Motor Booty Affair

Motor Booty Affair
Studio album by
Parliament
Released1978
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)

Motor Booty Affair is the seventh album by funk band Parliament, released in 1978.[1] It contains two of the group's most popular tracks, "Rumpofsteelskin" and "Aqua Boogie (A Psychoalphadiscobetabioaquadoloop)", which went to number one on the Billboard Soul Singles chart.

Artist Overton Loyd created the art for Motor Booty Affair.[2] 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 a picture disk, with Loyd's illustration printed directly on the vinyl LP.[3] The album was Parliament's fifth consecutive gold album (500,000 copies sold).

  1. ^ The Rough Guide to Rock (2nd ed.). Rough Guides Ltd. 1999. p. 772.
  2. ^ Afrofuturism: A History of Black Futures. Smithsonian Institution. 2023. p. 163.
  3. ^ Harvilla, Rob (October 31, 2007). "Delicious Vinyl". The Village Voice. No. 44. p. 78.