Love these 5 tracks. My favorite is Osaka and Tokyo. Nice instrumental jazz tracks with the exception of "Empty Room", which is a more of a rock track, and another favorite.

Another side of the music genius Prince. Copenhagen/Nagoya/Osaka/Tokyo, these tracks are good when you want to chill, lay back, listen to some good music, close your eyes, and soak it all in, like a "Take a minute to smell the coffee" moment. I don't think I've seen anyone talk about these 4 jazz tracks (not including "Empty Room), as often as other songs he's sang/performed.

I purchased these off the old NPGMC site when C-Note was offered for purchase.
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I like them too

The ONA1N1 virus hit me so hard back in 2002 that I ended up going from DC to the Celly, to London, to Osaka and Nagoya, and then to the Aladdin.

Every time I listen to Osaka and Nagoya, it takes me back to those particular soundchecks. I consider those tracks my special souvenirs.

Throw in the fact that the opening Rainbow Children track on ONA Live! came from one of my DC shows, I ended up on stage in London, and my ugly mug ended up on the face of Aladdin DVD, I've got nothing but blissful memories of 2002, even if some heffa did steal my seat at the Aladdin..

CJBabyDaddy said:

Yes, they're both nice tracks.
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love it!

osaka/tokyo are my favorits too. especially the rain and weird bird/forrest
sounds on the tracks. the atmosphere in them is totally awesome.

while "empty room" is one of my personal favorit prince tracks, it does feel
a bit out of place here, imo. although the transition is made a bit easier
due to the 'vocals' on tokyo.

CJBabyDaddy said:

is there a 'green with envy' emoticon? cuz i need it now

Love them.....in fact i liked the direction Prince was moving around that time..more organic music...TRC, ONA live, ONA Piano, C-note..a lot (not all) just great stuff.

Am I the only one who thinks C-Note is way better than N.E.W.S.?

I severely neglected this. I play NEWS more. Hell I never play CNOTE (100 dollar bill lol). I will now. But that high pitched violin...ugh

Copenhagen

IstenSzek said:

I agree, that "Empty Room" did feel a bit out of place on that track.

xlr8r said:

I actually never had the NEWS cd. I did see it at a Best Buy not too long ago. Maybe one day I'll buy it and check it out.

2elijah said:

2el you dont have this?!

By all means pick it up. Its not bad. Of course there's the idiots who chime in that "oh it's not even real jazz" blah blah blah but they are very good instrumental peices.

I like the japanese tracks. i wish i still had this on my computer.

xlr8r said:

No and I saw it on the shelf at Best Buy 2 years ago when I was buying some other Prince cds. I knew I should have bought it. I will have to make a trip to Best Buy in the next two weeks and pick it up.
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stichdoll said:

Listen, I safeguarded my copy of CD downloads from NPGMC. I knew that if I didn't, I would lose my copies. I love C-NOTE!!!!
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C_NOte was a sly dig (although nice pressie) from prince to everyone who moaned about the npgmc website not giving away enough stuff.

Skipped forward to 2010 we should all be in for one hell of a present!

....

lotusflw3r said:

Really? Interesting.

lotusflw3r said:

Yes, no coincidence that CNOTE is a $100 bill, which was the yearly subscription rate of the NPGMC at that time. His other "free" download was Xpectation - the title itself was another dig to fans.

Also, each CNOTE track was initially released to a specific region via email. For example, the US might get Copenhagen while the UK got Osaka and France got Nagoya. We were instructed not to share the links with others. I believe Prince was conducting his own "honor system" experiment, all the while knowing full well that those links would be shared.

It was not officially called CNOTE until the Musicology Store a few years later.

lotusflw3r said:

LXXVII-NOTE?

xlr8r said:

there is no high pitched violin on C-Note. you're probably thinking
of Xpectation which has vanessa mae's violin on several tracks.

IstenSzek said:

I was wondering what xlr8r was talking about, because I didn't hear that on C-NOTE tracks.

IstenSzek said:

That was exactly what I was talking about, Xpetation. I got confused with discussing it on NEWS thread I think. It is Xpectation I need to revisit.