Maggot Brain was the original P-Funk roster’s final culminating experiment. Upon its release, most fans and critics didn’t know what to think. True, it charted but not for long, and was the poorest commercial showing for the original Funkadelic (though it since has outsold Funkadelic’s first two albums, Funkadelic and Free Your Mind and Your Ass Will Follow). Maggot Brain was in many ways Funkadelic’s attempt to combine Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, Electric Ladyland and Cloud Nine.