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British issued live album from U.K. pop rock group Supertramp. 21 tracks recorded live at The Royal Albert Hall in 1997. IT WAS THE BEST OF TIMES was in coverage of their comeback tour of that year. An expanded version of the conventional 13-song It Was the Best of Times compilation, this two-CD set packs on eight further selections from Supertramp's career to that point, still eschewing their first two LPs, without really adding anything to the portrait painted by the slimmer edition. "Rudy" was always one of Crime of the Century's more overwrought and, therefore, dispensable, inclusions, while tracks like "It's a Hard World," "Give Me a Chance," "Downstream," and "Don't You Lie to Me" aren't exactly the band at its scintillating best. Thankfully, "Ain't Nobody But Me" and "Another Man's Woman" do capture Supertramp at their quirky finest, while the addition of the closing "Crime of the Century" remedies one of the original compilation's most alarming omissions. ~ Dave Thompson