Reviews (page 8 of 15)
Very much a Funkadelic album, but a little more refined than most of the others. “Can You Get to That” is a classic. 4/5 Will listen again
5 stars for the first song alone and maybe one of the best and longest guitar solo, especially with the background story of this song. The rest of the album is okay.
;)
hell yea. 4.5
great
i think ive been transported
I really wanted to like this more than I did. Nonetheless still a great album. The opening track features an amazing emotional solo. The other tracks decrease in effectiveness as the album progresses. I thought the last track was ridiculous with all of the random noises, but then I guess it makes sense in the context of Maggot Brain (like brain rot I suppose).
Apt band name. Love the fart noises at the end
Really like the music from Funkadelic and appreciated the playlist and that genre that followed on Spotify
8/10
So fucking good
Again an album I liked way more than expected. Heard some Hendrix and Zappa influences. Really nice.
heard the title track, or at least some of it, before, but never gave the rest of this a listen. cannot believe i was missing out. this album is pretty fantastic for the most part, but there is a metal warbling on back in our minds that i can't decide if i tolerate or despise, and gross farting noises on wars of armageddon. why did they do that?
Great listening experience. Need to grow but I like it
Oh, Funkadelic！
Liked most of it but first and last songs. Can You Get To That was really nice. This genre is cool
Whoa! This is a rockin funky take you to church album that gets downright nasty. There’s no need for two songs over 9 minutes. This album could be mood dependent but it worked well for a Friday morning.
Unbelievably creative! Never know what to expect after each song.
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Favorite Tracks: Can You Get To That Maggot Brain
Now this is my jam! OMG I could listen to the opening track "Maggot Brain" every day. "I have tasted the maggots in the mind of the universe." Me too. Little bit weaker in the middle, but finishes strongly. I can get to that. Four sequined stars.
Imagine recording this album and then just fucking off
The sequencing of this album is funny because it's five pretty tight songs in the middle, bookended by two long songs, about 10 minutes each. The opener, "Maggot Brain" is a stunner. Basically one, epic psychedelic guitar solo. The closing track is the absurd, apocalyptic funk track "Wars of Armageddon." Not something I need to listen to a lot but it does make me laugh. The top highlight for me is "Can You Get to That." Just an incredible, soulful, funk-pop song. That acoustic guitar riff is so good. It's a great, feel good song. I first heard it in college when the indie band Sleigh Bells sampled it for the song "Rill Rill." I was very happy to be introduced to this album as a result of that song. (And that Sleigh Bells song is still a banger.) "Hit It and Quit It" is excellent as well. Honestly, all of these tracks in the midsection of the album are strong. Great album cover. 4.5
A wonderfully diverse and deep album. From the start of the first track you know you are in for something interesting- with the sad arpeggiated clean guitar, lazy snare that is just behind the beat about 50% of the time, and the crying wailing electric guitar, it's a cool intro. "Can You Get To That" and "Hit It And Quit It" are the two standouts. I kind of wish the album had more of these throughout, as I think the first three songs are the best three. "Super Stupid" is a cool track but there's times where it feels kind of like an amalgam of a bunch of other songs- like a big puzzle that's pieces are elements of other songs, like a riff from a Stones song, a drum beat from Zeppelin, and vocals from Hendrix. Which of course, is really cool! Imagine hearing a song written by those three? At the same time, it comes across as a little off to me. Eddie Hazel rips on guitar, and George Clinton is amazing. Solid 4.
Higher than I ever thought I'd rate funk
It's a good album. 2 songs take up 20 of tge 36 minutes. So if you like that sort of thing. Music is good. Seemed like they had a good time making it. Rounded up
You’d be Super Stupid to not like this album. But don’t just Hit It and Quit It.
I don't usually like 70's rock, but the funk element and experimental opening and closing tracks made me a bit more fond of this one. Pretty fun overall.
Excellent
Some songs not available on Spotify. I liked the album and favorited "You and Your Folks, Me and My Folks"
Couple of awesome songs, some things that were a bit too strange (last song). Overall pretty good.
This was good but I liked parliament’s mothership earth better.
Lots of great guitar work and very fun.
Interesting album. The instrumental title track, "Maggot Brain", is wow! And the rest of the album is like a cross btween The Temptations and Jimi Hendrix.
Not what I expected. Funky but not nearly as funky as expected. It is really a smorgasbord. A lot of it is fantastic. The 1st guitar song is David Gilmour-esque. In fact the guitar work is awesome throughout with shades of Hendrix. Lots of different styles and types of songs. Fun album. 3.5 4 for effort
The opening track is breathtaking and the album is fantastic beyond that.
Very good funk rock, includes bangers such as the title track and can you get to that. The record was front loaded I feel, as I didn’t enjoy the second half as much.
Thunderingly funky and also experimental. Upbeat listen for a sunny train ride up north
Great album mostly carried by the title track. Best song: Maggot Brain (obviously)
I like the more emblematic P-Funk sound, but a psychedelic rock album isn’t going to get a bad score from me. There is one standout track on this album, Can You Get To That. The rest of it is good too, but doesn’t really rise to the same level
I love childish gambino
They rock hard. And they groove hard. I liked it.
I really did like everything except for the title and the cover. Will listen again though.
Funk yeah! Love it!
“Hit It and Quit It” is a God-Tier track bro. The album is a bit dragging at the last two tracks but overall the album’s great. I give it a 9/10, it might even go higher on repeated listens.
Again the reviews help prepare me for what I'm listening to. Psychedelic is a key word. The first track is exceptional and is why I'll probably give the album 4 stars.
I don't get it. This lp has a ton of 5 reviews praising the funk. Quite frankly I hear nore funk in a Chili Peppers album or a Grand Funk Railroad lp. Don't get me wrong it is very good but it starts off with a 9 minute Rock solo guitar and ends with another 9 minute opus but this time it was an ode to the band War. In-between were some very good soul and blues tracks. I will be listening again.
this was great, a really good listen, loved the first track
Basically the same as my previous Funkadelic review - not my bag, but I respect the skills involved to a huge extent. This album starts with a 10 minute rock guitar extravaganza that puts more traditional rock guitarists to absolute shame. It ends with a load of weird sound effects including a gaseous cow(?). In between there's a load of good funk that was very nice to have on while I worked.
Very good album, intense, funky and completly captivates the brain!!
I am not a fan of a guitar solo. I found maggot brain (the track) to be a hard start to the album. Its also so out of place when you hear the rest of the album. The album picked up though, can you get to that is a fun track and hit it and quit it really kicked the album off in style and set the tone for the music and direction. This is a fun listen. Very early psychedelica and good psychedelica Favourite song: can you get to that Least favourite: Maggot brain Album artwork: the cover suits the album
Classique. 8/10
Fuck yeah this album is so cool, oozes so much fun and excitement. Funk and rock fusion is delicious and this is it. I do think the last 2 songs didn't get me as much as the first ones but who cares, this album good. Maggot Brain (song) is amazing as well, 10 minutes of guitar porn. Fav songs: - Maggot Brain - Can You Get to That - Hit it and Quit It - You and Your Folks - Super Stupid
All time classic funk
Catchy. 4/5
Perfect. Exactly what I wanted from this list. Something which is not normally my thing and something that I never would have listened to without it, but blew me away. The solo's on the opening track and on super stupid are face melting. Love it. Few weaker tracks and I was hoping the last track would be more akin to the first but overall still incredible for something that's over half a century old.
I was surprised to like this album so much, but so many parts reminded me of the Hendrix "Band of Gypsys" material, and it had some really great sonic space and a feeling of place to it. I am giving it 4 stars, kind of rounding up, because I did enjoy it. However, in the end, it doesn't really have a lot of substance that really makes it that memorable to me, personally, and not something I can see myself listening to regularly.
If the final track had more vocals and fewer fart noises, this would be an easy 5/5.
Art funk is what this could be described as. That’s hard af
After a bunch of crap in a row this was refreshing. Funky psychedelica. Need to buy this on vinyl.
WoW ! That first track is something else. 4 stars
Funky, but I got another funkadelic record less than 2 months ago that was more funky so this didn't go as hard for me.
this is cool
This was a pretty cool album. The trippy instrumentals on either end were interesting, with some funkier tracks in between. Felt like a complete journey. The chaos of the last track felt like a great representation of the maddening and violent struggle for equality.
Last track was a bit off, but the rest was fun
A solid rip
Неплохой альбом, довольно ровный будто бы, но при этом слушается бодро. Просто супэр обложка. Лучшая песня - Maggot Brain.
pleasantly surprised. Didn't expect to enjoy it as much, especially the first half
Didn’t love it as much as I thought I would, considering its legendary reputation. Best solo ever in the opening song “Maggot Brain”? Not for me. You can hear where they took some of these ideas and morphed them into a more R&B flavored stew for Parliament’s Mothership Connection so I appreciate it for that, but I like that album more.
maggot brain is an amazing song. the rest of the album is also good.
Funk kongen George Clintons kanskje kuleste album.. Deilig psykedelisk funk frå 1971.
Funky little album here. Which, you know, makes sense.
This was my first time listening to Funkadelic, but it won't be the last. Maggot Brain is a nice fusion of funk and rock. Eddie Hazel shows his amazing skill in the opening track, which manages to be both emotional and psychedelic. While not every song was equally strong, the album as a whole was well produced and arranged.
The first song isn’t actually a song. Rather, it is an extended (10+ minute) guitar cadenza: free form soloing over a sparse rhythm, with a few quiet chords. It’s pretty interesting, actually, in the sense that Hendrix’s explorations (or Roy Buchanan’s) were. The next couple of songs are more what I was expecting, funk, with a bit of a hard edge. Progressive soul…. Very well done, groovy, in a serious manner. This ain’t top 40, and that’s not a bad thing. The last song is another 10 minute exploration, full of alarm clocks and animal sounds and farts. Kind of like an over the top homage to the Beatles’ “Revolution 9”. But at least it is presented over a funk rhythm, with lots of wild guitar. This doesn’t work for me, and takes up over 1/4th the running time. This is a solid 4 until the last song, which drags it down. But I’ll still round up to 4
First song had me thinking this was gonna be another weird one. However every song after was classic very listenable funk. Nice.
Amazing!
Oikeen viihdyttävä
cool and funky
Ein ungewöhnliches Album mit vielen Soundschichten, Gitarren Soli, Experimenten, nicht immer geht es leicht ins Ohr. Hat auch aggressive Elemente im gesamten Konzept. Ein überraschendes Album, aber nicht zum nebenbei Hören geeignet. Es ist ein Album, dass von mal zu mal immer besser ins Ohr geht. Kurzum: mir gefällt's, richtig spannend. Momentan bin ich bei 4 von 5 Sternen.
- yummy
Very good mixing and instrumentals, the name fits
I wanna know if you can get with that is a straight up banger.
6/1001. This fire. I definitely see its influence on gambino’s “awaken, my love”. Basically my intro to funk as a genre in general, and a great one at that. Favorite track was “maggot brain”
Great guitar riffs
Wow, not what I was expecting! I liked all of this - except the last song, Wars of Armageddon. But starting with Maggot Brain - the guitar work, just good music. Will be coming back to hear more from this group.
Just the first 2 tracks make this a great album. Maggot Brain is Funkadelic going psychedelic. Can You Get to That has always been a song i dug a lot but then got a second wind with me when Mt Joy started covering it in the middle of Astrovan. Anyway, I like this album a lot.
Wow. Fabulous guitar on the opening track. Followed by 25 minutes of solid funk.
Solid 8/10
What a jam. 8/10
That was one weird, funky album. Kind of liked it but pretty sure one listen will be all it gets from me. Would love to know what the artistic version was behind the Armageddon number. All in all, strange but in a good way.
I didn't think farting sounds would make for required listening before I died, but you know, I've been surprised by many things. Really, this is a jam throughout with the title track being oddly satisfying.
phat phunky...
4.5
Solid album. Maggot brain is definitely the best track, but I enjoyed the rest (with maybe the last track being a bit odd). Solid 4, pushing 4.5-5.
Fantastic guitar work, especially on the first track, though I admit the album kind of faded into the background as it progressed, and I got a little bored. 3.5 rounded up
Great. Way out there, but still accessible and entertaining.
I gotta say, I listen to one nation under a groove, and gave it a three. It was OK, but I was not in the mood for this album, which I assumed would be basically the same thing. It’s funk, but it’s different. And I mean that in the best way. I really enjoyed this album. that title track is strong. The whole album is. It was really what I needed while I was working. And I mean working. Today is Project day around the house and I’m cleaning out the shed. This is some shed cleaning music! Fantastic!
Whoa that’s one of the most incredible guitar solos I’ve ever heard. Tempted to give the entire album a 5 off its strength alone but not sure I’m quite that high on it. Still a strong product as a whole with a really tight band. Best song: Maggot Brain
2 hits wonder
funkadelic indeeeeed
They indeed, got the funk
Funkin great funk.
Not only does P-Funk put the funk in funk but he also puts the "fun" in funk. This album is a bit more on the weird and fringe side of things happening during the 60s, but the listener should allow themselves plenty of runway coming down from this listen. The album plays well but unlike some of the other offerings that Funkadelic (or Parliament+Funkadelic) would eventually put out, this one has a bit of ominousness to it that gives it a bitter palette. The funk and the fun are all there, but so is a little bit of weird, enough to throw it off balance a bit, and just enough to miss perfect.
Roxxy music was moldy, bad 70's. This is awesome 70's
A perfect funk album, given 4 stars because funk isn't always my thing -- and yet, this one is.
The funk cannot be contained. Medium 4.
Superb album front to back. Opens with an emotional guitar onslaught and the rest of the album is a funk throwdown. I've always loved 'Hit It and Quit It' and 'Can You Get to That'. 'Wars of Armageddon' is rocking groovy funked out closer. Love this album!
Pretty easy listening and a quick album. Easy to get some work done while hearing and put me in a better mood.
Nice. I like
Well I’ve had an album by Parliament already, might as well have a Funkadelic album, too. This was such a different vibe. Really felt like a rock band doing funk at times, and then a funk band doing rock. Great instrumentation throughout, and some of the lower vocals were just so nice to listen to. Also, “Wars of Armageddon” is a political and social statement and I am 100% here for it. Wondering now if at some point I’ll get a Parliament-Funkadelic album. Really hoping I do. Standout tracks: Can You Get to That, Hit It and Quit It, Super Stupid, Wars of Armageddon
strange but surprisingly OK
7 / 10 Mezcla Rock Psicodélico-Funky. Muy buena instrumentación, guitarras a tope, muy escuchable.
Cool stuff - 4 stars! 🤩
Nice album.
Album 332 of 1001 Funkadelic - Maggot Brain Rating : 4 / 5 This has been a favorite for a few years now. Certainly bolstered by the awesome title track, but the whole album is a really good listen. My go-to for some awesome funk.
Dit was echt heerlijk, kende het niet maar ga het zeker vaker luisteren
Groovy, funky, and I'm sure influenced the sound of many bands with a similar style in the future. Fun listen
ok this rocks music: appreciated. (⌐■_■)
3.75 Stars. I've know this is very famous, and it took me a while to even approach this listen, as "Maggot Brain" requires a certain level of calm and focus to appreciate. I'm surprised this is their most popular song, as it's a very slow burn, atmospheric psychedelic rock track. The structure of this album is intriguing, as the book ends are really long, experimental songs that don't allow much for a passive listen. The tracks in between these, however, are really catchy, groovy and funky songs. It's nice to find where Sleigh Bells got the sample for their most popular song ("Can You Get to That" / "Rill Rill") While the album it's a casual listen as a whole, it is certainly an engaging one. Did not appreciate having fart sounds in my ears, though
Funky
psychedelic rock meets funk. classic album. highlights: “maggot brain”, “hit it and quit it”, “super stupid”
That is a hell of a lot of fun.
Wow did I learn a lot about that first track, and then the left turn hits. Great stuff.
this record jams. Love 'can you get to that' since Sleigh Bells covered it.
I can totally get to that.
This was great but not quite as good as the other Funkadelic we got ("One Nation ..."). Personally I quite liked the last track with all the strange noises.
Upon listening to this album a second time it definitely clicked a lot more than the first time I'd heard it. It's a pretty rocking album though it is a bit strange at times that makes it hard for me to rate it too highly.
Absolutely love this one!! Killer opening track…
Loved this. Such a disparate mix that comes together to keep me listening, moving, smiling, and making worryingly guttural noises at some stages. If nothing else, the guitar on the title track is jaw-droppingly awesome.
This loses a star for fart sounds at the end of the last song. Otherwise it was a fun album.
Good Sunday morning funk. 1st song is 10 minutes of guitar solo. Last song is 10 minutes of experimental freestyle/weirdness with lots of drums and sound effects (lions, cows, aeroplanes and cuckoo clocks) Think I preferred the first half
I like, reminds me of Faust
Funkadelic consistently out rock, out funk and out punk the competition and their innovative and unusual approach to songwriting makes this a unique and rightly celebrated album.
Overall -I need this vinyl immediately -ok they lost me a bit in the second half -this album blew my mind a little bit Maggot Brain -Okkkkkkk guitar -is it too guitar tracks or a delay????? -yo this is NUTS with headphones -I want this vinyl even if only for this song Can you get to that -fucks Hit it and quit it -also fucks -this is insane You and your folks -god damn Super Stupid -ok FUCK -is this a joke ???? -OK TEMPO
So so funky. I was taken aback by the album title and cover. Loved the music. Recording sounds incredible. Even listening digitally, I can almost hear the crackle of the vinyl. Super cool album!
Liked the opening track. Very funky album
Opening track "Maggot Brain" is a sonic mélange of funky riffs, searing, shrill solos, overlaid on a soft, gentle piano riff. It is one of the more interesting intro tracks on an album, given the musical composition and also the ten-minute-plus runtime. The second track, "Can You Get To That" is an almost-perfect counterpoint to "Maggot Brain," with its deep, slow, grooving riffs and basslines, with harmonizing vocals and the general freneticism of a party about to explode. The remaining tracks on the album are more in the vein of 'Funk' rather than 'Experimental Funk,' yet those experimental elements persist throughout the album, especially in the percussion. Except the final track on the initial release, "Wars of Armageddon," which bookends the opening track with a funky, driving medley of madness, hypnotic in its frenzied menagerie of sounds. The final taste of a guitar lick in the waning seconds sounds, in a way, like a requiem. The death of what, specifically, is unknown to me. Perhaps the waning of a charged decade that fomented, above all, change. Staring into the unknown future as the music fades.
This was fun, enjoyable but not massively interesting or unique That being said, I was a bit sad when it ended so it got an extra star for that!
Peak funk. Maggot Brain, can Uou Get To That, and Back in Our Minds are classic, iconic songs. I enjoyed this very much.
Intro / chanson éponyme trop bien, full guitare
amazing stuff but it's hard to compare to the once-in a lifetime title track that opens up and makes you think the album will follow being as magical
Who’s got the funk? 3.8
Very pleasantly surprised by this. I’m not a funk kind of guy, but the songs on this were unique and overall, very fun to listen to.
The guitar work on this album is phenomenal! Great rock album.
Første nummer er for vildt! Fedt album!
Titelnummeret er 11/10, bedste guitarsolo nogensinde. Kan også virkelig godt lide resten af pladen, men man får måske lidt for meget piskesmæld i overgangen fra titelnummeret til resten
Great
I had veeeeery low hopes for this, given the name of the artist and the album and also the person speaking in the beginning of the first album haha HOWEVER... the beautiful guitar work in the first song really got me intrigued. It kind of had a slightly more expanded Jimmy Hendrix sound to it. The second song was nice but then the rest were a bit too much :D too many instruments playing over there, it was a bit overwhelming, and also the last 3 songs weren't available for my region on Spotify, so I had to look them on Youtube. Things started off well but, as the name suggests, this is more for whenever you are on drugs and want to have something to make things worse in the background. On top of everything, the Wars of Armageddon song had farts and toilet flushing sounds, which was too much, alongside the too many instruments playing at the same time. The last three tracks that were unavailable for me on Spotify are actually Bonus Tracks to the album, and they were actually very nice and normal, so that's great.
Funky and psychadelic
8/10 - I liked it. Had me dancing in my kitchen
Occasionally a little bit too weird but really fun nonetheless.
Really good, not a huge fan of funk but it was awesome for what it was
Actually very good music.
incredibly rocking album, dark and intense and sometimes funny, sexy, sad
great cover, amazing album Maggot brain : 10/10 10 minutes songs cannot go bad, epic guitar solo 4*
I really like Parliament/Funkadelic. I just don't think this one is quite as good as One Nation Under A Groove or most of rhe Parliament discography. I don't mean to talk it down, it's a solid 4.
Wow, definitely had me groovin'. I was only really familiar with the Maggot Brain song - a shame considering the other songs are excellent too! Glad to listen to this one.
So many different sounds in one album. Psychedelic
Fantástico¿Donde estabas que no te conocía?
8/10 Incredible Listen ive never heard this Project before and it was a great way to unwind with some good weed
Shame about the fart noises.
I like hw the shorter songs are sandwiched by the jams. I imagine those live went on for a good deal. I had heard a few of these before (Audioslave had covered "Super Stupid" live and I heard it on a bootleg, and "Can You Get To That" has been on commercials. Weird.) Bernie Worrell and George Clinton? I'm sold. Sure the songs range all over the place, but that's what makes it great, it's wide appeal. There's something for everyone here. This is already a 4, and with repeated listens may become a 5...
The title track is incredible. I only discovered it in the last year or so and I marvel at it every time - Eddie Hazel's guitar is just pouring out sorrow. Wow. The rest of the album is solid but not as good as that. Wars of Armageddon is another epic but it feels more spastic or less cohesive. Can You Get to That has a nice opening guitar lick and it's a solid song overall though the vocals don't hold up as well as the rest. Hit It and Quit It is funky and probably my third favorite on the album after Super Stupid, which has better vocals and lyrics and some more wicked guitar playing. I want to give it a 5 for how good Maggot Brain (the song) is but it's not close enough to perfect.
Begins and ends weird (first moments of Maggot Brain and most of Wars of Armaggedon, respectively), but most everything in between is awesome. The guitar solo in Maggot Brain is amazing. Apparently, George Clinton told the guitarist to play like his mother just died - I believe it. Can You Get to That is cool chill funk and then they turn up the dial...Hit It and Quit It is awesome funk, You and Your Folks, Me and My Folks is a very cool track, and then Super Stupid just plain rocks (my favorite on the album). Back in Our Minds sounds like drunk funk, but it's super catchy. But then Wars of Armageddon is seriously out there (screaming baby and what sounds like Cartman screaming "goddammit!", random mooing and screaming, and what sounds like a pretty terrible case of diarrhea), plus it goes on about twice as long as it should. That said, it still has some catchy funk and the band is on fire (particularly the drums). Unfortunately, I think Wars of Armageddon brings the album down to a 4. I was tempted to round up to a 5 because the rest of the album is awesome, but that final track is just way too out there and way too long.
Very cool and different. Will definitely listen again!
Some reallly good tracks, a little filler. Not perfect but iconic for sure
Thoroughly enjoyed it!
Riesiges Solo, traurig, aggressiv usw. Auch die anderen Songs sind sehr gut.
Heard it before and that opening track always hits! Good choice for my first pic of year
On the fringe of my 70s music.
As the name suggests, Funkadelic is funk on some crazy psychedelics. The wild guitar sounds, cowbell, screams, funk - this is a highly unusual yet extremely funky album. Can you get to that?
A fun listen. But I kept waiting for it to kick into high gear. But overall a very strong groove. More instrumental then I expected. I think Hit It and Quit It, was my favorite song.
Very funky!
Already one of my favourites and part of my collection. Funky and weird as hell. Best listened to with high quality headphones.
FUNKY
Fun funky album, I thought it was a pretty good listen Top tracks: Super Stupid, Maggot Brain
This absolutely bangs. I have missed a corner of music and this quest has given me that back. This album is astounding.
After the last several albums, this was a wonderful change of pace and a great ride. I am familiar with George Clinton, some of his work with Parliament and I thought this album would be a fun ride. I was wrong. This was a fantastic voyage. A voyage I took more than a few times over the last couple days. Next times will be with a few tokes and couple beers! Not usually a fan of the guitar solo, but the opening was awesome. Reading the inspiration behind this track made the follow up listening even better. This album blew me away from the opening to the end. Well, up to the fart noises. I will be checking out a lot more of Funkadelic and reintroduce myself to Parliament as well. I originally thought 3.5, but I'm this album and this band has stayed on my mind since my first listen. Well done. 4
4 Man, what a way to start an album. It’s not often that a ten-minute instrumental wins me over, but in this case, to even refer to the title track as such almost feels like an insult. A better description would probably be an act of sheer musical brilliance bestowed upon guitarist Eddie Hazel by the psychedelic powers of LSD and the wacked-out mind of George Clinton. The fact that this was done in one take and was completely improvised is insane and was an immediate sign for me that I wasn’t in for just any album. And sure enough, I wasn’t - things completely shift gears on the second track, Can You Get To That, in the best possible way. It’s much more in line with how I anticipated the album to sound, but I didn’t expect it to be this good. Like, this is funk and rock fusion at its best, and song after song, it just never ceased to go hard as fuck. Across the first five tracks, there are really no skips, but my favorite would probably be the heavy-hitting Super Stupid - it’s noticeably Hendrix inspired, but I really think it puts a number of the legend’s own songs to shame. Unfortunately, that energy doesn’t quite keep up, and the album closes a bit weakly between the meh Back in Our Minds and finale, Wars of Armageddon. I guess that they were trying to bookend the album with long instrumentals, which I don’t hate, but Wars of Armageddon doesn’t come anywhere close to the opener. You feel the duration here - if Maggot Brains embodies an enlightening acid trip, this is definitely a bad trip, complete with screams, sirens, and… fart noises? It feels more like a Frank Zappa song, and I think it kills the momentum just a bit. Still, very, very good listen - the vast majority of the songs here are incredible, and even then, while I didn’t love how it ended, I don’t think it necessarily ruins the album by any means. I definitely need to check out more George Clinton so I can get more of this funk rock sound shot into my veins - this was great. Will be keeping this album in mind the next time I feel Like Slow Disappearing.
This is one heady and heavy album.
The music is fantastic, but the weird samples, and talking, and sound effects took me out of it. Very nearly a five for me.
Fantastic funk rock!
Mostly good, some obnoxious solos tho
- Can You Get To That - Hit It And Quit It - You And Your Folks, Me And My Folks - Super Stupid Very fun album overall, cool funk beats and would definitely listen to again.
Ese primer tema es increíble
this album had everything!! love the storytelling, the funkalicious grooves, the guitar riffs, the good energy... minus one point for the farding and shidding sounds at the end, didn't expect that, didn't enjoy that but it was interesting!!
that first song... WOW
Can You Get to That!!
I was not expecting these guitars.
I’ll have what they’re having!
This is 70's funk in its purest form. The farts near the end of Wars Of Armageddon kind of leave a bad taste and spoil what is otherwise an excellent album.
An album that I feel like I should be more familiar. Not the funk workout I was expecting. More of a journey of psych rock fused with funk and jazz. I’m not surprised to hear that copious amounts of hallucinogenics were involved. I very much enjoyed it.
I can hear shades of Hendrix and Sly and the Family Stone.
Awesome fun music. Not my normal genre, definitely going into sing rotation
Good stuff.
Un clásico imperecedero, mezcla perfecta del jazz y el hard rock.
Pretty amazing. Had heard a little in the past but didn't expect to like the full album as much as I did. 4.5/5
I really like what I'm hearing here, it's experimental and fun and so interesting to listen to, and I really wanted to give it 5 stars but it just falls short of my arbitrary expectations for a 5 star album. I haven't listened to a lot of Funk or Soul but I know that I'm really open to the genre and I'm just looking for that one album to send me to the moon. This isn't it unfortunately but it's quite close. Just more confirmation that I really like Funk. My favorite track was Maggot Brain, it is dark, moody, mysterious, yet funky, and not at all what I expecting from the album going into it.
Stellar album! This one I’ve listened plenty of times over the years and grew to loce move and more. At times they can get filthy, literally put on the stank, but that makes them unique! And the playing is sublime. 8,5 out of 10
A little odd but its good
Trippy in a good way.
Was not expecting mostly instrumental?
Gotta have that funk.
This album really makes you feel like you have maggot brain.
Pretty solid album, less heavy on funk than I was expecting but still good
Starts out as the latest reincarnation of Sly & the family Stone but ends up as a precursor for Red Hot Chili Peppers. Timeless funkrock.
banger album. 8/10
My first time listening to this album. I've never done a deep dive on Funkadelic before so this generator thing is already working for me. Cool album.
This album rocks, funks, souls and fucks Fantastic start for this journey 4,5 stars
Huge fan of George Clinton. This particular record has some great moments but there are many others I prefer.
Loved the first half, especially the title track. Back end gets a little chaotic but is still fun.
The last track overstayed its welcome, but most of the album is a pretty great. You can hear all the ways they influenced bands down the line.
Raises more questions than it answers. Funk is not typically my cup of tea but I enjoyed the skill, the creative execution of concept and the blend of humour and musicality. Song names and musical moments that I recognise from much later pop, pink and even metal. Very interesting new data point in my knowledge of modern musical history
Whew, funky spelunky
Very funky
Some great bits, especially the title track is incredible, but not loving everything.
A fun album, that has clearly been very influential on other artists!
What a diamond in the rough. Great funk music and with a 10 minute opener. Try it, it's great.
I have always loved this album. It’s a psychedelic, mind melting, face exploding, operatic journey into the mind of a man far weirder than anyone else in the funk scene, the minister George Clinton himself. Alternating bw funk masterpieces, punk death anthems, and pacifist hippy rock, this album is one of one. There are really only two songs worthy of relistening, the title track and of course Can You Get To That. The rest is a beautifully weird, powerfully performed, soup laced with about 6 tabs of acid and a pound of pcp.
Great album for sure. The main track is a 6/5 to me and I appreciate how raw „Super Stupid“ sounds. It‘s easy to sell me on long guitar solos and psychedelic music and this album is easily one of my favorite ones. I love the closing track „Wars of Armageddon“. It’s wild but not extreme, so I can listen to first class wild psychedelic jams in comfort.
Fixola
Very funky
- Just from the first song you can hear the emotion in the guitar - The first song is so good - Could take or leave the rest of it, but it has good vibes
suavissimo
Awesome opening Funky
Full on George Clinton, but Mothership remains the best one on here for me.
Nice funk sound. Standouts include Can You Get To That, and Hit It And Quit It.
Great playing on this, good amount of weirdness too without overplaying it. George Clinton for President
Dark. Biting. Brutal. Funky as hell.
Great album, rivals a lot of Parliament's other stuff on its own
Haunting intro. Funkadelic indeed. Music you can get lost in. Playfully soulfull.
Couple of good tracks, mostly music
Funk psicodélico. Me ha gustado. Un 4.
Yeah not too bad.
Nice
First track is a 5, the rest is 3.5
edellisessä albumissa tässä bändissä niin piti jutuubista katsoa ja siellä oli laitettu playlistin loppuun biisi nimeltä maggot brain ja liveversio ja se oli yksi parhaimmista performansseista ehkäpä koskaan. noh perkele tässähän se studioversio sitten saatana olikin ja aivan mahtava biisi mutta EI VEDÄ VERTOJA...VITUTTAA...muutkin biisit kivoja magoo braine
The more you listen to it the better it gets. I really enjoyed this one. Funky! 4/5
Pretty cool. Very funky. The song Sleigh Bells sampled in “Rill Rill” is on here.
70s | R&B | Overall score: 3.93 / 78.57% 01. Maggot Brain: 4.5/5 Amazing music about the death of mother earth, the greediness of the wealthy and powerful, the indiference of lowlife population and ascending to higher grounds. What a chilly guitar solo 02. Can You Get to That: 4/5 Carefree music about karma and debts you make along the way, which you'll have to pay later in life 03. Hit It and Quit It: 3.5/5 The Doors, is that you? 04. You and Your Folks, Me and My Folks: 3/5 Basically about poorness and inequality, how one must stand united to fight it, even when dealt bad cards. Overall not one of my favourite songs in this album 05. Super Stupid: 4.5/5 Relatable story about mistaking heroin for coke and sniffing it as if it was. Super stupid but great vocals and amazing guitar solos 06.Back in Our Minds: 3.5/5 A bit trippy for my taste 07. Wars of Armageddon: 4.5/5 A whole journey from routine that kills us mentally to a protest about freedom to distortion of words and meaning until we're left with crumbles of nothing
O pé não parava de bater ao ritmo da música, primeira metade do album muito bom, resto das músicas ouvem-se
Favourite: Can You Get To That Least favourite: Wars Of Armageddon High 8
this album is top tier
1st
Too much guitar solo
Very instrumental heavy, like the vocals
Maggot Brain // Can You Get To That // Hit It and Quit It // You and Your Folks, Me and My Folks //
The guitar on the title track 😳
Fun album, the first track is highlight, but the rest is pretty fun funk.
Nice guitar stuff
Opening track is a blaze anthem
Great, albeit short, album.
Definitely solid, but this felt a little distracted and scattered. Lots of great ideas, just lacking the cohesion and directness I would have liked.
not as funky as it could have been, but still incredibly funky. if it were a true funk album rather than a funk-rock album it might be a 5, but it’s just not funky enough for that. final verdict: funky, but needs more funk.
So funky. Love it.
This is an album. kept my attention throughout since most song sounded different from each other. I would definitely re-listen to songs from this album. I love when a band sounds like their own thing. This band does it well.
Pretty good, funky guitar instrumental.
I'm not sure the diarrhea noises add much to the record but overall its great.
How about the part where they do the poos
Great album, but felt a little on the wild end at times. Thoroughly enjoyed the funk though.
Most def funky
Chaotic, weird, fun, colorful.
I was already familiar with the title track (which features some fantastic guitar), but the rest of this album was new to me. I enjoyed it, so I guess I'll round up from 3.5.
If you listen to Parliament or Parliament-Funkadelic you might, on occasion, forget that Funkadelic itself can be kind of restrained. This is a totally enjoyable, sometimes mellow funky record.
Starts off great with the title track, but kinda fizzles out in the middle. The first track is worth the 4 stars by itself though
I probably know funk as a genre without ever really paying attention to individual albums or groups. Aside from knowing who George Clinton was, I probably couldn’t have named a song by him. This is such a good album, and I’m happy this project got me listening to it.
PSYCHOLOGICAL, COOL ALBUM.
4.25
Loved the funk aspects didn’t so much like the rock influence
i can never be upset when a funk album comes up--even when the title is maggot brain. george clinton, that certainly was a choice. maggot brain was full of delightful, funky funk. it was clearly created and released in the seventies, especially considering the amount of psychedelia. and the soul sound!! what a captivating mix. the album used only instrumentals at times, and gosh the title track was some way to start off the album. that truly was a great instrumental. then on "can you get to that," raymond davis' deep voice was so alluring! even with the farting noises during "wars of armageddon," this album was such an enjoyable listen.
I ain’t ever heard anything like this but I think I liked it.
very good album 88/100
A stellar album - great chemistry between the band, a real journey bookended by two epic tracks, and some incredible playing. Maybe could have filled out a couple of the tracks a bit more for my liking, but I can see this getting regular spins. Fave track: Super Stupid
Impassioned playing, ambitious songwriting, and an undeniable groove. This one’s a classic. Four and a half. Fave track: Hit It and Quit It
Great album that I wouldn't have listened to without this site suggesting it. I need this on vinyl!
Maggot Brain is primarily defined by it's self-titled 10-minute guitar solo epic, which explores desolation in the biggest way possible. Eddie Hazel uses space to his advantage as he sparsely plays in between a subtle groove. It's a monument to stellar, thoughtful music that that properly contemplates it's position of sound throughout. It can often feel like the opening track overshadows the rest of the album, but I feel like that would be a disservice to other songs. Funkadelic expertly hones in on fun, effective funk rock that effectively riffs on a groove. This culminates in the final 9-minute jam Wars if Armageddon that throws a lot at the wall (for better or worse). It is fitting that Maggot Brain ends with annihilation. Sounds of atomic bombs, the low rumble of the explosions, followed by a heartbeat.
AJ: 🤯 🫠
Pretty psychedelic. I was not expecting this!
A great album, though undeniably upheld a lot by its opening, titular track. Thats not to say the rest isn't incredible too though, to say that would be blasphemous. Funkadlelic and Parliament manage to do Funk like no others can, and the tracks on this record are some of the best in the genre.
Funk-nomenal.
Love the Funk!
Father of mother 4/5
Very funky and psychedelic album, liked it a lot! Highlights: Maggot Brain, Can You Get to That
Fuck yes.
casu martzu
Maggot brain is so good it elevates the rest of the album
This album (while I really like it) has always creeped me out. Has to be the absurd 10 minute guitar solo to start the album; it really does set a tone that affects the more basic tracks. e.g. "Can You Get To That" is a great/classic tune with I suppose you'd call a happy/major sound to it - it reminds me of the theme song to the old freaky '70s kids show "Vegetable Soup" which captivated and terrified me (the animation). Disparate and weird thoughts but even after hearing this album for the ~75th time my mind still goes there. Anyhow - the album is of course a keeper, even if I occasionally think putting "Maggot Brain" as the lead track was a terrible move... maybe it works exactly as-intended. e.g would I hear the rest of the album in the same way without the dark/space/haunting (and too long by about 5 minutes, honestly) solo to lead it off? It all would maybe have sounded "more normal" (which it kind of is, not disparaging it tho) eh I don't know. The bookends of the title track and "Wars of Armageddon" are like the horror-bun to the album's party mix tunes on the inside; a combination of great/accessible funk-rock tracks and a proto-metal song in "Super Stupid" - anyways, even if I occasionally get annoyed by a bit of the beginning and end, it's a complete album in the truest sense - listen to the entire thing. 8/10 4 stars.
last 3 songs not avail on spotify
Incredible funk album. A little repetitive, but a banger start to finish.
The opening track, is probably one of the best songs I´ve ever heard. It continues very good along the rest of the songs. I´m happy to discover this band, definitly going to listen more from them.
The title track is one of the greatest guitar solos of all time, and the rest of the album is still pretty great to the end.
sonzao massa
Really good album that opens with possibly one of the best guitar performances ever recorded. The rest of the album is still pretty good but pales in comparison.
Great energy and an incredible "Maggot Brain" song. 4.5/5
At first I was not convinced with beginning but later parts made me enjoy this album. Mix of funk and psychedelic themes is really interesting
Funky
Loved this. Music virtuosity. Listened twice.
Ef eitthvað hefur verið tilraunakennt á sínum tíma, þá er það þetta. Drullugott stöff, mjög svalt!
Funk psicodélico. Me ha gustado. Un 4.
Classic funk, sampled a lot. Ahead of its time