Funkadelic – Maggot Brain – Vinyl LP

in 1971, black America was reveling in the mellow soul of the O’Jays, the Temptations had just left their flirtation with psychedelia behind, James Brown was declaring soul power, Sly & the Family Stone were having a Family Affair, and Marvin Gaye was asking “What’s Going On.”

In their own inimitable way, Funkadelic made their own statement about the ecology of the planet at the beginning of the lead and title track “Maggot Brain” and turned it into an elegy for the earth in the heartbreaking extended guitar solo by Eddie Hazel that followed – one of the most radical records of the time. The album also spawned two Top 50 singles with Funkadelic’s trademark wry humor, “You And Your Folks, Me And My Folks” and “Can You Get To That.” And just in case you think things have returned to normal, the set closes with the nine-minute chaotic sound collage “Wars Of Armageddon.”

A1 Maggot Brain
A2 Can You Get To That
A3 Hit It And Quit It
A4 You And Your Folks, Me And My Folks
B1 Super Stupid
B2 Back In Our Minds
B3 Wars Of Armageddon