FUNKADELIC soul funk LP WESTBOUND “Maggot Brain” ‘71 UNIPAK orig NICE

$

95

Artist:  FUNKADELIC

Title:   “Maggot Brain”

Label:   WESTBOUND.  Stereo pressing on medium weight vinyl.  Label is multicolored swirl with black text.  Catalog number is WB 2007. 

Year:  1971.

Condition: 

DISC:  Vinyl is EXCELLENT/ NM- with full original gloss.  Has been played a small number of times and handled with care.  There are a couple slight hairline paper scuffs but no serious or audible marks or distractions.  Plays beautifully with superb fidelity.  Labels are clean.  Tough to find in any condition, this stellar example is one you will never need to upgrade.   

JACKET:   Non-laminated jacket (Unipak gatefold) is EXCELLENT.  Outer panels are clean without any noticeable ring wear.  Bottom right corner has some creasing.  Inner panels are also clean, without ring wear.  Spines have a few small chips.  Reverse has a small torn area at the bottom right corner (approx 1” – see photos).  No writing, stickers or cutout indications.  Overall a very fine jacket to accompany the superb disc. 

This highly sought-after funk masterpiece will be a superb addition to someone’s collection.       

Track Listing: 

Side 1:

• Maggot Brain
• Can You Get To That
• Hit It and Quit It
• You and Your Folks / Me and My Folks

Side Two:

• Super Stupid
• Back in our Minds
• Wars of Armageddon

Review: 

“It starts with a crackle of feedback shooting from speaker to speaker and a voice intoning, "Mother Earth is pregnant for the third time, for y'all have knocked her up" and talking about rising "above it all or drown in my own sh*t."  This could only have been utterly bizarre back in 1971 and it's no less so decades later; though the Mothership was well on its way already, Maggot Brain really helped it take off.  The instrumental title track is the key reason to listen, specifically for Eddie Hazel's lengthy, mind-melting solo.  George Clinton famously told Hazel to play "like your momma had just died," and the resulting evocation of melancholy and sorrow doesn't merely rival Jimi Hendrix's work, but arguably bests a lot of it.  Accompanied by another softer guitar figure providing gentle rhythm for the piece, the end result is simply fantastic, an emotional apocalypse of sound.  Maggot Brain is bookended by another long number, "Wars of Armageddon," a full-on jam from the band looping in freedom chants and airport-departure announcements to the freak-out.  In between are a number of short pieces, finding the collective merrily cooking up some funky stew of the slow and smoky variety.  There are folky blues and gospel testifying on "Can You Get to That" (one listen and a lot of Primal Scream's mid-'90s career is instantly explained) and wry but warm reflections on interracial love on "You and Your Folks, Me and My Folks," its drum hits distorted to give a weird electronic edge to the results.  "Super Stupid" is a particular killer, pounding drums and snarling guitar laying down the boogie hard and hot, while "Hit It and Quit It" has a great chorus and Bernie Worrell getting in a fun keyboard solo to boot.”

(courtesy Ned Raggett, allmusic.com).

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