Editing Maggot Brain (section)

===Retrospective===
{{Album reviews
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1Score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref name="Raggett">{{cite web|last=Raggett|first=Ned|date=n.d.|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/maggot-brain-mw0000200912|title=Maggot Brain - Funkadelic|publisher=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=May 26, 2020}}</ref>
| rev2 = ''[[Blender (magazine)|Blender]]''
| rev2Score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref name="Christgau">{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Blender (magazine)|Blender]]|url=http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/bl/funkadelic-08.php|title=The Guide: Back Catalogue: Funkadelic|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|date=August 2008|access-date=July 17, 2016|via=robertchristgau.com}}</ref>
| rev3 = ''[[Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies|Christgau's Record Guide]]''
| rev3Score = B+<ref name="CG81">{{cite book|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|year=1981|title=[[Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies]]|publisher=[[Ticknor & Fields]]|isbn=089919026X|chapter=F|chapter-url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_chap.php?k=F&bk=70|access-date=May 26, 2020|via=robertchristgau.com}}</ref>
| rev4 = ''[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]''
| rev4Score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite book|last=Larkin|first=Colin|author-link=Colin Larkin (writer)|year=2011|chapter=Funkadelic|title=[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]|publisher=[[Omnibus Press]]|isbn=978-0857125958|edition=5th}}</ref>
| rev5 = ''[[MusicHound|MusicHound Rock]]''
| rev5Score = 4.5/5<ref>{{cite book|last=Gabriel|first=Lawrence|editor-first=Gary|editor-last=Graff|editor-link=Gary Graff|title=[[MusicHound|MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide]]|publisher=[[Visible Ink Press]]|location=Detroit|year=1996|isbn=0787610372|chapter=Funkadelic}}</ref>
| rev6 = ''[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]''
| rev6Score = 9.4/10 {{small|(2005)}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/11739-funkadelic-free-your-mind-maggot-brain-america-eats-its-young/|title=Funkadelic: Funkadelic / Free Your Mind / Maggot Brain / America Eats Its Young Album Review|work=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]|date=3 August 2005|access-date=9 January 2024|last=Leone|first=Dominique}}</ref><br />10/10 {{small|(2020)}}<ref name="Segal">{{cite magazine|last=Segal|first=Dave|url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/funkadelic-maggot-brain/|title=Funkadelic: Maggot Brain |magazine=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]|access-date=June 20, 2020|date=June 20, 2020}}</ref>
| rev7 = ''[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide]]''
| rev7Score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite book|last=Coleman|first=Mark|page=268|editor1-last=DeCurtis|editor1-first=Anthony|editor1-link=Anthony DeCurtis|editor2-last=Henke|editor2-first=James|editor3-last=George-Warren|editor3-first=Holly|chapter=Funkadelic|title=[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide]]|publisher=[[Random House]]|year=1992|isbn=0-679-73729-4|edition=3rd}}</ref>
| rev8 = ''[[Spin Alternative Record Guide]]''
| rev8Score = 10/10<ref name="Spin">{{cite book|chapter=Funkadelic|editor1-last=Weisbard|editor1-first=Eric|editor2-last=Marks|editor2-first=Craig|year=1995|title=[[Spin Alternative Record Guide]]|publisher=[[Vintage Books]]|location=New York|isbn=0-679-75574-8}}</ref>
| rev9 = ''[[Tiny Mix Tapes]]''
| rev9Score = {{rating|4.5|5|full=TMT full.svg|half=TMT half.svg|empty=TMT empty.svg|rating=mark}}<ref name="Pelican">{{cite magazine|author=The Pelican|url=http://www.tinymixtapes.com/music-review/funkadelic-maggot-brain|title=Funkadelic - Maggot Brain|magazine=[[Tiny Mix Tapes]]|access-date=May 26, 2020}}</ref>
| rev10 = ''[[Uncut (magazine)|Uncut]]''
| rev10Score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite magazine|date=n.d.|author=Anon.|url=https://www.oldies.com/product-view/18171N.html|title=Maggot Brain|magazine=[[Uncut (magazine)|Uncut]]|page=122|access-date=May 26, 2020|via=OLDIES.com}}</ref>
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Writing years later for ''[[PopMatters]]'', Taylor called the album "one of the loudest, darkest, most intense records ever made", and stated that the group "captured the odor of the age, the stench of death and corruption, the weary exhalation of America at its lowest."<ref name=pop/> Dominque Leone of ''[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]'' called it "an explosive record, bursting at the seams with exactly the kind of larger than life sound a band called Funkadelic should have made."<ref name="Leone"/> Dave Segal, from the same publication, revered it as "a monument of [[psychedelic funk]]" and "a defining document of Black rock music in the early '70s". Additionally, he called its two bookending tracks "the most evocative expressions of birth and annihilation ever put on record" and suggested that the "soulful [[Funk rock|funk-rock]]" tracks in between represent the "hott[est] five-song streak in the Clinton canon".<ref name="Segal"/> ''The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Rock History'' (2006) claimed that ''Maggot Brain'' and Funkadelic's previous two albums "created a whole new kind of [[psychedelic rock]] with a [[Dance music|dance]] groove".<ref>{{cite book|title= The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Rock History: From Arenas to the Underground, 1974-1980 |first= Chris |last= Smith |publisher= [[Greenwood Publishing Group|Greenwood Press]] |year= 2006 |isbn= 0-313-32937-0 |page= 9}}</ref> Music historian [[Bob Gulla]] hailed it as an "iconoclastic funk-rock" record, featuring the best guitar playing of Hazel's career.<ref>{{cite book | last= Gulla |first= Bob| year= 2008| title=Icons of R&B and Soul| publisher= [[Greenwood Publishing Group]] |isbn= 978-0313340468|series=Icons of R&B and Soul: An Encyclopedia of the Artists who Revolutionized Rhythm|volume=2|page=446}}</ref> Author Matthew Grant describes the album as marking where "the band really hit their stride.<ref name="The Rough Guide to Rock"/>

In a retrospective review for ''[[Blender (magazine)|Blender]]'', Christgau described the title track as "indelible" and "Wars of Armageddon" as "Funkadelic's most incendiary freak-out ever".<ref name="Christgau"/> ''[[Stereogum]]'' named it the second best album by the [[Parliament-Funkadelic]] collective, and called it "one of the most cathartic [[Contemporary R&B|R&B]] albums ever made."<ref name="Stereo">{{cite web |last1=Patrin |first1=Nate |title=P-Funk Albums From Worst to Best |url=https://www.stereogum.com/1822964/p-funk-albums-from-worst-to-best/franchises/list/attachment/maggot-brain/ |website=[[Stereogum]] |date=August 10, 2015 |access-date=March 7, 2020}}</ref> John Bush of [[AllMusic]] stated that the group "hit its stride with [the] [[acid-rock]] extravaganza."<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bush |first1=John |title=AllMusic Guide: The Definitive Guide to Popular Music |publisher=Hal Leonard Corp |page=163}}</ref> ''Happy Mag'' named the album among the five best P-Funk releases, describing it as "an absolute freakout of psychedelic funk sounds", but also "perhaps Clinton’s most lyrically sparse album".<ref name="happy">{{cite web |last1=Happy |title=We've gathered George Clinton's 5 best P-Funk albums |url=https://happymag.tv/counting-down-george-clintons-5-best-albums/ |website=Happy Mag |date=September 11, 2018 |access-date=May 18, 2020}}</ref> [[Fender (company)|Fender]] called the album "an eruption of psychedelic [[Agitprop|agit]]-funk that blended the increasingly bleak American story—[[urban decay]], prime time body counts from an ongoing slog through [[Vietnam War|Vietnam]], and front page assassinations—with the sounds of Hendrix, [[Motown]], [[James Brown]], [[Cream (band)|Cream]], [[Sly Stone]], [[Blue Cheer]] and [[Vanilla Fudge]]."<ref name=fender>{{cite web |last1=Houghtaling |first1=Adam Brent |title=One-Track Mind: The Passion of Eddie Hazel and Funkadelic's 'Maggot Brain' |url=https://www.fender.com/articles/artists/one-track-mind-the-passion-of-eddie-hazel-and-funkadelics-maggot-brain |website=Fender.com |access-date=May 19, 2020}}</ref> ''[[The Washington Post]]'' critic [[Geoffrey Himes]] names it an exemplary release of [[progressive soul]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Himes|first=Geoffrey|author-link=Geoffrey Himes|date=May 16, 1990|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1990/05/16/records/428be2d6-aeac-4263-a825-3b08a82535a2/|title=Records|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|access-date=January 26, 2021}}</ref>

In 2003, ''Rolling Stone'' ranked ''Maggot Brain'' #486 on its list of [[Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time|500 Greatest Albums of All Time]], with the magazine raising its rank in 2012 to #479, calling it "the heaviest rock album the P-Funk ever created".<ref>{{cite magazine |date=November 2003 |title=The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/6627651/486_maggot_brain |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080317152102/http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/6627651/486_maggot_brain |archive-date=March 17, 2008 |access-date=July 17, 2016 |magazine=Rolling Stone}}</ref><ref name=":0">Wenner, Jann S., ed. (2012). Rolling Stone&nbsp;– Special Collectors Issue&nbsp;– The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. USA: Wenner Media Specials. {{ISBN|978-7-09-893419-6}}</ref> In the 2020 reboot of the list, the album's rank increased again to #136.<ref>{{cite magazine |date=2020-09-22 |title=The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-albums-of-all-time-1062063/funkadelic-maggot-brain-3-1063097/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221226021212/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-albums-of-all-time-1062063/funkadelic-maggot-brain-3-1063097/ |archive-date=2022-12-26 |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]}}</ref> It was also listed in the 2005 book ''[[1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die]]''.<ref name="Wilson" />