It Was the Best of Times

Artist: Supertramp
Label: EMI Int'l
Category: Music

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Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 724349938922
EAN: 0724349938922
ASIN: B000028DDD

Release Date: 1999-10-08

It Was the Best of Times

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Tracks:

You Win, I Lose
Listen to Me Please
Sooner or Later
Free as a Bird
Cannonball
From Now On
Breakfast in America
And the Light
Take the Long Way Home
Bloody Well Right
Logical Song
Goodbye Stranger
School

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Album Description

21 of the British pop supergroup's all-time best recorded live during their 1997 tour. Features the post-Roger Hodgson line-up with ex-Crowded House member Mark Hart replacing him as vocalist. Includes classic hits like 'The Logical Song', 'Take The Long Way Home', 'Breakfast In America', 'School', 'Goodbye Stranger', 'Rudy' and 'Bloody Well Right'. Double slimline jewel case. 1999 release.

Album Description

It Was The Best Of Times celebrates the band's heralded 1997 return to the concert stage. The live collection was recorded in September 1997 at London's Royal Albert Hall and captures excitement and tightness of the band. This album is a collection 13 tracks including vintage Supertramp hits as 'Bloody Well Right', 'The Logical Song', 'Goodbye Stranger' as well as newer favorites 'You Win, I Lose' and 'Listen To Me Please' from Supertramp's 1997 studio album. 1999 EMI.

Album Details

Recorded Live at the Royal Albert Hall in 1997 on their Comeback Tour.

Customer Reviews:

if you want to Give A Little Bit.......2007-05-15

As far as I know, Supertramp has not produced a live cd/album which includes their awesome hit "Give A Little Bit."

If you are like me, and want to get a live version of Give A Little Bit, venture out and buy a copy of King Biscuit Flower Hour: Presents Ringo Starr Live. That cd has Supertramp's very own Roger Hodgson doing this song (at a longer-than-studio length of 5:13), plus The Logical Song and Take The Long Way Home. You'll even get Greg Lake doing a fabulous version of Lucky Man, and that Ian Hunter dude singing All The Young Dudes.

No, I'm not on Starkey's payroll, but please do tip your waitresses... I'll be here all week giving free tips.

A Fantastic 'Tramp Live Set.......2004-02-07

I saw Supertramp on their 1997 tour for "Some Things Never Change," and it was one of the best concerts I've ever seen in my life. The band sounded so tight, so clean, and so good, I could've sat there and watched them play all night. Thank God they released a live album from this phenomenal tour! Supertramp's 1999 double live album, "It Was The Best Of Times," is a fantastic live set, with Rick Davies & the boys recorded live at the Royal Albert Hall in September of '97. The double CD contains the complete 21-song concert in it's entirety, as well as the occasional song introduction from saxophonist John Helliwell, so the album really does give you a marvelous "you are there" feel. Rick Davies & company are simply sensational, delivering smoking-hot live renditions of 'Tramp classics such as "Ain't Nobody But Me," "Cannonball," "Breakfast In America," "Rudy," "Downstream," "Take The Long Way Home," "The Logical Song," "School," and "Crime Of The Century." The material performed from the "Some Things Never Change" album, including "It's A Hard World," "You Win, I Lose," "Sooner Or Later," and "Listen To Me Please" are also wonderfully done. And although former co-leader Roger Hodgson is no longer with the group, his place is taken just fine by Mark Hart, whose voice sounds close enough to Hodgson's, and who sings the Hodgson material perfectly. And, of course, Davies' voice is still as rich-sounding as ever, and his effortless piano-playing outstanding, as is the band's amazing live chemistry. "It Was The Best Of Times" is a truly mind-blowing live set from Supertramp that easily rivals their classic "Paris" concert album. Definitely pick it up!

Question.......2003-08-29

hello! this seems a very interesting live cd but I have a doubt. several people mentioned the song another's man woman but I don't see that song in the listing. is there another import edition of this cd besides this one? please anybody could clarify this? Thanks! anyway any concert of supertramp with or without hogdson is worth the price!!!

Good live show captures essence of the band.......2000-06-21

This expanded line up of the original group (featuring Davies, drummer Bob Benberg and woodwind player Helliwell from the band's most popular and well known line up)does justice to these classic songs. Mark Hart does a capable job standing in for Roger Hodgson. As to the criticism that the band shouldn't have played the tunes sung by Hodgson, it's very clear why they play them--they were hits. The audience came to hear the hits and they don't care who sings them. The band recognized that audience expectation and delivers. Since all the songs written while Hodgson was in the band were composed together (although Hodgson was the main songwriter on those he sang), it seems legit for them to play them.

While the last studio ablum was a bit of a disappointment (You Win I Lose aside), this album does feature the better tunes from it.

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