Tear the Roof Off 1974-1980

Infobox Album
Name = tear the Roof Off: 1974-1980
Type = Compilation album
Artist = Parliament


Released = 1993
Recorded = 1974-1980
Length = 2:30:44
Genre = Funk
Label = Casablanca Records

"Tear the Roof Off: 1974-1980" is a 2-CD compilation album by the funk group Parliament featuring songs recorded for Casablanca Records during the band's career with that label from 1974 to 1980. The compilation was released in 1993. The compilation includes some single edits and extended 12-inch single edits of selected songs, but no previously unreleased material, except for a slightly longer version of "Testify" that restores a deleted guitar introduction. The CD booklet contains historical articles from music writers Greg Tate and Tom Vickers, who once served as Minister of Information for the band from 1976 until 1980.

Track listing

Disc One

#"P-Funk (Wants to Get Funked Up)" (Clinton/Collins/Worrell) – 7:40
#* from the album Mothership Connection
#"Up for the Down Stroke" (Clinton/Collins/Haskins/Worrell) – 5:08
#* from the album Up for the Down Stroke
#"Bop Gun (Endangered Species)" (Clinton/Shider/Collins) – 8:29
#* from the album Funkentelechy vs. the Placebo Syndrome
#"Dr. Funkenstein's Supergroovalisticprosifunkstication Medley: Let's Take It to the Stage/Take Your Dead Ass Home (Say Som'n Nasty)" (Clinton/Collins/Shider - Clinton/Shider/Worrell/Goins) – 5:06
#* from the album
#"Mothership Connection (Star Child)" (Clinton/Collins/Worrell) – 6:12
#* from the album Mothership Connection
#"Dr. Funkenstein" (Clinton/Collins/Worrell) – 5:45
#* from the album The Clones of Dr. Funkenstein
#"Testify" (Clinton/Taylor) – 3:54
#* extended version of track from the album Up for the Down Stroke
#"Mr. Wiggles" (Clinton/Worrell/Hampton) – 6:43
#* from the album Motor Booty Affair
#"Aqua Boogie (A Psychoalphadiscobetabioaquadoloop)" (Clinton/Collins/Worrell) - 9:23
#* extended 12-inch single edit of track from the album Motor Booty Affair
#"All Your Goodies are Gone" (Clinton/Haskins/Nelson) – 5:04
#* from the album Up for the Down Stroke
#"Do That Stuff" (Clinton/Shider/Worrell) – 4:48
#* from the album The Clones of Dr. Funkenstein
#"Party People" (Clinton/Collins/Shider) – 4:40
#* single edit of track from the album Gloryhallastoopid

Disc Two

#"Prelude" (Clinton/Worrell) – 1:40
#* from the album The Clones of Dr. Funkenstein
#"Give Up The Funk (Tear The Roof Off The Sucker)" (Clinton/Collins/Worrell) - 5:46
#* from the album Mothership Connection
#"Chocolate City" (Clinton/Collins/Worrell) - 5:37
#* from the album Chocolate City
#"Funkentelechy" (Clinton/Collins) - 10:56
#* from the album Funkentelechy vs. the Placebo Syndrome
#"Theme from the Black Hole" (Collins/Clinton/Theracon) – 4:38
#* 12-inch single edit (combined with "The Big Bang Theory") of track from the album Gloryhallastoopid
#"The Big Bang Theory" (Sterling/Dunbar/Clinton) – 7:10
#* 12-inch single edit (combined with "Theme from the Black Hole") of track from the album Gloryhallastoopid
#"Children of Production [live] " (Clinton/Collins/Worrell) - 2:50
#* from the album
#"Flash Light" (Clinton/Worrell/Collins) - 10:42
#* extended 12-inch single edit of track from the album Funkentelechy vs. the Placebo Syndrome
#"Ride On" (Clinton/Collins/Worrell) - 3:34
#* from the album Chocolate City
#"Fantasy Is Reality" (Clinton/Worrell/Ware) - 6:38
#* from the album
#"Rumpofsteelskin" (Clinton/Collins) - 5:43
#* from the album Motor Booty Affair
#"Agony of Defeet" (Dunbar/Sterling/Clinton) - 6:43
#* from the album Trombipulation
#"Funkin' for Fun" (Clinton/Shider/Goins) - 5:55
#* from the album The Clones of Dr. Funkenstein

External links

* [http://www.duke.edu/~tmc/motherpage/albums_parliament/alb-ttro.html The Motherpage]