Breakfast in America, one of the best albums of the '70. The production is simply superb. All the songs are badass tunes. The lyrics, the melodies, the use of the keyboards, voices, bass and horns. Love this record. The front cover is a masterpiece too and won a Grammy Award for Best Recording Package in 1980.

Loved this as a 17 year old. Had no idea now at 60 I'd wind up living it.

@marktrudeau8512

11 ай бұрын

Have kippers for breakfast in Texas next!

Strong analysis- maybe best I’ve seen of this song.

Supertramp = Supergroup

This is a Rodger Hodgson song, and he said in concert that this, like most of his songs, was very personal. He left the band at the height of their success to raise his children.

Back in August of 1978, I’d just left home to travel to the University I attended. I was to be a freshman in college. What a song for me to hear! I loved it and cranked up the volume, oblivious to what the song was about. It just sounded good. But, of course, a 61-year old listening now is light years away from my 18-year old self first hearing this. Life can be full of regret, but you have to live with the choices you’ve made throughout your life; there’s no going back. There are sooo many songs like this.

Supertramp the best band.

I've always loved this song, but now that I'm older it means so much more to me. Great memories, thank you.

@JuandeFucaU

2 жыл бұрын

don't bogart that Geritol... pass it on down... spread it around.... gets rid of frowns and wrinkles if you use it like a lotion.... almost time for bingo now... here we go....

As a group, they were Stellar Musicians & many of their songs, much like this one, had an actual message... & that message just gets deeper as we age. #SupertrampToldTheTruth

Oh Fun Super Tramp .Your Going To Love This Band

rick davies has an AMAZING style on harmonica... and john helliwell is a great saxophone player... 2 very important elements to the supertramp sound...

@JuandeFucaU

2 жыл бұрын

maybe some pretty cool sounding piano playing too... I'd have to say 3 very important elements but... I think there's like a whole periodic table with those guys.

Supertramp, part of the soundtrack of my youth

Does it feel that your life's become a catastrophe? Oh, it has to be, for you to grow, boy 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 Such relevant lyrics to me and many others

Harri, it looks like you’re heading down the Supertramp “rabbit hole,” which is great! I’ve got my bags packed and I’m ready to go. “Bloody Well Right,” would be an appropriate response!!!

@JuandeFucaU

2 жыл бұрын

right, right, ya bloody well right, you got a bloody right to say-ay-ay.... just got done watching Brooklyn learning about that whole album.. Crime of the Century not knowing it huh.

@Ou81gi812

2 жыл бұрын

@@JuandeFucaU According to Google, I saw Supertramp at the Seattle Coliseum in 1983. Second best concert I’d ever seen…next to Pink Floyd. Crazy Ain't Nobody but Me Breakfast in America Bloody Well Right It's Raining Again Put on Your Old Brown Shoes Hide in Your Shell From Now On Give a Little Bit Waiting So Long The Logical Song Goodbye Stranger Dreamer Rudy Take the Long Way Home Fool's Overture School Crime of the Century

@JuandeFucaU

2 жыл бұрын

@@Ou81gi812 unless my memories are actually implants and I'm a replicant... I saw Supertramp exactly one day after you did in Vancouver but not our Coliseum. you probably didn't have to deal with Bryan Adams like we did.... but if you did.... sorry for that eh ha ha.... hardcore Canajuns like me have tramp stamps about Bryan Adams above our asses that say "For Export Only"..... he's only got like 4% alcohol in him like he's Budwater. and I had to watch Supertamp at BC f-ing Place like a f-ing football game... a CANADIAN football game..... during daylight... under a Stay Puft marshmallow dome.. pffft.

@Ou81gi812

2 жыл бұрын

@@JuandeFucaU Hard to believe ALL that equipment moved from Seattle to Vancouver in about 18 hours…but, Google says it did. Saw Pink Floyd at BC Place on June 26, 1994…again, according to Google. (The best show ever.) Still remember the last encore…”Run Like Hell.” The lasers, the pyrotechnics, and the floodlights flashing at the foot of the stage are seared in my brain…still!!! About Bryan Adams: Saw him at the Paramount, in Seattle, at a “$2.00 Rising Stars Concert.” Ended up buying his album, “You Want It, You Got It,” because he was wearing jeans, a sport coat, and a LONGJOHN SHIRT, underneath!!! Why? Because I was living in Fairbanks, Alaska…and know a little something about “longjohns.”

@JuandeFucaU

2 жыл бұрын

@@Ou81gi812 ha ha ha hilarious... you almost make it sound like Bryan Adams was grungy... that's funny.... put on some black jeans, a plaid lumber jacket... ok, ok, so you clearly beat me on the Supertramp venue and quality of concert but..... and this is a serious but dude..... don't take this lightly eh..... you never saw Pink Floyd in 1994... yah, I said it.... you never saw it.... never happened... calling you out.... I saw them for real... yah, for real Pink Floyd... all of them.. none of that "I'm David Gilmour and whatever's left after Roger left" Part Floyd.... yah I said it... Part Floyd..... 87 Floyd in Vancouver... the defense rests your honour.

"Breakfast in America" use to be my travelling music. Stereo cranked and windows down.... (the whole album. "Child of Vision" "Oh, Lord, is it Mine"....great stuff

@CuzKatieSaysSo

2 жыл бұрын

Dave Whitlow, I believe I'll do that tomorrow. Put the top down on the Mustang and throw in this cd, very loud. And take the long way home.....

@philgrody3681

2 жыл бұрын

And speeding tickets !

@PMunkS

2 жыл бұрын

If this was a track featured in your travelling tape, you may well love this home-made production of Supertramp's '...Long Way Home': "Derek Crombie (KZread Channel) | "Project Westy Drives Home (Lucia's Maiden Voyage)" | 05m:03s [ kzread.info/dash/bejne/i2dtraSCqLrUj9o.html ]

Your music preferences are so diverse, and completely sound.

Love this one! The title track is amazing as well-Breakfast in America

Peace, Love Harri! Sometimes we have to take the long way. Peace, Love some more!

I was not a fan of Super Tramp but I really like this song. I remember listening to while I was getting a ride. The radio station it was tuned to had "Take The Long Way Home", and it sounded good to me.

Wonderful song.

Love love love this band. Thank you

You have to hear Bloody Well Right Harri. Supertramp!

Goodbye Stranger, Oh Lord is it Mine, and many more.

One of the best albums ever made..wore my big sisters record out!!

@jimo7593

2 жыл бұрын

I'd bet she'd love getting a new replacement one on vinyl as a gift from you one day....if you haven't already.

Harri good analysis, I think you got the meaning of this great song. It seems to be about famous rock stars who get such adulation, love and praise on stage but don't find or get the same feeling and rush with their home life so in a way may have avoided it via taking the long way home but in the end they realize that they may have lost out on this part of life by avoided it.

I rarely prefer a live version over the studio version, but this one is an exception. The Live in Paris 1979 (or the official 4k video of that) performance of Take the Long Way Home is superior in sound, energy, and musicality. Definitely give that a listen for your own edification.

gotta listen to supertramp "goodbye stranger"!

Love Supertramp! They became huge here in Canada with the release of the phenomenal..Crime Of The Century ..album! A #1 album here in Canada back in 1974. Brilliant! Saw them live back in 1974 as well. Then came..Crisis What Crisis? And Even In The Quietest Moments..all huge albums here. Finally Breakfast in America album and the entire world woke up to their brilliance. So creative! Saw them live again in 1979. Saw lead singer Rodger Hodgson solo in the 90s. Just him playing guitar and keyboards alone with that INCREDIBLE voice of his. One of my absolute favourite bands of all time! Love it! Thanks Harri! Try..."Fools Overture" by Supertramp! Written by Rodger with him on lead vocals! It's a MASTERPIECE vocally, musically and lyrically! ♥️🎼🎵🎶🇨🇦🇨🇦

Absolutely love Supertramp & have since i was a teenager. Played their albums over & over & over! The instruments, the voice, harmonies, excellent lyrics. What’s not to like? ❤️ I love them all

WOW I LOVE THIS SONG

Harri this was a taste of Supper Tramp in the 70s

This is one of my favorite songs from Supertramp though I like everything they ever recorded. When I hear this song I think that every performer who is a super star on the road should have this song as their mantra. I played this album until the grooves on the record was nearly flat. Thank you for this reaction.

@philipskrusso1153

2 жыл бұрын

Yes fame is fleeting and will not bring lasting happiness but filling our spiritual need, family and friends will.

Reading your comments, guys, I feel like I'm not the only one to have related to these lyrics lately 🤪

Crazy coincidence I had this song in mind and I ended up here just two days after the vid was posted.

Lots of amazing Supertramp music, many radio hits among them: "Dreamer" "Bloody Well Right" "Give a Little Bit" [the 4 you've heard] "Oh, Darling" "Child of Vision" "It's Raining Again"

This is definitely a song I appreciate more now than I did when I was younger. (I also tend to muddle Supertramp, Foreigner, Styx and Journey into one big lump in my head if I'm not paying attention. Is it fair to any of them? No. Does it happen anyway? Absolutely.)

Interesting interpretation, although I always felt that the good and bad of it was more ambiguous. Much of the "Breakfast in America" album seems to be about carving out individual experience in the face of social pressures to conform. "The Logical Song" is most explicit about this, but "Goodbye, Stranger" also plays on this, and even "Breakfast in America" itself, which is about immigrants trying to reshape themselves in their (sometimes comically inaccurate*) understandings of what America is like also plays on this. [ * "Could we have kippers for breakfast, Mummy Dear, Mummy Dear? You got to have them in Texas, 'cause everyone's a millionaire."] So I always saw this as a song about literally "taking the long way home" to regroup, gather thoughts, and reassess things before jumping in to face the next round of pressures and expectations. Conforming to expectations is definitely a negative in "The Logical Song" and feels almost hopeless in "Breakfast in America." In "Goodbye, Stranger," violating norms feels liberating but seems like an inevitable dead end. In "Take the Long Way Home," though, it feels more like a compromise. He's not going to leave his family (as the narrator in "Goodbye, Stranger" would), and he's not bailing on the expectations, either. He's just sort of negotiating a little space in it. He *is* after all still going home, even if he takes the scenic route to get there. Being our own person without absconding all responsibility is an awkward and clumsy business, so you just work it out, trying to balance the dreams and practicalities the best you can.

Love Supertramp! ♥️. When I’ve seen them in concert this is the final encore to send you off back home.

As a teenager I used to be the biggest Supertramp fan and still like them. My recommendations: - School (1974) - Crime of the Century (1974) - The Meaning (1975) - Fools Overture (1977) - Breakfast in America (1979) - Logical Song (1979) - My Kind of Lady (1982) - Dont Leave Me Now (1982) But there are so many other good songs by them...

I love how you break down songs and get to the heart of the lyrics. Most " song review" channels are people who don't care about the music, they're just trying to make money....they rush through songs and just tell you whether that song was " dope" or not...lolol. But You are the Real Deal and I love watching your caring, thoughful reviews. You are a true music Lover and I love that 💙💙💙💙💙💙

@timcardona9962

2 жыл бұрын

True, but on the other hand "lyrics" are just a small part of the music and one could argue that he doesnt really discuss the "music", just the lyrics. A complete review would be about the lyrics *and* the music and very few on youtube seem capable of discussing both equally

Awesome song 💜. Sometimes in life you just need that long way drive to decompress and have alone time with yourself 💗🕊️. Enjoy the scenery and smell the roses along the way ☺️

interpretation is about right for the lyrics...i read somewhere that the character is someone of prominence or famous, but to his wife and family, he is just an ordinary person, the song describing that conumdrum

Love Supertramp, they were unbelivable live. Do some of their earlier stuff anything from the Crime of the Century album would be great. Enjoy

Such a great album, all these years I just took the waitress for granted, never realizing that she is the statue of liberty reimagined.... fitting

"Bloody Well Right"

Great song and it's only my 5th favourite on Breakfast In America. Supertramp is my all-time favourite group. Superb musicians and lyricists (social commentary and spiritual) with superior album production quality. I listen and either like or (usually) love EVERY song during their classic run of 5 LPs - from Crime of the Century (an all-time great album) to Crisis? What Crisis? (criminally underrated), Even in the Quietest Moments (sublime), Breakfast In America (their most commercial endeavour but also great throughout) to Famous Last Words (also underrated). Very few, if any, groups could incorporate saxophone, harmonica, clarinet and strings into rock/pop music and make it sound sooooo good. It's a tragedy that lead singers Roger Hodgson and Richard Davies couldn't get along as we were robbed of likely many more great albums in the 1980s and beyond.

The great thing about music is everyone can have there own interpretation

Always how can I said refreshing band? I don't know is so cool.

"Breakfast in America" the title cut song from this album is cool too

go Cowboys

¡Amo esta canción!

Next recommended Supertramp song: “Bloody Well Right” (studio/audio version) The piano intro is so sick that you’ll be replaying it in your head the rest of the day. And the saxophone outro will make you swoon. Love your reactions, man! 😁

@meganparsons9106

2 жыл бұрын

quite right :)

Great Channel! Any song off the Crime of the Century Album... My favorite is Rudy

Harri, I just noticed you passed the 50K mark! Congratulations!🍾🎉🎈🎊

Harri, Music can take you anywhere. I can tell that you went on that trip. So happy for your reaction. 💕

Well Harri, you've done it again. Your perception of this song was spot on. Keep em coming brother.

My daughter and her boyfriend lived in China for two years. They came home via train from Beijing to Amsterdam. This was one of the songs in their video record of the trip.

@JuandeFucaU

2 жыл бұрын

so, that's who it was playing Supertramp on a train in the middle of China... I've been wondering who that was for years now... thanks... I thought it was ghosts or something.

🥀Amazing Song brilliant lyrics vocals and music I feel his words as well. I love his unique voice it's priceless and unbelievable🥀✌🥀☝️

I heard Supertramp member John Helliwell said it was part autobiographical.

At one time I had heard so much of this that I would change the station when they came on the radio. One of my best friends played their albums over and over and over again. Thankfully that passed and I can appreciate them again.

As a musician, I NEVER take song lyrics literally, and I especially don’t pick them apart for meaning. They’re poetry - they’re evocative - they serve the music, and they’re only “about” sound and subconscious images for me. I just let them wash over in the waves of sound. And this works especially well in great music, of any genre. If all you notice in a piece of alleged music is the words, there’s probably something missing musically.

Breakfast in America and Crime of the Century 2 great 👍 albums by one of my favorite all time groups. Breakfast in America spent 6 weeks in 1979 at # 1 on Billboard with Take the Long Way Home one of the hit singles. A unique band with a unique sound.

Incredible song, one of my favorites by them

There are actually two guys who originally did the lead vocals - Rick Davies and Roger Hodgson. Roger is probably the one who's voice you think is unusual. Great band! I've loved them since the early '70's!

this song has my favorite clarinet/harmonica solo of all time heh:)

I loved listening to this when it woulcome on the radio when I was driving home

Another great tune from this monumental album!

Songwriter Roger Hodgson describes “Take the Long Way Home” as being “…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. I really believe we all want to find our home, find that place in us where we feel at home, and to me, 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.” The band was originally called Daddy, but they changed it at the suggestion of their original guitarist Richard Palmer, who got the name from a 1910 book by the Welsh author W.H. Davies called The Autobiography of a Super Tramp.

Their 1979 live Paris DVD is prime Supertramp!! \m/

Some bands have solid messages, some sad and cold, but the music is upbeat and has a great hook. They fool you into the music, then (if you are listening) you hear the blues.

just a masterpiece

great job... very underated song in my opinion

@kenperk9854

2 жыл бұрын

Let's face it, with 60s and 70s music, just crank up the album's. Rarly any fiiler needed.

That could be like someone having to decide between an enjoyable exciting night-life, and a humdrum life- around- the- home- scene. It's how you look at things.

good reaction, great song. Please sort out your creaky chair ;-)

Congrats on 50k ... you're enjoyable to share music with... I've no doubt you'll hit 100k soon. 🍻Cheers

Do you see the picture? The Twin Towers and the person is looking out a plane window... need I say more? As a former New Yorker that particular picture hits me hard.

While the album cover is not an actual photo of Manhattan, the mock up still depicts likeness to The World Trade Center. The image is a fun concept, which for me is overlaid with sadness.

I really dont think its a sad song, many believe it its as well... I find the song to be about reality and getting away from the hustle, etc.. Its just a song that can reach any mood your in... i think its very upbeat my man

It's one of those, driving home from the midnight shift in the dead of night records...

I don't know about the rest of you but the Album names and Album covers of 70s and 60s records were awesome and the music wouldn't have been as good as it was without them.

It is about a man going home after work but doesn't want to go home to his life so he takes the long way home to get there.

@Yorkcityknight

2 жыл бұрын

I also take it as a reminder to deviate from your usual routine. Take in all that life can offer - the narrator, Roger, is telling the protagonist to take some time out and do something for himself.

Rick Davies's harmonica sure does duke it our with John Helliwell's sax. I wonder if Rick is playing the piano or organ here. I don't here a guitar.

i'd like to year you comment more about how u feel about the music itself more than your opinions of what you think the song is about. Not all Songs that are made are auto-biographical :)

I never really got into this group because I didn't like their main hits ... too weird sounding for me (IMHO). However, I really rallied 'round the hard, ground sound of Bloody Well Right !!! Now, THAT'S a PROPER song !!! Very divergent from the rest of their music, I only wish they could've done more like it. I love that song, A LOT !!!

I think this is the most beautifully sad songs in rock, I always think of supertramp as like a rock symphony of soul. The song it self hate to say it but it sounds kind of like it's about having an affair. Anyone know what I'm talking about?

Harri you need some WD40 for your chair.

This is a great album but their best is CRIME OF THE CENTURY not a bad track on it plus it tells the story of Rudy..

Give A Little Bit, School, Oh Darling and The Logical Song are some others u might want to hear!♥️

Way off track, but my father used to tell me to take the long way home on my bicycle when all the roads were washed out during the summer monsoons in Tucson back in the 70s✌🏻

This song is incredibly sad

Close but NO cigar Monica.

I think in my opinion reactors to videos should let the whole song play and at the end give their opinions, this way they’ll be completely informed of the whole song and have more to talk about because they have heard it all, also it would not break up the vibe and flow of the song

@theConquerersMama

2 жыл бұрын

Due to copyright issues they have to break the song up a certain number of times or the song is pulled.

@wild8757

2 жыл бұрын

@@theConquerersMama Not always true, I’ve watched many reaction videos with no pause and they played the video all the way through,Wilburn reaction plays the entire song on every one before commenting at the end

one of the legends of rock... the Supertramp... what an epic band. This is my theme song btw.... I have so many regrets, and this song brings it home.. enough to cry when I hear it sometimes.

Roger Hodgson incorporates a lot of religious elements in his lyrics. I always took this to mean finding God again.

@sourisvoleur4854

2 жыл бұрын

or Babaji.

Please check out Skillet. The song...Hero. Thank you.

Fix that chair or mute the mic....thank you! LOL

I don’t know if you still read these comments but what the song is about is a person who thinks they’re much more talented than they are. But still the only time he feels good is when he’s on stage. He’s kind of a off the strip Las Vegas lounge singer who thinks more highly of himself than he is

Wasn't quite what I was expecting, not bad. I'm still a major Bee Gees fan, but there are lots of groups I listen to. This is the first I've listened to this group. It's OK.

yeah an unhappy rel n end of a rel, sounds like a failed marraige ,or not comiting 2 one.

Worst band name for a really good band.