Princess Superstar Last Of The Great 20th Century Composers CD

Full Title - Last Of The Great 20th Century Composers. In the year 2000 Last Of The Great 20th Century Composers was self-released on the infamous Princess Superstar's own label, the Corrupt Conglomerate. A fitting prelude to 2000s smash Princess Superstar IS, this classic features Princess' signature lascivious lyricism and off-kilter production alongside collaborations with music's brightest lights, from De La Soul alumni and hip-hop legend Prince Paul to former Fugee John Forte to The Blues Explosion's Jon Spencer. It burst on the scene with its slick, giddy egotism, assy-drenched brassyness and undeniably slamming beats. If the world got a taste of Princess Superstar from singles like 'Do It Like A Robot' and Disco D's 'F**k Me On The Dancefloor,' then Last Of The Great 20th Century Composers was what whet their appetite. 2003.

This is an Enhanced audio CD which contains regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.
Personnel includes: Princess Superstar, Prince Paul, Kool Keith, Jon Forte, Baron Ricks.
This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.
Last of the Great 20th Century Composers comes with a fascinating back story. In the "Porn Wars of 2113," New York City is destroyed. Centuries later archaeologists discover beneath the rubble and ruin a mysterious cylindrical artifact containing recordings from an artist known only as Princess Superstar. The archaeologists carbon-date the recordings to the end of the 20th millennium, and thus the artist thenceforth mythically comes to be considered "the last of the great twentieth century composers." As such a wildly creative premise suggests, Princess Superstar literally sweats urban creativity, and never more so than on her third full-length. As on her previous efforts, the album knows no bounds and uncoils in every conceivable direction, down every dark alley and into every nightscape the city has to offer. The brilliant syncopated electro-rock of "Do It Like a Robot" is the best kind of mechanical rump shaking. Jon Spencer later turns the same song into deconstructed avant-rock sludge-boogie via a remix, and it almost sounds like a different song, but it also gives one clue as to the limitless range and skill of Concetta Kirshner. The Beastie Boys-like hardcore punk workout "Sex (I Like)" takes that skill to one extreme, and "I Hope I Sell a Lot of Records at Christmastime" -- the best hip-hop holiday cut since Run-D.M.C.'s "Christmas in Hollis" and maybe the most relevant spin on modern Christmas season sensibilities yet -- pushes it to the other. Besides being sharp-eyed and tart-tongued, Kirshner is terribly intelligent, twisting every conceivable sonic touchstone, personal insight, play on words, double entendre, and pop cultural reference into brilliantly fun concept-hop-urban music of the most progressive type. "Meet You Halfway (Keep It on the Alright)" is aeronautically funky abstract hip-hop that is a good three or four steps ahead of everyone else in ...