Funkadelic: Maggot Brain (1971)

Funkadelic's Maggot Brain turns 50 years old this week, and there's been a bit of online attention to this often overlooked classic, so I pulled out my old copy to refresh myself.

Notwithstanding the title of this blog (and my book), drawn from a pithy encapsulation of my musical taste from a high school friend, I'm a huge Funkadelic fan. Their early/mid-70s brand of heavy funk hits a sweet spot for me. But their first few albums, culminating in Maggot Brain, were a heady mash-up of rock, psyched...