Just wondering what u guys think of this album.

do you mean: the Piano album??

or the 3cd live album??

I don't like any of those.

Love the live albums! All of them! The Rainbow Children songs are great (better live than studio imo). And I'm crazy about the version of Adore, an all-time favorite Prince song of mine.

And last but not least, I'm simply in love with A Case of U from the Piano album. It's not even a Prince composition, but I think it shows his abilities as a musician, arranger and singer, the way he puts his heart into a classic Joan Mitchell song. Love love love it!

I try to listen to the whole Prince catalogue, also to discover new songs I haven't really paid attention to before, but I keep coming back to the One Nite Alone's...

I've listened to various tracks and love them but don't have the cd box.

Amazon has only two new ones but they won't ship to my address! Don't know why, coz they ship books and all other stuff for me

And I'm not paying $199,99 for a used copy!

BHD97 said:

Just wondering what u guys think of this album.

The live album has great moments. The piano album is probably my favorite output of Prince in the 00''s.

Love the piano album.

The live album is what it is, but I never listen to it, there are ONA shows out there that are miles better.

I love the piano album. The live set is cool, too. I think the first half is almost flawless (especially cuz it doesn't have any covers like was commonplace for the first half of most ONA shows).

Piano album: unbearable boring garbage

Live set; forget about the bits & pieces and go for the full things (bootleg route).

purpledoveuk said:

Piano album - rubbish except arboretum Live cd set - meh, average show They feel exactly what they are - minimum effort contract fillers for NPGMC [Edited 4/23/11 0:20am]

my last prince show was wembley '98 and it was awful, it made the recent shows seem inspired, it was that bad. when i heard ona live i was pleasantly surprised. the band are in good form and prince's vocals are very sharp. the aftershow is a bit shit, i hate those funk workouts, but it's got joy in repetition which redeems it. listening to it made me kinda regret missing the tour, but after listening to a couple of full shows on bootleg i'm glad i didn't go. (too many classics stripped of what made them great, thinking specifically of sign o the times with horns and scratching..unforgivable!) never heard the full piano album, not really interested.

One Nite Alone Piano - one of the greatest post-Emancipation albums

One Nite Alone Live - ruined by too many Rainbow Children tracks, average performances of songs like Nothing Compares 2 U and How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore and bizarre Prince banter. But it's still good.

ona piano. it's an interesting album, love the unpolished vibe, his voice uncluttered. it is prince one nite on his own, a private performance just 4 me.. & makes my feel like a total voyeur

easily in my top 5 fave albums

[Edited 4/23/11 7:16am]

totally love the piano album. ever since he released "the truth" i was hoping he'd do one

more stripped down album and this was a very welcome release.

altho i like "the truth" a bit more, this one is certainly a cool and treasured album for me.

the live album is a nice oddity but it suffers from weird/flat production with far too little

audience noise and a but if a dull selection all the way through. still think he should have

held off releasing a live album from that tour until the tour was actually over. some of

the stuff he did on the european and asian leg of that tour was just ultra-phenomenal.

especially the aftershow disc is one big snooze when compared to the other aftershows

he did in europe. some of the best stuff of his live carreer on that tour, yet sadly it's not

on the cd.

To me the piano album is disappointing. Compared to the many great piano medley's he has played live over the years or even the piano sessions from the 80s that have appeared on bootlegs are all much better. So good in fact that my expectations may have been too high for this album. Still, when I go back to it, I always think the same thing...

djThunderfunk said:

To me the piano album is disappointing. Compared to the many great piano medley's he has played live over the years or even the piano sessions from the 80s that have appeared on bootlegs are all much better. So good in fact that my expectations may have been too high for this album. Still, when I go back to it, I always think the same thing...

yeah, i was wondering about that. a lot of people feel the same way. at least that's what

i kept reading when the album was first released.

now, i do like those 80s piano sessions but i just don't get why they are so much better

than this album, to most people. is it because the song selection is better for you? or do

you not like the additional noises that prince put on "one nite alone"?

i can understand how that would put some people off since they would want a true, real

stripped down album of just prince and piano and none of his often weird extra stuff in

the mix.

perhaps that's why i think they're equally great, because i don't mind those keyboards

or dove noises etc on the "one nite alone" album. just like i love them on "the truth",

which is another album that seems to rub quite a few people the wrong way, for those

very same reasons.

I do have the promo piano only album. It's fantastic. Not sure who's playing but I'll still buy the album one day just because of the promo.

I listened to this TWICE in a row last night, basically because of this post.

I think it's a great album. Had the lights low, incense burning, looking out my window. It's good for that sort of thing.

Minus Avalanche.

CerpinTaxt said:

I listened to this TWICE in a row last night, basically because of this post.

I think it's a great album. Had the lights low, incense burning, looking out my window. It's good for that sort of thing.

Minus Avalanche.

I like your openness and curiosity!

Bohemian67 said:

I do have the promo piano only album. It's fantastic. Not sure who's playing but I'll still buy the album one day just because of the promo.

What?

IstenSzek said:

djThunderfunk said:

To me the piano album is disappointing. Compared to the many great piano medley's he has played live over the years or even the piano sessions from the 80s that have appeared on bootlegs are all much better. So good in fact that my expectations may have been too high for this album. Still, when I go back to it, I always think the same thing...

yeah, i was wondering about that. a lot of people feel the same way. at least that's what

i kept reading when the album was first released.

now, i do like those 80s piano sessions but i just don't get why they are so much better

than this album, to most people. is it because the song selection is better for you? or do

you not like the additional noises that prince put on "one nite alone"?

i can understand how that would put some people off since they would want a true, real

stripped down album of just prince and piano and none of his often weird extra stuff in

the mix.

perhaps that's why i think they're equally great, because i don't mind those keyboards

or dove noises etc on the "one nite alone" album. just like i love them on "the truth",

which is another album that seems to rub quite a few people the wrong way, for those

very same reasons.

Hmmm, well, I love The Truth, no complaints with that one, so, I don't think that's it for me.

I think it comes down to the material. I find the songs boring and the performance lifeless...

In contrast, the live piano medley's are way more exciting (to my ears), and I especially like it when he reinterprets his own material as stripped down "piano versions".

Maybe one day it will hit me, NEWS finally did, but I'm starting to doubt it with One Nite Alone.

[Edited 4/23/11 14:20pm]

I couldn't listen to that piano album even if I were abandoned on a desert island and THAT were the only music I had.

The guitar solo on When You Were Mine is one of my all time Prince favorites! Listen to it loud - I dare you to sit down on this one!

[Edited 4/23/11 20:51pm]

Bohemian67 said:

I do have the promo piano only album. It's fantastic. Not sure who's playing but I'll still buy the album one day just because of the promo.

I still want to know about that 'promo' and about that 'not sure who's playing'...

IstenSzek said:

totally love the piano album. ever since he released "the truth" i was hoping he'd do one

more stripped down album and this was a very welcome release.

altho i like "the truth" a bit more, this one is certainly a cool and treasured album for me.

Totally agree.

The piano album is one of my favorites. Goes well in quiet non-fan settings as well.

The piano album should have been instrumental, the halfassed lyrics spoil it.

vitriol said:

Bohemian67 said:

I do have the promo piano only album. It's fantastic. Not sure who's playing but I'll still buy the album one day just because of the promo.

I still want to know about that 'promo' and about that 'not sure who's playing'...

I found it out the cupboard for you Vitriol. My mistake, there is voice in it and it's definitely Prince so I presume the piano too. The piano has always stood out for me. Maybe that's why I think of it as piano only cd. Which I might add, is pure heaven in my opinion.Over i 5 minutes when I play it or at least it feels that way. Beautiful melodies.

The dl came from someone who put it on sc, enabling dl coz it was a promo. Unfortunately, I had a lot of trouble converting the file so burnt it straight onto a cd & it's an individual 35 min track. But it's gorgeous! Also weird, coz when i play it on my laptop it comes up with a weird name??? But it's the album with the nest and blue eggs on the cover ad tracklist is the same so it is a promo.

How can u not like it? Are you a rock only, heavy metal, punk, rap fan?

Piano album: I tend to cherry pick the best tracks, I find it quite dull and maudlin as an album, but I love a good few of the tracks individual, up there in my best of the decade. (Y&B, Have A Heart, Pearls Before The Swine etc).

Live album: Never listened to it all the way through.

[Edited 4/25/11 4:08am]

Spinlight said:

I love the piano album. The live set is cool, too. I think the first half is almost flawless (especially cuz it doesn't have any covers like was commonplace for the first half of most ONA shows).

Couldn't have said it better myself. Although I do love the piano medley on the live disc as well.

The third disc of the live set is off the charts bad after JIY.