Artist: Funkadelic
Title of album: Maggot Brain
Year of first release: 1971
The music is a bizarre mix of music and special effects-type sounds, and intelligent, though unusual and abstract, lyrics.
Songwriters: George Clinton, Tiki Fulwood, Tawl Ross[?], Bernie Worrell
Memorable Lyrics:
Complete lyrics at the Motherpage (http://www.duke.edu/~tmc/motherpage/lyrics_funkadelic/lyr-mbrain.html#lyr-s-armageddon)
This song is socially conscious, as the singer demands immediate freedom from oppression, as well as "power to the people" (and many more demands, many nonsensical, see above).
wikipedia.org dumped 2003-03-17 with terodump