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Studio album by Funkadelic
Released July 12, 1971
Recorded Late 1970–early 1971
Studio United Sound Systems, Detroit
Genre
Psychedelic funkfunk rockR&Bacid rockprogressive soul
Length 36:56
Label Westbound
Producer George Clinton
Funkadelic chronology
Free Your Mind... and Your Ass Will Follow
(1970) Maggot Brain
(1971) America Eats Its Young
(1972)

Maggot Brain is the third studio album by the American funk rock band Funkadelic, released by Westbound Records in July 1971. It was produced by bandleader George Clinton and recorded at United Sound Systems in Detroit during late 1970 and early 1971.[1] The album was the final LP recorded by the original Funkadelic lineup; after its release, founding members Tawl Ross (guitar), Billy Nelson (bass), and Tiki Fulwood (drums) left the band for various reasons.[2]

The album charted in the R&B Top 20.[3] Today, it is perhaps best known for its 10-minute title track, an improvisation performed by guitarist Eddie Hazel.[4] Pitchfork named it the 17th best album of the 1970s.[5] In 2020, Rolling Stone ranked Maggot Brain the 136th greatest album of all time in its updated list.[6]

Music and lyrics
The album opens with a spoken word monologue by band leader George Clinton, which refers to `the maggots in the mind of the universe`.[7] According to legend, the 10-minute title track was recorded in one take when Clinton, under the influence of LSD, told guitarist Eddie Hazel to play as if he had been told his mother was dead:[8] Clinton instructed him `to picture that day, what he would feel, how he would make sense of his life, how he would take a measure of everything that was inside him and let it out through his guitar`.[7] Though several other musicians performed on the track, Clinton largely faded them out of the final mix so that the focus would be on Hazel`s guitar.[3] Hazel utilized fuzz and wah effects, inspired by his idol Jimi Hendrix; Clinton subsequently added delay and other effects in mixdown, saying `I Echoplexed it back on itself three or four times. That gave the whole thing an eerie feel, both in the playing and in the sound effects.`[7] Critics have described the solo as `lengthy, mind-melting` and `an emotional apocalypse of sound.`[9]

The subsequent five tracks have been described as `sour harmony-group meditations heavy with bass, keyboard and class consciousness,`[10] with the band exploring a `psychedelic/funk fusion.`[11] `Can You Get to That` features Isaac Hayes`s backing vocal group Hot Buttered Soul,[2] and contains elements of folk blues and gospel music.[4] `You and Your Folks, Me and My Folks` explores interracial love and features electronically distorted drums.[4] The track `Super Stupid` was described by Pitchfork as a `tale of a dumbass junkie set to a tune Black Sabbath would have been proud of.`[2] The 9-minute closing track `Wars of Armageddon` has been described as a `freak-out` jam,[4] and makes use of `paranoid, psychedelic sound effects and crowd sounds.`[2] Popular music scholar Yuval Taylor described it as `a burning hot prefiguring` of the music that Miles Davis would perform on his 1975 live album Agharta.[3]

Track listing
Side one
No. Title Writer(s) Length
1. `Maggot Brain`
Edward HazelGeorge Clinton
10:21
2. `Can You Get to That`
ClintonErnest Harris
2:50
3. `Hit It and Quit It`
ClintonWilliam Nelson
3:50
4. `You and Your Folks, Me and My Folks`
ClintonClarence HaskinsNelsonBernard WorrellJudie Jones (mistakenly credit)
3:36
Side two
No. Title Writer(s) Length
1. `Super Stupid`
HazelLucious RossNelsonClinton
4:01
2. `Back in Our Minds` Haskins 2:38
3. `Wars of Armageddon`
Ramon FulwoodRossClintonWorrell
9:42
Sides one and two were combined as tracks 1–7 on CD reissues.
2005 CD reissue bonus tracks
No. Title Writer(s) Length
8. `Whole Lot of BS`
ClintonWorrell
2:11
9. `I Miss My Baby` (United Soul with Funkadelic, from the CD U.S. Music with Funkadelic) Haskins 5:02
10. `Maggot Brain` (alternate mix, recorded in 1971)
HazelClinton
9:35
Personnel
Credits are adapted from the album`s liner notes.[39]

Funkadelic
Bernie Worrell – keyboards, vocals (lead vocals on track 3)
Eddie Hazel – guitar, vocals (lead vocals on track 5)
Tawl Ross – guitar, vocals (co-lead vocals on track 6, 7)
Billy Nelson – bass guitar, vocals (lead vocals on track 4)
Tiki Fulwood – drums
George Clinton – vocals (spoken intro on track 1, lead vocals on tracks 6, 7)
Raymond Davis – vocals (lead vocals on track 2)
Fuzzy Haskins, Calvin Simon, Grady Thomas, Garry Shider, Hot Buttered Soul (Pat Lewis, Diane Lewis and Rose Williams) – vocals
Production
Produced by George Clinton
Executive producer – Armen Boladian
Bernie Mendelson in charge of The Eegangas
Cover photography by Joel Brodsky
Inside cover photography by Ron Scribner
Artwork design – The Graffiteria/Paula Bisacca
Art direction – David Krieger
Album supervision – Bob Scerbo
Album co-ordination – Dorothy Schwartz
Model on album cover- Barbara Cheeseborough