It Was the Best of Times

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It Was The Best Of Times
Live album by Supertramp
Released	April 12, 1999 Double CD version April 27, 1999 Simple CD version
Recorded	September 19-20, 1997
Genre	Progressive Rock
Length	130:08 Double CD version 75:22 Simple CD version
Label	EMI Chrysalis Records Oxygen Records (US)
Producer	Rick Davies
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Simple CD version All Music Guide link Double CD version
Supertramp chronology
Some Things Never Change (1997) It Was the Best of Times (1999) Is Everybody Listening? (2001)

Recorded in London at the Royal Albert Hall during the It's About Time tour in September 1997. The Simple CD version was latter re-released under the name of "Live, 1997" in 2006.

Contents 1 Track listing (1-CD version) 2 Track listing (2-CD version) 2.1 Disc 1 2.2 Disc 2 3 The Band

[edit] Track listing (1-CD version)

1. "You Win, I Lose" (Rick Davies)
2. "Listen To Me Please" (Rick Davies)
3. "Sooner Or Later" (Rick Davies/Mark Hart)
4. "Free As A Bird" (Rick Davies)
5. "Cannonball" (Rick Davies)
6. "From Now On" (Rick Davies/Roger Hodgson)
7. "Breakfast In America" (Rick Davies/Roger Hodgson)
8. "And The Light" (Rick Davies)
9. "Take The Long Way Home" (Rick Davies/Roger Hodgson)
10. "Bloody Well Right" (Rick Davies/Roger Hodgson)
11. "The Logical Song" (Rick Davies/Roger Hodgson)
12. "Goodbye Stranger" (Rick Davies/Roger Hodgson)
13. "School" (Rick Davies/Roger Hodgson)

[edit] Track listing (2-CD version)

[edit] Disc 1

1. "It's A Hard World" (Rick Davies)
2. "You Win, I Lose" (Rick Davies)
3. "Listen To Me Please" (Rick Davies)
4. "Ain't Nobody But Me" (Rick Davies/Roger Hodgson)
5. "Sooner Or Later" (Rick Davies/Mark Hart)
6. "Free As A Bird" (Rick Davies)
7. "Cannonball" (Rick Davies)
8. "From Now On" (Rick Davies/Roger Hodgson)
9. "Breakfast In America" (Rick Davies/Roger Hodgson)
10. "Give Me A Chance" (Rick Davies/Mark Hart)
11. "Rudy" (Rick Davies/Roger Hodgson)

[edit] Disc 2

1. "Downstream" (Rick Davies/Roger Hodgson)
2. "Another Man's Woman" (Rick Davies/Roger Hodgson)
3. "Take The Long Way Home" (Rick Davies/Roger Hodgson)
4. "Bloody Well Right" (Rick Davies/Roger Hodgson)
5. "The Logical Song" (Rick Davies/Roger Hodgson)
6. "Goodbye Stranger" (Rick Davies/Roger Hodgson)
7. "School" (Rick Davies/Roger Hodgson)
8. "And The Light" (Rick Davies)
9. "Don't You Lie To Me" (Hudson Whittaker)
10. "Crime Of The Century" (Rick Davies/Roger Hodgson)

[edit] The Band

• Rick Davies - vocals, keyboards, harmonica
• Bob Siebenberg - drums, percussion
• John Helliwell - saxophone
• Mark Hart - vocals, keyboards, guitars
• Cliff Hugo - bass guitar
• Lee Thornburg - trumpet
• Carl Verheyen - guitars
• Jesse Siebenberg - percussion

v • d • e Supertramp Rick Davies | Bob Siebenberg | John Helliwell | Mark Hart | Carl Verheyen | Lee Thornburg | Cliff Hugo | Jesse Siebenberg Former members Richard Palmer | Robert Millar | Frank Farrell | Kevin Currie | Dave Winthrop | Roger Hodgson | Dougie Thomson | Marty Walsh | Steve Reid | Brad Cole | Tom Walsh On-tour support Scott Page | Fred Mandel Albums Supertramp | Indelibly Stamped | Crime of the Century | Crisis? What Crisis? | Even in the Quietest Moments | Breakfast in America | ...Famous Last Words... | Brother Where You Bound | Free as a Bird | Some Things Never Change | Slow Motion Live albums Paris | Live '88 | It Was The Best Of Times | Is Everybody Listening? Compilations The Autobiography of Supertramp | Very Best Of (Vol. 1) | Very Best Of (Vol. 2) | Retrospectacle - The Supertramp Anthology