Motor Booty Affair

Motor Booty Affair is an album by funk band Parliament. Released on November 20, 1978. It contains two of the group's most popular tracks, "Rumpofsteelskin" and "Aqua Boogie (A Psychoalphadiscobetabioaquadoloop)" which went to number one on the Billboard Black Singles chart.

Motor Booty Affair
Studio album by
Parliament
ReleasedNovember 20th, 1978
RecordedAugust 1977–July 1978
GenreFunk
Length46:24
LabelCasablanca
ProducerGeorge Clinton
Parliament chronology
Funkentelechy Vs. the Placebo Syndrome
(1977)		 Motor Booty Affair
(1978)		 Gloryhallastoopid (Or Pin the Tail on the Funky)
(1979)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Christgau's Record GuideA–[2]
Rolling Stone[3]
Virgin Encyclopedia[4]

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". 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. The album was Parliament's fifth consecutive gold album (500,000 copies sold).

Track listing
  1. "Mr. Wiggles" – 6:46
  2. "Rumpofsteelskin" – 5:37 (released as a single-Casablanca NB 976)
  3. "(You're a Fish & I'm a) Water Sign" – 4:42 (released as the B-side to "Aqua Boogie")
  4. "Aqua Boogie (A Psychoalphadiscobetabioaquadoloop)" – 6:43 (released as a single-Casablanca NB 950 and as a 12" single-Casablanca NBD 20147)
  5. "One of Those Funky Thangs" – 3:46
  6. "Liquid Sunshine" – 4:25 (released as the B-side to "Rumpofsteelskin")
  7. "The Motor-Booty Affair" – 5:16
  8. "Deep" – 9:09

Personnel

Snorkel Singing Air Tank Harmonics:

Liquid Licks (Motor-Madness Musicians):

References
  1. Motor Booty Affair at AllMusic
  2. Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: P". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved March 10, 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.
  3. Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian David (2004). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide. Simon and Schuster. p. 619. ISBN 9780743201698.
  4. http://www.acclaimedmusic.net/Current/A2728.htm
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