Maggot Brain

Enjoyable funk and rock album. Didn’t overstay it’s welcome; liked the instrumental start, and very strong rhythms and drums.

Mmmmeh. Interesante pero tampoco la gran cosa.

I Funkadelic sono decisamente un punto di riferimento nel genere e questo è uno degli album più significativi e particolari della loro discografia, soprattutto per l'iconico assolo di chitarra di Maggot Brain. Perfetto mix di funk, sonorità anni '70 e cori da musical.

не понял я этого да, крутые инструменты может быть не оправдались мои ожидания фанка короткий, не динамичный и скучноватый переслушивать не буду 2.5

I've tried this one in the past because it's got a ton of hype and must-hear credentials. The title song is interesting with odd lyrics and atmospheric guitars. I didn't know George Clinton wrote "Can You Get To That", that's been covered by a bunch of other artists. Very 70's vibe, more guitar than I would have assumed, it rocks hard at times ("Maggot Brain", "Super Stupid", "Wars of Armageddon". I can hear the influence this would have had on rock at the time, on future of rap artists and for the coming funk explosion of the late 70's. It's not a great album to listen to in my opinion but it is important, a necessary building block in music history. 3 stars for quality, 4 if you add in influence.

Not bad, funky, nice guitars, funny sounds. I like it.

Maggot Brain is, in a vacuum, an easy shoo-in for a five star album. It's experimental while still being eminently listenable, it's full of interesting political messaging and talented playing, and it's way ahead of its time. It"s literally Funkadelic! The opening title track deserves its many flowers for being one of the greatest sonic achievements of its era, it's incredible, and what follows is hardly any lesser. It goes straight for the jugular in tracks like the cool-as-hell 'Hit It and Quit It'. It's such a suitably psychadelic trip into the world of funk that tastes like an LSD trip, as much as 'this album sounds like drugs LOL' is thrown about. And the capacity to manage like, a hundred guitarists at once without making the noise completely unbearable is an exercise in true talent. It's an album that takes a decent amount of work to enjoy - it can feel desolate at times, honestly - but it rewards close listening and well deserves its place in the venerated annals of rock history. But that fucking cover! I'd rather stare at Vic Rattlehead's alabaster-smooth smug-asshole cranium or Richard D James' cheshire grin than this terrifying screaming woman's head. It has ALWAYS freaked me the fuck out. The creepy unsettling horror of her being buried alive sends a chill up my spine and it genuinely obscures my enjoyment of the record as a whole. Even for an album titled 'Maggot Brain' and the divisively weird sound contained therein, it's a *terrible* fit in my opinion (and I bet that's controversial). This is MY review and MY list so I get final call, but I feel yucky about rating an album by its cover, so I'm going to give it a deserved five stars for its sound. But it's on thin eyes. Fav tracks: Maggot Brain, Hit It and Quit It, Super Stupid

didn’t feel it enough

Oh yeah 5 stars for sureeeeee

Mind blowing / brain maggoting

Una de las cumbres emocionales más sobrecogedoras e imborrables de la música del siglo XX que ha envejecido bien como un rito de catarsis pura, trascendencia y dolor humano descarnado. El corazón de la obra, su colosal tema homónimo de diez minutos, constituye una experiencia estremecedora que conmueve hasta los huesos, corta la respiración y humedece los ojos: un lamento cósmico donde la guitarra de Eddie Hazel trasciende la técnica para convertirse en un llanto vivo, invitando a una escucha devocional en bucle. En su diseño formal, la producción transita por contrastes radicales: frente a la desolación íntima y desgarradora de su apertura, conviven pasajes deliberadamente abrasivos y saturados donde la distorsión fuzz, la psicodelia ácida y la sobrecarga rítmica desatan una combustión física y terrenal. La banda despliega una fuerza y calidez descomunales que transmiten una autenticidad sin filtros, otorgándole a George Clinton y a su colectivo una autoridad superior dentro del canon de la música popular. La gracia coral y acústica de "Can You Get to That", el pulso efervescente de "Hit It and Quit It", la violencia proto-metal de "Super Stupid" y el aquelarre social de "Wars of Armageddon" completan un documento profundamente conmovedor, crudo y real que opera como un sutil llamado a la conciencia sobre las fracturas del alma y la resistencia colectiva. Una obra monumental y de múltiples usos cuya intensidad rítmica sirve al ejercicio físico y a la conducción despierta, pero cuyo núcleo invita indefectiblemente al silencio reverente y a la más honda reflexión solitaria.

Thought I was going to enjoy more than I did. Some cool production and guitar work. Not much else.

liked the fun riffs and repeated motifs throughout. i would listen to it again

Although this didn't hit me quite as hard as the Sly record we had earlier in the list, in terms of this early funk/psych era, this is also pretty great. Only George Clinton (probably) comes up with the idea to open a record with a 10 minute instrumental, but oh man what an instrumental. Face-meltingly good guitar playing. Some ebbs and flows in the rest of it but some great grooves, particularly on Super Stupid. Rips pretty hard in an almost Hendrix-esque way. Last track is pretty weird, but overall I enjoyed this.

Gewoon OK

Even before this list, this has been in my top 10 albums. Its just great. For just 37 mins it packs so much in and I think has been the inspiration for much of the late 2010s and early 2020s soul music. Its crazy how similar Awaken, My Love by Childish Gambino is to this. You can basically hear the inspiration in real time. I did forget that this has farts at the end tho haha. Given that, its a great album that I think I will always love

The first track here is just sublime, really enjoyed it. Such a tight record. I knew the second track but wouldn't have been able to name the artist, so it was a nice surprise here.

I thought I knew what Funkadelic sounded like, and then when the 10 minute guitar solo started the album, I looked them up and realized I was confusing them with Parliament. However, there’s a lot of overlap between the two bands, and apparently Funkadelic was formed out of the members who backed up George Clinton and the Parliaments. But their recording time seems to overlap, so I’m still a little confused. I was even more confused when the 36-minute album closed with another 10 minute track, this time with the whole band. I enjoyed it but wanted a little more funk.

Very influential album

With the exception of the first track, which was a little gross and a little long, I really enjoyed this album. So funky! So groovy! 7/10

Very chill, random noises pretty funny

Funky

Good, fun and short. 3.6/5

No me disgustó el álbum pero solo me gustó 1 música, pero creo que es más porque es de los 70, pero si me agradó mucho la que me gustó

I didn’t like the first song (that was just so long and totally instrumental and bizarre) but then I guess the rest of the album was alright, very 70s and funky.

I was oscillating between giving this a 3 or a 4. The fart noises at the end of the album was the deciding factor.

Last song bizarre, almost made me drop it down to a 3

Had some decent tunes, but wasn't a stand out to me.

five star immediately

Very interesting. Nice cool music. The first song is amazing, psychedelic blues. Nice discovery. 4/5.

no mi funk

Balls

Now that’s what I like from this project. Perfect 70s sound. At first that guitar just tore me apart, put me in a disheveled bitter sweet state of mind in a late summer afternoon. Then the party started

Very enjoyable listen, totally pulled me in.

8.5/10 I was really, really into this album right up until the part when they were playing farts (or possibly queefs, who knows). It's such a great vibe - a masterclass in both psychedelic rock and funk (... as one might hope from the band name). I just... struggled a lot with the last 3ish minutes of the album. Now I'm just remembering that nonsense than all of the brilliant music that came before it. So frustrating.

I keep forgetting just how good this album is. Every time I come back to it I’m like damn this is fucking incredible.

I love George Clinton. I like his two bands, Funkadelic and Parliament. I saw P-funk in London Ontario in 2005. The show was great! There were so many people on stage, including members of the audience. My only disappointment was they didn’t have the mothership there. There are lots of amazing musicians on this album such as Eddie Hazel, Bernie Worrell and others. The songs were written by George Clinton and various members of the group. The music is a combination of rock and funk. It illustrates why funk music is so much better than disco. There is a big psychedelic influence. A lot of the songs deal with black consciousness and pride. Finally, the cover is really cool. All of the songs are good on this album. Maggot Brain has an unbelievable guitar solo. Can you get to that, Hit it and Quit are quite catchy. Lots of good melodies. The last song, Wars of Armageddon I think is about black soldiers’ experience in Vietnam. This album is a masterpiece. Five big stars.

funky indeed! 7/10

Funky George Clinton experiment.

4/5

Easy listen but only one song I would go out my way to listen to (Can You Get to That)

One of the easiest 5s, let's be honest. I like Parliament better than Funkadelic, but this one is special.

Title track alone is worth the 5.

A fun album, will definitely listen again

For legal reasons I can’t tell you what I was doing, where I was, or who I was with the first time I heard this album. All I can confirm is I was 18 and ate a whole multipack of wotsits.

The first five songs off this album? The title track? It just doesn’t get better than this man.

Funky. I liked. Wouldn’t listen to it on my own really but definitely can see how it would’ve been inspirational.

This is the type of album I started doing this for 180 days ago. A great Monday album to get the blood pumping. 9.5/10 Top song... Maggot Brain

Meh total. Quizas menos que un meh, no me gusto mucho. 4/10

The middle part of this album rules. The first and last songs just kinda drag. Fun to see how Can You Get To That influenced that Sleigh Bells song, and you can tell Donald Glover/Childish Gambino was blasting this while he was making Awaken My Love.

Just not for me

This sounds like if early King Crimson and Jimi Hendrix did a collab together. No, I will not elaborate. 4.5/5

One of my favs

It's utter, mad, loose but tight brilliance.

Psyched out funk more mellow than expected. And one of the greatest guitar tracks ever.

Funk music normally works for me, but this is way too adjacent to psychedelia (the worst genre) to be good.

I love this album so much, can almost taste the acid

A seminal funk album, narrowly misses a 5 based on the last track. Strong 4

I've never considered myself to be someone ideologically opposed to funk, but it was only through looking through my funk genre tag ratings on RYM recently that I realised that I've just never vibed to funk - in fact it puts me in a funk. Maggot Brain is a monolith - a super tight, highly detailed, hyped up funky experience which for some reason I am entirely unable to emotionally penetrate in any way. I can hear that the musicianship is highly skilled and I can hear that its more formidable than other funk albums I've listened to. It makes me realise that if I don't like this than I'm probably doomed on the funk front for life!

Maggot Brain scrapes a low 5, the beauty of the first track and wildness of the last nicely sandwiches some excellent funk tunes

Really rocking with this guitar. This is funky. Funkalicious. Funkadelic even. Just quite groovy. Big fan of this vibe. Not much else to say just playing this in the background tbh. Ok cowbell. No strong feelings about this album tbh. Favourite: Can You Get To That Least favourite: Super Stupid

At the very least, you MUST hear the punching, penetrating guitar solo that is the title track before you die. You'll probably want to do everything in your power to make sure it gets played at your funeral.

Pretty crazy album. I can finally put a sound to the album cover. Lots of great funk riffs in this one. The fart noises on the last track took me by surprise. Decent overall.

Root

Funky och konstigt! Slutet på Wars of Armageddon var lite väl mycket för mig, men i övrigt en bra upplevelse!

The open and close to this album were rough. The in-between was funky and groovy, but didn’t overly excite me. 3.0

A classic. Wish it were longer. 3.9/5

During the first song I was debating whether the title Maggot Brian was a descriptor of how the music made you feel or if it was suggesting having a maggot eat your brain was the only way to enjoy it. After that the songs go marginally better but the damage was already done. This album is a big nope.

For me its not so "funky" at all

Really wanted to like this more. A good album for sure. But it wasn’t my groove.

re-listen cause I somehow already heard this one before you and your folks, me and my folks is still a banger

#425 This was more psychedelic Hendrix infused rock than the funk I expected but not that I’m complaining, although the fart noises towards the end felt unnecessary. Heard before? ❌ Would I revisit? ✅ Listen before you die? ✅ Fave track(s): Super Stupid Rating: 7/10 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Listened

Who doesn't dig a 10+ minutes guitar solo intro? Not bad. 7/10

Good stuff. Was on regular rotation for a bit and I forgot about it! Strong 7 maybe even light 8 🤔

Funky and fun with some good tracks, and some that were mediocre.

Great stuff

I usually like 80s music, this album was not it. He should have stuck with The Smiths

*listened before the project* Ccccrazy

The cats were maybe a bit much 😼, but other than that this is such a good album, the guitar, the genre fusion, the flow of the whole thing

funkadelic never bad - also probably their best album

The first and last songs were to long for me. Not saying they were bad just too long. Would have prefared a couple of other songs. The rest was excellant great beats and rhythms.

So very funky. Gets better with every listen.

I really enjoyed the bookends of this album ... the rest was just funkadelic!

a vibe from start to finish, even with the fart compilation

Some pretty good songs, 'Can You Get To That' and 'Back In Our Minds' being the standouts. Broadly too indulgent and I didn't appreciate the fart compilation.

Very peculiar album that I was expecting to enjoy more than I did. The first rather dreary song didn't really bear much resemblance to the rest of the album. The other songs were okay without doing much to stand out apart from the slightly odd last one.

Better than Coldplay

3.5 rounded up. Short, sharp and (mostly) enjoyable. Heavier than I expected in places.

Had this previously when I was doing this individually. Not listening again.

Enjoyed it

good album definitely liked a few songs here and there

One of the best vibe worthy funk albums for sure, and the guitar on this album goes crazy. Great except for when all the shitting happens

LOVE. perfect album. a delicious blend of rock, funk, and weird experimental soul. have loved this album since my first listen. will always be in heavy rotation

Oooh interesting!!

I love albums that perfectly encapsulate the wall of sound idea

"Maggot Brain" 7.75 crazy guitar solo to open things up "Can You Get to That" 7 fun blues? tune "Hit It and Quit It" 7 fun funky song with tight percussion. "You and Your Folks, Me and My Folks" 6 "Super Stupid" 7.3 fun higher paced "Back in Our Minds" 6 fun and whimsical spoon? noises in the intro set up an interesting experience. "Wars of Armageddon 5.5 they must have been on a lot of drugs when they made this one. the poop noises caught me so off guard. 3.32/5

I mean the damn band is called funkadelic, its gonna be funky. Funny for a ~30min EP the first song is 10mins hahaha. Liked this! Funky, groovy.

Feels important but sounds kind of average, didn't grab my attention as far as funk goes

Lookin' for something more funky. And, if you call something maggot brain, let's really dive into our rotten maggot brains.

Genuinely crazy to lead an album off with a ten minute guitar solo and end it with fart sounds, but it's still good overall. 3.5/5

I was grooving all the way through. Could have done without the end fart sounds, but genuinely enjoyed it.

YAAASSS!!! Love this record!

fun

Perfect, beautiful, stanky, amazing.

Muito bom. Não conhecia a banda, nem o disco.

Loved most of this album, wasn’t a fan of the last track or 2

sooo good, I loved it ngl I hate fart sounds so it kinda ruined the immersion in the last song, but I'll just ignore that

Solid 4.0.

I dreaded this, just as I dread anything that involves the word “funk”, but oh my goodness. Why *does* this have the word “funk” involved? This was like shockingly good to me. This is why I will continue doing this damn list. Things like this that I would have never in a million years listened to that turn out to be so different from what I expected.

the first track is positively transcendent. I don't think the rest of the album quite lives up to that standard, but there's certainly nothing here I think is bad. very hard to believe this was 1971, really feels quite a bit ahead of its time. 4/5.

Another goodie. I can’t remember exactly the first time I heard maggot brain, but I remember about halfway through I realized it was still going (kinda zoned out), rewound, and had my mind blown. Learning that it was Eddie hazel on the guitar makes perfect sense. It is now a mainstay in my rotation, and something I think would play in heaven. This is another one where if maggot brain was the only goodie, it would still get high marks from me, but it’s not. Theres a few really good tracks, none quite the opus that maggot brain is, but it makes for a very solid album. The funk is all the way through this. I love this kind of music, and this is, and should be, a point of reference for the genre. I’m jealous of the people to whom this is new, because I wish I could discover it again.

haven't listened to this entire album before

Hard to evaluate this album based on its sheer erratic content. The title track guitar solo (recorded after George Clinton asked guitarist Eddie Hazel to play as if he'd heard about his mother's death!) is sonically inventive and an impressive take, with the influence of the recently departed Hendrix evident. I like some of the straight ahead funky ones and 'super stupid' has a Black Sabbath feel to it. Any music by George Clinton will have that level of unpredictability to it and I think the final track is just garbage - a barely funky jam on one chord. I think I would have preferred Sly Stone at the time - Prince obviously loved both!

I enjoyed those tracks. I can’t say it’s all a 5 but I’m gonna give it all a 5

Great album cover

The first song is ok I really like the message they trying too send but I wish they added more words the only song im liking right now is the 4th track on the album

honestly, i didn’t even finish it instrumental music i just cant

I've listened and been touched countless times by the maggot brain guitar solo song but I never felt like listening to the whole album. It's not bad, it's a very good album but at the same time that maggot brain is the best and most interesting song the rest of the album has a lesser impact and maybe I was expecting a different sound just for the name of the band, not very similar to what I think when I think of "funk".

Bien

Sounds like a jam session with extra noises and not in a good way. Most of the middle was OK

great timing to revisit this record after listening Flea's aprroach to its main song

I didn't like this as much as I would straight funk.

The first half is amazing. Second half not so much, but that first half makes up for it. Great album. 5 out of 5

Nu ska jag ”grabbensomintekollarpåexpolsioner” ge min åsikt om ett album som jag egentligen inte har någon plats i att säga om de är bra eller dåligt. Men här är mina åsikter och ni får läsa dem eller inte. Maggot brain (låten): Helt otrolig låt, med en gitarr som skär igenom allt, så mycket känslor i gitarren och man hör verkligen passionen bakom varje not. Kollade upp historien bakom inspelningen och det visade sig att George Clinton sa till gitarristen Eddie Hazel att spela första halvan som om du precis fick höra att din mamma hade dött och andra halvan som du fick reda på att hon faktiskt lever. Med de i åtanke hör man verkligen hur gitarren nästan skriker i ångest. Tillsammans med pedalerna och alla olika effekter är detta en perfekt start på albumet. Can you get to that: Andra låten på albumet och är här i stor kontrast till första låten. Den här är betydligt mer svängig med mer inflytande från funk. Älskar väldigt mycket alla olika röster och hur catchy låten är!! Hit it and quit it: Tredje låten följer i samma spår som ”Can you get it” och har högt tempo. Den här låten tar in elgitarren och rocken mycket mer tillsammans med mycket fin (om jag får säga de själv) orgelspel. Älskar hur Funkadelik väver samman soul och hårdrock, ger ett väldigt unikt ljud. Sången på denna låt är för mig det som väver ihop hela låten. Bernie Worrells sång har en mycket självsäker, rå och kraftfull kvalitet bakom sig, vilket främjer allt annat i låten för att göra hela låten lika kaxig och kraftfull. You and your folks, me and my folk: ”Yeah Yeah Yeah!!!!” Den här låten skulle kunna var soundtracket för en superhjälte på 70-talet. Trummorna, basen och pianot ger låten ett fint groove, med gitarren i bakgrunden som omedvetet gör hela låten mer slik än någonsin. Älskar även meningen bakom låten, om hur vi ska komma samman och älska varandra trotts klass- och rasklyftorna. Om vi inte lär oss att älska varandra kommer hat att multipliceras. Super Stupid: Första intrycket av låten är ”FUCK VILKEN COOL GITARR”. Femte låten på albumet kommer in starkt med tunga riff och riktigt rockigt ljud, med rent av coola gitarrer. Låten är betydligt mer rockig än låtarna innan vilket för albumet i helhet får en att vakna till, de ger albumet mer intresse och fångar ens uppmärksamhet. Gitarrsolot är rentav genialt. (Älskar också gurkan väldigt mycket!!) Back in our minds: En kort, lite skum interlude, men catchiga texter. Glatt överraskad av triangeln(?), tyckte den gav mycket. Asså det är bara mycket i den här låten. Men den är bra. Ingen låt jag skulle komma tillbaka till, men passar på albumet som helhet. Wars Of Armageddon: Vart ska man ens börja med den här. Första intrycket är att det är väldigt mycket som händer i denna låt, det är lite som en feberdröm (vilket är nog passande till genren som låten är, psykedeliskrock). Det är allt från bebisar till sirener och politiska slagord. I huvudfokus i denna låt är trummorna som är konstanta och har ett otroligt tempo och fina fils. Om någon undrar hur en kobjällra låter så spela denna låt. Asså det är så sjukt mycket som händer i den här låten, vet inte ens hur jag ska beskriva det som. Liksom just nu när jag skriver detta så håller någon på att prutta medan det är en groovy gitarr i bakgrunden. Hur ska jag ens börja med att sammanfatta allt detta…. Funkadelics ”Maggot Brain” är ett otroligt album som växlar mellan känsloladdade gitarrer till maximalt sväng och groove till en feberdröm. Albumet vägrar vara enhetligt vilket är det som enligt mig gör albumet speciellt. Från gåshuden och känslorna på titelspåret ”Maggot Brain” till Bernie Worrells kaxiga och råa sång på ”Hit it and quit it” och dem snygga, tunga riffsen på ”Super Stupid”, väver bandet ihop funk, soul och hårdrock på ett väldigt skickligt sätt. Gillar även budskapet på ”you and your folk, me and my folk”. Dock tycker jag (vid typ första lyssning) att dem två sista låtarna drar ner albumet ett snäpp. Jag förstår att det är konstnärligt och jag tycker det är bra gjort, bara lite för mycket för mig precis då. Jag tycker dock låtarna passar albumet i helhet och min åsikt om dessa kommer säkert ändras vid senare lyssningar. Betyg: 8.5/10

It is August seven, 2026. Around 4 PM and I’m driving down the parkway in New Jersey to go to Philly right now. After just listen to this, my initial thoughts were, “this is a lot more jam than I thought.“ And also, “this is very much a soundscape.“ It definitely feels like a lot of everybody was just in a room and just Vibin out and then they made an album just for shits. I get this about a 3 1/2 out of five. I really like it but it’s not something that I would like go back into for like songwriting purposes or even just like… To listen to. Listen to this I’ll take another listen sometime just let that settle in but in my initial reaction it’s just… Very much a jam heavy album and it’s enjoyable, but it’s not something I’d come back to every day.

This is, if I recall, my first back to back five-starring. Admittedly, this is an album I have to relisten to often to form an opinion on, because that introductory title track, shit… you could put that at the start of a Staind album and it'd probably still net a 4. But it is exhausting. The lore is that the guitarist was told to play like his mother died. Fair call. It's the sort of track that if you can't get into it, you probably dislike guitars. Maybe your mother was killed by a guitar. Ironic. It's smartly followed by the comparatively brief Can You Get to That, which is the perfect palate cleanser. Jubilant and funky and everything Maggot Brain is not (respectfully), it's a one-two punch that leaves the rest of the album mostly as a pleasant but undefined feeling. So this time around i made a conscious decision to be present. The first surprise was that i only just connected that Sleigh Bells stole the main riff to their single not appalling song “rill rill” from CYGtT, which explains how they managed to have a single song that didnt suck. But I digress. The second third of the album starts with “hit it and quit it, which layers a pretty standard soul vibe over what feels like an early Mother's riff. I think the best vibe comes from Back In Our Minds, which is just a bit tweaked and wobbly but carries a more shambolic rendition of Can You Get To That's vibe. It's flanked by another excellent but very different Eddie Hazel solo (Super Stupid) and another epic but very different nearly 10 minute jam (Wars of Armageddon). It's like an inverse sandwich, or a normal one where the bread is the best part. There's a lot to this album, but mostly it's life affirming, whether it's making you feel deeply with that wrenching titular guitar or making you want to dance at the end. It's always a fun spin. Thank you, P-Funk, for another ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

I enjoyed this a lot more than I expected! I ended up judging the album by its title. Glad I gave it a chance.

My favorite was You and Your Folks, Me and My Folks. Overall, its a fun album. The complexity of sounds runs deep.

mid

Maybe too experimental for me. I found a lot of the sound effects off putting. The musicality is phenomenal though.

The title track is brilliant. The rest is good.

awesome - possibly the best guitar solo ever :0 (title track) exceptionally hard-hitting grooves, great writing, great performances, great experimentation, just greatness all around 10/10

One of those "doesn't matter what you normally listen to, you'll probably like this" albums

For the price of one, you get pretty much the most soulful guitar solo ever recorded, five incredibly fun and unique funk rockers and a wild sound effect-laden jam to top it all off.

I knew the minute I heard those funky beats kick in from the off I would love this album… but… Track 1 the title track was awesome, fun, funky and off the scale cool rocking. Certainly gave rock album vibes. ‘Can you get to that’ was cool- the bass player on point in this track. However the album then seemed to just turn into an album of ok for me. Rattling out 4 super fast ‘filler’ tracks. ‘Wars of Armageddon’ the sound affects that were added were just weird and it felt so meh- cats fighting, cows mooing, farts. Just weird and didn’t actually help the track in any way. Best track - ‘maggot brain’ Worst track- ‘hit it and quit it’ Overall nothing massively special and certainly not something I would choose to listen to again apart from the first two tracks, although they do take up a massive chunk of the album so therefore 6.5/10

Funkadelic - Maggot Brain This is what this list is all about. Seen this is records shops a hundred times and never picked it up. Guess who feels like a doofus now... A heart wrenching guitar solo that out does Hendrix, Gilnour, Clapton and the rest. Followed by five tracks of super tight, super groovy soul/funk/rock that James Brown and Led Zeppelin would be equally proud of. And then a closer which just sounds like George Clinton said make it sound like all the madness of the time as the 60s slides into the 70s and then fuck up it as much as you can. Special mentions for the bass on You and Your Folks 😳 and steam hammer guitar riff on Super Stupid. I just love every single second, note, beat, parp, squeak, fart, growl and groan of this. 10/10 for me. Best Track - Super Stupid Worst Track - None of em

Starts wiht a ten-minute long instrumental, guitar solo. And it is quite good just like the rest part of the record. They mixed different styles very successfully in a very enjoyable way.

Cool stuff on this.

goooooood

Eddie Hazel at his best.

This album positively rips! Especially the last track where they're literally ripping ass, lol.

I remember when my Spotify randomly recommended ‘Can you get to that’ and wondering who this band was. Then listening to the whole album a bit later on and having my mind blown. The opening track being a 10 minute guitar solo but being so chill. This album is great no notes and one that is always fun when I’m in the mood for some rock/funk sounds

mastery of the album form.

unreal

Liked: 1,2,3,4,5 Disliked: 6,7 Total Songs: 7 Ratio: 5/7 Converted Score: 3.57/5 Top 3 1. Maggot Brain 2. Super Stupid 3. Can You Get To That

Classic funk. Pretty fun.

You’d be hard pressed to find an album with more swagger

Chaotic in a very 1971 kind of way. The guitar on the opening track is amazing, but the song is too long for me to call it enjoyable. This album - from the title, to the cover art, to the music - is meant to be confrontational and jarring. And it succeeds at that. It is technically complex and interesting. I just don't like listen to it.

Absolute classic

This was fun, I liked the opener but not really the closer

What a unique album. I liked the part where there was screaming and farting.

I’m into it! Peace love and funk is all we need man ✌️

It was funky, would listen again; liked it in the background. Some weird sounds that were unpleasant

Amazing!

1. Maggot Brain: starts a bit slow. I like how spacey the mix is, but I'm left with a feeling like this is an extended intro? I'll be patient. The guitar playing is wonderful! I'm glad the soft picking in the background gets to breathe in the left ear as it does. 2. CYGTT: PSYCHIC DAMAGE OF A SAMPLE SOURCE. Love the choral effect. The baritone is such fun . Okay. Yeah. I had that on in the background. I enjoyed it. Musicianship was stellar. Only a few things really got my ass moving, though. A bit underwhelming outside of the historical context? Idk. Worth a future relisten, but I'm presently at 3 stars.

This album is absolutely amazing, such a journey through different soundscapes, with some really interesting moments and melodies. It is not perfect, and some songs have potential to be even better, but is a very enjoyable album, such a magnificent record at many times, with some brilliant and very catchy songs too. It really is very interesting and, at the same time, so moving and such a pleasant album to listen to.

not rly my style but i liked the ending the most!

Me voló la cabeza, esa guitarra me dejó loco.

Pretty influential album that helped define psychedelic music, although something is missing. It just feels incomplete. If I could, I would give it a 3,5 star rating.

Until today, I don’t think it had ever really dawned on me that ‘Funkadelic’ is a portmanteau of ‘funk’ and ‘psychedelic rock’. However, the third album by George Clinton’s band, "Maggot Brain", clearly establishes the link between psychedelic rock, as it was popular in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and funk. That said, the two genres coexist almost entirely separately. The opener, the title track 'Maggot Brain', is pure psychedelic rock, much like that celebrated by bands such as Vanilla Fudge, early Pink Floyd and Iron Butterfly. The rest of the album focuses more on funk tracks: a rock-infused variant of soul music that emphasises the bass and drums. The final track, “Wars of Armageddon”, blends funk, psychedelic rock and other elements into a jam session. It’s almost as if Jimi Hendrix were improvising with the band from Miles Davis' "Bitches Brew" band. Despite its inconsistency, the album is remarkably cohesive. Considering it was released as early as 1971, it's easy to see why it has influenced generations of musicians across a wide range of genres. I’m not sure if I like everything about the album, but it sure is fascinating from the very first to the very last second. A milestone for sure.

liked maggot brain. rest were okay but wars of armageddon was too much for me

Not what I was expecting based on the title. Album started strong with a few really good tracks, but by the end dropped off considerably. I’m wavering between a 3 and 4, might need to listen to it again to give it a fair judgment.

Fun album. Is my first album of Funkadelic and I fell in love with this. Great vocals and instrumentals.

1. "Maggot Brain" 2. "Wars of Armageddon" 3. "You and Your Folks, Me and My Folks"

Amaze-balls

Lots of cool inventive recording tech moves- weird panning, double tracked guitar solo (soli?). Far out

A permanent fixture in my top 5 albums of all time. Incredible!

from the early 70s but so timeless

Maggot(s for) Brain(s) So many guitarists probably started their careers from that first track's guitar solo. It's a nice experience hearing the birth of funk coming out of rock's belly. The first time I listened to this, it was in the afternoon, on the bus with the volume pretty low. I never did appreciate the opening track and believed that each track sounded the same. Second time through, I seem to pick up more details and appreciate the sound at a louder volume. Like for example, the last track is just plain goofy. That's a pretty signature Funkadelic vibe. They stuck to a vibe and the end result paid off pretty well (3.5-4).

Possible the biggest case of album artwork setting an entirely different expectation for what I actually ended up hearing

Really enjoyed "Can You Get to That" First song was too long, got bored Wars of Armegeddon has the best lyrics

funky and great; lower key than some of the funk i've listened to; don't need to listen to that last track again though lol...

Funky fun

good. very good if it didn’t have farts. I felt like it made me want to fart. no no.

I liked it!!!

This ain’t it

Didn’t really grab me but also didn’t hate it

Enjoyed this. Will dip my toes further

yass

mucho instrumental pero suena lindo, las canciones que tuvieron vocales excelentes. re mil sampleado banco

Didn't care for the first song, but it got better. Back In Our Minds and Can You Get To That stood out. 2.5/5

Ok starting off strong. The spoken word had me a little nervous but this is undoubtedly one of the best guitar riffs that I have ever heard. This is not what I was expecting from an album called "Maggot Brain" and I mean that in the best way possible.

I got maggots for brains. Not my thing but there were some good vibes.

Maggot Brain is a classic

What fun this album is! A combination of wild ideas, fun voices, catchy melodies, and bits and baubles abound. It's cool to listen to this and itendity newer music that was clearly influenced by it.

Unexpectedly good.

Wow, two Funkadelic albums in a row! Maggot Brain is a more straightforward funk affair, and though I much prerer an astrofunk style, this is still a high quality production. Once again, my only real issue stems from songs overstaying their welcome (sometimes going well over the 10 minute mark), but the overall vibes here are positive.

I've listened to it 3 times today and it's better each time 4/5

Generationally important collaboration of artists. Great messages, funky, creative. The only song I didn’t like was Back in Our Minds because that pitch bending tuning fork sound was annoying. 9.5/10

Good sound. It was ok.

Lives up to its name by being psychedelic and funky. Maggot Brain is a phenomenal song with awesome mastering.

Heard it before, still sounds huge!

Mother Earth is Pregnant for the Third Time. What the fuck does it mean. I love it. The poppier songs are so good and the long jams never take themselves too seriously. Just a huge number of crazy good musicians playing very intricate difficult music in a way that seems like they're relaxed and having fun.

A truly wild, weird, experimental record that, somehow, has had a lasting influence on pop music -- you hear the fingerprints from Maggot Brain everywhere if you listen closely. Also, an absolute shred fest -- killer guitars.

I will admit to be caught off guard by this one. It’s way more rock n roll than I expected. Amazingly talented musicianship.

Nice surprise!! George Clinton never cease to amaze.

I don't like funk but this felt a bit pedestrian. Was it ahead of its time? We're not in its time, so I don't care. I'm docking a star for the final track. It knows what it did.

I first heard Maggot Brain as a teenager, which is the absolute best time to discover Funkadelic. It plays like you’re discovering a long lost gem. The title track has one of the best guitar solos of all time. Hit It And Quit It is a bop that fits most moods. I love this album and think it is a desert island disc for sure.

Wow, the guitar is fantastic!!

the intro song(which was one of the greatest things i have ever ever listened to) felt like an entry to some psychedelic dream like rock but this was so good , every song felt like a musical scene with so much happening in every second I laughed so hard when I heard farting sounds in the outro

What do you picture when you hear the word "funk"? I imagine sunny dance music based on interesting basslines with loose guitars in the background. Well, on Maggot Brain, one of the genre's defining albums, there's almost none of that. Or rather, there is, but not to the extent you'd expect. It begins with what you'd least expect from funk — a ten-minute bluesy guitar solo. After that, the music becomes more like funk in the traditional sense, but that funk is dark, brooding, and lingering. Mystical and psychedelic lyrics about death and inequality are underscored by hurricane-like guitars in the style of Jimi Hendrix. The record ends with a nine-minute groove, the kind the Red Hot Chili Peppers clearly relied on on their first albums. So, imagine that everything is bad, but you somehow even enjoy it — that's the kind of album this is.

6/10

sick guitar at the start of album, then it goes downhill

Excellent

Pure ecstacy from start to finish

Det känns som att diskussionen om gitarrhjältar har en gnutta rasism i sig. Vita rock och popmusiker före svart blues och soul. Jag har aldrig hört namnet Tawl Ross och ändå lyssnar jag på en jämlike till mina hjältar - Gilmour och Ronson. En stark fyra

Super Funkadelic

Title track has a screaming guitar solo to start which was really good but feels perhaps a bit too long overall. The second gets into some classic 70s funk with a good vibe and feel overall that continue through the shorter tracks. Super stupid has got a really good groove and more guitar goodness to it Back in our minds is the weakest song and doesn't have the same energy level as the other shorter tracks. Overall a decent listen but some detractions in the final track and some of the shorter tracks stop it from being a worldie. I do feel as though the last track is just a little over the place for my liking. The fart block in the middle was just a bit much.

Weird

Not just a great funk album, the guitar solos are top tier

Short, short album at 7 songs, 37 mins or something but every song was awesome. Funk does Rock is a good way to describe it and has some legendary guitar solos.

Um pouco decepcionante. Digo, é um álbum fantástico, muito bom mesmo, mas quando você inicia um disco com uma canção como Maggot Brain, as expectativas ficam altas. Mas o resto do álbum não cumpre essas expectativas. Sofrendo com seu próprio sucesso, de certo. Talvez a culpa seja minha por só ter ouvido a canção titular antes de embarcar nesse álbum, e então criando uma expectativa impossível de ser suprida. De qualquer modo, eu gostei mais do outro álbum do Funkadelic que peguei na lista, One Nation. Acho aquele disco bem mais consistente, enquanto esse aqui acaba se perdendo um pouco no caminho, e possui um final verdadeiramente caótico. Ainda assim é difícil dar uma nota muito negativa para o álbum que possui a canção Maggot Brain. 4/5

I'd never much heard George Clinton's earlier stuff, and this is super different from the later 70s Parliament vibes. Back in Our Minds is the only track that has hints of where Clinton would go in the coming years. The rest sounds more like a psychedelic Hendrix spin-off. Most of this album is like an acid-rock infused jam session. There is some funk, but it's way more on the acid rock side of things. High 3/5

HOLY MOLY ahora entiendo el hype

Amazing band and an amazing album. The music is rich, diverse and exciting throughout its short runtime. The musicianship on display is simply exhilarating. I'm definitely exploring the group beyond the two albums on the list, I'm gonna check out some Parliament releases as well. Favourite track: Hit It and Quit It

Total groove, amazing album. But what the hellll was with the fart noises?? 😭

first time listening maggot brain: haunting, gorgeous, lovely, dreadful can you get to that: spooky little intro bit perfectly transitions the vibe from the title track into the main riff which sounds like a cat napping in a sunbeam. love the beat, love those real low vocals, love a little lyrical dissonance hit it and quit it: organ goes crazy, love how loud the vocalist gets when he goes high you and your folks, me and my folks: yeah this album is an all-timer. there's some sort of reverb/echo(?) effect on the bass/drums(?) that i can't decide if i like or not super stupid: goes CRAZY back in our minds: WHAT is that instrument. all i can find is one youtube comment saying it's a flexatone and that seems to be it. love it wars of armageddon: BOLD USE OF FART NOISES #RESPECT. chaotic angry manic fat and funky EASY 5

Start song and the end song were questionable and lasted too long Everything else was okay Babies crying, farts and chanting weird stuff in the last song Odd album cover 2.4 out of 5

I want to have the title track played at my funeral, but preferably without the opening verse!

Have I listened to this album before No How familiar am I with this album Unfamiliar music-wise, but I know it's highly rated on here How do I feel about this artist? I don't know the ensemble, but I like George Clinton Pre-Listen Thoughts: Not usually a big funk fan but a lot of people like this album I will probably like it at least a little Favorite track(s): Can You Get That, Super Stupid Post-Listen Thoughts: I read that parts of the guitar were Hendrix inspired, and you can really hear that. This album is all the best parts of funk in my opinion. It found it to be very entertaining overall.

piacevole da ascoltare 3.6

O começo do disco te passa uma ideia bem diferente do que ele é como um todo. A primeira música trás uma atmosfera bem sombria e reflexiva, enquanto o restante são músicas até bem animadas, com bastante efeitos sonoros psicodélicos. Um disco bom, com certeza um dos pioneiros do funk/rock psicodélico. Me deixou com vontade de descobrir mais coisas do gênero.

One of the all time great albums.

Lots of funky noise

Not really a lot of sounds on the album- some jams and a few good songs in the middle. What I have learned is that Parliament > Funkadelic, though both are good.

They’re really just doing whatever they want in the studio. Sounds good though

Short but powerful. Definitely not what I would have thought when Funk comes to mind, it it’s artful expression and a think piece through music

I knew of this album prior to this listen through but I don't think I've done a top to bottom listen yet. So glad that I did! What soulful tunes. I wanted it to be longer.

That was rough listening to. Lots of noises like a kid was playing instruments in the background. Would have given it a zero if I could, but maggot brain made it a 1.

Another misleading album name...it was quite pleasant and the Maggot Brain song is just ten minutes of soothing jazz that I very much enjoyed

a few of these tracks actually made it to my playlist :p

Very good album in a genre I don't listen to too much. Top songs: Everything but Wars of Armageddon

I get what they are doing here. However, some of the tracks are too long. The idea is explored over and over again. Too much! Good for 1971.

Is that cowbell? I appreciate the work here, even if the style isn't my thing. There are a lot of things I would have expected to annoy me about this, but I never felt that, except for the flatulence sounds towards the end of the wars of armegeddon. I also never grooved to it like I'm sure they and their audience do. I do feel impressed by the sheer number of different instruments involved in the sound.

Blistering guitar work by Eddie Hazel! He rivals Jimi Hendrix IMHO. I had not heard of this album before but I enjoyed it immensely! 4 stars

Started out like a groovy interstellar jazz trip. Ended with a strange song of echoing flatulence noises.

Really enjoyable album. The songs between the two book-ends wer the best part - tight, uptemp funk. Some of the more experimental things they do just don't work for me. Maggot Brain is kind of listless, and the random sounds in Wars of Armegeddon really distract (that might be the point, I don't know). If it were just that, I'd give it a solid 3. Then comes Super Stupid. That song is such a banger. Just incredible. Bumps it to a 4, almost a 5.

Non ho capito cos'ho ascoltato

I've said it before and I'll say it again men are really obsessed with saying the word "pussy" aren't they

They’ve got some funk

The title song is awesome - a kind of stoner atmospheric guitar piece. The rest is very different and more aligned with the band name - funky. Some of it sound like drunk funk, some more spaced out. It’s a 3 star for me but I’ll bump it up a star because of the title song

Siis ihan kivaa proge/psykedeelimusaa, tuli vahvat jimi hendrix/the doors - vibat.

No le presté mucha atención, pasó volando. Creo que va bien de fondo

Absolute classic, great sounding album , guitar work is so good the whole album just gels, love it

its nice a lilwierd but nice

insane how much this album has been sampled

The more I listen to this, the more I love it. I even love the weirdness. It all actually ties together, fart sounds included! An album that gives more the more you are willing to dig into it is always going to be… 5 Boolean: TRUE

Damn loved this a lot more than the last funkadelic album. It had the 5 stars on lock until the last 2 songs started incorporating clown instruments

I never understood the difference between Parliament and Funkadelic until now. Pretty cool history. Also parts of this album have been heavily sampled by hip hop, which makes it familiar and cool.

I’d always thought of Maggot Brain as “the one with the legendary guitar solo”. It turns out that’s rather like thinking The Dark Side of the Moon is “the one with Money”. The title track may dominate the mythology, but it exists to change the way you hear everything that follows. The opener isn’t really a song. It’s a sonic event. Once I stopped expecting verse, chorus and payoff, and simply let it do what it wanted to do, the ten minutes flew by. If someone is grieving, you don’t put a stopwatch on them. George Clinton’s production is just as important as Eddie Hazel’s playing, with echoes folding back on themselves until memory itself seems to become part of the performance. Listening with modern ears, I was struck by how much of the emotional guitar language later associated with Prince seems latent here, not in the notes themselves so much as in the idea of the electric guitar inhabiting an expressive, artificial acoustic space. That opening also performs a remarkable trick. It recalibrates your sense of musical time. The succession of three- and four-minute tracks that follows feels astonishingly brief, not because they’re underwritten, but because the album has quietly changed your internal speedometer. It’s like coming off a motorway onto a 30mph road. Those shorter pieces are where George Clinton really emerged as the album’s central figure for me. Every track occupies a different acoustic world. Echo is never just an effect. Sometimes it’s haunted interior monologue, sometimes it’s part of the groove itself, elsewhere it becomes tight, metallic, bad-trip architecture. The production continually comments on the songs. The repeated “yeah, yeah, yeah” in You and Your Folks, Me and My Folks gradually shifts from affirmation into sarcasm. Back in Our Minds, often treated as one of the album’s lesser moments, sounded to me like a band performing the inability to keep straight faces. The lyric insists they’re sane again while the arrangement quietly laughs at the idea. That’s not a throwaway track. It’s satire. Bernie Worrell was another revelation. Hearing him here made his later work with Talking Heads feel completely inevitable. Byrne didn’t recruit Worrell to become a Talking Heads keyboard player. He recruited Bernie Worrell because his musical language was already complete. It’s the Billy Preston principle: great bands don’t domesticate distinctive musicians, they make room for them. Politically, Maggot Brain belongs to 1971 rather than to the utopian optimism of the late 60s. The easy rhetoric of “love and peace” has curdled. By the time Wars of Armageddon arrives, the album has expanded from private grief to public catastrophe. It doesn’t simply protest war; it overwhelms you with its machinery. The closer feels less like a conventional anti-war song than a sonic response to the industrialisation of young death. Most of all, I admired the confidence of the album. It refuses to explain itself, refuses to hurry, refuses to stay in one genre and refuses to separate politics from pleasure. The grooves aren’t there to sugar-coat the ideas. They are the ideas. Rather than asking, “What does this mean?”, I found myself asking, “What is this doing?” That turned out to be the right question.

Funkadelic's third album is a 36 minute hodgepodge that combines funk's repetitiveness with rock's most narcissistic tendencies, resulting in a lot of self-indulgent repetition that sounds like it was fun to make but is ultimately tedious as hell to listen to.

If music can be channeled from some higher source, the opening track on this album must be as close as anyone can get to letting it through completely unfiltered. It's almost like I shouldn't even really be listening to it, the ears of this mere mortal can't possibly be worthy. But then Funkadelic call it wraps with a bunch of fart noises, and there is balance in the universe once again. 5 stars, I could listen to this every day.

🥲

Amazing album. New standouts on every listen.

I understand that this record is on the list; however, I did not really like it. 3/5

Only knew the title track, love that long ass solo. The rest of the album was decent.

Classic and catchy funk music. Not a genre that I listen to all that much but its really fun and enjoyable.

top heavy maar erg goed

I like P-Funk. My KIDS like P-Funk. P-Funk is great. There's a line between awesome and funky and weird for the sake of weird. This album sort of descends down this elliptical spiral between the two, looping back and forth between incredible head-bobbing funk and dumb druggy crap. Each iteration gets a little weaker as it orbits, but it starts from an extremely high high, pun intended. Great album, but I can't go higher than 4 on something that ends on a fart noise.

Jimmy Hendrix Vibe.

Phenomenal

A fantastic album that I had already listened a few years ago, but didn't fully appreciate back then. The opening track is insane - searingly sexy, sad, soulful and trippy at the same time, it's the missing link between the best of Jimi Hendrix electric psychedelia and 70s funk. However, the remainder of the album never quite reaches the same intensity again. It's still very nice though, and I love the fact that they seem to have so much fun experimenting (they were obviously very, very high for Wars of Armageddon...). I'm much more receptive to P-funk now than before, and I will absolutely listen again. Hard choice between a 4 and a 5 ; I'll have to listen a couple more times to make up my mind. 8/10

It's far more than the opening Maggot Brain! the following tracks are great. So groovy !

Funny how this album is mostly praised for the title track and not so much for the rest. I actually love almost all of it. The mix is fantastic, the songs still sound surprisingly modern, and Super Stupid is an absolute killer. Only the last two tracks lose me a bit, they’re either disappointing or just too psychedelic for my taste. Great album overall.

Mostly really good but probably has more fart noises than is strictly necessary

One of the best albums of the seventies with a completely skipless tracklist. The title track “Maggot Brain” is a 10 minute guitar solo but manages to not drag on at all. Great psychedelic grooves throughout the album, the incredible production courtesy of band leader George Clinton, and how unique the album from anything else from that time (not counting other Parliament-Funkadelic album) are the main factors in why I think it’s a 5 star album.

Wasn't in the best mood for it. Definitely compotent, but i didn't personally connect with it.

🥞🥞

Is there anything better than psychedelic funk? No.

No earworms here

Love everything happening here. Hendrix’s legacy is heavily felt hear on Hazel’s guitar work. Fantastic combination of psychedelic elements fused with early funk rock. A lot of genuinely catchy tunes as well. Great record! 5/5

Love this album. It never ceases to hold my interest and is one of my favourite Funkadelic albums. Some of their other albums can grate a little at times and can be too jolly, but Maggot Brain never overdoes the “funk”. A classic. Easy 5 for me.

The classic album from George Clinton's guitar-centric psychedelic funk-rock band. The trip opens with the titular track "Maggot Brain." Open and atmospheric, it's a 10-minute, Hendrix-like, emotion-soaked guitar solo. The rest of the album doesn't try to compete, moving into a funk-rock sound, but keeps most of the Hendrix soul. The tracks can give you whiplash as it jumps from the moody and atmospheric "Maggot Brain" into the cheery "Can You Get to That," where that bass vocal line of "I wanna know" never fails to put a smile on my face. Or from the heavy, distorted "Super Stupid", which gives off some of the heaviest Hendrix vibes, to the goofy "Back in Our Minds". It finishes on another 10-minute jam track which sees our journey to its end. I loved this album. The is so much fun, energy, and groove. It's a perfect example of "taking the music seriously, not yourselves." It's a psychedelic trip which didn't really make much sense, even though it's bookended by an intro and outro for some reason, because it probably wasn't meant to. 5/5

LOVE LOVE LOVE. FUNK

funky. starts out with a Pink Floyd-esque 10 minute song. Very nice. 2nd song is a 60s ohmage. Then a Rolling Stones type song. Then it just moves from genre to genre. I love this album. Well done, even the title of the album is provocative.

You And Your Folks, Me And My Folks

This is one of those albums that gets better every time I hear it.

já conhecia, incrível

Interesting sound I recognize why Childish gambino took inspiration from this to make awaken my love

3.5/5

i guess i would appreciate more if i was a guitarist... its one of those songs that i need to look up what it truely trying to convey~ unrankable

The first track was so smooth on guitar, and some song near the end had some good writing. I could stick it on in the background.

Pretty strong start and definitely good for the most part. Final track kinda ruined the overall vibe.

Pre Funk Funk! Good stuff! 915/1001

This was an experience. I listened to this album in the airport on my way to a new job, and I felt like my flight came early, transporting me somewhere I had never been before. Starting with Eddie Hazel's 10 minute solo, which may be the greatest I have ever heard, the dark atmosphere took me away from that shitty small airport coffee shop, and to a land of rock, soul, and funk. It was 35 minutes of a journey I'll never forget. Parts dark and intense, part light and fun, and all of it with the purest groove you'll ever heard. Needless to say, I'll be putting those maggots back in my brain soon. Funkadelic/10.

Too much rock.

Really good guitar solos, DAMN!! Fun listen

10 songs but only 7 available on Spotify :( Yeah this album fucks. The night before I got this album was pretty rough and really had me feeling down. The opening song, with its psychedelic guitar playing, induced a very introspective state and really resonated with me, and that alone was worth at least 4 stars. The rest of the album went in a different direction, but was still very enjoyable (except for maybe Wars of Armageddon, but 3 days before this I got the fuckin trout album, so this is very tame in comparison). Maybe on a different day I would have rated this one star lower, but I really needed this today. Thank you Funkadelic.

im not particularly fond of long guitar solos but this is more than alright. title track and wars of armageddon are both solid and bookend some really fun funk. also wasnt expecting super stupid to go so hard on the rock part of funk rock

I was expecting something more funky and less acid rock but I still liked it, especially the title track.

Erster Song und Gitarrensound war krass. Danach wars mir iwie bisschen belanglos

Great, very pleasant all around. Moving first track

Genialne, Maggot Brain odstaje od reszty ale jest cudowne

Insane for the time. Drummer is going nuts. How can you have a song with fart noises in it and it still sounds great.

I was not expecting this album to be so jammy and lacking vocals. When I am used to parliament over funkadelic, this was a change and I liked it.

Fun album to listen to

INSANE!!

Overall: 6/10 I'm not entirely sure what to make of this album. On the one hand, I love the funky sounds and vocals. On the other hand, it almost feels incomplete to me. There's something about it that just makes me think it's unfinished. It sucks because this was an album that got a lot of praise and I was looking forward to, but I just didn't like it as much as I thought I would. Fav Song: Super Stupid

Kinda weird and just weird. Great guitar opener