The two hundred and thirty-first album: #231 Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
While funk is far from my favourite genre, funk rock and its variations that are covered by Maggot Brain works better. Some of the rhythmic repetition works better when pushed into a rock song, more as a chorus than the whole theme of the song. With that said, Maggot Brain pushes for different reasons. It starts with a ten minute guitar solo by Eddie Hazel. While it's a good performance, it is also quite different from the rest of the album, with its larger focus on vocals including the call and response parts from funk.
The sound of the album is far enough off the beaten track that I need to get used to it - no doubt in part because this is the first time the book seems to pay attention to it - but once I did it was good, something to cheer you up and keep you happy throughout. It is, for the purposes of this exploration, a new innovation in music that i know will be influencing R&B and probably feed back into mainstream rock in a way that I believe I'm really going to enjoy.