"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" ........That verse always hits hard. 😕
I am the guy who first had them react to The Logical song, I am glad they have heard Take the Long Way Home to. I love this whole album. My absolute favorite besides The Logical song is the epic CHILD OF VISION. :) Keep em coming guys !
@@ErikD71 Well, that was an excellent request, Erik! 👏👏👏 They are so good at getting suggestions on! Supertramp is such a fabulous group, in my opinion. They loved both songs - that's 2 for 2! Hopefully, they will circle back around to "Child Of Vision" sometime. "Goodbye Stranger" & "Give A Little Bit" are a little more well known but if it gets a bunch of "likes" I'm certain they will hit it! 🎵❤️
the most valuable currency is time - it is such a cruel trick to realize that as you grow older and wiser..... smilar to the PF lyric "And then one day you find ten yrs have got behind you..... No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.....)
‘Take the long way home’ -those words are a metaphor for taking a long time to figure out what’s important and what matters most to you…he thinks he’ll find happiness in being a rock star but realises (maybe too late) that it’s not the answer🤩
Rico & Crys - That was a clarinet solo - I believe the first time you've had one. They are rare! That was the first instrument I picked up to learn how to read & play music from my Grandfather's collection. He was a Big Band Leader in the 50's & early 60's. It became my "main" instrument for 8 years - though he taught me several others. When he passed away he left me his trumpet & clarinet. Part of me wishes I was given all of his instruments but that's very selfish of me. I'm truly am grateful. I allowed my daughter (his Great Granddaughter which I named after his wife) to carefully use it in band class for 3 years. How proud he would be!
@@steveullrich7737 Thank you, Steve! How kind of you! I sure am blessed that he raised me. We listened to every kind of music together from the 50's to early 90's before he sadly passed away. I send my daughter one music video or song a day. I want to share what was given to me. Hopefully, she will do the same. As Jamel says, "Keep Great Music Alive". 😉❤️🎵
@@jennhurl You're welcome. I listen to Jamal too and he is such a beautful soul. I do same with my daughter when I find a great song or performance that she doesn't know.
Oh wow! Yes, I think it was our first clarinet solo!! & thats fire to know that Jen! You’d have to show us! & that’s amazing to know that she used it in band! 💯‼️ shoutout to Grandpa! He is a GOAT for that🙏
Such a nostalgic feel. Reminds me of the summer between junior and senior high. Doing a whole lot of nothing before getting a real job and heading into high school.
This song always reminds me being a kid/teen in the 80s, the local outdoor skating rink played it alot, i could even hear it from my house if you were outside.
Absolutely love the rabbit hole of Supertramp. This is one of my favorites by them.....when it would come on the radio id literally take a longer more scenic route home and just decompress 💗🕊️
This song was recorded at a time when Supertramp could do no wrong, they recorded four wonderful albums in a row. Unfortunately after that things did begin to go downhill a bit, Breakfast in America was a fantastic achievement, and one of their very best albums.
I know and it was crazy (pun intended) but when you put out Crime of The Century( a true rock classic album) that early, it had to be down hill from there ...LOL :) Peace and love
Although I admit Famous Last Words was a slight dip in quality I think Brother Where You Bound was definitely a return to form of sorts...well I liked it anyway 😊
@@keithjones7390 absolutely no idea. Let's face it, any album with a title track like BWYB has gotta get a thumbs up (16 minutes of progtastic awesomeness) 🥰🥰🥰
Supertramp is a prolific band... cracked me up with I played "Breakfast in America" in front of my Gen Z girlfriend and she thought that they lifted the "take a look at my girlfriend" line from some new hip-hop band she listens to ... I was like "Baby, this came out in 1979, 10 years after this band formed"
Marriage is bad, but taking the long way home is his escape. I used to play this a lot in my car, even though I wasn't trying to escape anything except everyday life.
Thanks for this honest reaction to a Supertramp song. I have no doubt they are from the greatest and more respected bands ever. I think you will like Dreamer, It's raining again and Goodby Stranger :-) Regards from Chile!
A man who failed to make it in Hollywood, his life is tough, the wife is frustrated, and then time gets away from them. That's the reaction I get from this great song.
Great band.Very original sound.If you haven't done " The Logical song" check it out when you guys find the time.It would be the logical thing to do. Have a great day!
I have a totally different take on this song. I first heard it while working in Saudi Arabia as a 20 something year old young man. I was a looooong way from home. Prior to working overseas I'd always considered myself just a part of the scenery, but now I was playing a part in a movie show. As another lonely day became another lonely night, I'd sit on a rise looking across the empty blackness at the city lights in the far, far distance. Later in life I'd relate to "when you look through your life and you see what you could have been", not that I hadn't experienced some incredible years. But there were many years abroad. I wasn't around. Looking back, I think I might have done a few things differently. Great song, gave solace to me as young man alone in a far away land, as well as later in life. To this day, when I'm fortunate to hear it again, it brings back very introspective memories of the empty vastness of those Arabian nights! For reference, I'm now 65.
Glad you got to reacting to Supertramp. One of the best bands of the time with a very unique sound. They had 4 top 100 hits off of this album. Another of my personal favorite tracks is Lord Is It Mine. Be awesome if you reacted to it.
Love me some Supertramp! check out the art work on that album cover. Brilliant. The waitress is the Statue of Liberty and the New York city skyline is all restaurant equipment.
You will really enjoy, CANNONBALL. The electric foreplay and intermingled poetry of the musicians is devastating. Great rhythm, emphasized and punctuated by tge usual relationship nonsense. This album, BREAKFAST IN AMERICA is the pinnacle of Supertramp as a band. To back this up CHILD OF VISION is their greatest track. Enjoy.
Cannonball is one of my favourites, from a great slightly underrated album. For me Crime of the Century was their best work, BIA coming a close second.
I've been hoping you two would react to this for ages. Excellent!! Any chance of David Bowie Where are we now? It's so powerful and poignant after his death.
I think your interpretation of "taking the long way home" because you don't really want to go home is one way of thinking about it, but I also think it can be about someone who took the road less travelled - who didn't do what was expected of them, but at the end of the day they realize that they really want to be "home"
In the "For What it's Worth Dept", I'd HIGHLY recommend that you react to EVERY song from Breakfast in America (my fave is the album closer, "Child of Vision") AND my personal #1 Supertramp album, "Even in the Quietest Moments". "From Now On" is my favorite SONG amongst other great tracks like "Babaji", "Even in the Quietest Moments", "Fool's Overture", & "Lover Boy". *Also, an excellent song off of BIA that greatly aided me in plodding through a particularly harrowing divorce, "Casual Conversations". You guys are fucking fantastic, btw ✌&❤
This song came out when I was 13. I sang along and bopped my head...but had no idea what it was about. LOL I didn't read lyrics unless I owned the album and they were included. AS an adult-listening here with you..I think it's about living life, striving to reach goals, accepting the fact that sometimes achieving goals/dreams takes a little longer then we had hoped. Maybe?
I've always assumed he was a performer and in the beginning of the song he's talking about how he walks along life and doesn't really notice things like the greenery and his wife ignores him so he's happier on the road because the fans make him feel appreciated. But , like everyone else in this world there's never enough time to do everything you want to and you wake up one day realizing your older and life slipped by and you never accomplished your dreams. Those were my favorite lines Too..."When you look through the year's and see what you might have been, oh what you could have been, if you'd had more time !! (Always made me sad ). Those lyrics are so true of life for us all... The older I become, ( now in my 60s). The stronger my faith is and I feel that I am where I am because experiences in life make you change your direction and God puts you where he needs you. I'm more at peace now knowing that! Thanks for your video's. You two are wonderful. ❤️
If you want to listen to one of the most amazing songs featuring a harmonica and piano listen to Times of Trouble by Temple of the Dog. Another amazing vocal performance by Chris Cornell and really great song with a tough subject matter. Footsteps by Pearl Jam is another harmonica classic. It was the first song Pearl Jam wrote together. Eddie Vedder at his best.
You all should react to The Knife by Genesis. A song about revolution that also references the Kent State shootings in 1970 by the National Guard against protestors protesting the Vietnam War.
I’m so glad I found some of your older stuff - reaction videos. I found you a few months ago for the refreshing new look at what you were seeing was really going on. First I should say this song came out in ‘79 and I was a senior in HS 🫤 But Kris is basically right but for a different reason than you think. He is thinks he’s becoming bigger than he is and thinks she doesn’t appreciate him. She doesn’t appreciate how big his head is getting…. He gets a bit cocky about it - as if he’s right to think he’s “all that” But now he realizes he should’ve found his way home much sooner….
Does this woman have any thoughts about music? I've never seen a less emotive listener of music. She sits still as a stone, never bops or nods her head to the beat, never changed her resting face, no facial reactions whatsoever, just a completely blank reaction. Seems like she's just there, while dude is the only reactor of their videos.
Oh if you like harmonica you need to check out the classic 90s group Blues Traveler. Their lead singer John Popper is like the best harmonica player to ever walk the planet. He wears an ammo looking vest just packed w/ different harmonicas. Also their music is really good (kinda blues/rock/pop).
Don’t overthink the lyrics. The long way home refers to being on the road and the toll it inflicts on a relationship. His internal struggles. He’s the joke of the neighborhood so perhaps the stress relief can go to far. Life’s a catastrophe but that’s how you grow with the wife dusting you off like furniture.
Sometimes, you’re not ready for the bullshit. So, you buy a six-pack, fire up a bowl, and take “The Long Way Home”………Tried and true, by millions of us, man or woman. 🤷🏼♂️
I am worried about this girl ... she's beautiful and had no opportunity ... obviously ... She's trying to get a reaction out of this guy and relating to herself ITS SO OBVIOUS
Just imagine being a parent, coming home from a long day, taking the long way home so that you can have a little extra time to yourself and imagine what your life could have been, if you made better choices. That feeling of being unappreciated, taken for granted, trapped in the prison of your decisions along the way. This is domestic claustrophobia.
More Supertramp, please.
Pure class, no other words to describe this band.
thanks for the review. She is right. He doesn't want to go home. You two make a great couple.
If I've listened to this song less than 1,000 times over the years I'd be surprised.Never gets old.Lyrically saddening,musically uplifting.
"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"
........That verse always hits hard. 😕
Time is just to damn fast :(
I am the guy who first had them react to The Logical song, I am glad they have heard Take the Long Way Home to. I love this whole album. My absolute favorite besides The Logical song is the epic CHILD OF VISION. :) Keep em coming guys !
@@ErikD71 Well, that was an excellent request, Erik! 👏👏👏 They are so good at getting suggestions on! Supertramp is such a fabulous group, in my opinion. They loved both songs - that's 2 for 2! Hopefully, they will circle back around to "Child Of Vision" sometime. "Goodbye Stranger" & "Give A Little Bit" are a little more well known but if it gets a bunch of "likes" I'm certain they will hit it! 🎵❤️
@@ErikD71 yeeesssss !!!!! that song (CHILD OF VISION) is my favorite Supertramp song period !!!!!!
the most valuable currency is time - it is such a cruel trick to realize that as you grow older and wiser..... smilar to the PF lyric "And then one day you find ten yrs have got behind you..... No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.....)
‘Take the long way home’ -those words are a metaphor for taking a long time to figure out what’s important and what matters most to you…he thinks he’ll find happiness in being a rock star but realises (maybe too late) that it’s not the answer🤩
Rico & Crys - That was a clarinet solo - I believe the first time you've had one. They are rare! That was the first instrument I picked up to learn how to read & play music from my Grandfather's collection. He was a Big Band Leader in the 50's & early 60's. It became my "main" instrument for 8 years - though he taught me several others.
When he passed away he left me his trumpet & clarinet. Part of me wishes I was given all of his instruments but that's very selfish of me. I'm truly am grateful.
I allowed my daughter (his Great Granddaughter which I named after his wife) to carefully use it in band class for 3 years. How proud he would be!
What a Nice musical legacy that your grandfather gave you and your daughter to enjoy.
@@steveullrich7737 Thank you, Steve! How kind of you! I sure am blessed that he raised me. We listened to every kind of music together from the 50's to early 90's before he sadly passed away. I send my daughter one music video or song a day. I want to share what was given to me. Hopefully, she will do the same. As Jamel says, "Keep Great Music Alive". 😉❤️🎵
@@jennhurl You're welcome. I listen to Jamal too and he is such a beautful soul. I do same with my daughter when I find a great song or performance that she doesn't know.
Oh wow! Yes, I think it was our first clarinet solo!! & thats fire to know that Jen! You’d have to show us! & that’s amazing to know that she used it in band! 💯‼️ shoutout to Grandpa! He is a GOAT for that🙏
"Breakfast In America" one of the best albums ever.
Such a nostalgic feel. Reminds me of the summer between junior and senior high. Doing a whole lot of nothing before getting a real job and heading into high school.
Supertramp is amazing. Great albums and many brilliant songs. React to Hide in Your Shell (live in Paris)
This song always reminds me being a kid/teen in the 80s, the local outdoor skating rink played it alot, i could even hear it from my house if you were outside.
Same! Also Babe by Styx reminds me of hoping to skate in circles with some boy holding my hand lol
@@debbiedebster5806 well its never to late for that dream to come true 😀
We can can all relate to the message of this song in one way or another.
Absolutely love the rabbit hole of Supertramp. This is one of my favorites by them.....when it would come on the radio id literally take a longer more scenic route home and just decompress 💗🕊️
I remember being 5 years old sitting in the front seat of my dads Porsche driving from California to Washington listening to this album and loving it
Your girl is perfection my boy. Great channel!
This song was recorded at a time when Supertramp could do no wrong, they recorded four wonderful albums in a row. Unfortunately after that things did begin to go downhill a bit, Breakfast in America was a fantastic achievement, and one of their very best albums.
I know and it was crazy (pun intended) but when you put out Crime of The Century( a true rock classic album) that early, it had to be down hill from there ...LOL :) Peace and love
@@Newfie-zc7ug Totally agree, it would have been some album to even equal Crime, one of the best albums ever for sure.
Although I admit Famous Last Words was a slight dip in quality I think Brother Where You Bound was definitely a return to form of sorts...well I liked it anyway 😊
@@eddhardy1054 Why do l feel we are in the minority when l say that l really Like Brother Where You Bound as well?
@@keithjones7390 absolutely no idea. Let's face it, any album with a title track like BWYB has gotta get a thumbs up (16 minutes of progtastic awesomeness) 🥰🥰🥰
Super classic. I’m a Gen Ex’er. Grew up to this one!!!!
Saw them live in Portland during their "Breakfast in America " tour. Got back stage pass. Try " Crime of the Century "
Eclectic and incredibly talented band.
Supertramp is a prolific band... cracked me up with I played "Breakfast in America" in front of my Gen Z girlfriend and she thought that they lifted the "take a look at my girlfriend" line from some new hip-hop band she listens to ... I was like "Baby, this came out in 1979, 10 years after this band formed"
Marriage is bad, but taking the long way home is his escape. I used to play this a lot in my car, even though I wasn't trying to escape anything except everyday life.
Seen them a few times. What an interesting voice. Love hide in your shell. Not sure it that’s the name of the the song
I had this record back in the day. You can't go wrong listening to Supertramp.
Thanks for this honest reaction to a Supertramp song. I have no doubt they are from the greatest and more respected bands ever.
I think you will like Dreamer, It's raining again and Goodby Stranger :-)
Regards from Chile!
A man who failed to make it in Hollywood, his life is tough, the wife is frustrated, and then time gets away from them. That's the reaction I get from this great song.
School from Crime of the Century, and Even in the Quietest Moments are their two best songs.
For me it's School and Rudy their top two.
Should put in your opinion on the end of that, people get upset with absolute statements
Great band.Very original sound.If you haven't done " The Logical song" check it out when you guys find the time.It would be the logical thing to do. Have a great day!
Much deeper indeed. Time waits for no one. Stop n smell the coffee. Take the scenic route. Live a little.
When you started looking up that lyric, I already knew which one it was!
Probably the most powerful line in the song.
I have this album on vinyl. One of my favorite albums ever. Supertramp is seriously an underated band.
Love me some Supertramp! ❤❤ TY
Supertramp: Maybe not the music you want, but the music you NEED.
Very nice guys. Very good song. ☮️✌️💕👌
I think taking the long way home means don’t be so serious. Relax, go for a ride and take the long way home. Things aren’t so bad.
Love Supertramp!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I love how their prog rock made room for Brian Wilson/Beach Boys-styled harmony sections.
Forget the rest and just enjoy the journey.
My grandfather took the long way home and never came back.
She nailed it bud.
I remember this album , it was HUGE back in the day . Favourite song ..... Goodbye Stranger .
Don’t ever get married, is what he’s talking about. Smart man. He’d rather be out touring, and being pumped up by the fans.
Love the reaction. Please react to "Goodbye Stranger" soon...
Love hearing your reactions and opinions. That’s what we want to hear and keep up the great work!
I have a totally different take on this song. I first heard it while working in Saudi Arabia as a 20 something year old young man. I was a looooong way from home. Prior to working overseas I'd always considered myself just a part of the scenery, but now I was playing a part in a movie show. As another lonely day became another lonely night, I'd sit on a rise looking across the empty blackness at the city lights in the far, far distance. Later in life I'd relate to "when you look through your life and you see what you could have been", not that I hadn't experienced some incredible years. But there were many years abroad. I wasn't around. Looking back, I think I might have done a few things differently. Great song, gave solace to me as young man alone in a far away land, as well as later in life. To this day, when I'm fortunate to hear it again, it brings back very introspective memories of the empty vastness of those Arabian nights! For reference, I'm now 65.
Glad you got to reacting to Supertramp. One of the best bands of the time with a very unique sound. They had 4 top 100 hits off of this album. Another of my personal favorite tracks is Lord Is It Mine. Be awesome if you reacted to it.
This album is the first one I bought for my car's new cassette deck. I had way over 500 miles on that tape.🤩😎
If you sing in your car with radio tunes. This song is about you.
Take the long way home, play those tunes that set you free!
Try Neil Young singing 'harvest moon' for a bit harmonica.
His wife treats him like a piece of the furniture. He felt invisible to her.
Love me some Supertramp! check out the art work on that album cover. Brilliant. The waitress is the Statue of Liberty and the New York city skyline is all restaurant equipment.
You will really enjoy, CANNONBALL. The electric foreplay and intermingled poetry of the musicians is devastating. Great rhythm, emphasized and punctuated by tge usual relationship nonsense. This album, BREAKFAST IN AMERICA is the pinnacle of Supertramp as a band. To back this up CHILD OF VISION is their greatest track. Enjoy.
Cannonball is one of my favourites, from a great slightly underrated album. For me Crime of the Century was their best work, BIA coming a close second.
Good tune. Before my time, but it was everywhere when I was like 3 -23.
it is such a great song from such a great album! and also a brilliant album cover!
I've been hoping you two would react to this for ages. Excellent!! Any chance of David Bowie Where are we now? It's so powerful and poignant after his death.
I think your interpretation of "taking the long way home" because you don't really want to go home is one way of thinking about it, but I also think it can be about someone who took the road less travelled - who didn't do what was expected of them, but at the end of the day they realize that they really want to be "home"
In the "For What it's Worth Dept", I'd HIGHLY recommend that you react to EVERY song from Breakfast in America (my fave is the album closer, "Child of Vision") AND my personal #1 Supertramp album, "Even in the Quietest Moments". "From Now On" is my favorite SONG amongst other great tracks like "Babaji", "Even in the Quietest Moments", "Fool's Overture", & "Lover Boy". *Also, an excellent song off of BIA that greatly aided me in plodding through a particularly harrowing divorce, "Casual Conversations". You guys are fucking fantastic, btw
✌&❤
This song came out when I was 13. I sang along and bopped my head...but had no idea what it was about. LOL
I didn't read lyrics unless I owned the album and they were included. AS an adult-listening here with you..I think it's about living life, striving to reach goals, accepting the fact that sometimes achieving goals/dreams takes a little longer then we had hoped. Maybe?
Next thing I'd recommend to find a Supertramp live performance to react to, of "Breakfast in America". You'll like that one, too guys!
I've always assumed he was a performer and in the beginning of the song he's talking about how he walks along life and doesn't really notice things like the greenery and his wife ignores him so he's happier on the road because the fans make him feel appreciated. But , like everyone else in this world there's never enough time to do everything you want to and you wake up one day realizing your older and life slipped by and you never accomplished your dreams. Those were my favorite lines Too..."When you look through the year's and see what you might have been, oh what you could have been, if you'd had more time !! (Always made me sad ). Those lyrics are so true of life for us all... The older I become, ( now in my 60s). The stronger my faith is and I feel that I am where I am because experiences in life make you change your direction and God puts you where he needs you. I'm more at peace now knowing that! Thanks for your video's. You two are wonderful. ❤️
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If you want to listen to one of the most amazing songs featuring a harmonica and piano listen to Times of Trouble by Temple of the Dog. Another amazing vocal performance by Chris Cornell and really great song with a tough subject matter. Footsteps by Pearl Jam is another harmonica classic. It was the first song Pearl Jam wrote together. Eddie Vedder at his best.
The song tells exactly what it says. Check out the lyrics
You all should react to The Knife by Genesis. A song about revolution that also references the Kent State shootings in 1970 by the National Guard against protestors protesting the Vietnam War.
The singer sounds exactly like that live.
I’m so glad I found some of your older stuff - reaction videos. I found you a few months ago for the refreshing new look at what you were seeing was really going on.
First I should say this song came out in ‘79 and I was a senior in HS 🫤
But Kris is basically right but for a different reason than you think. He is thinks he’s becoming bigger than he is and thinks she doesn’t appreciate him. She doesn’t appreciate how big his head is getting….
He gets a bit cocky about it - as if he’s right to think he’s “all that”
But now he realizes he should’ve found his way home much sooner….
"Rudy" that's it, just Rudy.
Rudy and School, two of their absolute best!
Great song
👋🏻♥️
Check out no hook by nocap, he is signed under YB and also I’ll be here.
In a nutshell , he feels like his life isn't a rut !
Check out the live version
Does this woman have any thoughts about music? I've never seen a less emotive listener of music. She sits still as a stone, never bops or nods her head to the beat, never changed her resting face, no facial reactions whatsoever, just a completely blank reaction. Seems like she's just there, while dude is the only reactor of their videos.
Oh if you like harmonica you need to check out the classic 90s group Blues Traveler. Their lead singer John Popper is like the best harmonica player to ever walk the planet. He wears an ammo looking vest just packed w/ different harmonicas. Also their music is really good (kinda blues/rock/pop).
Don’t overthink the lyrics.
The long way home refers to being on the road and the toll it inflicts on a relationship. His internal struggles.
He’s the joke of the neighborhood so perhaps the stress
relief can go to far.
Life’s a catastrophe but that’s how you grow with the wife dusting you off like furniture.
They both got sick of each other. Lolz. Just put poetically
Sometimes, you’re not ready for the bullshit. So, you buy a six-pack, fire up a bowl, and take “The Long Way Home”………Tried and true, by millions of us, man or woman. 🤷🏼♂️
The whole life story..
Do reaction on 'DJEXON & COJA - DODJI TATI'. I love your content and i subscribed to your channel
Still funny to see young people who don't know that's music is played by real musicians and sing by real singers 😂
We all have regrets.
A lot of songwriters pen epistles to themselves....occasionally.
He’s not happy with his life and would rather drive around than go home.
Harmonica eh? I almost choked to death on a miniature harmonica when I was a kid. I have no love for that damned instrument.
I am worried about this girl ... she's beautiful and had no opportunity ... obviously ... She's trying to get a reaction out of this guy and relating to herself ITS SO OBVIOUS
Please put the sound on to your girlfriend 😂
Just imagine being a parent, coming home from a long day, taking the long way home so that you can have a little extra time to yourself and imagine what your life could have been, if you made better choices. That feeling of being unappreciated, taken for granted, trapped in the prison of your decisions along the way. This is domestic claustrophobia.