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Maggot Brain
Funkadelic
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3/17/2025 public
6/27/2024 public
Listening to this solo again, I can't help but notice how well delay is used to maintain interest in a 10 minute long guitar solo. Things do get a little repetitive, but the use of delay to create a more atmospheric during the slow middle of the song is really nice.
4/22/2024 public
This song is a 10 minute #guitar #solo with no vocals other than a few verses at the start and end. To maintain interest, it does multiple #build-up s and wind downs throughout the song, where the playing becomes louder or quieter to reach peaks and troughs. In that sense, it's very similar to 
Voodoo Chile. Voodoo Chile is somewhat different in that there are more instruments - the guitar gives way to the organ and what sounds to me like a bagpipe at certain points, which makes it easier to keep things interesting.
Voodoo Chile. Voodoo Chile is somewhat different in that there are more instruments - the guitar gives way to the organ and what sounds to me like a bagpipe at certain points, which makes it easier to keep things interesting.
I think the guitarist does a good job at building up to peaks multiple times in this song, but the lack of varied instrumentation does make the song a little boring towards the middle.
4/22/2024 public
Another song that feels like a prolonged meditation on human suffering and wretchedness that gives me a similar vibe would be 
Human Sadness
Human Sadness 4/22/2024 public
I think this is one of the few songs I could cry to if I tried hard enough. I read somewhere online that the song came about when someone put the guitarist on shrooms then told him to play as if he'd been told his mother just died, and honestly I believe the story because the song gives exactly that vibe.

It sounds like a reflection on human suffering.
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4/8/2025 public
On a second listen, this song is in #3/4 . I really love blues phrasings over 3/4, other examples include 
Carefree Summer , 
Slow Dance II , and 
Maggot Brain
Carefree Summer , Slow Dance II , and Maggot Brain ...
3/26/2025 public
This is one of those songs that I find to be so beautiful I refuse to listen to it too often so it doesn't lose its power.

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6/27/2024 public
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4/22/2024 public
The last verse here has the same "lamentations on human sufferings" vibe as Human Sadness and Maggot Brain
Human Sadness and Maggot Brain 
