As a child born in 82 and growing up hearing everything from the 60’s- 90’s I have to agree that the 70’s had the best music. My favorite bands are Pantera and TOOL but my favorite bands were inspired by undeniable greatness
There was a great album coming out every week! You can look at the Top 40 chart for any week in the 70s and it's filled with great songs! Now you're lucky if even the Grammy Song of the Year is a great song.
"what you could have been... what you might have been... If you would have more time" To me, this reflects that by the time you figure out who you really are, what matters to you, and how life works much of your life has already passed.
2 great kids raised and both finished college. Husbands passed, but the one thing I reminded him was "You can't get back time with them. They need your time, your presence and to know that they're top on your list. We had our time as kids, now it's their turn."
Yeah that is pretty much it. I also interpret it to mean that people -- in this case a man -- always to look back on how great you think your life is when everything is going when you are on your own and all you look forward to is the adulation. Then you decide to include others in your orbit and expect them to give you that same adulation. Until you realize that real life don't work like that. And some men start second guessing themselves (taking the long way home) and are forced to decide what it really is they want their life to be about. Meaning you could either be Barry Gibb or be Jerry Lee Lewis.
@@devonvergiels5185 It's subjective. For example, those who like them more than Led Zeppelin would insist that they are very underrated since Supertramp has sold only a fraction as many album. To me, Taylor Swift is massively overrated but try telling that to her fans.
@@MatthewC137 No, fans who would insist that are delusional. I don't like Pink Floyd, but I understand why they were bigger than my favorite band, ELO.
Putting your family first is the most important thing you can ever do. Your wife and daughters will be there with you for the long haul, fans will not. You made the choice that will bring you and your family joy!😊
What I was going to say but said better than I. As someone looking at the end, no matter how much money you make or don't make, the thing you regret at the end is the time not spent with families and friends and things not said.
If you always take the long way home to avoid issues, you aren't growing as a human, spouse, or as a parent. And maybe when you are ready, you find everyone has moved on and your alone. There are bumps in every relationship, and having a newborn is exciting, tiring, and mentally exhausting. You know you will get through it. You did it before. Compromise is huge and necessary. Wishing you both the best!
Oh my goodness! I am a Christian and a headbanger. I have been blessed to build outdoor stages,post concert teardowns and pack ups,and other roadie work. I also was a professional photographer for years. So I was blessed for years and became friends with many bands. I have seen these struggles with so many band members that didn't bring their families with them. So many temptations. It is difficult. Supertramp issued this warning. Thanks for this video.
Here's my reading for you. These band members couple up really early. Girls everywhere. Can take their pick. Babies start coming. SHE knows who you really are. You are on the road. You understand what is facing you when you come home. The disinterest because SHE is mad. Easy for you to leave and go be somebody's Superstar. Wash , rinse, repeat until both of you have worn out the relationship....such as it is. You split. You stay on the path of the band life....being around all the " carnival" people who hand around bands....until that starts to sour. You get older. You go home now to no one. Maybe FB pictures of HER new life. You are envious of her choice of family and connectedness that she has. And then you begin to wonder, if you had perhaps made better choices. Less bought into your own inflated superstar status. Tended to your loved ones a bit better. For me Black Pegasus, you grew up and made better choices, so you won't have to look back and wonder " what might have been".
"When you look through the years and see what you could have been" "Oh, what you might have been" "If you would have more time" It scares all of us, Bro. Right in the feels. Every. Damn. Time.
My favorite Supertramp song! Love that harmonica. And the lyrics, make you think, right? You are in the thick of it now in your life, but it sounds like you're doing the things you need to do. You are doing right by your family. I'm 64 now, retired, and finally in the calm waters. It feels good! You will get there too. Thanks for sharing this one. 🙂
“How did I live without Supertramp?” …Exactly my reaction after hearing them. Sometime when you have a road trip, listen to the entire album “Breakfast in America”.
Much respect for sacrificing some of your dreams for your children...they do need you. I feel so sorry for the kids that get put in day care at infancy....terrible they need to connect wither their Mother! And Dad needs to be in the picture as well.
Sleep deprivation is rough, when our daughter was born she screamed non stop all night, every night for 12 weeks. I'd take her out for a drive at 2am to give my wife a break from it, and other times I'd go for a night time drive on my own just to calm my nerves, it's a passing phase but it does strain a relationship! Do your best to try and work together...I wouldn't swap the life I've had with my kids growing up for any amount of fame personally
As for family treating you like furniture, Billy Joel said in an interview that he was walking down the street with one of his teenage kids and he was humming a tune that he was working on and he noticed that she had dropped behind him and she told him it was embarrassing. He said "You do realize that people pay to listen to this, right?" Everyone has their own thing that they excel in that their family don't realize. That's just life.
Songwriter Roger Hodgson of Supertramp (vocals, keyboards and guitars) explained that the song "Take The Long Way Home" is about a guy who thinks he's really cool ("So you think you're a romeo, playing a part in a picture show"), but it seems that he's the only one who thinks that. This implies that our hero avoids getting home because when he's on the road he has a few more moments of being alone with his dreams, and in his dreams he's a superstar. "When he's up on the stage, it's so unbelievable, unforgettable, how they adore him. And then his wife seems to think he's losing his sanity... Does it feel that you life's become a catastrophe? Oh, it has to be for you to grow, boy." - This is the phase of our lives when we accept the fact that we'll never be what we wanted and become ordinary, we take it very hard, but we grow into it." "He looks through the years and see what he could have been, what might have been, if he'd had more time." - Time is always to blame when we want to do something, but don't. This guy always wanted to be someone, but he got stuck taking the long way home so now it's even difficult for him being ordinary: "So, when the day comes to settle down, Who's to blame if you're not around? You took the long way home." Hodgson added that the song operates on two levels: "Talking about not wanting to go home to the wife, take the long way home to the wife because she treats you like part of the furniture, but there's a deeper level to the song, too. We all want to find our home, find that place in us where we feel at home. Home is in the heart and that is really, when we are in touch with our heart and we're living our life from our heart, then we do feel like we found our home." "It was another angle on the question that ran deep inside me, which is, 'Where's my home? Where's peace?' It felt like I was taking a long way to find it."
Really good examination of the song. I have always interpreted this song as maybe the wife or other family / friends saying "Take the long way home". As if the singer has become a big-headed obnoxious jerk and the OTHER people in his life don't want him around. That's why his wife treats him like the furniture. But as the song goes on, he realizes what he's become and wants to change, but he's stuck in that showbiz life and the money people don't want him to leave.
Supertramp has layers. Roger often sings out of his longing for love, meaning and belonging. What is the meaning of life? Who am I? Out of this longing he wrote his music. Uplifting. Deep.
I think you're spot on BP...this is why so many rock bands still perform when past their prime...how do you give up that live audience electricity ,adoration and fun traveling with bandmates..new places, people ,food...it's hard...
This song means so much to me. My brother used to tell me that this song reminded him of me. He passed away a few year's ago and this song is so special to me.
Supertramp was truly a Super band, with musicians who were all multi-instrumentalists. His music has been used for films, advertising, etc. More than half of the songs they composed are considered masterpieces. I don't know what else I can say, their music is like that of The Beatles, it never gets old. Greetings.
Such a haunting song. Stays in your head. For me it means it's the journey you may take, discovering the City Lights, and learning where you do and don't belong and the mistakes made on the way. But as you say, it's just one interpretation.
When I was younger, everyone pointed to the 60s as the time for the best music. Now a lot of radio stations advertise their 80s and 90s focus. But there is something very special about the 70s. Bands were made up of exceptional musicians, amazing lyricists, and while the record/music industry was controlling, great artists were able to push back in a way they couldn’t before or after. If you want other songs that reflect on your life in the same vein as this song, I’d recommend Pink Floyd’s Time off of their Dark Side of the Moon album. Great reaction as always BP!!!
Trust me, brother, you are doing the right thing if you are happy. I am 62 and have taken the long way home once too many times, and now I'm all alone when I come home. Supertramp is one of those bands that gets you thinking, and what a great sound.
This is my very favorite Supertramp song. It's that harmonica and the change up mid-verse that really gets me, then bringing in the clarinet was something unexpected. The entire Breakfast in America is great.
They are, like Steely Dan, a musician's band. Impeccable. Always. Genius and beautiful. Deep and stays with you for a lifetime. ❤. Believe me, I know. I adore this band. One of the G.O.A.T. gang. 😊
Funny story... my husband, then boyfriend, and I were driving home from one destination to the other, and we were a bit high-on-life 😉 and he got confused and we got a bit lost... after about 20 minutes... I started singing this song... we were laughing so fkn hard we had to pull over for 5 minutes to stop and compose ourselves. Great memory... Thanks for the flashback!
I have 3 children, and I remember feeling lonely and neglected emotionally by my husband who left me to deal with the children at home because he stayed at work, then stopped on the way home to relax with friends and a few drinks, so we slowly lost our intimacy, and I felt unappreciated. Take care of your couple, check in with your wife to make sure you stay close. You are a good man, just communicate with her, and give yourselves a couple’s time to build strength.if the love between you feel like it’s not enough for either of you, and you feel worried, listen to your guts and stop and take care of your relationship as a priority. It will make you stronger.
I have always felt that the idea is that you have to go home but you don't have to go directly there, you can take some time to live a little on the way home because it's about the journey not the destination. And all of those problems that they're singing about in this song can be cured by just taking the time to live life
Supertramp is one of my all-time favorite artist. As I have grown Through The Years this song has shifted meanings in my life, it's extremely well written
Supertramps first album Crime of the Century was a banger. Our go to for my homeboys back in the day. School, Bloody well Right and especially Hide In Your shell. Amazing tracks…. Just an OG’s thoughts… Thank you for reacting to them. Great unappreciated group.
"Crime of the Century" is an amazing album and was actually the third album for the band (go check out the cover of their second album "Indelibly Stamped" 😵💫). Crime of the Century was the group's commercial breakthrough in many countries. This album has much more of a progressive rock vibe than "Breakfast In America", and is basiclly a concept album telling the story of Rudy, a guy that’s against the system and, over his life, gets a lot of crap thrown at him. Definitely worth a listen. 🤓
I love Supertramp! Seen them in concert twice. You've got to react to their song School. It is the best!! To me the best album is Crime of The Century. I've got all their vinyl!
I’m 68 years old. We have many times in our lifetime to make choices. It doesn’t matter how rich or famous a person is. Everyone has responsibilities, problems and illness. Family is everything, having a good heart is everything. Enjoy being a dad and a spouse. Enjoy being a caring, compassionate, human being.
This one seems to have hit you where it hurts! For someone who grew up with Supertramp and is around a decade older than you, it is a fascinating experience watching this! Best wishes!
Dude you were right on in your interpretation ! Love Supertramp. Breakfeast in America album is a must for all music lovers. Played this album so many times growing up and brings back such wonderful memories. I am 61 now and listening to this song just brings back so many memories and how blessed I was to grow up in that era of music.
I took the long way home for 37 years - then one day I went to a new home. I waited for my kids to grow - because I loved being a dad too. *Sometimes - you have to take one for the team.*
Once again, you’re hitting on one of my most favourite rock groups of all time!!! Their repertoire of songs is phenomenal. 🎉🎉 Your interpretation is bang on, as an artist
The look on your face at "But then your wife seems to think you're losing your sanity" when you looked into the camera... loved it. Having know this song for 40 years, I am not sure now I ever truly listened to the lyrics until today. Thank you.
This is why we love the music of this time because it was real and they gave a shit and it connected with everybody because we were all going through the same thing. New music just doesn’t touch the soul because it doesn’t come from the soul. In general!
Take the long way home...stay doing what your desire is ,in this case artist, not go back to family and normalcy. Some people have been able to manage both. Some not so much... Very profound indeed!
You said you wanted to hear the song a few times to really get the lyrics because they are so good. Ive listened to it for decades and loved it and it has always been relevant and thought provoking.
Musically we were truly spoiled in the 70s with the amount of talent we got to see.
As a child born in 82 and growing up hearing everything from the 60’s- 90’s I have to agree that the 70’s had the best music. My favorite bands are Pantera and TOOL but my favorite bands were inspired by undeniable greatness
Yes we were. I was so happy to share my music w my 80s babies.
Yeah, but had to filter out the disco. Otherwise, good music.
There was a great album coming out every week! You can look at the Top 40 chart for any week in the 70s and it's filled with great songs! Now you're lucky if even the Grammy Song of the Year is a great song.
@@rustywater3219 hey it gave us The Bee Gees!
A listen to "Goodbye Stranger" will continue to confirm the greatness of Supertramp.
Another excellent song!
some they will and some they won't, and some it's just as well 😅
My favorite Supertramp song is Goodbye Stranger!
Me too!!
"what you could have been... what you might have been... If you would have more time"
To me, this reflects that by the time you figure out who you really are, what matters to you, and how life works much of your life has already passed.
Yes. Its great and scary and sad. Esp when you can't explain it to your kids so they don't do the same.
Exactly!
Great comment, we all second guess what might have been, the road not taken, but there's no turning back time.
2 great kids raised and both finished college. Husbands passed, but the one thing I reminded him was "You can't get back time with them. They need your time, your presence and to know that they're top on your list. We had our time as kids, now it's their turn."
Yeah that is pretty much it.
I also interpret it to mean that people -- in this case a man -- always to look back on how great you think your life is when everything is going when you are on your own and all you look forward to is the adulation.
Then you decide to include others in your orbit and expect them to give you that same adulation. Until you realize that real life don't work like that.
And some men start second guessing themselves (taking the long way home) and are forced to decide what it really is they want their life to be about.
Meaning you could either be Barry Gibb or be Jerry Lee Lewis.
Possibly the most underrated band ever!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@devonvergiels5185 It's subjective. For example, those who like them more than Led Zeppelin would insist that they are very underrated since Supertramp has sold only a fraction as many album. To me, Taylor Swift is massively overrated but try telling that to her fans.
@@MatthewC137 No, fans who would insist that are delusional. I don't like Pink Floyd, but I understand why they were bigger than my favorite band, ELO.
Putting your family first is the most important thing you can ever do. Your wife and daughters will be there with you for the long haul, fans will not. You made the choice that will bring you and your family joy!😊
What I was going to say but said better than I. As someone looking at the end, no matter how much money you make or don't make, the thing you regret at the end is the time not spent with families and friends and things not said.
If you always take the long way home to avoid issues, you aren't growing as a human, spouse, or as a parent. And maybe when you are ready, you find everyone has moved on and your alone. There are bumps in every relationship, and having a newborn is exciting, tiring, and mentally exhausting. You know you will get through it. You did it before. Compromise is huge and necessary. Wishing you both the best!
Roger Hodgson the iconic voice and genius lyricist of Supertramp! Breakfast In America was a great album. I still have the vinyl in my collection.
Me too and it has never paled.
@@GrafindeKlevemark .. Nice!
Child of Visions instrumentation is the bomb
His solo album Eye Of The Storm is freaking incredible!!!
Oh my goodness! I am a Christian and a headbanger. I have been blessed to build outdoor stages,post concert teardowns and pack ups,and other roadie work. I also was a professional photographer for years. So I was blessed for years and became friends with many bands. I have seen these struggles with so many band members that didn't bring their families with them. So many temptations. It is difficult. Supertramp issued this warning. Thanks for this video.
Here's my reading for you. These band members couple up really early. Girls everywhere. Can take their pick. Babies start coming. SHE knows who you really are. You are on the road. You understand what is facing you when you come home. The disinterest because SHE is mad. Easy for you to leave and go be somebody's Superstar. Wash , rinse, repeat until both of you have worn out the relationship....such as it is. You split. You stay on the path of the band life....being around all the " carnival" people who hand around bands....until that starts to sour. You get older. You go home now to no one. Maybe FB pictures of HER new life. You are envious of her choice of family and connectedness that she has. And then you begin to wonder, if you had perhaps made better choices. Less bought into your own inflated superstar status. Tended to your loved ones a bit better.
For me Black Pegasus, you grew up and made better choices, so you won't have to look back and wonder " what might have been".
I was born in 65, I'm glad to have grown up through a time when there were real musicians playing real instruments making great records 🇬🇧
66 for me
"When you look through the years and see what you could have been" "Oh, what you might have been" "If you would have more time"
It scares all of us, Bro.
Right in the feels. Every. Damn. Time.
My favorite Supertramp song! Love that harmonica. And the lyrics, make you think, right? You are in the thick of it now in your life, but it sounds like you're doing the things you need to do. You are doing right by your family. I'm 64 now, retired, and finally in the calm waters. It feels good! You will get there too. Thanks for sharing this one. 🙂
Mine too.
You can't listen to enough Supertramp, every songs a story.
I’m not gonna lie, I am 57 years old and listened to this hundreds or thousands of times, and this is the first time I ever “LISTENED” to it!
So deep!
"School" is Supertramp's Opus, and then they put the sequel to it "Bloody Well Right" right after it creating 10 minutes of magnificence.
“How did I live without Supertramp?” …Exactly my reaction after hearing them. Sometime when you have a road trip, listen to the entire album “Breakfast in America”.
Still in love with Roger Hodgson, 45/50 years later. LOVE that man.
Absolutely!
When you get much older and have your loving family around you. That’s a beautiful long way home to heaven.
Much respect for sacrificing some of your dreams for your children...they do need you. I feel so sorry for the kids that get put in day care at infancy....terrible they need to connect wither their Mother! And Dad needs to be in the picture as well.
Sleep deprivation is rough, when our daughter was born she screamed non stop all night, every night for 12 weeks. I'd take her out for a drive at 2am to give my wife a break from it, and other times I'd go for a night time drive on my own just to calm my nerves, it's a passing phase but it does strain a relationship! Do your best to try and work together...I wouldn't swap the life I've had with my kids growing up for any amount of fame personally
As for family treating you like furniture, Billy Joel said in an interview that he was walking down the street with one of his teenage kids and he was humming a tune that he was working on and he noticed that she had dropped behind him and she told him it was embarrassing. He said "You do realize that people pay to listen to this, right?" Everyone has their own thing that they excel in that their family don't realize. That's just life.
Thanks...love Supertramp !
This whole album is amazing! I got mine for Christmas in 1979! I still have it! I’m now 54 years old and can still sing every word. Enjoy! ✌🏻🇨🇦✌🏻
Songwriter Roger Hodgson of Supertramp (vocals, keyboards and guitars) explained that the song "Take The Long Way Home" is about a guy who thinks he's really cool ("So you think you're a romeo, playing a part in a picture show"), but it seems that he's the only one who thinks that. This implies that our hero avoids getting home because when he's on the road he has a few more moments of being alone with his dreams, and in his dreams he's a superstar.
"When he's up on the stage, it's so unbelievable, unforgettable, how they adore him. And then his wife seems to think he's losing his sanity... Does it feel that you life's become a catastrophe? Oh, it has to be for you to grow, boy." - This is the phase of our lives when we accept the fact that we'll never be what we wanted and become ordinary, we take it very hard, but we grow into it."
"He looks through the years and see what he could have been, what might have been, if he'd had more time." - Time is always to blame when we want to do something, but don't. This guy always wanted to be someone, but he got stuck taking the long way home so now it's even difficult for him being ordinary: "So, when the day comes to settle down, Who's to blame if you're not around? You took the long way home."
Hodgson added that the song operates on two levels: "Talking about not wanting to go home to the wife, take the long way home to the wife because she treats you like part of the furniture, but there's a deeper level to the song, too. We all want to find our home, find that place in us where we feel at home. Home is in the heart and that is really, when we are in touch with our heart and we're living our life from our heart, then we do feel like we found our home."
"It was another angle on the question that ran deep inside me, which is, 'Where's my home? Where's peace?' It felt like I was taking a long way to find it."
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Really good examination of the song. I have always interpreted this song as maybe the wife or other family / friends saying "Take the long way home". As if the singer has become a big-headed obnoxious jerk and the OTHER people in his life don't want him around. That's why his wife treats him like the furniture. But as the song goes on, he realizes what he's become and wants to change, but he's stuck in that showbiz life and the money people don't want him to leave.
Excellent! A true interpretation!
Supertramp has layers. Roger often sings out of his longing for love, meaning and belonging. What is the meaning of life? Who am I? Out of this longing he wrote his music. Uplifting. Deep.
Breakfast in America is one of best Albums from the 70's.
Great song, love Supertramp❤
Supertramp surely had a sound all of their own and it was classy!
Bloody Well Right, Dreamer, Goodbye Stranger, and many more, stay with it!
Love Supertramp.
Their songs have amazing complexity and really draw you in, similar to Steely Dan. I can listen to them over and over and over...
Love Supertramp. He did have two paths of the long way home.
Somedays the music chooses you for whatever reason. That's part of the beauty of it. Hug your wife when you get home. Cheers & Peace Out ✌️
This album, "Breakfast In America" is OUTSTANDING! I recommend listening to ii in it's entirety.
I think you're spot on BP...this is why so many rock bands still perform when past their prime...how do you give up that live audience electricity ,adoration and fun traveling with bandmates..new places, people ,food...it's hard...
Supertramp was so underrated. They were amazing. Listen to School, Bloody Well Right , or Dreamer from way back in 1974. Genius.
This song means so much to me. My brother used to tell me that this song reminded him of me. He passed away a few year's ago and this song is so special to me.
Supertramp was truly a Super band, with musicians who were all multi-instrumentalists. His music has been used for films, advertising, etc. More than half of the songs they composed are considered masterpieces. I don't know what else I can say, their music is like that of The Beatles, it never gets old. Greetings.
Such a haunting song. Stays in your head. For me it means it's the journey you may take, discovering the City Lights, and learning where you do and don't belong and the mistakes made on the way.
But as you say, it's just one interpretation.
Oh, they can write and write well they do. So, amazing the lyrics in their songs, very talented for sure.
Well, my favorite Supertramp song is still Goodbye Stranger..love this one too❤️
For me this is my favorite of all their songs…heard it like 45 years ago and loved it ever since!
"From Now On" never seen anyone react to it and it's another lyrical masterpiece
The greatest band for me! Love Hodgson's voice. So many great songs...❤❤❤
Take the long way home means be present. Enjoy the now. It is NOT about avoiding anything. It is about living life to the fullest.
The whole breakfast in America album is fantastic. I hope you get a chance to listen to it. Even the not so popular songs are fun
Supertramp's Crime of the Century entire album is one good, long listen. A keeper😊
Supertramp was fantastic live!! Back when you could afford to go....
When I was younger, everyone pointed to the 60s as the time for the best music. Now a lot of radio stations advertise their 80s and 90s focus. But there is something very special about the 70s. Bands were made up of exceptional musicians, amazing lyricists, and while the record/music industry was controlling, great artists were able to push back in a way they couldn’t before or after. If you want other songs that reflect on your life in the same vein as this song, I’d recommend Pink Floyd’s Time off of their Dark Side of the Moon album. Great reaction as always BP!!!
IMO the 70s were the absolute best decade for music. Not even close in my book.
Trust me, brother, you are doing the right thing if you are happy. I am 62 and have taken the long way home once too many times, and now I'm all alone when I come home. Supertramp is one of those bands that gets you thinking, and what a great sound.
This is my very favorite Supertramp song. It's that harmonica and the change up mid-verse that really gets me, then bringing in the clarinet was something unexpected. The entire Breakfast in America is great.
Massively underrated
Even in the quietest moments, crime of the century, breakfast in America. Pick one and listen to any cut.
One of my favorite tunes back in the day. It’s a song about priorities and whether you regret your choices for me - a non-artist.
They are, like Steely Dan, a musician's band. Impeccable. Always. Genius and beautiful. Deep and stays with you for a lifetime. ❤. Believe me, I know. I adore this band. One of the G.O.A.T. gang. 😊
"Lord is it mine" is their most profound and best song. Roger Hogsen is a genius Lyricist.
Funny story... my husband, then boyfriend, and I were driving home from one destination to the other, and we were a bit high-on-life 😉 and he got confused and we got a bit lost... after about 20 minutes... I started singing this song... we were laughing so fkn hard we had to pull over for 5 minutes to stop and compose ourselves.
Great memory...
Thanks for the flashback!
I have 3 children, and I remember feeling lonely and neglected emotionally by my husband who left me to deal with the children at home because he stayed at work, then stopped on the way home to relax with friends and a few drinks, so we slowly lost our intimacy, and I felt unappreciated. Take care of your couple, check in with your wife to make sure you stay close. You are a good man, just communicate with her, and give yourselves a couple’s time to build strength.if the love between you feel like it’s not enough for either of you, and you feel worried, listen to your guts and stop and take care of your relationship as a priority. It will make you stronger.
"Bloody Well Right " another Tramp Stamp! ❤😂
Yes, you need to listen to the whole album many times! Deep!! 😎😎😎😎😎💋👵🐺🌵🍹
Logical Song is one of my all time favorites also by Supertramp.
I was 18 when this came out. Best decade of music.
I have always felt that the idea is that you have to go home but you don't have to go directly there, you can take some time to live a little on the way home because it's about the journey not the destination. And all of those problems that they're singing about in this song can be cured by just taking the time to live life
Loved this song for decades. We grew up with such amazing music.
Supertramp is one of my all-time favorite artist. As I have grown Through The Years this song has shifted meanings in my life, it's extremely well written
Supertramps first album Crime of the Century was a banger. Our go to for my homeboys back in the day. School, Bloody well Right and especially Hide In Your shell. Amazing tracks…. Just an OG’s thoughts… Thank you for reacting to them. Great unappreciated group.
"Crime of the Century" is an amazing album and was actually the third album for the band (go check out the cover of their second album "Indelibly Stamped" 😵💫). Crime of the Century was the group's commercial breakthrough in many countries. This album has much more of a progressive rock vibe than "Breakfast In America", and is basiclly a concept album telling the story of Rudy, a guy that’s against the system and, over his life, gets a lot of crap thrown at him. Definitely worth a listen. 🤓
Next should be Supertramp - Goodbye Stranger
I love Supertramp! Seen them in concert twice. You've got to react to their song School. It is the best!! To me the best album is Crime of The Century. I've got all their vinyl!
Great musicians.
A must do rabbit hole!!!
"Even in the Quietest Moments"
I’m 68 years old. We have many times in our lifetime to make choices. It doesn’t matter how rich or famous a person is. Everyone has responsibilities, problems and illness. Family is everything, having a good heart is everything. Enjoy being a dad and a spouse. Enjoy being a caring, compassionate, human being.
ST Greatest Hits a total college days favorite. Without streaming music in early 1990s greatest hits CDs were where it was at.
It's so nice seeing you discover the wonder of Supertramp.
This one seems to have hit you where it hurts!
For someone who grew up with Supertramp and is around a decade older than you, it is a fascinating experience watching this!
Best wishes!
From the 1979 album *Breakfast in America*.
A spectacular band with great musicians and wonderful lyrics!
Dude you were right on in your interpretation ! Love Supertramp. Breakfeast in America album is a must for all music lovers. Played this album so many times growing up and brings back such wonderful memories. I am 61 now and listening to this song just brings back so many memories and how blessed I was to grow up in that era of music.
I took the long way home for 37 years - then one day I went to a new home. I waited for my kids to grow - because I loved being a dad too. *Sometimes - you have to take one for the team.*
Once again, you’re hitting on one of my most favourite rock groups of all time!!! Their repertoire of songs is phenomenal. 🎉🎉 Your interpretation is bang on, as an artist
Wow far out and groovy song thank you thank you thank you❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
This is one of my favorite songs of all time! Anything from Supertramp is awesome.
The look on your face at "But then your wife seems to think you're losing your sanity" when you looked into the camera... loved it. Having know this song for 40 years, I am not sure now I ever truly listened to the lyrics until today. Thank you.
When I was 14 I loved this song intellectually. When decades later I found myself taking the long way home, then I really understood it.
Your children grow up so fast and move on with their own lives They leave you with memories experience and love That time is so precious
Lately in my area I have been playing Super Tramp’s “It’s raining again.” Because it is.
It used to make my day when I'd get out of high school and this song came on the radio on my way home. The best of times.
This is why we love the music of this time because it was real and they gave a shit and it connected with everybody because we were all going through the same thing. New music just doesn’t touch the soul because it doesn’t come from the soul. In general!
I remember Supertramp was all over the radio back then. Appreciate them more now than I did then.
"Breakfast in America" and "School" are among the many great Supertramp songs!
I love how a song from years ago, connects to someone who sort of lived through the same thing many years later.
When it comes time to settle down, who's to blame if you're not around, you took the long way home. ❤
Lord is it mine, is my favorite, worth a reaction
Take the long way home...stay doing what your desire is ,in this case artist, not go back to family and normalcy. Some people have been able to manage both. Some not so much...
Very profound indeed!
You said you wanted to hear the song a few times to really get the lyrics because they are so good. Ive listened to it for decades and loved it and it has always been relevant and thought provoking.
We of this era got a lot of our emotional intelligence through communing with our music. We all grew up together with this soundtrack of amazing music
The beauty of great lyrics (like these) is they can connect with you a certain way and but connect with someone else totally different.
This was a very good reaction! 🥰
“… who’s to blame, if you’re not around.” Exactly!!
Can't wait to see you react to Hide In Your Shell... Definitely one of my favourites from Supertramp.
Thank you so much for this. I have always loved Supertramp. And Sir, you are a super hero to us! Stay here - i love this show!
Man, this song hit me like this back in the early 80's, when I was a teenager. And still went and wasted so much time.