Reviews (page 12 of 15)
okay
An oddly paced funk album. Out of the other funk albums on this list, this one blends into the background. Nothing very memorable about it; mostly instrumentals.
3.5+
Nothing on this album justifies listening to the 10 minute wah pedal demonstration it opens with.
Very funky!
Listened to the first couple of tracks. Sounds interesting
I really liked the first track very pl. I'd if it was before. Pretty cool album tho
Was in the background. Nothing grabbed my attention
Already one of my favourites and part of my collection. Funky and weird as hell. Best listened to with high quality headphones.
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Album in Deutschland unvollständig auf Spotify. Glücklich und entspannt etwas zu langsam. Expermental Musik.
Best tof! Erg funky
Raar album, drugs vloeide rijkelijk in de jaren 70 zo te horen
i loved it! great guitar, excellent atmosphere and vibe
Eddie Hazel under rated guitar player
FUNKY
The beginning of the collaboration between George Clinton and Eddie Hazel, a duo that would change the genre of funk entirely to something much more atmospheric and alive, with their influences reaching decades into the future. This record is relatively straightforward and accessible, with a long emotional starter and spectacular closer, and short pop tunes in between. For 1971, it's very impressive in production. The title track in particular sounds so clean and multi-dimensional. Influenced by Hendrix, the guitars are layered in pedal effects. "Maggot Brain" places the focus on just one guitar screaming its lungs out in improv, with a backing guitar providing ambience. It's powerful and entrancing. Although not radio friendly with its 10 minute length, it's hard not to just follow the guitar lead and admire what it has to say. "Can You Get to That" lifts the mood, with a sunshine guitar, a cool groovy bassline, a cheery gospel choir, and some fun counterpoints thrown in, giving it a wild and charming personality. "Hit It and Quit It" continues the themes with an even more energetic and crazy performance full of scats that evoke imagery of just people having a good time. Wah guitar is back and features an improv organ. "You and Your Folks, Me and My Folks" slows things down, cool and mysterious but collective and confidence. A simple but mature one, with some amazing outgoing vocal performances. "Super Stupid" is essentially a Hendrix song with the sick guitar solo but more focus on groovy psychedelic instruments. "Back in Our Minds" is a wacky yet chill acid-fueled track with barely audible humorous vocals and a fun psychedelic orchestra. "Wars of Armageddon" is an epic jazz fusion finale, mixing funk, Latin, and jazz on top of musique concrete random sound effects. It's a bit strange and could be seen as dated, but I thought it was executed well and has a ton of character behind it. A few outdated elements, but it's an incredible and highly influential release with not a minute wasted. It's hard not to see this as one of the most important albums of all time.
Fun funky album, I thought it was a pretty good listen Top tracks: Super Stupid, Maggot Brain
Cover art is on another level! Thealbum is not as funky only as you would be expect. Some Hendrix's vibes goin on here and there
Brilliance, stupidity, weirdness
Man... I love old school funk. So much soul and pushing so many boundaries. Honestly, I could do without Maggot Brain. It sounded to me like 9 minutes of an introduction. I kept waiting for the song to start, but everything afterward was excellent. Highlight was the mixed meter on Hit It and Quit It. So groovy and good.
first one was the most beautiful electric gitar ive heard in a while. the rest killing the same!
Maggot Brain is as fresh as ever. Opens and closes with wild, epic 10 minute tracks, and fills the middle with some of the funkiest cuts imaginable. The guitar work especially stands out. George Clinton and co knew what they were doing. *Heard before.
Great from beginning to end.
16.12.23 Parliaments big brothers band
Another day, Another weird album. Maggot Brain was really weird and probably the weirdest album i have looked at so far, especially with that last song (Yes, i know I say this is the weirdest album i have looked at with a lot of these albums but I'm being serious this time) However, It was still a fun listen. It was really funky and had some good usage of all of their instruments. It's a weird but really good album. Best Song: Hit It And Quit It Worst Song: Can You Get To That
fun album i listened to this year a bit already
3/5 stars Liked the first few tracks - definitely groovy. Last track on the album just weird - I don’t like fart/cat crying noises in my music.
111223 18:15 3.5
This absolutely bangs. I have missed a corner of music and this quest has given me that back. This album is astounding.
After the last several albums, this was a wonderful change of pace and a great ride. I am familiar with George Clinton, some of his work with Parliament and I thought this album would be a fun ride. I was wrong. This was a fantastic voyage. A voyage I took more than a few times over the last couple days. Next times will be with a few tokes and couple beers! Not usually a fan of the guitar solo, but the opening was awesome. Reading the inspiration behind this track made the follow up listening even better. This album blew me away from the opening to the end. Well, up to the fart noises. I will be checking out a lot more of Funkadelic and reintroduce myself to Parliament as well. I originally thought 3.5, but I'm this album and this band has stayed on my mind since my first listen. Well done. 4
4 Man, what a way to start an album. It’s not often that a ten-minute instrumental wins me over, but in this case, to even refer to the title track as such almost feels like an insult. A better description would probably be an act of sheer musical brilliance bestowed upon guitarist Eddie Hazel by the psychedelic powers of LSD and the wacked-out mind of George Clinton. The fact that this was done in one take and was completely improvised is insane and was an immediate sign for me that I wasn’t in for just any album. And sure enough, I wasn’t - things completely shift gears on the second track, Can You Get To That, in the best possible way. It’s much more in line with how I anticipated the album to sound, but I didn’t expect it to be this good. Like, this is funk and rock fusion at its best, and song after song, it just never ceased to go hard as fuck. Across the first five tracks, there are really no skips, but my favorite would probably be the heavy-hitting Super Stupid - it’s noticeably Hendrix inspired, but I really think it puts a number of the legend’s own songs to shame. Unfortunately, that energy doesn’t quite keep up, and the album closes a bit weakly between the meh Back in Our Minds and finale, Wars of Armageddon. I guess that they were trying to bookend the album with long instrumentals, which I don’t hate, but Wars of Armageddon doesn’t come anywhere close to the opener. You feel the duration here - if Maggot Brains embodies an enlightening acid trip, this is definitely a bad trip, complete with screams, sirens, and… fart noises? It feels more like a Frank Zappa song, and I think it kills the momentum just a bit. Still, very, very good listen - the vast majority of the songs here are incredible, and even then, while I didn’t love how it ended, I don’t think it necessarily ruins the album by any means. I definitely need to check out more George Clinton so I can get more of this funk rock sound shot into my veins - this was great. Will be keeping this album in mind the next time I feel Like Slow Disappearing.
This is one heady and heavy album.
2+ Stars (6/15)
An easy 5
The music is fantastic, but the weird samples, and talking, and sound effects took me out of it. Very nearly a five for me.
Fantastic funk rock!
Anyone talking about GOAT records while not mentioning Maggot Brain is doing it wrong. This is a genre defining masterpiece. It’s honestly still wild to me how little it’s discussed among music fans. Come for the epic guitar solo of an opening track, stay for everything else.
This p-funk perfection—with its scorching soul, indelible grooves, and Hall of Fame Eddie Hazel performance—is required listening for any motherlover lucky enough to be breathing on this thrice-knocked-up planet of ours.
Come on! Come on. Have to. 5
Did not listen. 1 star just for the name of the album. Music should appeal, not repel.
stellar! The guitars and beats were on point and were amalgamated into something I'd never heard before, especially with the last track: wars of armageddon. top 3: can you get to that (TOP FAVV, deep voice guy is incredible, so catchy), hit it and quit it, and super stupid.
Goated. This album just slays from front to back. Funky, visceral jams.
A rich example of psychedelia and funk of time period, that is remarkably current. The title track is a near-cliché of psychedelic rock. It's a dark, beautiful exploration of expression by guitar. It's beautifully played. I hear so much of Bernie Worrell on this album. His style of funk keyboard is a big part of the Funkadelic sound.
Mostly good, some obnoxious solos tho
I was not offended
Gigantisch goed album van Funkadelic. Kende deze uiteraard al, heb hem op LP met ook alternate versies van Maggot Brain. Als je van die gitaarsolo houdt zeker een aanrader om te luisteren! Daarnaast is Super Stupid ook echt een giga banger
- Can You Get To That - Hit It And Quit It - You And Your Folks, Me And My Folks - Super Stupid Very fun album overall, cool funk beats and would definitely listen to again.
Ese primer tema es increíble
I like
Really interesting album, I had heard some of the songs but not all of them in order. You can’t help but have a little boogie. Wars of Armageddon is a trip on its own. I would like to own this on vinyl one day!
Really weird, definitely not my vibe
3 mostly instrumental
Yeah it was all right
this album had everything!! love the storytelling, the funkalicious grooves, the guitar riffs, the good energy... minus one point for the farding and shidding sounds at the end, didn't expect that, didn't enjoy that but it was interesting!!
that first song... WOW
The best rock funk fusion I've heard so far
funkAY
Can You Get to That!!
holy shit that guitar solo to open the album is soooo incredible. Absolutely mind melting... I can already tell maggot brain is going to be an exceptional album.
I was not expecting these guitars.
I’ll have what they’re having!
This is 70's funk in its purest form. The farts near the end of Wars Of Armageddon kind of leave a bad taste and spoil what is otherwise an excellent album.
An album that I feel like I should be more familiar. Not the funk workout I was expecting. More of a journey of psych rock fused with funk and jazz. I’m not surprised to hear that copious amounts of hallucinogenics were involved. I very much enjoyed it.
maybe i don't get this? it was fun and upbeat but didn't really capture my attention. definitely need to give it another listen
I can hear shades of Hendrix and Sly and the Family Stone.
Awesome fun music. Not my normal genre, definitely going into sing rotation
Wouldn’t load
It's psychedelic funk...how can you possibly have a better genre than that? Honestly, this is a better rock album than most of the ones in here as well. Just a simply incredible listen with so many moving parts throughout the album. I did not want this one to ever stop. Favorite track: Back In Our Minds
Hyvä!
Good stuff.
Trop de solo pour moi Fun 2.5/5
J'ai bien aimé (surtout la première) mais pour la plupart on dirait juste l'épisode de Friends avec Ross et son clavier électronique.
Sympa mais sans plus, pas incroyable.
Un clásico imperecedero, mezcla perfecta del jazz y el hard rock.
Decent, but not quite my jam
Terrific funk classic.
Pretty amazing. Had heard a little in the past but didn't expect to like the full album as much as I did. 4.5/5
I really like what I'm hearing here, it's experimental and fun and so interesting to listen to, and I really wanted to give it 5 stars but it just falls short of my arbitrary expectations for a 5 star album. I haven't listened to a lot of Funk or Soul but I know that I'm really open to the genre and I'm just looking for that one album to send me to the moon. This isn't it unfortunately but it's quite close. Just more confirmation that I really like Funk. My favorite track was Maggot Brain, it is dark, moody, mysterious, yet funky, and not at all what I expecting from the album going into it.
Already knew this was a great album
Some tracks I think could be a bit shorter but overall think this is an album anyone in the world could groove to
Stellar album! This one I’ve listened plenty of times over the years and grew to loce move and more. At times they can get filthy, literally put on the stank, but that makes them unique! And the playing is sublime. 8,5 out of 10
A little odd but its good
Funk is not for me, but this whimsical, experimental album was a fun listen!
Trippy in a good way.
Was not expecting mostly instrumental?
Funkadelic for sure. Not bad but I couldn't take a while album in one sitting. Good as part of a playlist.
Loved this album. Absolutely masterful sound layering. Very experimental and successfully done.
Gotta have that funk.
This album really makes you feel like you have maggot brain.
Pretty solid album, less heavy on funk than I was expecting but still good
Most of the album was nice and would have received 4 stars, but the last track sounded like a child found those random sound buttons on a Cassio. 3 stars.
This wasn’t as funky as I was expecting. And the first track was out of place. The play list that came on after was fab though
Starts out as the latest reincarnation of Sly & the family Stone but ends up as a precursor for Red Hot Chili Peppers. Timeless funkrock.
Origin of the phrase "hit it and quit it"? Might be my favorite track on the album though. The album is an experience to put it mildly. Some good early funk mixed in with the weirdest sound effects and lyrics that could be chosen. It feels more like a concept to an album than a complete album. I love George Clinton, but the stuff he would go on to do with Parliament Funkadelic is much better. Same deal for pretty much every member of the band, doubly so for Hendrix
banger album. 8/10
Great funk record to just put on and chill to
The opening solo is a stunner, nearly religious in its intensity. And from there it only gets weirder and more disorienting, when one can't be sure if it's folk, psychedelic rock or funk one's listening to. Throw in some heavily barbershopp-y and gospelly harmonies. And all that's just in the first few minutes of "Can You Get to That"! What a record – easily one of the most rocking of 1971 (see "Super Stupid"), and also very likely the grooviest and most throwin-down (see "Wars of Armageddon"). All that plus fart and poop jokes in the context of a protest song. The whole melting pot of America, with the essential spice of diversity. Mesmerizing in effect, and not only because of the pleasurable satisfaction of revisiting – and totally getting – in late middle age a record whose cover one found half beffudling and half terrifying as a kid and yet somehow knowing better, and perhaps even cluing in to the joke. Plus, one got to interview GC many moons later, in college radio days, when one was still (un)blissfully ignorant of the glories of this record. Such outrageous joy in musicmaking.
Pretty weird album, liked it but didn’t love it. Ahead of its time, ahead of me.
So so
LSD inspired album. Some songs sound like Jimi Hendrix Experience
I hadn’t listened to this for ages. Forgot how amazing this album is. The title track is obviously a standout. But the whole album is quite special.
SO funky and I love it
One of my favorites. Wars of Armageddon is the only song I could take or leave. The rest I love
couple of fun songs
My first time listening to this album. I've never done a deep dive on Funkadelic before so this generator thing is already working for me. Cool album.
Listened 11/3/23. Long time favorite.
this was a great album and i really enjoyed it. funky tunes and great lyrics - power to the pussy indeed. i was planning to only give it four stars but really the only complaint i have is that two of the tracks are 10 minutes long, which isn't really a "problem" per se. good stuff here, I'll definitely revisit it in the future. favorites: maggot brain, can you get to that, hit it and quit it
Gets better each time I heard it! Standouts: Maggot Brain, Can You Get That, Hit it and Quit it, You and Your Folks Me and My Folks, Whole Lot of B.S., I Miss My Baby Others: Super Stupid, Wars of Armageddon 4.5
For a band called Funkadelic there was a supreme lack of funk on this album. The intro song/guitar solo was nice, but the rest of album seemed a bit tame compared to other funk pieces on this list.
This album rocks, funks, souls and fucks Fantastic start for this journey 4,5 stars
pink floydy
Huge fan of George Clinton. This particular record has some great moments but there are many others I prefer.
Good tracks 3 & 4 BAD tracks 6 & 7
I swear i've heard other funkadelic albums that i liked better
Loved the first half, especially the title track. Back end gets a little chaotic but is still fun.
I didn't expect a 10-minute guitar instrumental track to start the album - I kind of liked that one. The rest of the album was closer to what I expected from Funkadelic. The last track (Wars of Armageddon) was annoying to listen to, and it's also 10 minutes, so that one brings down the album.
The last track overstayed its welcome, but most of the album is a pretty great. You can hear all the ways they influenced bands down the line.
Mediocre. You and Your Folks was decent. Wars of Armageddon is beyond awful, especially with the fart noises. 2/10.
Raises more questions than it answers. Funk is not typically my cup of tea but I enjoyed the skill, the creative execution of concept and the blend of humour and musicality. Song names and musical moments that I recognise from much later pop, pink and even metal. Very interesting new data point in my knowledge of modern musical history
Amazing album couldn't stop repeating Maggot Brian
Whew, funky spelunky
What a wild album. Had no expectations going in, probably for the best. I probably need some more time with it, but I would say that there's a lot of good material here. Pretty funky
Always a great day when you get an album you own a physical copy of. 10/10 Album. No Notes. Maggot Brain is a 10 minute long fever dream, and Can You Get With That is tons of fun.
The title track is borderline perfect, Eddie Hazel was a force of nature
Very funky
Some great bits, especially the title track is incredible, but not loving everything.
Will come back and add notes later but like...Funkadelic
Funky, spacey, groovy, every good adjective about music. The goat. Eddie Hazel can TEAR UP the guitar dude he goes so crazy.
Super fun album. Great beats and songs. A classic
Great album
Heard this a few months ago for the first time. Really enjoyable disc. Best of the original funkadelic albums
10 minutes of drugged-out guitar tricks followed by 26 minutes of the funk. Feeling counts for more here than formal song structure, but when the bass is this meaty and the groove is this unrelenting, let the good times roll.
A fun album, that has clearly been very influential on other artists!
What a diamond in the rough. Great funk music and with a 10 minute opener. Try it, it's great.
Great listen but not memorable tracks
Savage, wild grooves
It took six albums to encounter one that I knew and saved in my Spotify albums. I truly love the first track, which is a masterpiece, but the rest is mediocre.
I have always loved this album. It’s a psychedelic, mind melting, face exploding, operatic journey into the mind of a man far weirder than anyone else in the funk scene, the minister George Clinton himself. Alternating bw funk masterpieces, punk death anthems, and pacifist hippy rock, this album is one of one. There are really only two songs worthy of relistening, the title track and of course Can You Get To That. The rest is a beautifully weird, powerfully performed, soup laced with about 6 tabs of acid and a pound of pcp.
Imagino que se eu vivesse nos anos 80 e fosse na casa de um amigo de um primo meu e ele me mostrasse esse álbum, eu ia me sentir um jovem revolucionário. mas não me parece nada de extraordinário. Apenas Maggot Brain e Wars of Armaggedon me chamaram atenção
I encountered the song of the same name for the first time over 10 years ago on YouTube, when it was put under Charlie Chaplin's final speech as The Great Dictator. It took me a while to find the video again (https://youtu.be/zIBEDsKeTCo?si=I6a2xAxBz_CVWL-1, not even 1000 views lol) - if someone hasn't heard the speech, it's definitely worth a listen, but off-topic. The opening track is just unbelievably powerful, instant five. George Clinton apparently told Eddie Hazel to play the guitar in the first half as if he had just found out that his mother had died, and in the second as if he had just found out that she was still alive. I think you can hear the emotions (and the acid even more so) come through. Bombe! Anyone who's into long guitar solos might also want to check out Estas Tonne. I have to admit, I couldn’t get past the first song, since I listened to it so often.
Great album for sure. The main track is a 6/5 to me and I appreciate how raw „Super Stupid“ sounds. It‘s easy to sell me on long guitar solos and psychedelic music and this album is easily one of my favorite ones. I love the closing track „Wars of Armageddon“. It’s wild but not extreme, so I can listen to first class wild psychedelic jams in comfort.
Funny that it appeared today as I listened to it yesterday. I really love this album and I think it's a masterpiece by Funkadelic. This is an album that I would love to own as I frequently play it. The opening track conveys so much emotion and it's iconic.
Lenny Kravitz must have listened to this as a kid. Zappa inspired.
Fixola
Pretty great rifts. Would listen to again
Very good, very acid and tripy
Very funky
That's a helluva lot of cowbell. This album is so batshit crazy that I can't fault it, even when the samples of what sounded like shrieking cats started getting a little grating. Can You Get To That the obvious standout. Just so funky fresh!
It might be a classic, but it's a slog to listen to, won't be revisiting this one.
- Just from the first song you can hear the emotion in the guitar - The first song is so good - Could take or leave the rest of it, but it has good vibes
- the first song was a magical journey, very Jimmy Hendrix esque - a couple cool moments but otherwise nothing that blew me away
Always fun finding out that a modern song used a sample, in this case Sleigh Bells.
Está weno, medio psicodelico pero a gusto para de fondo
number 1 is amazingggg heard it before somewhere. the rest is ok
First song is the only great one
First 2 tracks are superb The rest is great too. Between a high 4 and a 5
Maggot brain sounds super cool, not my style though
Nothing really spoke to me about this album.
suavissimo
Solid
Awesome opening Funky
just the right amount of funk
Jarring
Not bad.
Yes 👍 4.5+/5
2/5
Some interesting ideas but it lacked cohesion and structure.
Some fun songs, but couldn't get into the rest of the album.
Full on George Clinton, but Mothership remains the best one on here for me.
A++
Fantastic with an amazing title track.
Nice funk sound. Standouts include Can You Get To That, and Hit It And Quit It.
Great playing on this, good amount of weirdness too without overplaying it. George Clinton for President
Dark. Biting. Brutal. Funky as hell.
Title track - Maggot Brain: Very Hendrix-esque, awesome track!
Great album, rivals a lot of Parliament's other stuff on its own
Funky
i want maggot brain to play at my funeral. best tracks: maggot brain, can you get to that, hit it and quit it
Haunting intro. Funkadelic indeed. Music you can get lost in. Playfully soulfull.
Not my genre, but still some good songs in it.
Couple of good tracks, mostly music
Nicht so meins…
Funk psicodélico. Me ha gustado. Un 4.
Interesting album, some great sample possibilities, little too psychedelic for sustained listening for me.
Yeah not too bad.
Nice
First track is a 5, the rest is 3.5
Well, that was funky.
This album has no right to lay down this much funk and rock. It’s a combination that should have spurned more of a revolution than it did. These guys absolutely lay down the stank and then Eddie Shreddie plunged them into righteous-ville. Incredible! The last 2 songs songs are a little experimental and wild, but not bad. The album just blasted us with experimental lovin, you’ll see when the farts kick in.
Pretty experimental. especially with the first and last tracks. Not a fan
eh
About a minute in a guitar solo plays and it hits. I'm excited for the rest
Although technically my first Funkadelic album, I’ve had Mothership Connection, their album under Parliament on the list, and the differences between the two really show. While Mothership Connection was straight FUNK (one of the funkiest things I have ever heard), Maggot Brain is more experimental. For example, the guitar opus of the title track, the uniquely acoustic funk on ‘Can You Get To That’ ,the epic ‘Wars Of Armageddon’, etc. One of the most unique albums of its genre, and one of the finest, too.
This will be my second listen to this album - I heard amazing things, but thought it was good not amazing. Hoping it’ll hit me harder the second time around. It’s good but same reaction. Superb guitar work, but didn’t tickle my spots the same way other albums have. Nothing I want to listen to more than once to be honest
I expected something even more of the experimental extravaganza. I'm definitely not saying it is bad. Instrumental albums are very important to me. 3.5/5.
edellisessä albumissa tässä bändissä niin piti jutuubista katsoa ja siellä oli laitettu playlistin loppuun biisi nimeltä maggot brain ja liveversio ja se oli yksi parhaimmista performansseista ehkäpä koskaan. noh perkele tässähän se studioversio sitten saatana olikin ja aivan mahtava biisi mutta EI VEDÄ VERTOJA...VITUTTAA...muutkin biisit kivoja magoo braine
The more you listen to it the better it gets. I really enjoyed this one. Funky! 4/5
7/5 Brilliant and inventive. Endlessly listenable. Music that gets in between the sinews.
I like Funk in small doses, I've learned.
Pretty cool. Very funky. The song Sleigh Bells sampled in “Rill Rill” is on here.
Really good, one I'd not heard before.
fint i spilakvöld
Great, makes you lose yourself to the rhythm. (74%)
70s | R&B | Overall score: 3.93 / 78.57% 01. Maggot Brain: 4.5/5 Amazing music about the death of mother earth, the greediness of the wealthy and powerful, the indiference of lowlife population and ascending to higher grounds. What a chilly guitar solo 02. Can You Get to That: 4/5 Carefree music about karma and debts you make along the way, which you'll have to pay later in life 03. Hit It and Quit It: 3.5/5 The Doors, is that you? 04. You and Your Folks, Me and My Folks: 3/5 Basically about poorness and inequality, how one must stand united to fight it, even when dealt bad cards. Overall not one of my favourite songs in this album 05. Super Stupid: 4.5/5 Relatable story about mistaking heroin for coke and sniffing it as if it was. Super stupid but great vocals and amazing guitar solos 06.Back in Our Minds: 3.5/5 A bit trippy for my taste 07. Wars of Armageddon: 4.5/5 A whole journey from routine that kills us mentally to a protest about freedom to distortion of words and meaning until we're left with crumbles of nothing
O pé não parava de bater ao ritmo da música, primeira metade do album muito bom, resto das músicas ouvem-se
Amazing song, amazing solo, atmosphere through the roof. How come this album is not one of the most popular ever? I can listen to the titular song on the loop everyday. Rest of the album is pretty good, but this track just elevates the whole thing to the top of this list so far. Great stuff.
Not my cup of tea.
Funky, very special, not always so catchy. Sometimes hard to listen to.
Favourite: Can You Get To That Least favourite: Wars Of Armageddon High 8
one of my favorite albums of all time, words can hardly do it justice, or at least not my words
this album is top tier
1st
Maggot Brain: awesome epic loved it, added it CYGTT: fine just fine Hit it quit it: getting better but just not a fav And your folks…: not memorable at all Super Stupid : fun, added Back in our minds : ugh Wars of Armageddon : CRYING BABY disgusting Rating : 3
Too much guitar solo
Not my style but it’s good
Very instrumental heavy, like the vocals
Maggot Brain // Can You Get To That // Hit It and Quit It // You and Your Folks, Me and My Folks //
The guitar on the title track 😳
Gas
Nah.
Surprisingly good
I love this album and it is a 10/10 but it's not perfect because acid giveth and acid taketh away. Acid allowed them to create this beautifully weird concoction of sound but it also removes their common sense when making a few of these songs and they just left in parts or chose to pick some sounds that a when you aren't high you hear and say I don't think we needed to include that. Still one of the greatest acid rock/folk/prog. soul albums of all time. What's funny to me is how "Can You Get To That" is now being used in advertisements when they were almost certainly as high as a person could be when making it. Either way great album as I said before 10/10 but not perfect.
Fun album, the first track is highlight, but the rest is pretty fun funk.
Coming into this listen I knew Funkadelic’s Maggot Brain was a highly rated album, but I didn’t anticipate the masterpiece that it is. Aside from maybe a couple of them, the tracks aren’t necessarily to be heard individually, but they work so well together that this record is much more than the sum of its parts. “Can You Get To That” does work individually, and is as complete of a funk song as there is, especially with the multi-layered vocals. If it weren’t for the sexual implications, I can only imagine that Jake and Elwood Blues would have done an epileptic jig to “Hit It and Quit It” in a packed church while James Brown stood by in awe. Throughout “Super Stupid” the guitar hints at Deep Purple, the organ reminds of the Doors, and the vocals channel Jimi Hendrix. The bookends take the album from a cohesive collection of songs to a beautiful piece of art. While only eight lines long, the title track’s Neo-Malthusian lyrics hark back to Jimi’s “Third Stone From The Sun” from a few years before, and forces us to ask ourselves: The world’s population has more than doubled in the interim, and why aren’t we talking about that more? “Maggot Brain” and “Wars Of Armageddon” might be allegories for humanity, and just like humanity, these songs are beautiful, strange, and at points even hard to listen to. The album’s ending foreshadows the end of civilization, but the last few seconds predict that rock and roll will remain the heartbeat of life on Earth even when we’re gone. It may be impossible to capture the whole of human experience in 37 minutes, but Maggot Brain does it as well as you could hope. It can be tough to admit, but we are the maggots. If we have any shot at growing into something like a dragonfly, I guess I can live with that.
Amazing
Nice guitar stuff
This album is straight up groove from start to finish. Forgot how much I love it. 10/10
Opening track is a blaze anthem
Only found this through 1001ATHBYD and absolutely love. Stone wall classic.
Great, albeit short, album.
More psychadelia than Clinton's trademark p-funk but pretty good nonetheless. I had never heard the title track and was very pleasantly surprised.
Definitely solid, but this felt a little distracted and scattered. Lots of great ideas, just lacking the cohesion and directness I would have liked.
not as funky as it could have been, but still incredibly funky. if it were a true funk album rather than a funk-rock album it might be a 5, but it’s just not funky enough for that. final verdict: funky, but needs more funk.
Really enjoyed the first song but the rest didn't hit as hard. Maybe if I had listened a few more times I'd find more interest in the rest of the tracks.
I am genuinely convinced that I will never understand why people like the music they do, and that the Rolling Stones throws darts to determine their best albums lists. This is fucking boring. I do not like it or see any musical appeal in it. How the fuck did people listen to dogshit like this for an entire decade? The Vietnam era of music was really a blight on mankind. But being anti-war and anti-troops is unironically based, so it’s got that going for it. Veterans do not deserve your respect. And neither does this album.
Funktastic
So funky. Love it.
To jam bandy. Good grooves but too loose.
This is an album. kept my attention throughout since most song sounded different from each other. I would definitely re-listen to songs from this album. I love when a band sounds like their own thing. This band does it well.
Pretty good, funky guitar instrumental.
Nowhere near the same league as Parliament's Mothership Connection which introduced me to this band. This is all OK, but never really hits the same level of funk.
Good funk. I don’t like funk.
Fun and nostalgic. Great guitar riffs
I'm not sure the diarrhea noises add much to the record but overall its great.
How about the part where they do the poos
It was better than I remember it.
9/10
quite enjoyed this, great first track, the rest a bit forgettable
Funky funky jams
This is some pretty sweet funk
A very interesting funk sound. Love the drum play newr the end so much
Crazy fun funk.
Whoever mixed this album forgot about my left ear. Still a pretty good album. Silly, even. Sad that the bonus tracks are unavailable on Spotify, but it still ends on PussyFarts. 3.5/5. Wish we could give half ratings on this app.
Pretty funky stuff, but wasn't massively sucked into it like some of the Parliament stuff. The title track was best I think.
Great album, but felt a little on the wild end at times. Thoroughly enjoyed the funk though.
Amazing. The title track is so different from the rest of the album but I’ve never heard a song with more emotion
Incredible
This album fucks.
I WANNA KNOW
It's a genre I'm not used to listening to but it still sounds good, brings good vibes, and could be good for just playing in my room in the background. However, the songs kind of drag out too long for me to go and listen to any songs again or put them in my playlists.
Most def funky
Chaotic, weird, fun, colorful.
Fire !! Excellent album by the fantastic band Funkadelic
Always a pleasure
I was already familiar with the title track (which features some fantastic guitar), but the rest of this album was new to me. I enjoyed it, so I guess I'll round up from 3.5.
This album is an emotional, physiology, psychological, and psychedelic journey. If shrooms were an album, it would be this. The first song is like holy shit - yes Mother Earth is pregnant for the third time & it ain't good. I remember challenging myself to listen to this about a year or so ago, and I'm so glad I did. It's so weirdly funky & poignant it leaves me breathless. It's also jam & dance worthy. Absolute perfection. 5 stars.
If you listen to Parliament or Parliament-Funkadelic you might, on occasion, forget that Funkadelic itself can be kind of restrained. This is a totally enjoyable, sometimes mellow funky record.
Starts off great with the title track, but kinda fizzles out in the middle. The first track is worth the 4 stars by itself though
First song is mesmerizing, rest of the album not so much.
2/7, 29%
Heard it before?: No Enjoy it?: Nah it’s not my thing at all Favourite song: didn’t have one
I probably know funk as a genre without ever really paying attention to individual albums or groups. Aside from knowing who George Clinton was, I probably couldn’t have named a song by him. This is such a good album, and I’m happy this project got me listening to it.
Wow. Absolutely loved this album, especially with that opening guitar solo. So much emotion ripping through that! It’s short, just over 30 minutes, but I can easily listen to it over and over. Great album. Listen again: for sure Purchase for my collection: yes Favourite Song: Maggot Brain (that guitar!!!)
PSYCHOLOGICAL, COOL ALBUM.
4.25
Mega solo de guit à la 1ere toune. Vraiment moins funky qu'anticipé. Je voulais vrmt être hype, mais moins mémorable que prévu. (2.5).
So far, I’ve listened to one Parliament album and one Funkadelic album. My understanding is that they are literally the same band, with the same members, just playing under two different names. I know that Maggot Brain is a highly reputable album, so I’m excited to hear this today. Songs I already knew: none Favourites: Maggot Brain, Wars Of Armageddon I’ve read a lot of “Best Guitar Solos Ever” articles over time, including classics like Hotel California and Freebird, but (unless I somehow missed it) I haven’t seen the Maggot Brain track on these. This is a travesty. This had me doing that face jazz musicians do that makes it look like the sure sucking on a lemon (you know the one) with all the juicy music on show here. The album is bookended by two phenomenal tracks, but I did find some slightly less interesting tracks in the middle. Overall, although not perfect, that was a fantastic album and I’d implore everybody to try it.
Loved the funk aspects didn’t so much like the rock influence
Fuck it this album is sick 5 stars Kick drums are massive guitar work goes without saying Yup funkadelic
i can never be upset when a funk album comes up--even when the title is maggot brain. george clinton, that certainly was a choice. maggot brain was full of delightful, funky funk. it was clearly created and released in the seventies, especially considering the amount of psychedelia. and the soul sound!! what a captivating mix. the album used only instrumentals at times, and gosh the title track was some way to start off the album. that truly was a great instrumental. then on "can you get to that," raymond davis' deep voice was so alluring! even with the farting noises during "wars of armageddon," this album was such an enjoyable listen.
This truly was a funky album with plenty of psychedelic vibes, which comes as no surprise considering its arrival at the turn of the decade. There is lots of outstanding guitar work in here, too! While I won't necessarily say this album blew me away, it was certainly an interesting and fun listen!
Not huge fan of the first song, but the album itself was funky. Not a bad listen.
I ain’t ever heard anything like this but I think I liked it.
very good album 88/100
A stellar album - great chemistry between the band, a real journey bookended by two epic tracks, and some incredible playing. Maybe could have filled out a couple of the tracks a bit more for my liking, but I can see this getting regular spins. Fave track: Super Stupid
Impassioned playing, ambitious songwriting, and an undeniable groove. This one’s a classic. Four and a half. Fave track: Hit It and Quit It
Catchy disco vibes
Great album that I wouldn't have listened to without this site suggesting it. I need this on vinyl!
Maggot Brain is primarily defined by it's self-titled 10-minute guitar solo epic, which explores desolation in the biggest way possible. Eddie Hazel uses space to his advantage as he sparsely plays in between a subtle groove. It's a monument to stellar, thoughtful music that that properly contemplates it's position of sound throughout. It can often feel like the opening track overshadows the rest of the album, but I feel like that would be a disservice to other songs. Funkadelic expertly hones in on fun, effective funk rock that effectively riffs on a groove. This culminates in the final 9-minute jam Wars if Armageddon that throws a lot at the wall (for better or worse). It is fitting that Maggot Brain ends with annihilation. Sounds of atomic bombs, the low rumble of the explosions, followed by a heartbeat.
Not really for me
Freaking love it
AJ: 🤯 🫠
trippy!
pretty good, my introduction to Funkadelic, started really nice
love the farting sounds at the end...
Pretty psychedelic. I was not expecting this!
A great album, though undeniably upheld a lot by its opening, titular track. Thats not to say the rest isn't incredible too though, to say that would be blasphemous. Funkadlelic and Parliament manage to do Funk like no others can, and the tracks on this record are some of the best in the genre.
Funk-nomenal.
Get-a-down, get-a-funnkeeeeee!