wellbeyond said:

So everyone should all love it should they? No one is allowed their own opinion. Its Prince and you must like it or shutup and be quiet. You would have done well in 30s Germany.

Oh and its blinkered tit not twit. Please pay attention.

I can't wait for my piano and voice version of, "Hey Hannigan"!!!!

While I would love for that to happen and its a great idea, that is probably has never been a part of Princes planned intentions. . .


actually, i had a chance to ask P about releasing live CD's at a soundcheck last year and he said it was in the works or something like that . . . .

4everYoung said:

Is that part of the written agreement we all received?

Silvergroover said:

Hey..someone else who gets it.

Prince's first 4 albums were all short. (Approximate times)

For You: 36:44
Prince: 40:47
Dirty Mind: 30:10
Controversy: 37:11

So you're already complaining about the length of the album, and most of you haven't heard it yet. Do you consider any of these albums above to be "too short"? Would you dismiss them because of their length alone?

You'll bring up the $25 argument . . . yes it is a little high, but some of you are the same people who will pay $50 for a CD-single if you didn't have it in your collection . . . why complain now?

And Prince always counted those 4 songs from January as part of this album.

At least wait until you've received all of your albums this year . . . who knows, one may be 2 hours - you don't know . . . will you then complain that it's too long?

Well if Prince put 10 tracks on ONA inluding the 4 previously downloaded tracks, then people would be pissed and say why coouldnt he have taken those 4 off and given us 4 other ones. If he kept those songs off and gave us 14 completely new tracks without the previously downloaded previewed ones then people would be pissed that they werent included so we could have them in cd quality.

JimmyNothing said:

There will always be people who will NEVER be satisfied and bitch and complain. Even if Prince released his whole vault untouched, people would still complain. I bet my life on it.

Yeah, we know it's short, big deal- most albums put out by most artists today are still the length of the old lps from back in the day. Weezer albums are about 30 minutes long, as are Sugar Ray albums, etc. See this is the thing, you wanna know why albums today don't stand up to albums of the past? They have too many songs on them. It creates an increased amount of weak material. The albums lose their cohesiveness because it takes more than one sitting to get through one. One other thing to think about: The Truth was roughly the same length as One Nite Alone. That's part of the plan with these acoustic albums it seems. One brief, intimate cycle of songs. Yeah, we've heard 6 of these songs. These 6 songs are very strong. They fit together. And I wanted to have them on an official album. Can't wait to hear the other four together with these. Should be a soothing, beautiful CD.

CmputrBlu said:

Well there's talk that those 4 already dl songs may not eb the exact instrumentation as the ones released on ONA. I get it dont worry.

When these songs first became available I considered them to be like a cd single. A preview of the coming cd which would include these songs. I made the choice not to listen to them until the whole cd was released so I wouldn't be tired of them. It was never hidden that these were upcoming cd tracks. Why acted pissed now? You've known this for a while.

jtgillia said:

Bingo..plus who "needs" 70 minutes anyways?

ZaZa said:

Someone who gets it

35 minutes? Doesn't that constitute an EP? I've got Rancid albums that are longer than that. What a fucking joke, we should've known Prince would try to get by with as little as possible. Oh well, at least I can toss those last few MP3's. They sounded like crap anyway.

QUALITY NOT QUANTITY.

Afterall, isn't that what you 'complainers' have been trying to tell Prince for years? But hey, maybe you just enjoy having something to complain about.

I'd advise that you reserve comments until you actually hear the CD in its entirety.

Antony7 said:

I think that their pussy hurts.

rdhull said:

Well, I'm not used to buy CDs and to put them aside, not listening to them, same goes with last year's NPGMC...
What we didn't know for a while was that what we bought last year would make up half of what we're buying today... One of NPGMC's main problem is the lack of information, usually, when you buy something, you know what you are.

35 minutes?? The Truth was longer than that!!

7kisses4u said:

Yup I wonder, I'm less than 15 miles from the park and no CD, maybe we should request a "pick up" option 2 NPGMC )

35 minutes?? So I payed 80 cents a minute for this new Prince album? Isn't that like 1-976 rates? I feel so dirty!

Antony7 said:

EXACTLY!!! Some people rant and rave about NPS and Exodus (which are shit) but complain that this ONA CD is 10 minutes shorter that Prince's average album . . .

Would you RATHER have 10 more minutes of crap? Or would you rather have a beautiful, cohesive album?

35 minutes?? 25 or which I payed for last year and spent time downloading? You people who aren't pissed are some serious fools!!

swanny said:

Oversimplification seems to be your strong suit, I see...I simply said that I could already see what people were gonna complain about...mind pointing out where in my post I said they didn't have a right to do so???...What's that??..You don't see it anywhere in my post??...That's because I never said they didn't...so keep your moronic "30's Germany" remarks private...


Even worse...

JimmyNothing said:

If you think Exodus is shit you are not a Prince fan!

35 minutes?? I've cried for longer than that in one sitting!!

35 minutes?? It's the same amount of time it would take to compile everything that W. Bush has said in his lifetime that was somewhat coherent!! 35 minutes, fuck you! The Letitgo single is longer than that!

35 minutes that's like what 3 good love and rockets songs?

Time albums where longer than 35 minutes!!

4 all u who keep whingeing and moaning about the length of ONA u would whinge no matter what so i suggest u fuck off and dont join next year im sick of your fucking moaning

if i was prince and i read the org id say fuck the lot of u and close the lub after year 2.

he has given us so much more over 2 decades than u can ever hope 2 listen to regularly, so just calm the fuck down

So what your saying is that this is the shortest AND most expensive one disc Prince album I will ever buy... hmmmm... maybe I should've just burned it from a friend. I'll tell you what, I'm going to feel no guilt about burning these off for my friends.