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Up All Nite With Prince: The One Nite Alone Collection
Up All Nite With Prince: The One Nite Alone Collection Prince album
Sony Legacy
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Up All Nite With Prince: The One Nite Alone Collection is a CD repackaged release by Sony Legacy issued in 2020, combining four separate releases originating between 2002 to 2003 under NPG Records.
The set brings into print again Prince’s rare original studio piano and voice album One Nite Alone… of which later named his 2002 world tour One Nite Alone…. Fans had long appealed to Prince to release soundboard quality audios of his live shows, and in 2002, having been previously reluctant to do so, Prince finally obliged in kind with the release of the double album One Nite Alone… Live! comprising songs recorded over nine shows from that tour. Originally available in 2002 as a limited release under NPG Records presented as a rectangle piano key covered boxset, it contained also a third, companion, CD titled The Aftershow: It Ain’t Over! featuring nine songs from three aftershows performed during that same tour.
Prince’s desire to release it as his first live album was driven by the fact he believed then his 2002 tour, performed in theatres rather than arenas, could be his swansong tour. The 2002 tour proved a resounding success and actually permeated his career revival instead.
The three albums of the original boxset were reissued on 29 May 2020, repackaged as a five-disc boxed set by Sony Legacy through a partnership with The Prince Estate. The set’s fifth disc is the reissued DVD Prince Live At The Aladdin Las Vegas, which captured on film the final night of the tour, and likewise previously and separately available in 2003 – as it turned out would be the final DVD release in his lifetime. Up All Nite With Prince: The One Nite Alone Collection unites for the first time these four related releases from 2002/03. Additionally, One Nite Alone, One Nite Alone… Live! and The Aftershow: It Ain’t Over were separately available on LP format issues. The packaging of the 2020 set is designed by the original album’s designer, Sam Jennings. Unfortunately, originating from a stage when Prince was mulling ending his career, Up All Nite With Prince: The One Nite Alone Collection failed to chart in the US and UK. To those that bought copies, it documents Prince in arguably the peak of his musical creativity. Because what may be considered commercial does not mean it is actually good.
Data
- Producer
- Prince
- Label
- NPG Records
- Distribution
- Sony Legacy
- Cover/Design
- Sam Jennings
- Released
- 6 years ago on 29 May 2020
- Running Time
- 3:36:12
- US Chart Peak
- Did not chart
- UK Chart Peak
- Did not chart
- Orig. Formats
-
Tracklist
Disc 1: One Nite Alone...
- (3:35)
- (5:16)
- (3:22)
- (3:39) 1
- (2:03)
- (3:26)
- (4:24)
- (3:00)
- (2:44)
- (2:16)
- Running Time
- 34 min, 59 sec
Disc 2: One Nite Alone… Live! (Part 1)
- (11:45)
- (4:49)
- (12:39)
- (5:01)
- (4:30)
- (6:05)
- (4:45)
- (4:12)
- (3:47)
- (6:04)
- Running Time
- 63 min, 42 sec
Disc 3: One Nite Alone… Live! (Part 2)
- (7:16)
- (2:53)
- (3:26)
- (7:40)
- (1:12)
- (5:32)
- (1:21)
- (1:56)
- (0:39)
- (0:40)
- (2:10)
- (3:47)
- (1:06)
- (1:07)
- (2:40)
- (5:06)
- (13:12)
- Running Time
- 61 min, 52 sec
Disc 4: The Aftershow: It Ain’t Over!
- (10:55)
- [sung by George Clinton] (4:41) 2
- [sung by Musiq Soulchild] (4:26) 3 & 4
- (6:14)
- (2:54)
- (11:18)
- (6:16)
- (6:59)
- (1:49)
- Running Time
- 55 min, 39 sec
DVD: Prince Live At The Aladdin Las Vegas
- (1:46)
- (3:50)
- (0:35)
- (6:08)
- [duet with Nikka Costa] (5:48) 5
- (12:19)
- (5:29)
- (5:26)
- (4:03)
- (3:31) 6
- (4:56) 7
- (6:12)
- (2:29)
- (5:59)
- (3:23)
- (7:34) 8
- Running Time
- 80 minutes
1 Written by Joni Mitchell.
2 Written by George Clinton.
3 Written by Ivan Barias and Carvin Haggins.
4 Written by Sylvester Stewart.
5 Written by Nikka Costa.
6 Written by James Brown, John Starks and Charles Bobbit.
7 Written by Jimmy Page and Robert Plant.
8 Bonus clip
Up All Nite With Prince: The One Nite Alone Collection album review
Sony Legacy’s reissues series continues abound with Up All Nite With Prince, a beautifully repackaged boxset housing 5 discs celebrating Prince’s inaugural live album One Nite Alone… Live! Remarkable when it first came out in 2002, it captures the essence of his spellbinding One Nite Alone Tour staged that year. Argued by the fans who attended its shows – complete with front row soundchecks, stripped down intimacy, jazz fused genius, homage to musicianship, on stage bean bags on which select fans would loll and zone out through the bundles of burning incense wafting across the stage – this was both his best tour and backing band. Prince was never happier and more free in his artistic expression than during this period.
It was the One Nite Alone Tour he dared shun playing Purple Rain because of his fallout with Warner but free of all constraint. Uncharacteristically Prince broke convention release his first live CD. Reissued in 2020, Legacy’s faithful reproduction shines through. The original’s accompanying booklet also reissued, bearing artwork touched up by Sam Jennings who designed the original. The set is complete with classy spot UV cover, although the 2002 original will set you back £100 should you find one on eBay. Kudos to Sony for lavishing so much loving respect to Prince’s most undervalued era, the Legacy reissues have themselves become collectables in their own right. The Legacy series is also a lifeline to new fans to get this hard to obtain music. Since departing Warner Brothers, Prince would not follow a traditional release schedule ever again. Leaving dedicated fans to climb mountains to get their hands on his post Warner new output. It could be argued Prince showed contempt for his music, not giving them the widescale releases they deserved. He was a major artist but operating on a grassroots model. Remember, all this was at a time the internet was in its infancy, Prince was often as frustrating as he was trailblazing. Up All Nite With Prince contains Live At the Aladdin, although released in 2003 as the final DVD Prince issued during his lifetime, that too is repackaged into this fantastic set. Looking back at it all almost twenty years later, I believed then and stand by that now, the highlight of the set is The Aftershow, now disc #4 of this set. Prince fans are largely at an age that see music streaming/renting is a bastardisation to music ownership. So to have a major label still ‘doing the work’ and offering these more unfamiliar corners in Prince’s catalogue as beautifully repackaged releases, is proof even in this day physical always trumps digital.
Up All Nite With Prince: The One Nite Alone Collection is rated 5 out of 5 by Goldies Parade.
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