i've come across a couple of different best of cds but not like an actual box set of all of their albums though. does anyone here know?

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But no definitive box set to my knowledge.

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that was a good anthology, especially when it dropped. Not all of the Parliament albums on Mercury/Polygram were reissued yet, and interest in the band was at an all-time high.

I still have that one.

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i had ehard a bunch of Funkadelic albums at that point and had a vinyl comp with Parliament called "the bomb" or something with 80's Hip-Hop graphics and edited versions of all the hits. "Tear the roof of..." however is (was? I haven't been keeping track) really the best introduction to their music imaginable. Actually, even if we disregard the quality of the music, the way it mixes all the hits with fan-favorites, rare 12" remixes etc. is exemplatory-I don't think a single disc comp can really do them justice and *definitely* not one that only contains the biggest hits in fucking edits...

That said, there are still several cool songs missing which I found out when I hunted down all their albums within months of hearing the comps.It's impossible to avoid that though...

http://www.discogs.com/Parliament-Parliaments-Greatest-Hits/release/697352

Very nice comp if you just want the hits presented as "pop"-songs. As I said though, I don't think that really captures them well... at all. If anything, this comp make them out to be more of a Mercury-era Ohio Players type act or Kool& the Gang rather than something mindblowing which I remember being my initial impression when I assumed they were just Funkadelic in a disco-mood. Of course, then you hear songs like "Funkentelechy" and "Dr Funkenstein" and you see the light...

EDIT:If I remember correctly though, this comp cost me about $0.5 so who can complain? Yes, there was a time when "noone" gave a fuck about P-funk here in sweden. I remember buying a shrinkwrapped copy of Bootsy's admittedly somewhat weak 1980 "Ultrawave"-album for the same amount at a flea-market in shithole Halmstad where my parents had a summerhouse. Another Bootsy-record (=this boot was made for fonk-n) was bought in the same shithole for approximately $1 alongside records like Gil Scott Heron's "it's your world" and Isaac Hayes ''Black moses'' for similar prices. Yes, once upon a time, record collectors in sweden only cared for vintage rock while all the funk and soul filed away as "disco" next to Boney M and Baccara, great times.

Now that I think about it, my entire Bootsy collection besides the cde comp might have cost me about $10 total; "the one giveth..."-record was literally *given* to me by some Clapton-loving dude in a record store

from a shared beat-up rancher in Roland Park, Baltimore that I was sharing with five dudes and despite being a broke 18-year-old college kid had to find a way to rebuy that whole double-disc again just for the one missing half because it was too damn integral to the vibe of the house where we'd built a bar in the basement decorated with thrown-away neons beer company lights trash-picked from a York Road bar/liquor store.

The box set era was at its absolute peak around that same mid-90's timeframe:

Star Time, King Of The Blues, the In Yo Face! History Of Funk volumes, Nuggets, Citizen Steely Dan, the four-disc Led Zeppelin, Songs of Freedom and plenty of great ones I'm forgetting all seemed to drop during the same 2-3 years during 92-95.

Because there was legitimate Hall of Fame artists/acts whose music hadn't been put together and lovingly honored in that career-summation-attempting way in the new (perhaps last) physical-copy popular format of its day.

Nowadays Mic Geronimo's debut album reissued on a Gold CD packaged inside the folds of a speed-chess board designed to look like one from the movie 'Fresh' with "Shit's Real" on 45 is considered a "box-set".

But I digress.

The one thing box-sets were also though was expensive plus potentially exhaustingly expansive so those were still for the hardcore fans, somewhat grown with real jobs who lived alone.

But 20 years ago in the days before ear-buds became the main form of listening device and stereos when you lived with roommates were considered community property?

A truly great anthology of a band that maybe not everyone you were with or even you truly *knew* on a full-catalog level.

The two-disc anthology or expanded-double-length-on-one-CD type of career retrospective when does well always crushed a greatest hits record or in a few cases, an act's best albums.

Tear The Roof Off was maybe not in the latter (though it's debatable if I'm being real) but it was most definitely in the former.

Only double-disc that might top it in that regard (because obviously as a group they were not as great as P-Funk nor spring from or sprout out into as many other great movements) would be 'Full Clip: A Decade of Gangstarr' (certainly the best hip-hop example from '99 right up to this time).

'Together Forever: Greatest Hits 1983-1991' by Run-DMC the 18-track with "Here We Go (Live At The Funhouse)" on it was another great example I recall rocking with hard during that same BMOre party-house/Tear-The-Roof-Off era.

That along with the first reissue of Band of Gypsys and Live At Leeds (when each were still only the six live songs originally from the long-out-of-print albums) all ruled those school-year months in my world.

But Tear The Roof Off was sequenced brilliantly and helped me along with all the like-minded teenage revelers around when it was on.....*understand* that band so then when I went to see them for the first-time (at the old Bohager's directly under the highway downtown before you hop on the beltway by the stadiums) somewhere during that same time period (walking in at the start of 'Cosmic Slop' which wasn't on this comp but sent me down the Funkadelic album rabbit-hole which was a bit choppier) that song's bassline, George conducting that circus in a tie-dye tunic shortly after his Paisley Park solo deal petered out, the shit in my system along with the shit wafting around the funky-ass club?

That compilation jump-started me into that P-Funk universe officially being my absolute shit for as long as I live.

Even the liner notes (think Greg Tate wrote them with something from George himself in there too?) were great.

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the very form of this boxset with each disc except the first one being each of their four albums in their entirety with era-appropriate bonus-tracks was very nice IMO even if pretty much all the great outtakes (exceptin the "Loaded"-ones which are better than the overtly slick album IMO) had previously been released on the great VU-comp in the 80's (Another view as well but that one is too weak due to too many instrumentals and shit).

Lee Perry-Arkology

I still feel that the previous "open the gate" and "Build the ark"-boxsets that predate this 90's boxset era are better but since none of them includes the Island material, it's also hard to argue against "Arkology" being better at giving you the hits with a SHITLOAD of deep-cut style dubs...

Miles Davis-second great quintet boxset

My favorite *band* of all time so it goes without saying that this boxset-which includes all their albums in full with era-appropriate bonus-tracks and everything presented in chronological order so that you can follow Miles actually very organic and "logical" transition into fusion without problems-knocked me right THEE fuck out. Still prefer the sequencing on the original albums though over the chronological approach taken here; I think the VU-boxset approach (=albums as released with bonus-tracks on each disc) would have been better here honestly...

but recall the impact made by each and appreciating the way they were put together.

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I know the doc is critical of Trombipulation and so am I (NEW DOO REVIEW!!!). HOWEVER, would the doc agree with me that they made a mistake (=one of the two, the other one being "Party people"; while they put the single-edit on rather than the tedious album-version, that shit has no business being on a comp) when they put "Agony of defeet" rather than the awesome "Let's play house" on the record?

While not BAD, "Agony..." always struck me as a blatant atempt at remaking "knee deep" and it's inferior. "Let's play house" on the other hand is not just funky as fuck but was also sampledt for the Humpty dance which was a pretty massive tune. Since a good deal of the interest in Parliament at the time was generated by the many Hip-Hop samples of their material, *I* think the compilers fucked up there.

A tiny complaint for an otherwise great comp that I just remembered when checking the tracklist again, just saying...

matter of fact all the funk essential projects dropped that year and toure did reviews in rolling stone magazine on all the funk re releases.

mistermaxxx R.Kelly, Michael Jackson,Stevie wonder,Rick James,Marvin Gaye,El Debarge, Barry WHite Lionel RIchie,Isleys EWF,Lady T.,Kid creole and coconuts,the crusaders,kc sunshine band,bee gees,jW,sd,NE,JB

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this oop live box set still available.http://www.amazon.com/Parliament-Funkadelic-Live-1976-1993/dp/B000007WJL i wish i would've gotten this when it was in print. as of now, price to steep for me. and then again, you can find soundboard quality boots on these innernets, for the P-funk.

i have both of them.

fuck you.

i'll get it, thank you

Mostly early Funkadelic stuff, if I'm remembering correctly (dont feel like looking it up).





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fuck you.

Some really cool b-sides and shit alongside the singles; I much prefer the Westbound era of Funkadelic to the major label era which also has many comps drawn from it due to the cheapo/lame company Charly repackaging shit over and over...

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As some have said, what you can find are:
2CD comp of their work on Westbound
4CD box set of their live work, semi-essential
1 or 2CD comps of their work as The Parliaments (pre-Funkadelic)

However, if you want a box with Parliament, Funkadelic, The Parliaments, every group he worked with on Casablanca, the work he did in the 1980's, 90's, and 2000's, the different things he may have done incognito or semi-incognito, you will not find it. People have been wanting one since the early 90's, if not the mid 80's. When people like Bob Dylan and Eric Clapton were getting recognized box sets, fans were saying "do one for George Clinton" but at a time when it was possible, labels kept on saying no. Over the years, labels have made it even more impossible. The only way you could obtain a box is if it was done bootleg style, or someone comped it themselves. By then, you'd have a very nice 20CD box.

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Westbound/Ace - early Funkadelic, P-Funk All-Stars.

Warner Bros - later Funkadelic, Bootsy, Brides of Funkenstein, Horny Horns.

Casablanca/UMG - Parliament, Parlet.

Capitol - George Clinton.

...and that's probably not all of them.

if somehow enough of them consolidate under a larger entity we may see some action on this boxed set.

fuck you.

>if somehow enough of them consolidate under a larger entity

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If anyone wins, if you want to call it that, it would be Universal since it can be argued Parliament is the most profitable. Capitol is now a Universal entity so that's set. If and when it happens, Clinton will not be around to see, hear, or approve of it.




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1. parliament - tear the roof off 1974 - 1980
2. parliament funkadelic - live 1976 -93
3. funkadelic - music for your mother

thank again to everybody who helped, i appreciate it.

Any of the comps that showcase Funkadelic's stint with Warner Brothers where they had big hits like "One nation under a groove" and "Knee Deep" (example:http://www.discogs.com/Funkadelic-The-Best-Of-Funkadelic-1976-1981/master/108452)

Bootsy Collins-Back in the day:the best of Bootsy Collins

Absolutely stupendous comp that I think sums up his career very well even if there are a *few* standouts missing. BTW, the live-version of "psychoticbumpschool" is seriously some of the rawest, most badass funk i've heard...

One of the comps that showcase Parliament *before* the Casablanca deal. Or maybe just buy "Osmium" instead but they did some dope, non-album singles in that era as well (those might be bonus-tracks on some issues of "Osmium").

Alongside the stuff already mentioned in this thread outside of the live box (which is more for die-hards IMO), those records sum p-funk up pretty well I think even if I dig many of the actual *albums* as well and prefer to hear them that way (bootsy might be an exception)...

Meanwhile, stuff like Parlet, Brides of funkenstein, Horny Horns, Sweat Band etc. as well as solos from the era by Bernie Worrell and Eddie Hazel etc. is really more for super-fans IMO even if there are seeral cool *songs* of course...

that bootsy collins best or greatest hits i think my brother in law owns. i'll have to check it out and see. thanks again

in regards to the parlets, horns and other side acts, it's amazing just how much music george and his musicians and artists put out.

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lots of side projects and stuff that are must haves..

do an overall chronological thing.... by year..... cover every release ..regardless of the group name it was released under....

that way you'll get a full picture..don't miss the solo stuff..fuzzy..eddie and them..

and do the live stuff separately but the same way..


the Live at the Sugar shack from 1972 is a must have
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this "cosmic slop" live from the sugar shack clip you posted is nice!

great find, thanks again

all from different years..

the one from 1972 is the best .... it's funkdelic with a newly arrived Bootsy Collins and Catfish Collins in the bands, along with the horns....

the other 2 are from 1974 and 1975...

all of the are great though...

the 1972 one though has so many incredible moments..

all your goodies are gone
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Cookie jar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubQwLeWXR2g

I got a thang
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wz1LLu7eK2g

I call my baby pussy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLIWFc4VU7Q

man, i really got some researching to do now, lol
it's crazy because i've been a p-funk head for a while just when i thought i'd pretty much covered the most of their stuff, there's more!

ain't nothing like finding some "new" music and the adventure begins again. thank you so much man.

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