Parliament Funkadelic "Motor Booty Affair" [1978]

Proof positive that kitschy white groups like Alice Cooper, Kiss and Devo in no way corner the market on embarrassingly foolish schtick. Parliament Funkadelic had been robbing record companies blind for years by the time of "Motor Booty Affair"'s release, their first LP after the incredibly improbable hit "Flash Light" from their previous album. Obviously spending all the money on reel-to-reel tape and blow, George Clinton's business model -- throwing a party for moocher funk musicians and just letting the machines roll -- had obviously taken its toll on his brain cells and integrity by then, with "Motor Booty Affair" full of imbecilic caricatures talking over each other amid the impersonating of 70s idiots like Howard Cosell. Shows you how lame the parties must have been in 1978 that this was still considered "party music." Rivaling future hip-hop acts for using a maximum amount of words to say absolutely nothing, "Motor Booty Affair" is the Casablanca Records version of those annoying kids at the back of the bus. For all the spaceship props and extensive shirtless costuming, George Clinton's "concept" of some otherwordly futuristic outer-space nonsense makes Sun Ra seem comprehensible by comparison. Maybe it sounds better with enough drugs in your system; Clinton obviously thought so.