Maggot Brain
by Funkadelic

Album
Maggot Brain by Funkadelic
Year: 1971
Release date: 1971-07-00
Overall rank: 385th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
82/100 (from 735 votes)
  Ratings distribution   Average rating history
Accolades:
Award Top 20 albums of 1971 (18th)
Award Top 100 albums of of the 1970s (94th)
Award Top 500 albums of all time (385th)

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Maggot Brain is ranked as the best album by Funkadelic.

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- This album (385th)
Maggot Brain Lower ranked (1,948th) »
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Maggot Brain track list

  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 84 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Maggot Brain
Average Rating: 91 (239 votes)Comments: View 7
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Can You Get To That
Average Rating: 87 (166 votes)Comments: View 1
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Hit It And Quit It
Average Rating: 85 (154 votes)Comments: View 1
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You And Your Folks, Me And My Folks
Average Rating: 83 (142 votes)Comments: View 0
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Super Stupid
Average Rating: 86 (153 votes)Comments: View 3
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Back In Our Minds
Average Rating: 78 (132 votes)Comments: View 1
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Wars Of Armageddon
Average Rating: 80 (133 votes)Comments: View 1

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Maggot Brain rankings

Maggot Brain rankings summary
Overall rank: 385th | 1970s rank: 94th | 1971 rank: 18th  Overall chart history
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Average Rating: 
82/100 (from 735 votes)
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 !		5 days ago Siromynian  Ratings distribution  1,75875/100
 
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 !		09/17/2026 21:32 Jasonconfused  Ratings distribution  61593/100
 
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 !		09/07/2026 22:22 Mafedere  Ratings distribution  82074/100

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Maggot Brain forum mentions

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From matterhornrider 09/14/2026 20:16 in What album are you listening to? (cont.)
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From BestEverAlbums 09/12/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5433): By Johnnyo
“Today's chart of the day Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by Johnnyo () 1. by (1978) 2. by (1971) 3. by (1968) 4. by (1971) 5. by (1975) 6. by (1970) 7. by (1973) 8. by (2004) 9. (2005) 10. by (1991) 11. by (1975) 12. (1991) 13. (1988) 14. by (1969) 15. by (1967) 16. by (1969) 17. (1976) 18. by (1989)…”
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“Today's chart of the day Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by CharlieBarley () 1. by (1975) 2. by (1970) 3. by (1978) 5. by (1971) 6. (1982) 7. by (1975) 8. (1989) 9. by (1968) 10. by (1965) 11. by by (1977) 13. by (1969) 14. by (1993) 15. by (1970) 16. by (1971) 17. by (1986) 18. by (1969) 19. (1970)…”
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Maggot Brain comments

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From 03/30/2007 17:04 | #376 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
George Clinton told Eddie Hazel 'play like your mother just died'
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From 02/13/2011 13:32 | #18350 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
First track on this album is superb - in my top 50 tracks of all time.
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95/100
From 10/03/2015 18:14 | #150888 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Tremendous album. Maggot Brain is obviously a standout track but Can you get to that, Hit it and quit it, You and your folks, and Super stupid are all fantastic jams. I get a little restless during Wars of Armageddon but it has its place. Slightly better album than One Nation Under a Groove.
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From 01/22/2010 10:48 | #8540 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
This album is weird. Like, REALLY weird.

It certainly isn't my favorite album ever, but it still certainly has it's moments.
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From 09/25/2020 05:59 | #258689 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
This album doesn't get nearly enough credit. It opens with one of the great psych-rock guitar solos of all-time and closes with an apocalyptic freakout. In between are some of the best acoustic soul and psychedelic blues rock songs ever recorded. Love this album.
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