-off-the-sucker/)

*1975 · Casablanca · No. 6 in [Funk](https://waxonia.com/genre/funk/)*

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.

Also on: [The Waxonia Desk — Where the Accent Moved](https://waxonia.com/selection/the-desk-the-accent-moved/).

[Search Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/search/Parliament%20Give%20Up%20the%20Funk%20(Tear%20the%20Roof%20off%20the%20Sucker)) · [YouTube Music](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=xNpNTkSkrU8)

### [Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof off the Sucker)](https://waxonia.com/track/parliament--give-up-the-funk-tear-the-roof-off-the-sucker/)

*1975 · Casablanca · Picked by [The Waxonia Desk — Where the Accent Moved](https://waxonia.com/selection/the-desk-the-accent-moved/)*

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.

Also on: [Funk](https://waxonia.com/genre/funk/).

[Search Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/search/Parliament%20Give%20Up%20the%20Funk%20(Tear%20the%20Roof%20off%20the%20Sucker)) · [YouTube Music](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=xNpNTkSkrU8)

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