It Was the Best of Times 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." All songs written by Rick Davies and Roger Hodgson, except where noted. It Was the Best of Times It Was the Best of Times is the third live album by the English rock band Supertramp, released in April 1999. The album title makes use of the opening line from "A Tale of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens. "It Was the Best of Times" was recorded in September 1997 at the Royal Albert Hall, London, England,
It Was Written in the song "Takeover" (2001) for assuming a "Pablo Escobar" persona and having a "one hot album ["Illmatic"] every ten year average". Nas, however, made something of a comeback with his fifth album "Stillmatic" (2001) and the follow-up "God's Son" (2002), which both sold in excess of 1 million copies. Afterwards, his subsequent albums tended to receive more positive reviews, including the platinum-selling "Street's Disciple" (2004) and his untitled ninth album (2008). Nevertheless, "It Was Written" has remained as Nas's best-selling album. It Was Written It Was Written is the second studio album by American rapper Nas, released July 2,