Editing Motor Booty Affair (section)

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{{Infobox album
| name       = Motor Booty Affair
| type       = studio
| artist     = [[Parliament (band)|Parliament]]
| cover      = Motor Booty Affair.png
| alt        =
| released   = 1978
| recorded   = August 1977–July 1978
| venue      =
| studio     =
| genre      = [[Funk]]
| length     = 46:24
| label      = [[Casablanca Records|Casablanca]]
| producer   = [[George Clinton (funk musician)|George Clinton]]
| prev_title = [[Funkentelechy Vs. the Placebo Syndrome]]
| prev_year  = 1977
| next_title = [[Gloryhallastoopid|Gloryhallastoopid (Or Pin the Tail on the Funky)]]
| next_year  = 1979
}}
'''''Motor Booty Affair''''' is the seventh album by [[funk]] band [[Parliament (band)|Parliament]], released in 1978.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Rough Guide to Rock |date=1999 |publisher=Rough Guides Ltd |page=772 |edition=2nd}}</ref> 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''.<ref>{{cite book |title=Afrofuturism: A History of Black Futures |date=2023 |publisher=Smithsonian Institution |page=163}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Harvilla |first1=Rob |title=Delicious Vinyl |work=The Village Voice |issue=44 |date=31 Oct 2007 |page=78}}</ref> The album was Parliament's fifth consecutive gold album (500,000 copies sold).