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Motor Booty Affair

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The music the lyrics everything about this particular Album rocked then as it does now. The MOTOR BOOTY AFFAIR was not just well done it was funny without being over the top vulgar. Unlike today's in your face nasty lyrics this was sexual tinted situations with good natured fun thrown in. This was music back when artists knew how to say just enough in a song to inspire your inner freak to take over and fill in ALL the blanks. Trust me the fantasies most people's inner PFUNK Freak create are far more kinky, graphic and strange than the stuff you hear detailed in todays music.

I loved the PSYHOALPHADISCOBETABIOAQUADOOLOOP! Parliament just blows most other music away. Just add George Duke's Dukey Stick and Bootsy Collins Bootzilla (Worlds Only Rhinestone Rock Star Doll Baby Bubba: JUST Wind Me UP!) and you would have a really large funk party. If you like this Motor Booty Affair music For its Fun P-Funkability look also at Parliament's: Tales From The Black Hole... Where Sir Nose and The Star Child have their great battle... It too is halarious.

You will enjoy this if you like PFUNK because you can't do much better feeding your PFunk JONES than buying The Motor Booty Affair. This collection of Exceptionally PFine PFunk is Especially good if you like hanging out with a Mouse Named JAWS or trading water signs with a meirmaid named Rita! If you are really lucky Motor Booty Affair PFUNK will teach you how to swim under water without getting wet! Just Ask Sir Nose De Void Of FUNK he learned How to do that very thing! I told you this album is funny buy it you will hear Exactly what I mean.

Peace to you all
Wolfy

When I first got into *the funk*, I started out by listening to James Brown, then somehow found The Ohio Players, The JBs, Gil Scott Heron, Tower of Power... stuff like that. - - At that time, not many P-Funk albums were in re-issue, but you could still get Mothership Connection and the Greatest Hits one. - - Hearing them for the first time was like a brick to the rump. Their strange mix of funk, disco, sci fi and music that sounded like you were tuning into a funky black radio station, circa 1976... on some distant planet (or in this case underwater) - - well, I didnt know how to take it... I mean, it wasnt your typical anything. It was like the Firesign Theatre on more drugs, with Bootsy and a few other outcasts from the JBs at the helm, and a madman at the lead (actually it was ! ! ! )

As for this album... to me, its one of Parliaments tightest - - conceptually and rhythmically. It is very funky, and I love the timbales and congas on this. The songs have a drive to them and Bootsy and The Horny Horns are hitting hard. In fact, while in early albums its pretty much Bernie Worell at the healm, in this album, the band overall shines. - - Theres even a great and spacy love song that is a close contender to Bootsys Whats a Telephone Bill... however for the most part this album is basically wacked out and intensive dancefloor music. Its the one Parliament album I ALWAYS find myself coming back to. (IF you like this album youll probably love CLONES OF DR. FUNKENSTEIN as well, an album in which THE HORNY HORNS are amply showcased.)

The audio samples should do the selling ! - - Incidently check out VERY early CAMEO (circa FUNK FUNK)... speaking of CLONES of Dr. Funkenstein.

The Motor Booty Affair has a unique sound for a Parliament album, but it ranks up there with Mothership Connection as one of the band's supreme accomplishments. Basically it is a loose concept album about funky goings-on in the underwater city of Atlantis. As a result, there are various attempts at crafting an "underwater" sound, from extra-bubbly bass to gargling vocals to swirling horns and guitars, and of course, innumerable oceanic puns. The length to which they succeed is more than admirable. Most importantly, though, this is a collection of nine tremendous songs.

The one-two punch of "Mr. Wiggles" and "Rumpofsteelskin" introduce us to a couple of new characters in the Parliament universe, but more importantly set the tone with bouncy, light-hearted grooves that rank among the catchiest the band has ever recorded. Gone is the darkness of "Sir Nose D'Voidoffunk" and the social commentary of "Chocolate City". This is life-affirming music. Nowhere else has George Clinton and company ever made a whole album this fun, all the way through. "Water Sign" is the only down-tempo track on the album, and it mixes the group's trademark sleaze with a somewhat sincere attempt at a love song. It is truly a delirious highlight. Before we get too relaxed, however, Parliament picks up the pace again with "Aqua Boogie" and "One of Those Funky Things". "Liquid Sunshine" is an experience all to itself, from the trippy onslaught of an intro to the relentless, pulsating funk of the track's climax. The title track edges up real close to disco, but Parliament is so secure in their funkiness that there's no chance of them falling into the chasm. In fact, after the bridge, you'll probably find yourself questioning how it's possible that any band ever sounded so unselfconsciously funky. By the time the epic closer, "Deep", rolls around, you're not sure if you've been funking for a matter of minutes or hours, but you can rest assured that you aren't about to stop.

Whenever I hear Motor Booty Affair, I'm convinced that it's the greatest album ever recorded by Parliament, Funkadelic, George Clinton or anybody else for that matter. Of course, there are a few other albums I can say that about as well. One thing is for sure, however, and that is no P-Funk incarnation ever recorded an album that melded all of the individual band member's talents into such a seamless, unstoppable force. You're never inclined to say "that's a Bernie Worrell track" or "the horns really carry that one". Instead, all of the instruments are woven into a dense fabric that is difficult to separate. The grooves are never really spaced out like they are on prior Parliament albums (although they are definitely "spaced out"), and the layered, vocals-by-committee approach was never really used as effectively before. In all, Parliament delivers a perfect, intense blast of Summer funk that never lets the party slow up.

When this album came out. I was so much in awe of the whole concept. The album cover, the pop up comic's. The artwork, but most of all the way you can see "Walter Junie Morrison"'s signature all over the place. This album like the other peron's review said, it is the "underwater" version of "Mothership Connection". The Mothership is "out there" while "Motor Booty" is benath there...sorta speak. I like the entire album, but the one slow song is actually about "going down" (if you know what I mean)....In the song "Im a fish" ("can we go down, when we get down?") And of course a reference to "tootin" in the song "DEEP", "You can take a horse to water, but you can't make him snort coke"..or somn silly like "You can tune a piano, but you can't TUNE A FISH!". It would have been a great soundtrack for that Little Mermaid from Disney!.....anyway, I think it's a great CD. it is bright, it's brilliant. The arrangements are soo funky. The vocals, horns, and everything. If U a PFUNK fan, you gotta have this album. The Son "Rumpofsteelskin" was originally for a Bootsy album, but the Boot was cool wit it being on this joint!

Of course, as far as the Parliament side of George Clinton's
"Parliafunkadelicment Thang", late 1975's
"Mothership Connection" was their breakthrough
and most complete opus!--Bar None!
Not taking away from "Clones Of Dr. Funkenstein",
"Live"or "Funkentelechy VS The Placebo Syndrome"...
they were all good too!
But as far as vision and scope, "Mothership" was the truth!
This album though, 1978's "Motor Booty Affair"
is a very close second!
The concept of Starchild and the whole outer space
funk mob going down to the lost city of Atlantis
and causing it to rise from the bottom of the sea with
Da' Funk!!--I mean, c'mon!
George Clinton casts himself as Mr. Wiggles as well as
Starchild, along with the infamous Sir Nose D' Voidoffunk
and a new water-bound nemesis "RumpofSteelskin",
who can't shake his booty because it's made of titanium!
LOL!!--Brilliant!!
I like all of the songs on this one as I did with
"Mothership" as well as their sequence.
The stand outs are:
"Rumpofsteelskin", "Aqua Boogie", "One Of Those Funky Thangz", "Liquid Sunshine",
"Motor Booty Affair" and "Deep"!!
You can't go wrong with this classic album!---Go WIGGLE!!

Junie Morrison was the leader of the Ohio Players back in their Westbound Records phase and wrote, produced and played a ton of instruments on their early albums.

What people do NOT know is that he for all intents and purposes drove the P-funk studio bus from the mid 70's through the mid 80's. He is listed as JS Theracon on the album credits on this, what I consider their (and his) high water mark.

In addition to providing most of the basic instrumentation and weird vocals along with George on this one he also wrote One Nation and Not Just Knee Deep. Yes. Him. Check him out. His website will explain all.

His genius in P-funk land is only outdone by Bootsy, another multi-instrumentalist, and Bernie Worrell, who should be playing at the Met, but I am glad to have the Wizard of Woo for the funkateers.

Although Glen Goins vocals were missed due to his untimely death, Walter "Junie" Morrison fills in some vocal and conceptual voids. His surreal sense of humor and wailing vocals can be heard on "Aqua Boogie", "Deep", "Water Sign", and the title track (also hear "One Nation Under a Groove.) The Bootsy funk fest on this album is definitely "Rumpofsteelskin". This album is Parliament at its most lyrically creative.

This was better than drugs! funk underwater and that, That Bird!! George, I take my hat off to you Mr. Clinton! this is what happens when you get "touched" by PFunk--Parliament/Funkadelic let you know "We Got This"--underwater Funk, you can't get better than that! What's next, they probably start their own army wavin' a funk Flag----Oh yeah, they did that same year--What a Funk Mob!!

'Motor Booty Affair' is one of the greatest albums by Parliament. That is not only because it features incredible funky musicians (for example: Bernie Worrell, Bootsy Collins, Junie Morrison, George Clinton etc. etc.), extremely funky tracks (there's no weak one: it's all good!) and beautiful and hilarious cover art (done by Overton Loyd), but that's also because it has an brilliant imaginative concept: you can dance under water without getting wet! Beware Sir Nose! Star Child has brought his allies, Mr. Wiggles and Rumpofsteelskin! The Mothership goes underwater, where Atlantis waits to be raised for the ultimate get-down. Underwater boogie. Buy this album and you will go psychoalphadiscobetabioaquadooloop!

I am one of those P. Funk fans who thinks that MOTHERSHIP CONNECTION is the most influential and the best album that Parliament ever released. All of Parliament's albums are great from UP FOR THE DOWN STROKE and on, but this album certainly can be considered a close second to MOTHERSHIP. This album sticks with the theme/concept more than any other release by the mob. (Mostly because it was originally a soundtrack for a P. Funk film that never went through.) FUNKENTELECHY is a work of art, but MOTOR BOOTY is definitely more cohesive. From "Mr. Wiggles" you can tell that these guys were intent on taking funk to a whole nother level. "Rumpofsteelskin" is one of the funkiest tracks I've ever heard, with an ingenious horn arrangement. "Water Sign" is a great doowop-like track that is somewhat similar to "Wizard of Finance" in the style. Nothing much more can be said about "Aqua Boogie." The title track has one of the funkiest bass lines I've aver heard out of any song. Then, my personal favorite, "Deep" closes the album in grand style, with clever puns and another great horn section. This album is great, and all of the songs have something new for you. Pick up CLONES OF DR. FUNKENSTEIN, along with FUNKENTELECHY to get the best of the later P. Funk. Don't sleep on Funkadelic either.

Make my funk the P. Funk