The Jukebox Rebel

features in: Album Chart of 1971 ● Album Chart of the Decade: 1970s ● 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die

Nicely crafted album from the cultish psychedelic rock groovers, if a bit dull in the middle. Ten minute opener “Maggot Brain” takes no prisoners from the off: “I have tasted the maggots in the mind of the universe”. Brothers and sisters, we are entering the freak zone. What then follows is essentially a nine minute guitar solo by Eddie Hazel, surrounded by eerie effects which drift in and out around your speakers. “Play like your mother died” instructed group leader, George Clinton. It bloody worked too. Who knew I could dig guitar solos? The rest of side one is a tad more conventional, including the three lowdown funk singles, “Can You Get To That”, “Hit It And Quit It” and “You And Your Folks, Me And My Folks”. Nothing matches up to the power of the opener, although ten-minute closer “Wars Of Armageddon” returns to the freakzone, in some sort of nightmarish b-movie funk-a-thon full of ghost train weirdos.

The Jukebox Rebel
21–Jan–2016

A1	[10:20] Funkadelic - Maggot Brain (Edward Hazel, George Clinton) Psychedelia
A2	[02:50] Funkadelic - Can You Get To That (George Clinton, Ernest Harris ) Blues Rock / Soul Rock
A3	[03:50] Funkadelic - Hit It And Quit It (George Clinton, William Nelson) Disco / Funk
A4	[03:36] Funkadelic - You And Your Folks, Me And My Folks (George Clinton, Clarence Haskins, William Nelson, Bernard Worrell, Judie Jones) Disco / Funk
B1	[03:57] Funkadelic - Super Stupid (Edward Hazel, Lucious Ross, William Nelson, George Clinton) Rock
B2	[02:38] Funkadelic - Back In Our Minds (Clarence Haskins) Dubbeat
B3	[09:42] Funkadelic - Wars Of Armageddon (Ramon Fulwood, Lucious Ross, George Clinton, Bernard Worrell) Disco / Funk

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