Tracks
- Maggot Brain
- Can You Get to That
- Hit It and Quit It
- You and Your Folks, Me and My Folks
- Super Stupid
- Back in Our Minds
- Wars of Armageddon
Maggot Brain is a keen album. The music is funk. The opening song revisits the psychedelic rock era with a ten-minute long solo that would make Hendrix's jaw drop. The rest of the album has a hard rock and prog rock sensibility. The difference is in this is more intense and less showing off. The groove is pounding in the foreground and the guitar is just solos in the background throughout many of the songs.
I like this album. It is fun and weird. It's worth listening to. It's a new direction black artists are taking music. It's more dynamic than hard rock and heavy metal and less pedantic than progressive rock. I do think it deserves to be on the 1001 Albums list. (Unfortunately, this direction won't get very far, but so many possibilites were there. It does actually re-appear in the 1980s.)
All the songs are excellent. I think Maggot Brain, Hit It and Quit It, Super Stupid and Wars of Armageddon are the stand outs.
★★★★★★★★★☆
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