Motor Booty Affair
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| Studio album by Parliament | |||||
| Released | 1978 | ||||
| Genre | Funk | ||||
| Label | Casablanca | ||||
| Producer | George Clinton | ||||
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Motor Booty Affair is an album by funk band Parliament. Released in 1978, it contains two of the group's more popular tracks, "Rumpofsteelskin" and "Aqua Boogie (A Psychoalphadiscobetabioaquadoloop)". The album title refers to the music coming out of "Motor town" Detroit in the 70's. "Motown Records" was producing hit after hit and funk bands (e.g. Parliament) were blooming.
Artist Overton Loyd prepared the cover of Motor Booty Affair. The main release consisted of a gate-fold album cover featuring a pop-up rendition of the city of Atlantis, with Loyd's artwork on the front and back covers. His illustrations included cartoon portraits of some of the "characters" mentioned in the songs on the album, including "Mr. Wiggles the Worm." It also included cardboard cutout figures featuring Loyd's cartoon illustrations of most of the characters mentioned in the songs. There was also a picture disk, with Loyd's illustration printed directly on the vinyl LP.
[edit] Track listing
- "Mr. Wiggles" – 6:46
- "Rumpofsteelskin" – 5:37 (released as a single-Casablanca NB 976)
- "(You're a Fish & I'm a) Water Sign" – 4:42 (released as the B-side to "Aqua Boogie")
- "Aqua Boogie (A Psychoalphadiscobetabioaquadoloop)" – 6:43 (released as a single-Casablanca NB 950 and as a 12" single-Casablanca NBD 20147)
- "One of Those Funky Thangs" – 3:46
- "Liquid Sunshine" – 4:25 (released as the B-side to "Rumpofsteelskin")
- "The Motor-Booty Affair" – 5:16
- "Deep" – 9:09
