TopTenREVIEWS presents the music career and reviews of Parliament
Parliament
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
3.5183
Parliament Album Rankings
1
After George Clinton's Funkadelic crashed and burned -- taking the whole era of psychedelic funk-rock with it -- up sprouted Parliament, an astonishing new group building wonderlands of fun and sass a
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2
The Best of Parliament: Give Up the Funkmay capture the band's bare essentials, but given the band's penchant for stretching out on extended jams (which included some of their best songs), it's hard t
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3
Parliament simply poured it on for this amazing album, clearly one of its all-time best.
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4
To some, boiling Parliament's legacy down to a single-disc collection is the equivalent of heresy, since most fans treat each album as an individual work of art.
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5
By this point Parliament was one of the most accomplished and intelligent bands in music. With albums likeMothership ConnectionandThe Clones of Dr.
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6
After George Clinton's Funkadelic crashed and burned -- taking the whole era of psychedelic funk-rock with it -- up sprouted Parliament, an astonishing new group building wonderlands of fun and sass a
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7
As amazing as most of the '70s P-Funk albums are, the group was arguably a better live act than a studio act.
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8
Come 1976, and Parliament got up to its usual tricks in that particular incarnation -- right down to opening backwards-masked vocal weirdness plus sci-fi scenarios in the "Prelude," where "funk is its
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9
After George Clinton's Funkadelic crashed and burned -- taking the whole era of psychedelic funk-rock with it -- up sprouted Parliament, an astonishing new group building wonderlands of fun and sass a
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10
The first Parliament album as such was a mixed-up mess of an affair -- but would anyone expect anything less? The overall sound is much moreFunkadelicthan later Parliament, if with a somewhat more acc
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12
The differences between this two-disc set and 1993's like-sized Tear the Roof Off will only be apparent to Parliament fanatics who don't really need either release.
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14
Although at the time this album was viewed as a disaster, there has been some critical reassessment in the past years.
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15
Funked Up: The Very Best of Parliament is a full-priced, one-disc summation of Parliament's recordings for Casablanca Records (since absorbed into what is now Universal and discontinued, hence the is
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16
When Osmium finally got a proper CD rerelease in America in 1992, it was retitled and expanded with singles from the same period (a number of them being alternate takes), resulting in the near disc c
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17
The Early Years is a repackaging of all of Parliament's recordings for Invictus Records, including their 1970 album Osmium and three bonus tracks -- "Fantasy is Reality," "Loose Booty" and "Unfinishe
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23
The final album issued before Parliament temporarily disbanded. Clinton's empire was being besieged, and while he didn't completely lose his gifts, the impact could be heard on the album.
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