Maggot Brain

You want FUNK? You prefer LOUD-ASS guitar? Grab this disc if you don't know (along with "Free Your Mind and Your Ass will Follow" and "One Nation Under a Groove" to name but a few. These are the guys that played behind the vocal group the Parliaments. Later the whole band was referred to as "Parliament-Funkadelic". Why Funkadelic? My understanding was that these albums focused more on the player contributions (although they, too, featured vocals) led by the genius vision of George Clinton. These records dealt with everyday themes of racism, poverty, death, and inequality but also offered hope and humor with a dose of science fiction to boot! How could one NOT like that? Eddie Hazel (R.I.P.) was a most excellent guitarist that left us far too soon and displays his considerable prowess on this record...Of course George Clinton is the mastermind of Paliament-Funkadelic and continues to bring it today. He's the original Doctor Funkenstein, who influenced the genre, rocked the house and SAID IT LOUD! This band's vision influenced rap rock, groove metal, and to overlook that influence would be to miss a keystone to later period rock, soul, and funk. This music was informed, in part. by doo-wop, the blues, Chuck Berry, rock music, James Brown, and the progenitors of a lot of different genres we all enjoy today. I urge you to buy this, listen repeatedly, seek out other albums by Funkadelic, and then begin your journey down the rabbit hole to see where it all comes from. Not only will you free your mind, you will learn much on your journey to get your groove (and learn where it came from ). Props to P-Funk!

the solo is "lengthy, mind-melting" and "an emotional apocalypse of sound. The subsequent five tracks have been described as "sour harmony-group meditations heavy with bass, keyboard and class consciousness,

How many times do I need to spin this record before I get tired of it? I'll report back later on that....

I love this album, and I'm thrilled to have it again after mysteriously losing my original copy when I was staying in a college dorm decades ago. I knew it was great, but had almost forgotten why until I put this thing on the turntable. Groundbreaking hard rocking and funky, this is a really entertaining LP.

Unless you wan to wait forever at a record store for a nice used pressing (or pay a premium online), get this. Not 180gm but sounds nice.

This is my favorite album in George Clinton's array of bands, Funkadelic, Parliament, Parliament Funkadelic, P-Funk or any others I've left out.

I could give this album 5 stars if the title track were the only song on the album. "Maggot Brain" is a beautiful psychedelic experience. The 11 minutes of guitar work are absolutely hypnotic. Tracks 2-6 are excellent as well. A few of them are kind of Sly and the Family Stone'ish. Very groovy, with really excellent musicianship and lyrics. "Wars of Armageddon", on the other hand, is kind of like, but is actually a lot better than, "Revolution #9" from the White Album. Long and a little bit annoying. Too long. Too psychedelic. But overall, the album is great. Got a few nice bonus tracks, including a different version of "Maggot Brain".If you dig funk/rock you'll dig this album.

Maggot Brain is a 1971 album by the American funk band Funkadelic. It was released on Westbound Records. The music swings through psychedelia, hard rock, gospel and soul music, with tremendous variation between each track.In 2003, the album was ranked number 486 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. Pitchfork Media ranked it #17 in their Top 100 Albums of the 70s list."Maggot Brain" - The song's storyAccording to legend, George Clinton, under the influence of LSD, told Eddie Hazel to play the first half of the song like his mother had just died and to play the second half as if he had found out she was alive (other variants of the story suggest that he was simply told to play as if he had found his mother dead.) The result was the 10-minute guitar solo for which Hazel is most fondly remembered by many music critics and fans. Though several other musicians began the track playing, Clinton soon realized the power of Hazel's solo and faded them out so that the focus would be on Hazel's guitar (the band can only truly be heard during the end of the song, and even then, it is barely audible.) The entire track was recorded in one take.[1] The solo is played in a pentatonic minor scale in the key of E over another guitar track of a simple arpeggio. Hazel's solo was played through a fuzzbox and a wah pedal; some sections of the song utilize a delay effect. This style would be revisited later in Standing on the Verge of Getting It On on the track "Good Thoughts, Bad Thoughts". The original version with full band accompaniment was released in 1997 on the album "Funkadelic Finest".