Recording

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

Independently chosen for2 of our lists. Here is what each of them said.

Released

1975

Label

Casablanca

On

Funk and The Waxonia Desk — Where the Accent Moved

Updated

2026-08-29

1. 06

   Ranked No. 6 in 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.

2. ·

   Picked by The Waxonia Desk — Where 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.