Why doesn't anyone recognise "C-Note" as a genuine album
around here?

A lot of people seem to have never even heard about it at
all. So are there really a lot of people who downloaded
just a single track when they got that npgmc email and did
not find out about the other 4 tracks??

It's an incredible album people. I burnt myself a copy &
have been enjoying it ever since the tracks were 1st put
up on npgmc.

I've placed the original unedited 13:37min. "Copenhagen"
at the end as a special bonus.

It's short. Very short, especially without the bonus cut
but that doesn't make it any less special.

I won't even start about the other songs, but you have to
admit that

"Osaka" & "Tokyo"

are pretty special. Would you have imagined Prince coming
up with this, after NPS and RAVE and all that? To think
it was cut live for the most part makes it even more
special. You can even hear the audience in some parts.

Yup, for me "C-Note" is the middle album in a weird jazzy
instrumental trilogy that started with "Xpectation" and
-for now- ended with NEWS.

PEACE N B WiLD!!!

IstenSzek said:

I see C-NOTE as the 4th cd with the ONAL.
Its live recordings from the same tour.

thedoorkeeper said:

With the exception being that there isn't anything on either
3 discs of ONA Live that's remotely as interesting as those
C-Note Trax



Just kidding, to each their own, I just don't like Ona Live

4jamiestarr said:

What? Disbelief at what? You can't just make a face like
that and just leave? Hit and run like that! We don't do
that over here. Come back here and explain yourself!!!

CNOTE kicks that ass, it's true.

Anxiety said:

Thanks! I knew you would back me up on this. You've got the
T.A.S.T.E.

I think I must have joined the NPGMC right after "C-NOTE" and "XPectation"... I had 2 find Xpectation online, and couldn't find "C-Note"... I'm still curious.

I WILL be buying the 7CD set, as I wasn't a member before.

I do have ONA shows from Copenhaugen, Tokyo, etc... I wonder if I already have a few of these.

Peace.

G.

Giovanni777 said:

As far as I know they're all instrumental trax taped at
the soundchecks in the cities which name they've been
dubbed: Copenhagen from Copenhagen soundcheck etc etc.

I'm tempted to perhaps buy the boxset just to have those
songs in CD quality. they are THAT great. believe me.

Yeah... I do have the Copenhaugen one... 14:29. This blew me away when I first heard it... so clean and tight, it sounds from the studio, not soundcheck!!! ...and well recorded.

I can only hope the others are as tight as this.

I also hope Copenhaugen didn't get chopped.

Thanks, Bro.

G.

Initially Copenhagen was about 3:30 minutes longer, but they
took that version down and put up a new one.

The only difference is that they took the first 3-4 minutes
off. The rest is just the same.

It was probably something to do with the fact that those
first few minutes featured "Jean Piere" by Miles Davis.

I stopped using the laptop I downloaded them on right after it came out. I don't think I've ever listened to any of the tracks, save Empty Room, in its entirety.

IstenSzek said:

Jehovah willing, yeah.

ive loved this right from day 1.

copenhagen

nagoya
osaka
tokyo
empty room

every1 seems 2 agree on this 1

xlent !

I LOVE those CNote tracks...

I even started a thread on "Osaka" months ago but it went largely unnoticed...

When I finally took the time to listen to all 4 properly I fell in love...especially "Copenhagen" that´s got some fascinating moments.

For me the trilogy Xpectation, CNotes and NEWS is highly satisfying...I just can´t understand why some people are continually dogging Prince´s most recent music

I really think he is on the right track again and I am so glad for that

I love the OTE part, but the CN don't do too much for me. It's definitely not an album or worth being one as-is!

nah, its not an album.. its just 4/5 songs from the tour.. thats it.. nothing more..

C-NOTE rocks my pussy!

TRON said:

C-NOTE - the extended EP, anyone? I would love to have had a few more tracks like these to make a full album.

Nagoya, Osaka and Tokyo all rock, and the latter 2 display a (probably coincidental) early 'Massive Attack' influence.

Very nice momentoes of perhaps Prince's best ever tour.

I don't begrudge him going out on his current tour to make some money from his 'greatest hits songbook', but it's a shame that he's not out there doing 'the work', ie. giving the people real music for today that he truly believes in, rather than nostalgia music from someone he once was, listened to by people who want to look back rather than forward.

It's a shame 'the marketplace' won't let him do this, and tour music like 'Xpectation', NEWS & C-NOTE (with and without vocals) stuff properly (with maybe some choice 'oldies' amd rarities like 'Empty Room' thrown in). It's a sad comment on the state of the 'commercial music industry' that real artists like Prince have to drag their old catalogue around the world to make some dough when I'm sure they'd rather be concentrating on showing off their newest stuff.I love the old stuff, but I'd rather hear (mostly) new stuff showing us where he is now.

Or am I being too harsh?

Now after Avalanche even more songs that you reminded me of that I have to listen to tomorrow!

calldapplwondery83 said:

INjoy.