20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection: The Best of Parliament explained

20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection: The Best of Parliament
Type:	compilation
Artist:	Parliament
Cover:	Parliament_20th_C.jpg
Released:	January 25, 2000
Recorded:	1974–1980
Genre:	P-Funk
Length:	67:30
Label:	Mercury
Prev Title:	Tear the Roof Off 1974–1980
Prev Year:	1993
Next Title:	Gold
Next Year:	2005

20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection: The Best of Parliament is a compilation album by the American Funk band Parliament released in 2000 as part Universal Music's "Millennium Collection" series.^[1] 20th Century Masters uses eight of the ten songs from Parliament's Greatest Hits (1984), and is essentially an update of that collection. Album versions of the songs "Up for the Down Stroke"; "Mothership Connection (Star Child)" and "Aqua Boogie" are also used in place of the edited versions used on Greatest Hits.

Track listing

1. "P-Funk (Wants to Get Funked Up)" (Clinton, Worrell, Collins) 7:40
2. "Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof off the Sucker)" (Clinton, Collins, Brailey) 5:45
3. "Flash Light" (Clinton, Worrell, Collins) 5:47
4. "Dr. Funkenstein" (Clinton, Collins, Worrell) – 5:43
5. "Up for the Down Stroke" (Clinton, Collins, Worrell, Haskins) 5:07
6. "Chocolate City" (Clinton, Collins, Worrell) 5:36
7. "Bop Gun (Endangered Species)" (Clinton, Collins, Shider) 8:28
8. "Testify" (Clinton, Taylor) 4:04
9. "Aqua Boogie (A Psychoalphadiscobetabioaquadoloop)" (Clinton, Collins, Worrell) 6:42
10. "Mothership Connection (Star Child)" (Clinton, Collins, Worrell) 6:13
11. "Agony of Defeet" (Dunbar, Sterling, Clinton) 6:25

Notes and References

1. http://www.allmusic.com/album/20th-century-masters--the-millennium-collection-the-best-of-parliament-r461372 20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection: The Best of Parliament