5.0 + The idea of beginning any album with a 10-minute guitar solo is generally a non-starter but Eddie Hazel plays with such devastating sadness that somehow those emotions set the stage for a raucous runaway locomotive ride to armageddon. There's no other record like "Maggot Brain", and in this age of AI, I can't imagine anything will ever come close to this bizarre, funky alchemy of moods and genres.