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Space Project - Conquest of the Stars

This was a total surprise. I bought it thinking it was likely a trippy prog rock album, maybe something like Starcastle, although the art wasn't as good. It was a little better than a high school mural, but then again it was kind of cool in a way too. I don't know why I thought of GNIDROLOG and their Lady Lake album but I was thinking, "long songs, spacey cover, gotta be prog." You know what they say when you assume. This ... was ... disco. I suppose the thought was, "If Meco can have a disco hit with a Star Wars song, just think what we could achieve with a whole album of space disco!" So Dominic Sciscente, Michel Daigle and J. Lafleche sat around brainstorming, and after a few beers, it was decided they'd need to have a spectacular cover. There needed to be space boobs, and oh, and an astronaut, but he needed to have a video camera and be holding a space shovel, and then some other goofy shit. It didn't have to make sense, but it needed to look li...