Maggot Brain

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.

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

I have to be honest - funk isn't my thing; I don't know why, it just isn't. That said, Maggot Brain's gritty blues production quality and experimentalism won me over from the start. Listening to it makes me feel the same way that watching Evil Dead 2 makes me feel - just a dirty good time. With Eddie Hazel tearing off lead guitar riffs, it's almost like The Mothers with a message, and I'm actually now wondering if Zappa didn't try to replicate the Funkadelic sound with Napoleon Murphy Brock as Clinton and himself as Hazel. Really great album - a wonderful surprise.

Much more... psychedelic than I expected? Progressive? In fact the first track is 10 minutes of ambient soundscapes and simple repeating chords. I like it, but it feels out of place and it's a good chunk of the album's runtime. The rest of the track does bring some funk, but often in a slow, deliberate way, laying down grooves with plenty of flourishes from organs or pianos. It's jazzy at times, and fairly weird. Super Stupid is more funk rock, with good riffing and drums and a very good solo. The last track is long again but frenetic, tribal-sounding drumming and some bizarre vocal samples. It's a mixed bag, but I'd give it another spin.

Interesting record, love the blend and what they are trying to archieve. Not all swings are home run, but overall the start is very strong. It is just too short, and the end of it feels a bit tiresome and I would have prefer different directions, but intersting

some great some literal shit like they play poop noises

This was a rollicking good time. Could do with less chants of "maggot brain" and fart noises though.

Best tof! Erg funky

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

16.12.23 Parliaments big brothers band

This is my 2nd attempt at this album. It came up earlier this year, it wasn't good then. But good now. Sleigh Bells sampled the only good 39 seconds from the entire album.

well someone just discovered various sounds

The opener leaves me with the question why don´t switch directly to an Hendrix-album. The middle-section (tracks 2-6) is nice and groovy. The last song again quite weird... After the first look at the cover and some reviews I had high expectations on this album. Unfortunately they were not matched. Definitely not my every-day-choise. 2,5

i was looking forward to this but it just didn’t do it for me

forgettable funk album. no offensive but won't listen again

No es lo que parece

not my style

This album was just awful. Nothing memorable here

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

A fine album, very beetlesesque imo but a few weaker entries. Top songs: Victoria, Yes Sir, No Sir, Shangri-la, Mr. Churchill Says, Nothing to Say

They’ve got some funk

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

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

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.

Amazing album. New standouts on every listen.

Phenomenal

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.

🥞

Is there anything better than psychedelic funk? No.

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.

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

já conhecia, incrível

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.

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.

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.

Fun album to listen to

INSANE!!

I always said that there was a big difference between a guitar player and a guitarist. I know plenty of guitar players who can play really fast, or repeat exactly the tab they’ve learned. But having the musical instincts to be able to improvise and just know what to play and when to play it, that’s what makes a great guitarist. It’s knowing when to rise and when to fall, when to pause on a note and when to run through the fretboard, when to leave space and when to fill it, when to soften and when to go hard. The title track “Maggot Brain” is all of those instincts and a million more. It’s pure emotion portrayed through an instrument. We all know the story, but I can’t resist retelling it. George Clinton and Eddie Hazel took LSD, and Clinton told Hazel to imagine he’d just found out that his mother had died and to play like he was dealing with the news. "I told him to picture that day, what he would feel, how he would make sense of his life, how he would take a measure of everything that was inside him." What comes out of that madness is one of the purest and most genuine pieces of music ever recorded. This song belongs to Hazel of course, but Clinton plays a huge part too. Not just as the ideator, but his contributions to the production of the song are so important too. His control of the Echoplex delay effects that soak the instrument augments the emotions that Hazel's guitar is going through so perfectly. How can a song that is almost entirely an improvised one-take ten minute guitar solo be such a masterpiece? Isaac Hayes’ Hot Buttered Soul band takes the reins on “Can You Get To That”, my go-to Funkadelic song to put when I want some positive vibes. I love everything about it: that incredible acoustic guitar intro riff, the 60s Haight-Ashbury flower-power melody blending with the funky gospel soul of the vocals. And Clinton's amazing baritone punctuating every so often with a reaffirming “I wanna know”. His voice is so deep, it can cause water to ripple in your glass like a T-Rex foot stomp. It's impossible not to put a smile on your face. The rest of the album is a collection of some of Clinton's best work. But there's also a serious diversity to the music. “Hit It And Quit It” is a classic in the world of stanky funk. “And Your Folks, Me And My Folks” continues Clinton's experiments with delay effects, making a piano sound alien, and relegating Hazel’s blazing guitar solo to a faint sound drifting in from afar. “Super Stupid” channels Hendrix, and sounds like it's setting the blueprints for Lenny Kravitz. It wouldn't be a George Clinton affair without a mad, shouty, kitschy funk tune, and that's taken care of by the weird yet catchy “Back In Our Minds” here. The album closes out with the equally weird, politically-charged freak-out “Wars Of Armageddon”, with Hazel's guitar taking center stage yet again. The whole album is dizzying. The emotional shifts are incredible. It opens like a funeral, with Hazel's incredible guitar in mourning, but refuses to wallow. It keeps mutating into funk, gospel, protest, sleaze, psychedelic rock, and cosmic nuttiness, like a screaming head rising from the dirt.

Not the funkiest they can be, but Bootsy could probably shit on my carpet and I'd still score it a 5/5

Ik denk dat ik in die tijd sceptisch was geweest als iemand mij vertelde over een band die psychedelische funk rock pop soul muziek maakt. Wat een leipe plaat. Kan ook niet echt zeggen dan het een evenwichtige en consistente plaat is. Maggot brain is een plaat apart en zegt niks over de rest van het album behalve dat het ambitieus is. Ben benieuwd naar de andere albums van en hoe dit zich daartegen verhoud. Voor de albumhoes alleen al zou ik de plaat willen hebben.

Geniaal album. Alleen al hoe het begint met de titeltrack Maggot Brain. Die eindeloze gitaarimprovisatie met allerlei vreemde effecten heeft iets magisch. Daarna viel me vooral op hoe levendig alles klinkt. Op het tweede nummer vind ik de samenzang erg tof en eigenlijk geldt dat voor het hele album: het bruist van de energie. Het voelt nergens steriel of bedacht, eerder alsof een groep muzikanten gewoon volledig losgaat. Wat ook knap is: dit album komt uit 1971. Sommige platen uit die tijd klinken inmiddels behoorlijk gedateerd, dit album klinkt erg tijdloos in dat opzicht. Oke, en dan dat laatste nummer met al die scheten, slaat natuurlijk nergens op, maar is ook wel funny.

Classic

This is Black excellence What a fantastic album Anything less than five stars for this album is absolute heresy. It has high replayability, the quality of music, the writing, the talent everything about this is fantastic unless you hate funk you're going to like this album. It could be good driving music it could be doing drugs music. It could be hangout music it could be homework music this album can fit all of those things if there's any knock against this album, I'd say that it only has seven songs.

i put this album on and the title track lost me straight away, but is followed by one of the best songs i have ever heard, continuing with genuine masterpieces of music that i did not expect from this. after super stupid i was getting flashbacks to the feeling i felt from listening to slash’s first solo album for the first time. even with the last track having the same psychedelic rock sound as the first track i was still hooked. i’ve had to listen to the title track again, i’m officially sold. this is one of the best albums i have ever heard. more pussy to the people

This title track is one of the most beautiful things I've ever heard. But what a horrifying story. 'Myth has it that Clinton discovered his brother's rotting body and cracked skull, sprawled in a Chicago apartment -- hence the "maggot brain".' If there is even a grain of truth to that ... DAYUM. Furthermore "According to legend, the opening title track was recorded in one take when Clinton, under the influence of LSD, told lead guitarist Eddie Hazel to play as if he had just learned his mother was dead; Clinton instructed him "to picture that day, what he would feel, how he would make sense of his life, how he would take a measure of everything that was inside him and let it out through his guitar". And wowie! "Maggot Brain" is incredibly beautiful. The rest of the album is also great. Easy goddamn 5.

Killer combo of Hendrix-inspired guitar riffs and nasty funk and some psychedelica. Really lives up to the band's name. Had my head bobbing along to the groove. Fun listen.

Never listened to this before and it's amazing. People said it wasn't cohesive, but it didn't feel at all scattered, just diverse. Guitar is obviously great, but every song is really solid and different from every other song

A fantastic album bookended by two epic pieces. Essential listening.

I love this album! reminds me of junior year of college; best track is probably maggot brain. also can you get to that. sorry for the lack of insight- not much more to say atp.

From the opening distorted guitar instrumental this album is an absolute gem

it's a good jam, some nice fart noises on here Will I listen to again: 100%

Kinda the prime example of how far out psychedelically you can take funk, which is awesome. The title track tells you right off the bat what you're getting into. Awesome three track combo with get to that, hit it, and your folks. The wars of Armageddon at the end is like the only way to outro an album that starts the way it does.

Eddie Hazel masterclass....some grooves and funk that go so hard, its crazy to think they came out in 1971. There is something about Funkadelic that is just so heavy, in the best way.

Deaner

One of my reasons for starting this was to find the albums that I had previously ignored or missed. I’ve circled around funk but never dived in, and life has been worse because of it. This is another of those albums the reminds me why I love music, joy and anger, celebration, exploration, and weirdness, all rolled into 37 minutes.

DAMN THIS HITS AHRD im freaking FUNKIN

Just awesome

Starting an album off with a 10 minute song that is essentially built around one guitar solo sounds like it could be incredibly indulgent and my own idea of hell, but Funkadelic manage to pull it off and craft one of the finest songs that I have ever heard. That guitar is being played as if it is wailing its non-existent eyes out. The rest of the album is excellent too, with everything sounding so cool and funky. 'Super Stupid' sounds like they resurrected Hendrix to play on this stomping hard rock jam. There's so much swagger and charisma to this LP. I don't think Funkadelic will ever get enough credit.

Called Funkadelic but the album consists of rock music lol. 5/5

Who says rock can't be funky? An absolute treasure trove of an album which pushes the boundaries of what's possible, delivering heavy riffs and infectious grooves throughout. The lyrics speak of unity and self-expression, making it so much more important now than ever before, with an opening track which justifies a 5-star rating by itself. Sublime. Favourite track: You And Your Folks, Me And My Folks Least favourite track: Wars of Armageddon

Good

An absolute incredible funk/rock album. One of my very good friends recommended me this album after I told him about my music taste, and it holds a very special place in my heart.

I want to know why none of the guitar magazines I devoured in the first half of the 1990s did not mention Funkadelic. Or, if they did, why I did not pay attention. The title track is one of the greatest guitar solos I've ever had, and from a dude barely old enough to order a beer at that.

Rating:★★★★★ Legendary start to an album. Maggot Brain is a wild album. The titular song Maggot Brain was a wild ride, full of emotion. Big fan of the whole album, and I've only listed to it one time. Classic sound. Funkadelic.

So god damn peak. Black culture and excellence on the tail end of the psychedelic movie just a tad before disco. This album is so zany and comes from way out in outerspace than I'm convinced this band is still made up of aliens. Tight grooves, great drums, engaging and interesting jam sections on songs. Amazing production, the vocals are cool as hell and have you seen these guys on stage presence?

I’ve loved this album for a very long time. Perhaps from the moment I discovered it, or it was shown to me, at the age of 14. Power to the people! Power to the pussy! It manages to be so sad and pensive and so damn funky and rocking, I’ve always been amazed at its beauty and balance. 5 Boolean: I am always glad I listened to the whole album and not just the amazing opening track.

Me encantó de principio a fin y me sorprendió muchisimo 9/10

Everytime I put this album on I keep going into it thinking "I like P-Funk a bit better when they entered their synthesizer era, I think" but then still get blown away regardless. The slow burn guitar solo that makes up the title track is a classic, and "Super Stupid" will never leave my favorites/shuffle rotation. I first got into this a few years back because Dean Ween sang high praise for Eddie Hazel's guitar work on this album, and after giving it a listen I understand why. Banger funk album that for me is definitely worth the re-listen every few months. 9.5/10.

They fuse so many styles together and they do it so well.

I mean, the title track alone earns the five stars. Amazing, classic.

holy shit this is amazing (i love psychedelic music) Favorite Songs: All of them (fucking great album)

eddie hazel. george clinton. bernie sorrel. “maggot brain”, “super stupid”, and “hit it and quit it”.

Though I guess I may be in the minority, I love this album. From the slow, expressive guitar work of the first track to the funk/soul of the latter tracks, it has an incredible energy.

One of the greatest guitar solos ever to open up the album, only enhanced by the story behind it. Immensely groovy for the remainder and doesn’t outstay its welcome. Odd in places but not so far out that it becomes jarring. This is peak George Clinton, intensely creative but with an ear for a hook.

Five-a-delic

Insane album. The guitar work is top notch.

Every song on this album is magic. No skips, so fresh and explosive.

The melding of all different types of music to me makes this such a great album. You have the haunting psychedelic guitar of Maggot Brain, the soul of Can You Get To That and the rock and roll electric guitar of Super Stupid. The album is kind of all over the place, but quite frankly it is awesome. I thought about taking away a star just for the final track Wars of Armageddon, with its weird sound effects and fart noises, but the rest of the album is just so damn good.

this is incredible.

OH YEAH!

Instrumentals aren't the best I've ever heard, but I really liked the songs that weren't instrumentals.

Didn't listen to

okay what a good album. that rocked. just packed with good riffs Would I listen again: yeah i'd pick it up on vinyl even Deserves to be on this list: for sure 4.5

Groovy AF

Amazing guitar work, funky and cosmic.

Listened in the car on the way to work. Really enjoyed this, I'm sure it sounded like the future back in 71. George Clinton really earned his 38 degrees in fuckin on this one.

One of the best guitar solos ever, followed by sole fun but great songs

q bueno volver a este álbum, ningún desperdicio

++*: Can You Get to That ++: Maggot Brain, Hit It and Quit It, You and Your Folks, Me and My Folks, Super Stupid, Back in Our Minds, Wars of Armageddon 9,9/10

This went from a 4 to a 5 on repeated listens. I didn't know this album at all - I'd heard a few famous Funkadelic tracks and like a bit of Parliament but certainly wasn't expecting a 10 minute guitar solo as the opening track.

Another old favorite. On some level it is just the first song, but when it's this incredible that's totally ok. And, there are some gems after that anyway, "You and Your Folks, Me and My Folks" being one of them.

This is absolutely fire

The opening track alone is worth the admission fee. What a beaut. Plenty have tried this, but do they have the soul to pull it off, the evidence would suggest otherwise. Continuing through the album, love it. It's got a bit of everything, but so well put together. Where have you been all my life? This album is nothing short of a masterpiece.

Very fun and pretty much seamless

front-loaded but the front half is *so* magnificent

nice

Sick! So varied and well produced, I always see this album come up in discussions but other than can you get to that I hadn't aqctually heard any of the songs. Back in our minds was a bit cheesey but overall a great album and must have been pretty mind blowing at the time

10/10

Best intro of all time.

This album is top tier, absolutely amazing I loved every song, the one thing I didn’t like is all the sound affects in wars of Armageddon but other than that perfect

I was really digging the guitar work, but then I got to the wet farts in the last track and got such a case of the giggles that my husband had to check on me. 🤣

Great Songs: Maggot Brain, Hit It and Quit It, Super Stupid, Wars of Armageddon Good Songs: Can You Get To That, You and Your Folks, Me and My Folks, Back In Our Minds Mid Songs: Bad Songs

Wow la primera canción es increíble. Lo escuché mientras dibujaba

Pretty funny and surprised. 4.5/5

opening track : First connection I made was to John Frusciante’s ”before the beginning” which im familiar with. Apparently his track is a kind of tribute and heavily inspired by this. Really enjoy the musical journey/ trip the song puts the listener through. How had I not heard this before?? can you get to that: Had heard it at least once before, its a more traditional funk tune with some great vocals hit and quit: the song has more of a rock feeling to it, with the strong and catchy guitar riffs - so far really impressed, the album is a fusion of many different styles - you and your folks: not as memorable as the previous tracks but kind of a natural continuation. super stupid: makes me think of other rock tracks of the early 70’s - think thin lizzy and hendrix. The hendrix influence is quite easy to see id say. back in our minds: kind of an interlude to the next song . Armageddon: The finale that lives up to its name, war of wars. Its a never ending jam session with everything from animal noises to bombs going off in the foreground. All in all, a creative album with a mix of styles that i really enjoyed listening through. 5/5

Funkadelic – Maggot Brain (1971) On Day 103, I found a definitive W album. I liked this album and felt so eager to listen to all because of the cover and the name and it didn't disappoint finally after a property listening. The title track alone is enough for me it’s an immaculate emotional journey that justifies the entire listen. "Can You Get to That" is another massive standout; it has a slick and catchy energy that I absolutely loved. The rest of the LP stays incredibly consistent, building off the energy of those first two tracks and maintaining that high-level noir soul right up until the closer. The production is rich and psychedelic, creating an immersive experience that feels grounded and triumphant. This is a masterpiece that I will definitely be coming back to. A definitive 5/5.

Super album !

Just incredible. Has always been one of my faves and a relisten confirms it. A 10 minute shred straight into one of the coolest, funkiest, rockiest songs ever. 36 minutes 53 seconds and not a single one is wasted. Tight, tight, tight. A perfect album cover. Fart sounds. How can you not love this album?

De entrada esa intro es LEGENDARIA, la guitarra es insuperable, literal te dan escalofríos, como si te desglosaran el conocimiento obtenido por "comer esas orugas de la mente del universo" y la cara de esa mujer naciendo de la tierra gritara las respuestas a la vida, como un grito de ayuda de la tierra pero no en socorro, sino dando la belleza de un grito que nos dice todo lo maravilloso que nos da el mundo, y creo firmemente que este es un caso muy particular donde puedes juzgar perfectamente el contenido por la portada. Algo con una portada así está predestinado a ser una cumbre, el pináculo de algo, y que da la casualidad que terminó siendo música. (nota aparte: el bajo de "You and Your Folks, Me and My Folks" está groserísimo, está pidiendo a gritos que lo sampleen) Igual y suena REBUSCADÍSIMO lo que digo, pero si escuchan solo el primer track de esta maravilla de álbum creo que entenderían que no exagero. Y el resto de tracks ya solo reafirman lo que ese primer track te regala sin pedirte nada a cambio más que tu oído y tu mente, ya solo te dicen "Disfruta de algo que es historia, y no dejes que nadie lo olvide". FUNKADELIC DEBERÍA SER UN VERBO!! Y que signifique: "algo que se hizo desde lo más puro y groovy del alma, sin miedo como un grito de quien descubre su sentido en la vida". Y aunque no me gusta usar esta palabra, este álbum me parece el verdadero mínimo estándar indispensable para quien quiera saber lo que es tener groove.

Estos son los discon que me gustan. Tremendo, increíble. Mucho funk, R&B, blues, solos de guitarra, teclados ultra místicos. Me encantó y no conocía al grupo asique aproveche a escuchar sus otros discos que son una locura también. Recomendable al 100%. Un muy buen trabajo.

Genial!

7/10

La primer rola está buena

One of a kind funk album. The instrumental palette makes me think of Santana in a way! I actually had my first experience with psychedelics in nature, looking at clouds with some friends, the title track here playing along. It was my first time hearing it: a 12-minute song that felt like 30, and I was LIVING in that guitar solo. I think that's about the perfect listening context for this psych funk record; that memory is forever associated with Maggot Brain in my mind. Obviously the rest of the album is excellent, and although it can feel disjointed as a whole, the chaos feels totally at home here. Wars of Armaggedon is batshit insane, just about the wildest possible contrast between opener and closer, but at the same time it's a thematically perfect culmination to "Mother Earth is pregnant for a third time, and y'all have knocked her 🆙". Standouts: Maggot Brain • Can You Get To That • Hit It and Quit It • Back In Our Minds • Wars of Armaggedon

Title track is incredible, the ebb and flow of the guitar is just divine, definitely my favourite song on there though Super Stupid closely follows, and You and Your Folks, Me and My Folks, and Can You Get to That, and Hit it and Quit it, and… Haters will say the end of the album is much weaker than the first half but these people are just afraid to admit they liked an album that ends with fart noises

Best Song: Maggot Brain. I love this track, even if this isn't the best version of it (that distinction goes, in my opinion, to the live rendition from One Nation Under A Groove). This one feels itchy and raw, whereas the other feels more technically brilliant. Regardless, a violently beautiful sort of song, made only more beautiful by the mythology built around it. Worst Song: Back In Our Minds. Whatever bell they're ringing should have been reduced at least 50% in volume. I certainly doesn't need to sit in the forefront of the mix. Overall: Probably the hardest rock out of any of George Clinton's work, this sounds like you took the best of Black Sabbath and merged it with soul and gospel music. It manages to feel both expansive and familial, with an explosive collaborative energy. Enriching for the heart and mind.

Classic… one of da best… makes me want to chillll but also get up and move. Perfect intro & outro tracks. “Can You Get To That” fav of the album of course.

De los mejores albumes que escuche!

Maggot Brain has to be one of the best intros ever! For a funk band to a start an album with 10 minute tear jerking solo is outrageous. Then you’ve got your hits like Can You Get To That and Hit It and Quit. Probably a 4.5 stars, but I prefer it to the previous Parliament one.

Dont listen to anyone else its getting a 5 Maggot brain is the best guitar solo of all time. Eddie hazel is better than hendrix i tell ya Can you get to that may be the best funkadelic song ever Hit it and quit it is again/super stupid - peak eddie hazel. I like the way its kinda psychadelicy 60s rock more than funk. Ya certainly cant pigeon hole funkadelic I sure as hell wish i were in that recording studio when this was done.

Masterpiece! A dark funk intense psychedelic eargasm! More pussy to the power power to the pussy.....

This album is the reason Deaner wrote "A Tear for Eddie," pure magic. Pure Love.

Thoughts before listening: Great album from George Clinton. The all instrumental title track is an all timer, but the album is full of great psychedelic funky rock songs. Review: This is my favorite George Clinton related album, largely thanks to the title track's epic guitar freak out, but also because this is a perfect mix of funk and hard rock styles. An all black band in the early 70s playing such a rock forward style was a bit revolutionary, and the band is just so tight. Funky bass lines, piano stabs, vocals that are more growled than sung, and that constant fuzzed out guitar...it's just such a winning recipe and makes for a stone cold classic of an album. 5-stars

I always had the feeling that Maggot Brain (the song) was something otherworldly. Although the rest of the album being a great soul album, Maggot Brain has a life of its own, and I dare say it's one of the rawest and most realistic sound registers of the human soul... simply incredible. 5 stars.

Classic Gold

Absolutely goated first track and funky rest of the album.

Easy five. This is an epic of the highest order, that could soundtrack a stoner’s couch-locked trip through the universe, and return them to the planet with a smile

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

(100/100)

Awesome start, awesome middle, awesome end

Damn fine.

Fantastic! I enjoyed the whole album while enjoying my morning coffee.

Yeahhh, Maggot Brain just kinda slaps. Super funky, super groovy and kinda far out there. I've known of this album for a while now, & back when I first listened to it I don't think I appreciated it as much as I do today. Pretty sure the first time I listened to this I was on the comedown from a mushroom trip and I just looked up psychedelic music on apple music and this came up. My taste has developed a lot since then, and I appreciate certain details in music that I used to just gloss over. This album has a lot of those details sprinkled in like little treats here n there. (Like the random wet shits on Wars of Armageddon lmfao). 9/10

Album frenetico, otima pedida pra quem gosta de um funk bem tocado

Well I first found out about Maggot Brain, it was because I had learned one of John Frusciante's songs is essentially a cover of the title track. It's quite a spiritual solo, I was actually in an intense Wordle game for the whole song. Well, all the way until You and Your Folks, Me and My Folks. Pretty tough word. But I really think the grooves were distracting me. I can do without Back In Our Minds, that bell is freaky, but love the jam on Wars of Armageddon (I'm so stoned why is that word spelled like that)

This might actually be my favorite album of all time, or at least top five. You cannot imagine how many times I have listened to it.

Mmm mmm mmm

Would give it more stars if possible.....

Superb

Excellent

10

Critical 、Thought-provoking lyrics in Upbeat and Psychedelic songs This album makes time fly by Although funk isn't my favorite genre but is good (9/10)

phenomenal. such a fucking cool album

Heard of p-funk, but haven't really heard any. Holy crapballs That first track almost melted my brain. The rest of the album was a treat. Amazing! Looking forward to the other p-funk albums in the list.

one of the best albums ever tbhon

Mad I didn't listen to this sooner.

Classic

Ouf

Great album. To me, the opening track, “Maggot Brain,” is the guitar equivalent of “The Great Gig in the Sky.” Maybe not quite as good, but hauntingly beautiful nonetheless. It’s a very good track. The second half of the album changes tone completely and becomes more of a party-funk record. As someone who doesn’t like funk all that much, I really enjoy this album. Both “Hit It and Quit It” and “Can You Get to That” are great funk songs. The long guitar solo on “Super Stupid” is fun and reminds me of Jimi Hendrix. Honestly, most of the tracks are good. If I had one criticism, it would be that the final track is a bit lackluster. Still, it’s a 5-star funk album.

A monster of an album bookended by two of the best pieces of music I've ever heard. Essential.

A genre defining gold mine of guitar and sick prog funk beats. Need this on vinyl. So so good

george clinton and co are a pleasure to listen to

Pure, fun, creative, impossible not to enjoy

No notes No arguments Give it a 5 and straight on to the next one.

The opening track on this album is an absolute belter - the guitar work screams of Hendrix and the energy it provides to start the album is absolutely insane. As soon as it started I knew this album was going to be fantastic. The rest of the album changes tone slightly, less focused only on the ripping guitars and more towards an upbeat, funky tone - and my god it’s equally as enjoyable throughout. Brilliant album from start to finish, bookended expertly with Maggot Brain & Wars Of Armageddon.

I too was not offended.

One of the greatest albums ever made.

Booming in my ears (in the most positive way) 10/10 start off

Having listened to Parliament's Mothership Connection and read about George Clinton's P-funk collective, I thought I knew what to expect. I was totally wrong. There is a much darker psychedelic rock sound here and it's awesome. Opens with an 8 minute minor blues jam with some amazing heartfelt guitar work. Followed up by Can You Get To That which totally surprised me by opening with an earthy acoustic guitar riff. I can totally see where John Frusciante gets much of his inspiration for guitar solos - the infouence of Jimi Hendrix is writ large. Some mad spacey production choices like the super metallic reverb on the snare in You And Your Folks give the whole thing an unearthly feel. And the groove on that particular song is so powerful. The outro jam in Super Stupid is so exciting, even 50 years on. The crazy metallic percussion in Back In Our Minds is almost laugh out loud bizarre, in a brilliant way. Wars of Armaggeddon is a proper psychedelic freak out with some very unsettling samples and a wonky groove which is so compelling. At just over 36 minutes it's my ideal album length (undr 40 mins) - long enough to say what it needs to say but short enough to leave you wanting more. This record is unhinged and I love it.

A monumental funk album, with some experimentation, which was probably caused by drugs. I've only heard the title track before and it truly is one of the great guitar instrumentals, but the rest of the album is where the true meat is. Great playing, singing and songwriting. 5/5

Probably the album with the most fretwankery that I’ll give five stars to!

Great album for those of us who love funk

i like it a lot. i found maggot brain (song) to be quite long and kinda bored me at the start but i feel like id have to listen to it a couple times to really get it and enjoy it. the other songs definitely pulled me back though they were very intriguing

Now this is my thing. Love Funk. LOVE FUNKADELIC. Absolute masterpiece hearing a funk band do rock music (see what I did there?)

interesting to understand the origins of rnb/soul music, love how natural it sounds compared to how processed the music sounds nowadays

interesting from ear to ear wawawawawawaaaaa

Nice songs, but short album

Absolutely class. Best guitar solo of the 70s!

Getting into P-Funk this week has made for a good start to the week. More-so, It's made me realize that George Clinton has such a stronghold on the popular music I grew up hearing. Whether that be 90s G-Funk or Uptown Funk on the radio, it all came from the man, the myth, the legend himself. So now that this record came on the board, I went into it expecting the usual type of funk. What I was met with was more of an explosive, grimy type of funk. A type fueled by Hendrix-esque guitar showmanship, extensive vocal work and a collective feel in the music. Maggot Brain establishes more of a heat than Parliament's mothership shine. Both of the acts can be thought of as two different stars: Parliament more of a night-sky beacon and Funkadelic, the sun. A sun full of musical passion that seeks to amaze, inspire and feed on the listener's brain. The 36 minutes on this record move through introspective emotion, high-rise jams, absurd humor (fart noises?) and a family-dynamic that comes in one single blast, taken how many times you want it. If this is what I get from this album, tell Dr. Funkenstein (Clinton's later Parliament alter-ego) that I want an unlimited prescription of what he's serving. In other words: OK Donald, I see the vision now (10/10, 5/5 on this scale)

This is an album I’m randomly really familiar with. Was recommended this as a great guitar sound when I was in college and spent a lot of time listening to it. The funk sound with late 60s psychedelic rock guitars is a fantastic one. Excited to give it a proper re-listen. Forgot about the feeling you get when that guitar hits a minute in on Maggot Brain to open the album. An all time guitar solo and guitar track. It’s fun and gets real funky right after that opener. Funk rock is great. It’s just fun and Hazel’s guitar solos add something else entirely. A Hendrix inspired 60s sound to a lot of it. First half is all just great funky rock. Everything is catchy. Super Stupid opens up that back half and it’s more of a rocker to me. This whole album has a full sound. Hazel’s guitar sound dominates the track. Might be the best song on the album. An amazing rock song. Amazing guitar solo. A nice concept to just open and close with 10 minute mostly instrumental songs that are completely different from each other. Wars of Armageddon is just an out there jam. A jazz inspired full of energy 9 minute jam. It’s a little too long for the closer but is a fun end cap, maybe should’ve ended it before some of the fart noises come in. This is probably a 5. As good of an album out there and something you’d want to put on when in the mood for an early 70s funk rock sound with some killer guitars. 35 minute albums are perfect length.

“I once had a life, or rather, life had me” will absolutely be written on my gravestone, if I were to die.

On my 3rd listen, pure magic. First song is so beautiful and then you are on a road trip to space with some friends and the vibes good. Farts and all.

I thought I knew what to expect from this record given the band was called Funkadelic, but the first track completely threw me in the best way. It eventually ended up being the kind of funk rock I thought it would be, but track 1 was a stunner.

I own this bad boy. Seeing them live for the first time in April! This shit right here got me through the back half of my senior year of high school. Loved it then, love it still, will love it forever.

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Best

Very good guitar, groovy sound. Not Michelle to say.

Roughly 37 minutes long, 10 of which are one of the greatest guitar performances of all time. Soulful, psychedelic, funky, sometimes surreal or absurd. Side A is perfect. Literally perfect. Eddie Hazel's performance on "Maggot Brain" is the epitome of a soulful guitar solo. He was 20(!) years old! "Can You Get To That"--with it's chill groove, loose choral voices, melodic rhythms, simple but insightful lyrics--is at least one of my all-time favorite songs, if not one of the best songs from the 70's. Side B gets a little weirder with "Back In Our Minds", but that trombone sneaks in and makes the whole thing cohesive. Wars of Armageddon introduces the sounds of a crying baby, sirens, shouts from a domestic turmoil, terminal announcements, canned sitcom audience laughter, cuckoo clocks, airplanes, train track alerts, cow moos, owl hoots, chants for pussy, shoe boxes(?) being dropped down stairs, women screaming, farts, rocket explosions, and ends with a heartbeat. All over Tiki Fulwood's steady, energetic drums. Not a relaxing listen by any stretch, but exciting, textural, confounding, and playful.

The title track is maybe my favorite guitar solo of all time. The first half of this album is flawless. The back half is a bit rockier but still great.

🤯 LOVED IT!

Very funky and cool, great album!

That cover immediately grabs your attention and then the music injects you with a big dose of funk. This entire album is fantastically good. I was a bit surprised how much I enjoyed listening to it and how much it resonated with me. It is albums like this that make me really glad I stick with this list. This is a superb album. <Insert joke using funk instead of that other f word here>

such a classic!!!

Makes me want to spray paint something and yell at politicians. Good album for some let out some female rage.

Pure excellence

Eccentric, eclectic, electric!

Listened to before!

Very specific note here, but you need to listen with both head phones, especially to the first track. I had my work headphones, which is Hannah Montana style. The guitar traveled back and forth. Wacky and weird and groovy as fuck. I love P Funk. I was assigned this on the anniversary of Eddie Hazel's death. What a great tribute to an absolute god of guitar. You DO in fact have to listen to this album before you die.

The guitar in Maggot Brain really drew me in. Impressive! Most of the album was truly impressive, but the fart noises in Wars of Armageddon were surprising (to say the least!) haha! This album gets a 5 simply for the opening track. That guitar is truly amazing!

I love childish gambino!

i liked the song maggot brain the guitar part was sexy

i mean yeah it's maggot brain

The instrumental on this track was so good, goovy head bobbing goodness. The lyrics were catchy and fitting such a good album

so good every time, definitely biased on this one bc i love funkadelic !!!

5 out of 5 Big George Clinton fan. This was amazing. Funk, rock and roll, soul. Amazing guitar solos.

Album excellent. Pour le coup, il est assez controversé et je comprends que certains sons déplaisent fortement mais pour ma part j'ai trouvé l'album parfait dans son style. C'est exactement ce que j'attends d'un album de funk, il mélange un groove extrêmement puissant avec des mélodies qui marquent comme "Hit and quit it" avec la guitare, ou "You and your Folks, Me and my Folks" avec la voix. De plus, le dialogue entre la voix féminine et masculine sur de nombreux titres ajoute vraiment du dynamisme et retient vraiment l'attention ce qui marche très bien pour de la funk. Enfin, la technique de Eddie Hazel sur l'album et particulièrement "Maggot Brain" et vraiment au top avec une guitare qui parle, et qui se fait l'une des descendantes les plus forte de la technique d'Hendrix. En tout cas, très bon album selon moi

This album is all over the place. I mean that in a good way. With a name like Funkadelic you'd think it would lean heavily into the funk, which it does. But Funkadelic is so much more on this album. They're also straight, proper rock band. It borders on Black Sabbath heavy at times and it's awesome. This is the kind of album I expect from 1K1 Albums You Have To Hear Inc. It's groundbreaking and innovative. Performances, compositions and production all first rate.

YO THIS SHIT IS PEAK FR

Loved the whole thing, incredible guitar tones.

From the jump that Guitar is Wow, but in the great wide psychedelic world, I needed more shrooms. Then it just got me...George Clinton genius! Listened before? N Saved some tracks? Y Favorite tracks? Hit It and Quit It; You and Your Folks, Me and My Folks; ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Loved it. Saved most or all of the tracks.

One of the essential all time albums. Amazing combination of Funk Rock, Psychedelic Rock, and Soul

Now THIS is a five star album! What’s not to love? Maggot Brain is worth the price of admission alone. Not to mention Can You Get To That. I loved You and Your Folks as well, and really every track on this. If there’s one skip it may be Back In Our Minds. This album just has that something special, and it rocks out so hard!

Love this record. It's oozing with personality, great instrumentals and vocals performances, absolutely electrifying stuff. 4.75/5

The first track is a 10/10 - the guitar riffs are insane.

Maggot brain is the stand out track but this was different for me and I loved it.

The jump scares in this album really got me

i listened to this forever ago and i honestly don’t remember any of it feel crazy giving the fist album a 5 but that’s the reality i’m living in

Banger after banger

Eddie Hazel, Hot Buttered Soul singers, Bernie Worrell, bodily noises...From the Sublime to the ridiculous, what a lovely album.

Unreal 10-minute guitar solo followed by 25 minutes of pure fun. Never listened to Funkadelic before this but this is one of the reasons I’m here.

It’s rare to come across an album that is simultaneously earth-shatteringly innovative, artistically ambitious, political without being didactic, and yet still just a thumping good album to enjoy. This ones for parties or by yourself with headphones, at the end of the day or hard at work, for the little ones and the elderly ones. It’s just really, really good.

I fucking love this album. I actually just listened to it last week. It's trippy and catchy and funky in all the right ways.

Fab 4 a snowy day whilst working from home. Took me back in time and made me groove. On my playlist for this year

Maggot Brain is probably in my top ten albums. The lead song is possibly my favorite instrumental track. Such a great album!

Crazy and quality

Funkadelic, some of the best to ever do it. This album rips man. Doing something completely unique in the space and time. Taking the roots of Funk music and its pioneers, and then adding in Psychedelic and Prog composition styles creates something incredibly unique and mesmerizing.

This feels so incredibly ahead of its time. Absolutely phenomenal album.

I love this album. The best Funkadelic album.

I hit my Parilament/Funkadelic jag about 10 years ago and did a deep-ish dive. This album is a great choice for this list. I don’t love the last track, but I’m on board right up to that, including the windswept guitar heroism of the first track. There are tracks that sound like Sly, and one that sounds like Jimi, and then there’s Can You Get to That, which gets a place in my pantheon.

5/5 - Hell, yes. This is a jam. I should have listened to this years ago.

Fantastic! They don’t make ‘em like this anymore and we’re lesser for it - no formulas here, no chart ambitions, just great spontaneity. Free the Funk!

I forgot what a great album this is. The opening guitar solo is insane and for that alone that makes this a masterpiece. My favourite funkadelic album by far.

cool

Best guitar solo ever. Maggot Brain by Eddie Hazel

Masterpiece!

George Clinton is a mad genius ringleader of the funkiest order! The strength of these songs save it from its very poor production leaving you free to explore a funky new world no one had ever dared to explore. 5/5

Mother Earth is pregnant for the third time, for y’all have knocked her up.

An album that starts by opening your skull and ends by rewiring whatever’s left. 5/5 Short Review: A psychedelic dirge, a spiritual exorcism, and a funk séance. The title track alone is a 10-minute electric prayer where Eddie Hazel plays like he’s grieving the entire universe. Then the rest of the album kicks in with cosmic funk so tight it feels illegal. Favorite Track: “Maggot Brain” — obviously. A guitar solo that feels like waking up in a parallel dimension where heartbreak is a weather pattern.

Play that funky music, white boy! Unironically one of the best albums I have listened to. The title track alone deserves all the stars.

Incredible album. Love it.

Álbum vibrante e animado! A qualidade das faixa é impressionante. O único problema: sete faixas é muito pouco! Preciso de mais

No wonder these guys have been sampled so frequently. Their music still hits today in a way that most rock bands or even funk groups didn't during this time.

already an incredibly important album to me a special human achievement a hundred stars

Can you get to that is one of my favorite songs of all time and Eddie Hazel's guitar playing is the closest you'll get to Jimi

Absolutely magnificent. Start to finish this one rips.

Pure love and perfection.

this shits tight. i see why gambino likes it so much. 8.8/10

I can get to this

Perfect album

legendary

This is a true gem. I need to listen to it many more times.

Maggot Brain - 5/5 Can You Get to That - 5/5 Hit It and Quit It - 5/5 You and Your Folks, Me and My Folks - 5/5 Super Stupid - 5/5 Back in Our Minds - 4/5 Wars of Armageddon - 4/5 Average score: 4.7/5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The first of many classics from the genius George Clinton and an incredible cast of musicians. Another record stacked top to bottom with classics. Can You Get To That is one of the greatest lyrics of all time

This album fucks. I don't need to hear it again to know that, but it's a good excuse to have my mind blown again

I did not have sexual relations with mother earth

10/10 yes just yes for late night drive/ gloomy autum/winter

So so so so good. I like almost anything George Clinton has ever done but this is his best work. While his later works are weird for weirds sake this is more varied despite being more traditional based at least to my ears. Maggot Brain is probably my favorite guitar based song of all time and i wish it were 20 minutes longer.

Just groovy. A soundscape. Provocative, some parts a little performatively but ultimately a keeper, and a unique experience

Perfect album apart from all the fartin at the end. Whats that about

Amazing album. 10/10. Listened to it twice and would do it again.

Absolutely phenomenal album.

LOVED IT!

Wild! Can't believe I've never heard thos before. Mad influence for Coheed and Cambria in Maggot Brain. And stepping off a national express to the start of Can You Get To That thinking "THIS IS WHERE THIS IS FROM?" Very much a case of a band name/album name/cover absolutely obliterating any interest in me listening to the album, but damn was I foolish to do so. It's great.

This record is sweet. I felt the format was like funky Wosh you were her but it came out first. Intact I feel pink Floyd probably took alot from this record from darkside and beyond. Definitely will be listening again

A stonewall classic. This album is a must for any collection. Truly outstanding.

First time listening to Funkadelic. Have listened to Parliament. Some recognizeable songs on this too. This is very good and influential in it itself. Should be sure to relisten to this one.

The final and best of their trifecta. Period. 10/10 ★★★★★

Delightfully twisted and boundary-pushing, this is more than just a funk rock album. The title track deservedly gets all the praise, but there are more than a few quality hidden gems that reward deeper listening. Definitely something I intend to listen to again and again

HOLY SHMOLY

Amazing!

Wow so funky! This was a really fun trip and I really enjoyed about 90% of this, the last few tracks were crazy noise. Overall a solid album

Opener is the best guitar solo of all time, the rest is funk perfection 4.5/5

i usually only listen to the shorter songs on this album out of context so it was nice to have a reason to sit down and listen to the whole thing again. it’s such a brilliant mixture of soundscape, emotional depth, weird out-of-left-field humor, genuine fear and darkness, and pure funkiness. crazy drums, CRAZY guitar…it’s all so good and a little scary. i can’t imagine listening to this for the first time in 1971!!! wild. obligatory one million apologies to funkadelic for thinking that ‘rill rill’ by sleigh bells was an original. fav tracks: maggot brain; can you get to that; you and your folks…

Amazinggggg. One of those albums I keep meaning to listen to but somehow haven't. There's really never a dull moment, between the combination of instruments and variety of voices, and it has a really interesting combination of distinctly 60s guitar/psychedelic influences but with a really fun twist.

The visualization of a world without a mother can be more than too much for most to bear. There needed to be a sound in which such pain can be explored and expressed in such a manner that words would not do it justice. Eddie Hazel figured that out and all aspiring guitarists are still trying to parse it out fifty plus years on. Maggot Brain by Funkadelic is the pinnacle of black psychedelia, the ultimate mingling of funk, rock and soul that would be the greatest work for most bands but for Funkadelic it was just another day in their cosmic existence. It's only less than forty minutes, but it is an adventure that can span lifetimes; for so much can be unearthed and understood either almost instantly or in due time. The backbone, blood, bone and soil of all things funky.

Absolutely one of the best albums. The opening track’s history is the stuff of legends

It's been about six months since I got One Nation Under a Groove, and I remember enjoying that album in all its weirdness. Now working my way back, I got their acclaimed third album, Maggot Brain. I will say that this record is the kind of explosive, psychedelic funk rock affair that could not and did not let a second go by wasted. Which is saying a lot, considering Maggot Brain is bookended by Eddie Hazel's spacious Hendrix-esque fuzzed-out guitar solo of the ten-minute title track, and the freak-out noise collage of "Wars of Armageddon", symbolizing urban decay and the loss in translation of political messaging. These two tracks act as a sort of birth and death, followed by a subsequent rebirth if the last couple of heartbeat sounds indicate such. Sandwiched between these two behemoths is a collection of bass-heavy, soulful tracks that boast harmonious vocals and socially conscious lyrics injected with some much-needed humor. The burned-out physical relationship of "Can You Get to That", the goofy yet bustling "Hit It and Quit", the calls for unity on "You and Your Folks, Me and My Folks" and "Back in Our Minds", the admittedly hilarious drug mixup of the junkie on "Super Stupid", all these songs carry some meaningful lessons amidst the formidable grooves, Bernie Worrell's prominent keyboards, and Eddie's funky-ass soloing. Honestly, Maggot Brain impressed me on another level compared to One Nation Under a Groove and Parliament's Mothership Connection. George Clinton and company were direct in their messaging, while reveling in the dark, sprawling, chaotic psychedelic funk fusion that they found themselves in. The maggots have come to nest.

Great guitar, good singing. A very fun overall listening experience.

I cannot believe that it took me 45 years to get this beauty into my ears....what a fucking magnificent record from start to finish.

Flawless!

Absolutely classic. This album fucks, and is an essential listen.

woag!!!!!!!!

Funkiness - without bounds

Maybe the greatest guitar solo ever, followed by some real funky shit. Though... I'm not sure how well saying random shit into the mic works for me at the end. Highlight: Maggot Brain

"I've never listened to Funkadelic" A: You're a moron. B: Yes, you have. If you've listened to rap or hip hop for the last 40+ years, you know who sampled them, even if you didn't know who they sampled. Seminal funk. Essential listening. 'Nuff said.

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 I hear Childing Gambino, Sleigh Bells, Lenny Kravitz, and so many other of my favorite artists on this album. Iconic and influential 🤘🏼

A masterpiece. I love everything about this album. The songs were carried enough that each seems distinct, yet have enough of a common thread for the album to seem cohesive. Not one stinker among them either The sequencing of tracks is legendary for a reason. Has their ever been two more perfect bookends? The opening announces what to expect and the closer had me thinking "WTF?", with a shit&eating grin on my face. Great vocals with powerful lyrics. What is not to like? The instrumentation too, is unique but with enough familiarity that it is more fun than challenging.

This album could have come out yesterday n it would still be innovative Genuinely timeless and flawless

To call this a simple funk album does a disservice to funk. It's like saying Paul's Boutique is a rap album. Yes, but not really. This album is an absolute masterpiece and is a defining example of R&B, Soul, Funk, etc. Stunning.

One of the best opening tracks for any album. Weird in a great way.

“Sorry Gut man, no can do. The grandmaster of Funk descends on the city at 8 o’clock, man, and we will be there.” “Mersh, you hate Punk.” “Funk, Gutter. Funk…George Clinton. Parliament Funkadelic…dude, aren’t you a music major?” I own a physical copy of this bad bitch. Maggot Brain has to be one of the best all time opening tracks. Not a bad song to be heard on this one. This album and one little binger will really brighten up your day.

This shit shreds.

10/10

Best funk album ever and it’s not close. That guitar solo is heavenly

This is a surprise. I've had it on my to listen later list for a month or so but hadn't listened to it yet. I knew it would be good, but it's incredible. I didn't know George Clinton did rock. Eddie Hazel's solo in Maggot Brain is one of the best I've ever heard. Maybe not quite up to Hendrix, who obviously inspired it, but close. I'm not exactly sure what is going on in Wars of Armageddon, but given the quality of the rest of the album, I'm going with "I don't understand it" rather than "I don't like it".

Cool sound. Great flow.

10/10

no doubts that this one is a 10/10, from the guitar wails to the fart sounds it’s a masterpiece thru and thru 🙏🏽 🐛 🧠

That was surprising. I had heard the later works by Parliament Funkadelic, this was not that. Listen to it twice and I will listen to it again.

Mind boggling!!

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Some of these songs weren't for me, but that's obviously because I just am not funky enough to comprehend them.

Absolute classic.

Heared title track since my teenage years and love it since then. Haven't heared the other tracks until today. They are all good, but title track is one of the best guitar moments in the whole history of music (and I'm not even big fan of the genre or band). Great stuff!

One of the greatest albums of all time. In my personal top 50.