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01. Party On Plastic (What's Bootsy Doin'?)
02. Subliminal Seduction (Funk Me Dirty)
03. Leakin'
04. Shock-It-To-Me
05. First One 2 The Egg Wins (The Human Race)
06. Love Song
07. Kissin' U (I Wannabee)
08. Yo-Moma-Loves-Ya
09. Save What's Mine For Me

Bootsy' first record in six years shows he hasn't wasted his time out of the spotlight: the music isn't stuck in the Seventies but it isn't self-consciously up-to-date either; the Space Bass is here but it never overshadows the rest of the track; the lyrics are smart and to the point. (DBW)

What the funk? After all these years of "shake your thang" pretenders, you're tellin' me that Bootsy's back?! You mean the bassist /drummer /guitarist /vocalist /producer who jammed with the happeningest jammers, James Brown and George Clinton (to name a few), is back on plastic here in 1988?? The answer is yes, yes, YES!! Bootsy gets a cast of almost a hundred together for one huge party session, and it all starts with "Party On Plastic (What's Bootsy Doin'?)," a rap-funk rave with a great rap intro by Pretty Fatt and a wild "Hey Jude" break near the end. And that's only the beginning. The updated Bootsy sound takes Funkadelic past and mixes in the computer/synthesizer present. While much
of today's dance music is becoming stale with samples and dehumanized synths, Bootsy and company (which does include George Clinton) cuts the groove thick and hard without drum machine aftertaste-check out the
computer voices and samples that move the music in "Yo-Moma-Loves Ya" and the square dance (!) influenced "Shock-It-To-Me." But above all, this album is fun, as you can hear on the hilarious "1st One 2 The Egg Wins," a battle of the sperms. At the close of the song, Bootsy asks: "What's the name of this town/And who's gonna get on down?" The resounding answer: "Bootsy! Bootsy!" Damn right.

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Personnel: William "Bootsy" Collins (vocals, bass, guitar, keyboards, programming); Casper, Luv-Gun, Sugar Crook, Baby LeRoy, Gary "Mud-bone" Cooper, Sly Fox (vocals); Ron "Attitude" Jennings, "Catfish" Collins, Stevie Salas (guitar); Billy Bang (strings); Fred Wesley, Maceo Parker, Kush Griffin, Rick Gardner (horns); Trey Stone, Wes Boatman (keyboards); Mico Wave (keyboards, background vocals).

Additional personnel: P-Nut Johnson, Vicky Vee, Tony Feldman, George Clinton, Taka Boom, Malia Franklin, Carolyn Stanford, Anita Walker, Cynthia Gurty, Bernard Fowler, Eddie Martinez, Nicky Skopelitis, Bernie
Worrell, William Johnson, Sharir Forman, Yolanda Fraizer.

Recorded at Pearl Sound Studios, Canton, Michigan and RTG, Cincinnati,
Ohio.

All songs written or co-written by Bootsy Collins.