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About|the album|the song|Maggot Brain (song)Infobox album | Name = Maggot Brain| Type = studio| Artist = Funkadelic | Cover = Maggotbrain.jpg| Released = July 1971| Recorded = 1970–1971| Genre = Funk , psychedelic rock , funk rock , psychedelic soul , hard rock | Length = 36:56| Label = Westbound Records|Westbound W-2007| Producer = George Clinton (funk musician)|George Clinton | Last album = Free Your Mind... and Your Ass Will Follow (1970)| This album = Maggot Brain (1971)| Next album = America Eats Its Young (1972) | Maggot Brain is the third studio album by the American funk band Funkadelic , released in 1971 in music|1971 on Westbound Records . The album incorporates musical elements of psychedelic music|psychedelia , rock music|rock , gospel music|gospel , and soul music , with significant variation between each track. Pitchfork Media named it the seventeenth best album of the 1970s.Staff. http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/5932-top-100-albums-of-the-1970s/9/ Top 100 Albums of the 1970s. Pitchfork Media. Retrieved on 2009-12-28. In 2012, Rolling Stone ranked the album at number 479 on its list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time .Wenner, Jann S., ed. (2012). Rolling Stone - Special Collectors Issue - The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. USA: Wenner Media Specials. ISBN 978-7098934196
Reception
Album reviews| rev1 = PopMatters |rev1Score = (favorable)Taylor, Yuval. http://www.popmatters.com/pm/feature/funks-death-trip Funk's Death Trip: Maggot Brain . PopMatters . Retrieved on 2009-12-28. | rev2 = Blender (magazine)|Blender |rev2Score = Rating|4|5Christgau, Robert. http://www.blender.com/guide/back-catalogue/55200/maggot-brain.html Review: Maggot Brain . Blender (magazine)|Blender . Retrieved on 2009-12-28. | rev3 = Tiny Mix Tapes |rev3Score = Rating|4.5|5Pelican, The. http://tinymixtapes.com/Funkadelic Review: Maggot Brain . Tiny Mix Tapes . Retrieved on 2009-12-28. | rev4 = Allmusic |rev4Score = Rating|5|5Raggett, Ned. Allmusic|class=album|id=r7885|pure_url=yes Review: Maggot Brain . Allmusic . Retrieved on 2009-12-28. | rev5 = Spin (magazine)|Spin |rev5Score = (10/10)Marks, Craig. " http://www.acclaimedmusic.net/Current/A234.htm Review: Maggot Brain ". Spin (magazine)|Spin : October 10, 1995. | rev6 = Pitchfork Media |rev6Score = (9.4/10)Leone, Dominique. http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/17756-funkadelic-free-your-mind-maggot-brain-america-eats-its-young? artist_title=17756-funkadelic-free-your-mind-maggot-brain-america-eats-its-young Review: Maggot Brain . Pitchfork Media . Retrieved on 2009-12-28. | rev7 = Rolling Stone |rev7Score = Rating|4|5 2004Hoard, Christian. " http://books.google.com/books? id=lRgtYCC6OUwC& pg=PA316& vq= Review: Maggot Brain ". Rolling Stone : 316–317. November 2, 2004. | rev8 = Sputnikmusic |rev8Score = Rating|5|5Med57. http://www.sputnikmusic.com/album.php? albumid=2733 Review: Maggot Brain . Sputnikmusic . Retrieved on 2009-12-28. | rev9 = Robert Christgau |rev9Score = (B+)Christgau, Robert. " http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php? name=Funkadelic Consumer Guide: Maggot Brain ". The Village Voice : 1971. | rev10 = Rolling Stone |rev10Score = (mixed) 1971Aletti, Vince. http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/funkadelic/albums/album/182886/review/5943228/maggot_brain Review: Maggot Brain . Rolling Stone . Retrieved on 2009-12-28. | noprose = yes
Track listing
tracklist| writing_credits = yes | title1 = Maggot Brain (song)|Maggot Brain | writer1 = Eddie Hazel , George Clinton (musician)|George Clinton | length1 = 10:20 | title2 = Can You Get to That | writer2 = Clinton, Ernie Harris | length2 = 2:50 | note2 = released as a single-Westbound 185 | title3 = Hit It and Quit It | writer3 = Clinton, Billy Bass Nelson , Garry Shider | length3 = 3:50 | note3 = released as a single-Westbound 198 | title4 = You and Your Folks, Me and My Folks | writer4 = Clinton, Judie Jones, Bernie Worrell | length4 = 3:36 | note4 = released as a single-Westbound 175 | title5 = Super Stupid | writer5 = Clinton, Hazel, Nelson, Tawl Ross | length5 = 3:57 | title6 = Back in Our Minds | writer6 = Fuzzy Haskins | length6 = 2:38 | title7 = Wars of Armageddon | writer7 = Clinton, Tiki Fulwood , Ross, Worrell | length7 = 9:42
;Bonus tracks 2005 Re-release bonus tracks tracklist| writing_credits = yes | title1 = Whole Lot of BS | writer1 = Clinton, Worrell | length1 = 2:11 | title2 = I Miss My Baby | writer2 = U.S. Music with Funkadelic , (Haskins) | length2 = 5:02 | title3 = Maggot Brain | note3 = alternate mix, recorded in 1971 | writer3 = Clinton, Hazel | length3 = 9:35
Songs
"Maggot Brain"
: See main article at Maggot Brain (song)
"Can You Get to That"
This song is a departure from the groove-oriented Funkadelic sound and is more of a traditional lyric-based acoustic rock piece. It begins with a descending acoustic guitar line which is joined by piano, bass and drums which support a cast of singers. It is a rewrite of a song by The Parliaments titled, "What You Been Growin'" and is heavily influenced by gospel music stylistically.
Where the Parliaments version was a break-up song, the singer of the Funkadelic version begins with the line 'I once had a life, or rather, life had me' (a possible reference to The Beatles ' " Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) ", which begins with the lines, "I once had a girl, or should I say, she once had me? "): rather than a bitter reminiscence about a woman, it becomes an account of the singer's revelation that living on principles of co-operation, sincerity and the principles of karma ('When you base your life on credit and your loving days are done / Checks you sign with love and kisses later come back signed 'Insufficient Funds' ' - interestingly, this line seems to echo part of Martin Luther King Jr. 's ' I Have a Dream ' speech) mark him out from the un-enlightened crowd and exalted his life.
This song has recently been heavily sampled in 2010 song "Rill, Rill" by Sleigh Bells ." http://www.newdust.com/funkadelic-and-sleigh-bells" It also appeared 2011 in HTC "Detour" commercial and 2012 in Foot Locker commercial.
Lead Vocals: Garry Shider
Backup Vocals: Pat Lewis|Pat & Diane Lewis, Rose Williams, Ray Davis (musician)|Ray Davis , Bernie Worrell , George Clinton (funk musician)|George Clinton
Drums: Fuzzy Haskins
"Hit It and Quit It"
The song feature Bernie Worrell's vocals and organ-playing, as well as an extended Eddie Hazel solo at the end.
Lead Vocals: Bernie Worrell
"You and Your Folks, Me and My Folks"
Somewho|date=April 2012 claim that this song is, lyrically and musically, a sequel to "Hit It And Quit It" (the previous song). It is a very class-conscious song, with the singer pleading for unity among the poor because without doing so, equality could not be achieved.
The song's refrain is very similar to an old folk rhyme that was first published in Thomas W. Talley's Negro Folk Rhymes (Wise or Otherwise) (1922):Quote box |width=40% |align=left |source=Funkadelic |quote=If you and your folks love me and my folks Like me and my folks love you and your folks If there ever was folks That ever ever was poor. Quote box |width=40% |align=right |source= Negro Folk Rhymes |quote=If you an' yo' folks likes me an' my folks, Lak me an' my folks likes you an' yo' folks; You's never seed folks since folks 'as been folks, Like you an' yo' folks lak me an' my folks. clear
Lead Vocals: Billy Bass Nelson
"Super Stupid"
The title of this song refers to a drug addict who buys the wrong drug accidentally. He is also referred to as having a "maggot brain". The verse of the song uses similar combination of rap singing over drum rhythm plus occasional guitar chords as is heard on "Crosstown Traffic" by Jimi Hendrix .
The Supergroup (music)|supergroup Audioslave has done several live Cover version|covers of this song, the studio version was released on their 2005 single Be Yourself (Audioslave song)|Be Yourself . The song was also covered by Tackhead on their album Strange Things .
The music is a bizarre mix of music and special effects-type sounds, and intelligent, though unusual and abstract, lyrics.
This song is socially conscious, as the singer demands immediate freedom from oppression, as well as "power to the people" (and many more demands, many nonsensical, see above).
"Whole Lot of BS"
This song is a bonus track on the album, originally released as a non-album B-side to the single "Hit It and Quit It".
"I Miss My Baby"
This song is another bonus track, originally released as the B-side to an early take of "Baby I Owe You Something Good", which was later reworked for the '' Let's Take It to the Stage '' LP. The single was credited to U.S. Music with Funkadelic , as Garry Shider 's group US was featured on the recording with Funkadelic playing most of the music.
Vocals: Parliament (band)|Parliament ( George Clinton (funk musician)|George Clinton , Fuzzy Haskins , Calvin Simon , Grady Thomas , Ray Davis (musician)|Ray Davis ), Garry Shider, Bernie Worrell, Tawl Ross, Eddie Hazel, Billy Bass Nelson
Notes
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References
cite book| author = Dean Rudland | title = Maggot Brain | other= album liner notes | year = 2005 | publisher = Westbound Records Inc.
External links
http://www.discogs.com/Funkadelic-Maggot-Brain/master/16158 Maggot Brain at Discogs
http://www.rapreviews.com/archive/BTTL_maggotbrain.html Album Review at RapReviews
http://www.superseventies.com/spfunkadelic2.html Reviews at Superseventies
http://www.duke.edu/~tmc/motherpage/albums_funkadelic/alb-mbrain.html the Motherpage
P-Funk Category:Psychedelic rock albums Category:Westbound Records albums Category:1971 albums Category:Funkadelic albums Category:English-language albums
