Musically we were truly spoiled in the 70s with the amount of talent we got to see.

@johncarpenter3751

4 күн бұрын

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

@Teresia12

4 күн бұрын

Yes we were. I was so happy to share my music w my 80s babies.

@rustywater3219

4 күн бұрын

Yeah, but had to filter out the disco. Otherwise, good music.

@MikeytheGeek7711

4 күн бұрын

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.

@hd9700

3 күн бұрын

@@rustywater3219 hey it gave us The Bee Gees!

A listen to "Goodbye Stranger" will continue to confirm the greatness of Supertramp.

@BilboBagginsWPG

3 күн бұрын

Another excellent song!

@donaldduck2139

3 күн бұрын

some they will and some they won't, and some it's just as well 😅

@shelq3814

3 күн бұрын

My favorite Supertramp song is Goodbye Stranger!

@laurenpeck3609

2 күн бұрын

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.

@seansavage4766

3 күн бұрын

Yes. Its great and scary and sad. Esp when you can't explain it to your kids so they don't do the same.

@BettyBicepGirls

3 күн бұрын

Exactly!

@steveullrich7737

3 күн бұрын

Great comment, we all second guess what might have been, the road not taken, but there's no turning back time.

@crafts73

3 күн бұрын

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."

@peakayharris8707

3 күн бұрын

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!!!!!!!!!!!!

@MatthewC137

3 күн бұрын

@@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.

@Cosmo-Kramer

3 күн бұрын

@@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!😊

@Maggster54

2 күн бұрын

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!

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!

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 🇬🇧

@kenwilmarth68

3 күн бұрын

66 for me

@Lisa-dn2gx

2 күн бұрын

65 for me too! B day yesterday, can't believe I'm 59!! Don't feel like it & thank God I don't look it either!! The 70's was the BEST decade of music & I share your sentiment!! I made sure that my kids, all grown men now, were brought up with the music I grew up with as well as music my parents grew up with also!! My response to those who say music today is great "if the music is so great now why is it that the music I grew up with is popular & known by the current generations, that doesn't happen by accident"!?

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."

@kmach1000

4 күн бұрын

👏👏👏

@curtisbrack3398

4 күн бұрын

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.

@susanwoodcarver

3 күн бұрын

Excellent! A true interpretation!

"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.

@rk41gator

Күн бұрын

We are ALL taking the long way home. We just don't know it yet. And it will be alright. If we grow.

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.

@GrafindeKlevemark

4 күн бұрын

Me too and it has never paled.

@ausfuhrpramienjagar

3 күн бұрын

@@GrafindeKlevemark .. Nice!

@KevinPierce-pu4bd

3 күн бұрын

Child of Visions instrumentation is the bomb

@leemiracle6840

3 күн бұрын

His solo album Eye Of The Storm is freaking incredible!!!

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.

@apsaraa8209

18 сағат бұрын

well said...and so true. Being 69 rocks.

“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”.

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.

@lilamuzik3385

3 күн бұрын

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".

"School" is Supertramp's Opus, and then they put the sequel to it "Bloody Well Right" right after it creating 10 minutes of magnificence.

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.

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 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.

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

Still in love with Roger Hodgson, 45/50 years later. LOVE that man.

@shellefishgirl

4 күн бұрын

Absolutely!

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. 🙂

@firedoc5

4 күн бұрын

Mine too.

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.

Bloody Well Right, Dreamer, Goodbye Stranger, and many more, stay with it!

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 ✌️

Breakfast in America is one of best Albums from the 70's.

Supertramp's Crime of the Century entire album is one good, long listen. A keeper😊

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.

@stephenstrudwick8095

17 күн бұрын

"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. 🤓

Just because he’s hitting on an emotion you are feeling - it doesn’t mean he has the words of wisdom. He was just in the same place you are and he’s connecting with you. But your decision and what you have become doesn’t mean he’s right or you’re right or he’s wrong or you’re wrong. It’s just he s touching you on an emotional level

This album, "Breakfast In America" is OUTSTANDING! I recommend listening to ii in it's entirety.

Supertramp was so underrated. They were amazing. Listen to School, Bloody Well Right , or Dreamer from way back in 1974. Genius.

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. 😊

A must do rabbit hole!!! "Even in the Quietest Moments"

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.

Logical Song is one of my all time favorites also by Supertramp.

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.

Thanks...love Supertramp !

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.

Their songs have amazing complexity and really draw you in, similar to Steely Dan. I can listen to them over and over and over...

Can't wait to see you react to Hide In Your Shell... Definitely one of my favourites from Supertramp.

It's so nice seeing you discover the wonder of Supertramp.

Yes, you need to listen to the whole album many times! Deep!! 😎😎😎😎😎💋👵🐺🌵🍹

Supertramp surely had a sound all of their own and it was classy!

From the 1979 album *Breakfast in America*.

Best Band of the 70's. You only get one chance in this, make each day, good or bad, count...

Lord is it mine, is my favorite, worth a reaction

Well, my favorite Supertramp song is still Goodbye Stranger..love this one too❤️

ST Greatest Hits a total college days favorite. Without streaming music in early 1990s greatest hits CDs were where it was at.

This group is so musically talented it’s insane! Great musicians, great lyrics. What more could you ask!

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!

Even in the quietest moments, crime of the century, breakfast in America. Pick one and listen to any cut.

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! ✌🏻🇨🇦✌🏻

Supertramp - Breakfast in America is a must own album for all music lovers.

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.

"From Now On" never seen anyone react to it and it's another lyrical masterpiece

"Breakfast in America" and "School" are among the many great Supertramp songs!

When it comes time to settle down, who's to blame if you're not around, you took the long way home. ❤

Supertramp was fantastic live!! Back when you could afford to go....

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

The studio version is even better. The studio version of Goodbye Stranger is their BANGER.

This was a very good reaction! 🥰

“… who’s to blame, if you’re not around.” Exactly!!

I watch videos from the Paris concert all the time. Never get tired of seeing them or hearing the songs. Love Supertramp!

I remember Supertramp was all over the radio back then. Appreciate them more now than I did then.

Lately in my area I have been playing Super Tramp’s “It’s raining again.” Because it is.

Have fun in life. Handle your business. Bring your family to faith, and when the time comes, take the long way HOME. You got this BP!

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.

Massively underrated

Great song, love Supertramp❤

For me this is my favorite of all their songs…heard it like 45 years ago and loved it ever since!

The best songwriting, musicians and singers EVER were from the mid 60’s-mid 80’s, in all genres of music! We were very lucky to have grown up listening to it😊

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

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

I love Supertramp! Saw them in 1979 and they were awesome.

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...

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.

Dreamer

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.

Such a super band. So incredible. Love to see them come back again.

The most important thing a father can do for his children , is to love their mother.

The beauty of great lyrics (like these) is they can connect with you a certain way and but connect with someone else totally different.

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.

My favorite Supertramp song, followed closely by Goodbye Stranger. Sooo good!

I was 18 when this came out. Best decade of music.

You are a true Renaissance Man. No regrets, brother! Peace and love! ✌️🤍

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!

Next should be Supertramp - Goodbye Stranger

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.

Keep your faith, BP-you ARE much stronger than you feel right now. Love for you and your family🤙

I love how a song from years ago, connects to someone who sort of lived through the same thing many years later.

One of my fave bands. Im 49, so happy they re at least more exposed here and there cause they re truly culture. In noble terms. True Artists

Supertramp is one of my favorite groups you need to react to (Bloody Well Right) & the song (School)..... you should try reacting to Rodger Hodgson (aka the singer) his solo song (Had A Dream (Sleeping with the Enemy)) from his first solo album you'll be blown away by the video for this song & the sound of the song.

Just an amazing band. I always loved them, but the older I get, the more I appreciate how incredible they really were.

GREAT BAND!!! Wore this album OUT when it hit the airways!! Lyrics, as you know: are ALWAYS KEY!!! ENJOY, BP!!!

now...thats what music is to do....hits ya right in the feels sometimes...and you sir...just got hit from the 70's....welcome to the age of good ole music ...

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!

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!!!

@7gelis

3 күн бұрын

IMO the 70s were the absolute best decade for music. Not even close in my book.

I lost my best friend 20+ years ago. A couple of their songs hit me pretty hard in that respect. Peace, Love!!

You will never regret your choice to be with your family. Those girls will grow up knowing an awesome dad who was there with them when they needed him. Your wife will have a loving partner for life. You can still create music and even go back on tour when the girls are older.