Motor Booty Affair [Picture Disc]

Motor Booty Affair is the seventh album by funk band Parliament, released in 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 Soul Singles chart.

The artist Overton Loyd created the art for 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 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).