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One Nite Alone…

NPG Records

Eye know it’s better if we make it up as we go…

Piano and voice in content. Prince initially released the album to subscribers of npgmusicclub.com and later included in the boxset One Nite Alone… Live – also only in the copies shipped directly to members.

One Nite Alone… is Prince’s first album to contain new material and not to have a full commercial release, it was therefore ineligible to chart. One Nite Alone… was recorded at Paisley Park during the same sessions for The Rainbow Children and includes the cover of Joni Mitchell’s A Case Of You. A reworked and rerecorded version of U’re Gonna C Me was released in 2009 on the album MPLSound.

Performers

All Instruments: Prince
Drums: John Blackwell

Data

Producer: Prince
Label: NPG Records
Distributor: NPG Records
Cover Art: Steven Parke and Jeremy Gavin
Released: 16 years ago, on 14 May 2002
Running Time: 34:59
US Chart Peak: -
UK Chart Peak: -
Prince Album: #25

Tracklist

One Nite Alone (3:35)
U're Gonna C Me (5:16)
Here On Earth (3:22)
A Case Of U (3:39) ¹
Have A ♥ (2:03)
Objects In The Mirror (3:26)
Avalanche (4:24)
Pearls B4 The Swine (3:00)
Young & Beautiful (2:44)
Arboretum (2:16)

¹ Written by Joni Mitchell.

Singles from One Nite Alone…

One Nite Alone… produced no singles.

Supporting tour

One Nite Alone… Tour

2002

One Nite Alone… Tour
64 shows from 1 March to 29 November, 2002
Xenophobia Celebration (Paisley Park Studios)
7 shows from 21 to 28 June 2002

One Nite Alone… – review

In 1998 Prince treated us to an acoustic set with The Truth, and in that vein come 2002 he followed up with a piano showpiece One Nite Alone… It is perfectly inoffensive and can easily played to your mother quite without the need of editing those hazardous swear words of pre Millennium music. There are many good tracks to be had with One Nite Alone… such as the title track, Here On Earth A Case Of U (a cover of Joni Mitchell), Avalanche and Young And Beautiful. Pearls B4 The Swine has real catch to it even though you think you have heard it before (Little House On The Prairie). But One Nite Alone… will not live in your stereo. It is the bride’s maid not the bride and will take fleeting stints, which will be good, only as stints. For this album you need to be in the right frame of mind to let it in. So on some levels it works perfectly. As with The Truth Prince never fails to under produce his work and there are nice swathes of rhythm worked into the melody. Nice for a ‘rare album’ listening session but it will remain rare for that reason. Pedestrian Prince.

One Nite Alone… is reviewed by Goldies Parade.