currently searching for this to add to my collection, but its just so expensive. how come?

Packaging.

Bait and switch. The Hits offered more in 3 disks than ONA Live does. I still don't own it.

squirrelgrease said:

yup.


Also, for a live album, it's not that good.
He chose bad songs, heavy with Rainbow Children material, and all the vibrancy and energy the audience brought to the bootleg versions of his performances during that era where mixed out of the recording, making the live music feel a bit dull.

It's not a terrible album--just not one that showcases the brilliance of his live performances.

well, it's one of the finl few i need to have them all so i still want it. but £50 is a lot of money

loved it! Mayb u can find it 4 less on Ebay.

Imago said:

I don't think the audience noise was ever in the mix in the first place to be taken out. I love the album myself, but higher audience levels would have added so much. Just listen to the difference in the Lovesexy recording (where the audience mix is actually possibly too high) - it feels so much more like the experience of actually being at the show.

Imago said:

He chose bad venues to pull material from. The bonus disc which featured his best ever live performance "joy in repetiton" from the NYC show, as someone that was there the entire BOX set should have been pulled from the NYC show and aftershow, the other crowds were lame.

Leecaldon is correct.

As explained in interview with his sound engineer, the first (US) leg of the tour was recorded using exactly the same set-up each evening. Prince chose to focus on the sound from the band with little captured from the audience.