Apollo - Apollo

I'm a sucker for all things funkonaut. This album was released on Motown in 1979 with Berry Gordy's son Kerry as the leader. As soon as I saw the spaceship on the cover, the beamed-down funkateers, and the fact that there was a track entitled "Astro-Disco", I was powerless. I had to buy it. And I do not regret the decision. "Astro-Disco" is like 8 minutes of non-stop disco madness with lots of spaceship themed sound effects and an extended outro, hootin and hollering, and everything else that is good in the world. There's even a couple crunchy breaks! The rest of the album is no slouch either, with the disco cliches being just barely offset by synth squelches and the prominent space theme. "Space Cannibals" is as dope as it should be with a title like that, pretty much an instrumental funk jam with a lot of echoey savage howling and some equally savage guitar shreds, with the only lyrics being "all night long, all night long." And the last track is a ripping cover of the classic "Do You Love Me" that does disco justice to the original. My favorite shit in this world is when lushly orchestrated disco chords are melded with shimmering synth chords. That shit is all over this record.