# Parliament — Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof off the Sucker)

Parliament’s Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof off the Sucker) (1975) appears on 2 of our lists — Funk and The Waxonia Desk — Where the Accent Moved, highest at No. 6 in Funk. Every verdict, in full.

- **Released:** 1975
- **Label:** Casablanca
- **On:** Funk and The Waxonia Desk — Where the Accent Moved
- **Updated:** 2026-08-29
- **Artist:** [Parliament](https://waxonia.com/artist/parliament/)
- **Canonical page:** https://waxonia.com/track/parliament--give-up-the-funk-tear-the-roof-off-the-sucker/

## What 2 lists say

### 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.

### 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.

## Listen

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