My favourite track. Just realised my T shirt from 1978 tour is still in my drawers, not fitted for many a year but could never throw away. I always feel like I am floating listening to this. Beautiful.
Truly!! Supertramp Official (Universal Music Group) keep putting it up & then taking it down??? Just nuts. I try to keep all of the albums complete on my channel, but they make it really tough!! Let's hope this one lasts until Supertramp Official uploads it again. I think it's Hodgson & Evergreen who are taking them down after Supertramp Official upload them. We have gabilega to thank for this great upload. A big thank you from me!
Back in the day, my basketball coach blasted Supertramp on the radio..Each road trip music was Supertramp,,, now whenever I hear Sumpertramp I look back and thank my lucky stars I grew up listening to Supertramp
I have vivid memories of who I was with in the days this song was popular, I still love it, and it's awesome to see people listening and commenting NOW.......I am 71!!!
had a horrible gut feeling when I first heard this album in high school that the lyrics would have more meaning to me in later years...god...I was right...
Such potential we had...now two divorces later,hair gone,waistline gone,teeth dropping out,back ache, no money,staring down the barrel of 60 years old...I listen to real songs like this and it takes me straight back to when we didn't really have a care in the world.
The Mad Gentleman Music from this era ( 70s ) had the tendency to do that...wish you could have experienced it ' in person '. But then maybe you did ;o)
Supertramp definitely saved my life. I was in a dark place thinking dark thoughts and through pure chance found Give a Little Bit on my I-pad. From there I rediscovered happy tunes and the rest bar the odd setback is not worth worrying about. Music is a cure, mostly.
I still remember the first time I heard Supertramp. It was about 1974. I went to my friend's house. He said I had to hear a new album he bought, and started playing Supertramp. I am still listening!
I was a 16 year old with a car and I felt like I had the world by the tail. In that summer I remember driving that car from the bar - where I hadn't been carded - and with an excellent buzz going on but probably not legally fit to be driving. I was extremely fortunate in countless ways. I dropped my passengers off safely and I got home safe. I remember turning up the volume on songs by this band and singing along. It was if I had already lived all of life and the wisdom had resonated. I had so much to learn. Little did I know at the time.
Funny but on my 18'th birthday I was carded at that bar. I was puzzled about how they seemed to know. Looking back, I think that they were allowing me in because the bar was popular when my car was in the lot. I played pool there and I had an attitude about it that I had taken on while playing pool at home for all of my teen years after school. My step-father had an attitude going on and I got out of school a couple of hours before he got home from work so by the time he showed up, day after day, I had a lot more practice than he did. So I would win. That is why I think that I wasn't carded at that bar before I actually turned 18. I was bringing business to that bar. Once I turned 18, they knew. So they carded me. It was their way of saying Happy Birthday to me I suppose.
Sometimes on the way home from a party my husband and I would purposely take the long way home. We'd drive along, not talking much, just kinda quiet, touring neighborhoods we liked, slowing down in front of houses we'd lived in, murmuring to each other a memory about each one, sniffling a bit, then finally turning toward home. Memories are pouring down my cheeks as I now miss both those nostalgic late-night after-party detours and my deceased husband as well. Man.
@Debbie Scott I will do . I am a Muslim and I pray sincerely five times a day. I pray for all mankind. May ALLAH ( GOD ) heal our ill people. Ameen AMEN
Ca fais trop de bien de les reecoutes domage il n y a plus de bon groupes comme ca tout a disparue au detriment d autres musiques modernes pas aussi magnifique qu eux un groupe incontournable et inoubliable ♥️♥️♥️♥️
Four decades+ in the railway industry and, to my ears, This Song still sounds at the beginning like a heavy freight train getting under way out of a rail yard. That magnificent harmonica throughout the song sounds like a locomotive air horn whistling through the night. The ending, winding down the pace, sounds like that train's tempo slowing to arrive at its destination (having TAKEN the 'Long Way Home'), and the very last note breathed by the harmonica sounds like the sigh of locomotive air brakes setting up, tight, as it finally stops.
Beautiful, Nathan. I definitely relate to the start of it as being railway related, but I see it as a train off in the distance; we can hear it....but not yet see it.
Nathan, I heard this song today and kept repeating the harmonica parts, thinking of a train running throughout and the end, its final destination. When I read your post, I couldn't believe someone articulated exactly what I was thinking.
Alway's been a fan since the 70s me and all my friend's LOVED ROCK & ROLL but when Supertramp came on the radio NOBODY bothered to change it we just looked at each other and listened then went back to partying..................GREAT times those 70s & 80s were!!!!!
My daughter says this is one of the most important pieces ofmusic for her. As her loving father I respect this...hope I have been ok for her and that home is always near...love Supertramp and my daughter(s)...perhaps I could have taken a different journey, except I may not have had my 2 beautiful girls xx
Wonder how many people would agree that music today is just not up to scratch!!! 😃 At 56, give me some Morrissey, Fleetwood Mac, Roxy Music, Gerry Rafferty & Simple Minds ANY DAY to the carp we are at times Subjected too!!! Woof.... 🙍 Take care everyone 🌼🌻🌼🌻🌼 Sent with Gentle Effect
Great to see Supertramp rediscovered... Quite breathtaking melodies coupled with a poignant lyricism made them stand head and shoulders above their 70's peers. Kind of timeless tbph. Great post. Thankyou.
I love the ending of this song. Like a train finally coming into a train station after a long day of hauling. This is something missing in the music of today, an easy, slow exit like this.
Love me some supertramp! I may only be 36 but this music is the best, I grew up on this music, my parents knew what was good music, Classic rock is real music, not junk that all the kids listen to
I AM 57 NOW AND I CAN remember being in in my early twenties when the song was popular when I think about who I could have been who I should have been only if I had more time rock on Supertramp in 2019
@@kumrumb those petty sons of bitches love to strip the internet of any version of this song. Now that it went from 10k views to about 800k in two weeks it's almost time to wait 5 months for someone to upload another copy. What a shame not to be able to listen freely
@@Adam-zb5kk well you have to download it before it goes down or buy Spotify like apps. Songs like these are one of the reasons I still pay for it. There was no other way a 19 year old Turkish guy would know about supertramp. Glad Spotify recommended this to me.
A seriously underrated song, and an incredibly creative album cover from the days when album covers were an art form all their own. Today's youth don't know what's been lost.
@@steelyman08 There's a time bias as well. Plenty of crap was released back then as well. The great music survives through time, the crap is forgotten. In 40 years, people will be saying the same thing about today's music as people now say about the 70s.
Supertramp : Wow, I miss you, guys! One of the Best Groups Ever! It's almost as if you cannot believe your ears! Just how could any musical group produce such a perfect sound? I know I sound like an old codger when I say this, but nothing around today can come close to the musical excellence shown by this group!
Matthew Roberts Hi Foxwoods is going to be having Roger Hodgson from Supertramp on 2/14/20. Super excited! He is on a Breakfast in America tour 2020. You. Should look into it! Good luck if you choose too!
Another great band from my youth. Wow 70s musicians truly changed the art of music. What a great times we had. The music talent was endless. How I miss it. The greatest, yet bittersweet memories for this old dude. ✌️🎼
Saw Supertramp in concert (OKC) after Breakfast in America. Scored a free LP. Good times! Great band/great concert. There's nothing wrong with taking the long way home--it beats having no way home.
i was 12 years old in 1979 & sesame street was still a hit show as was 321 contact,the electric company was airing the last 2 seasons in reruns back to back.
This Song Takes me to Spring 1980 with my new Son in my lap looking out the window trying to think into all the things he & I may do in Life together. Never could I have dreamed that we would become Commercial Snapper Fishermen, Hunting, Night Diving for Flounder, Ect Ect. & what a great life I have had with all three of my children. Don't let life pass you by. DIVE...
One of my best !memories of my beloved E!izabeth Powell is introducing my 2nd daughter to the album breakfast in America album. Driving down t the freeway singing our hearts out to "take the long way home. Thank you supertramp. Elizabet hforever31,2019
beautiful story .... it is November 2019 and I am expecting my third girl in a few days...I share with my 4 and 1.5 yo old girls this luscious music and think of how our lives will unfold together. So grateful for this beautiful music.
I’m late fifties and in the seventies to a friend of a friends house. Totally different from what I was used to, and he singled me out and told me, you have to listen, you have to hear and see their music. I listen and try to hear and see their view. Used to have a cassette and now a disk.
So you think you're a Romeo You're playing a part in a picture show Well, take the long way home Take the long way home But you're the joke of the neighborhood Why should you care if you're feeling good? You take the long way home Take the long way home But there are times that you feel You're part of the scenery All the greenery is coming down, boy And then your wife seems to think You're part of the furniture Oh, it's peculiar, she used to be so nice When lonely days turn to lonely nights You take a trip to the city lights And take the long way home Take the long way home You never see what you wanna see Forever playing to the gallery You take the long way home Take the long way home When you're up on stage It's so unbelievable Unforgettable, how they adore you But then your wife seems to think You're losing your sanity, oh, calamity Oh, is there no way out? Does it feel that your life's Become a catastrophe? Oh, it has to be for you to grow, boy And when you look through the years And see what you could have been Oh, what you might have been If you'd had more time So when the day comes to settle down Well, who's to blame if you're not around? You took the long way home Take the long way home Take the long way home Take the long way home Take the long way home Take the long way home Take the long way, take the long way Take the long way home You took the long way home Long way home, long way home You took the long way home You took the long way home Took the long way home You took the long way home
For those wondering, the musicians are lead and backing vocalist-keyboardist-guitarist Roger Hodgson, bassist Dougie Thomson, drummer Bob Siebenberg, keyboardist-backing vocalist Rick Davies, woodwind player John Helliwell, and programmer Gary Mielke.
I saw the whole Band in Zurich... Sorry, the date, 1983/84. I love alle the songs, ingredible!!!😍😍😍❤❤❤❤🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀 I hope soooo strong, the Band will come as sooon as possible to Zurich!!😍😍😍🍀🍀🍀🐞🐞🐞❤❤❤❤ All I need have love!!!
Driving around in my teenage years. Sitting by my boyfriend's side. ( Soon to be husband at the time). Thank you for introducing me to this group baby. I know your waiting in heaven for me.
Totally agree with that. I was born in the mid 70s so it wasn't a teen thing for me, but I've listened to them just as much as Jane's Addiction, PJ, AIC and Sound garden.
"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'd had more time" .....damn......
Best line in the song "when you look through the years and see what you could have been, what you might have been, if you had had more time. " It's so true that it hurts now that I am older and didn't accomplish what I wanted to.
Grew up in the inner city, around age 11 my parents got separated but several years later decided to get back together, sell everything and move to the country and buy a farm. I was only 15 at time and didn't care for the idea so I ran away. That got old real fast so after about two weeks I hitched a ride back to the farm. I'll never forget this song when it came on the radio of the car I was in going down the highway staring out the window. Got home and dang my parents didn't even know I was gone! Left for the Air Force after graduation, married my high school sweetheart and now I'm 56 and live in the country with the love of my life, go figure. "lonely days turn to lonely nights take a trip to the city lights"
So many people get slowly addicted to living in the fast lane of "the city lights". Always spending more money on cheap thrills, never gaining perspective about why they wake up the next day, still needing to get their "happiness" from spending money day after week after year. Taking the higher roads through life rarely involve that, so common, instant gratification element that can easily become a habit. Illogical rationalizing of their values and lifestyle then becomes their normal daily habit too.
To the counselor at Maple Grove, West Bloomfield, circa 1987 working midnights. You played this album on repeat every night for 6 straight weeks while we slept. Thanks.
Rodger Hogson quería música más sicodelica experimental que hablara de drogas y alucinaciones , Rick Davis quería hacer más Rock convencional progresivo con toques de blues , no tan Desordenado , bueno ahí vinieron las desavenencias y que no se pusieran de acuerdo y terminarán con la banda
Late Fall '79 brought me here.....took a very different and challenging road.....and what a difference it made!....even to this day.....2/20....Thanks to all that made it possible along the way.
the intro of this song,when they start the piano, it gives me goosebumps, just listening to classic rock music with my dad,i grew up on this music, still listening to classic rock. i'm 39 years old, and remembrance of my dad 2006. r.i.p. Dad i love you. somthing i will never get rid of.
Enjoy the moments of this 1979 Supertramp classic! I know I will, and am right now! They're going to be short, so I'm drinking them all up, while they're still here!
...who else blinked and somehow 40 years just passed since this first appeared in our lives?....
Just yesterday 🙄😔
Mark...OMG! Yes! Those 4 decades flew by like a big assed bird! Makes me wonder if time is even real. Anyone else feel like this?
Damn, never a TRUE/er word spoken.
My favourite track. Just realised my T shirt from 1978 tour is still in my drawers, not fitted for many a year but could never throw away. I always feel like I am floating listening to this. Beautiful.
WHAT- I'm not back in the record store with David Cassidy hair and bell bottoms. Damn I overslept
Finally. The original recording & not a live or cover version
EXACTLY.
Very nice ✨
I still have the album. This song brings a rush back to this old rocker.
Gary Hubbard a lot of us took 70s/80s music for granted.
Truly!! Supertramp Official (Universal Music Group) keep putting it up & then taking it down??? Just nuts. I try to keep all of the albums complete on my channel, but they make it really tough!! Let's hope this one lasts until Supertramp Official uploads it again. I think it's Hodgson & Evergreen who are taking them down after Supertramp Official upload them. We have
gabilega to thank for this great upload. A big thank you from me!
Back in the day, my basketball coach blasted Supertramp on the radio..Each road trip music was Supertramp,,, now whenever I hear Sumpertramp I look back and thank my lucky stars I grew up listening to Supertramp
I have vivid memories of who I was with in the days this song was popular, I still love it, and it's awesome to see people listening and commenting NOW.......I am 71!!!
MARY McCAFFREY , YOUNG AT HEART , 💟 🎷 🎸 🎤 🎧 🎻 🎹 🎶 🎵 🎼 , ✔💟‼‼💟‼‼
41 and it's still one of my favorite songs
Congratulations, good life let go for more.
Saludos desde mexico.
He dicho cabrones.
God bless you M. McCaffrey
Mary McCaffery, the OG. Who were you sitting with? I would probably read an essay on the matter.
A flashback of my childhood - and a yearning for that time again. Brilliant stuff.
December 14, 2019...still one of the greatest songs ever!!!
TheRedGuy you know it!
Bonjour amis américains
yeah it's us Boomer's music that stands the time.
@@TRM500 Bonjour amis français
Kelly Knowles I’m 25 and love this song I have a old man’s brain but hey gotta love it!
Excellent song. So many people do exactly what it says.
great song
had a horrible gut feeling when I first heard this album in high school that the lyrics would have more meaning to me in later years...god...I was right...
gut? not good?
@@kaifriedrich1763 gut feeling = a feeling in your gut. An instinct.
@jon dough what the hell?
It’s encoded, now I’m awaking these songs take on a whole other meaning ,.
Felt like a warning and broad one
Such potential we had...now two divorces later,hair gone,waistline gone,teeth dropping out,back ache, no money,staring down the barrel of 60 years old...I listen to real songs like this and it takes me straight back to when we didn't really have a care in the world.
Oh boy!!! The good ol' days @ we didn't really have a care in the world. 😊
Pretty much the best song about mid-life crisis ever.
Man I'm in my 20s and the song still makes me cry, ngl.
The Mad Gentleman Music from this era ( 70s ) had the tendency to do that...wish you could have experienced it ' in person '. But then maybe you did ;o)
I love this song, (I dont know if Id call It Misery or not, But you get the jist).. Misery loves company... Good to know Im not alone..
@@thetman0068 but when you are 40 you just wont give any fuck any how
Yeah, remember taking the long way home from work, returning to a crumbling marriage.
1979/1980.....Ignacio, Colorado. Boarding school. 300 miles from home. Bittersweet memories. Good song, though. I am 54 y.o. now. Still listening.
Brilliant song listening in 2019 November 💕
2 days before me ;-)
40 years ahead
Denise Allen : the first time I've heard this album was in 1970, so it was 40 years ago😀!
........AYE!....... :)
I been listening to this song when I work at Food City and I couldn't remember it until my brain told me the song !
I BLINKED AND FORTY YEARS HAS PASSED. WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THAT AT WORK LAST WEEK. BOUGHT THIS ON EIGHT TRACK.
Supertramp definitely saved my life. I was in a dark place thinking dark thoughts and through pure chance found Give a Little Bit on my I-pad. From there I rediscovered happy tunes and the rest bar the odd setback is not worth worrying about. Music is a cure, mostly.
I still remember the first time I heard Supertramp. It was about 1974. I went to my friend's house. He said I had to hear a new album he bought, and started playing Supertramp. I am still listening!
I love this song... Extremely optimistic, but melancholy at the same time..
Yeah...always felt that.
...😃 😢...
My hope u enjoyed eating that dictionary for breakfast they're too big words for an uneducated simple guy like me
And one of them is wrong. *Melancholic
@@slushfest8475 way to be that guy, asshole.
I was a 16 year old with a car and I felt like I had the world by the tail. In that summer I remember driving that car from the bar - where I hadn't been carded - and with an excellent buzz going on but probably not legally fit to be driving. I was extremely fortunate in countless ways. I dropped my passengers off safely and I got home safe. I remember turning up the volume on songs by this band and singing along. It was if I had already lived all of life and the wisdom had resonated. I had so much to learn. Little did I know at the time.
Funny but on my 18'th birthday I was carded at that bar. I was puzzled about how they seemed to know. Looking back, I think that they were allowing me in because the bar was popular when my car was in the lot. I played pool there and I had an attitude about it that I had taken on while playing pool at home for all of my teen years after school. My step-father had an attitude going on and I got out of school a couple of hours before he got home from work so by the time he showed up, day after day, I had a lot more practice than he did. So I would win. That is why I think that I wasn't carded at that bar before I actually turned 18. I was bringing business to that bar. Once I turned 18, they knew. So they carded me. It was their way of saying Happy Birthday to me I suppose.
"if you're the joke of the neighborhood what should you care if you're feeling good???"...a question to live by....
One of the grestest album ever made ..
One of the few, rare perfect songs.
Sometimes on the way home from a party my husband and I would purposely take the long way home. We'd drive along, not talking much, just kinda quiet, touring neighborhoods we liked, slowing down in front of houses we'd lived in, murmuring to each other a memory about each one, sniffling a bit, then finally turning toward home. Memories are pouring down my cheeks as I now miss both those nostalgic late-night after-party detours and my deceased husband as well. Man.
Beautiful and moving comment.
To your dear husband, RIP man
@Debbie Scott don't lose hope and faith in almighty God, in these hard times one should remember his creator, saver and healer. Just some prayers
I'm very sorry for your loss. I just lost my son a month ago, he was 26. The pain is acute, horrible misery. Feel each emotion as it comes.
@Debbie Scott I will do .
I am a Muslim and I pray sincerely five
times a day.
I pray for all mankind. May ALLAH ( GOD ) heal our ill people.
Ameen AMEN
Ca fais trop de bien de les reecoutes domage il n y a plus de bon groupes comme ca tout a disparue au detriment d autres musiques modernes pas aussi magnifique qu eux un groupe incontournable et inoubliable ♥️♥️♥️♥️
Four decades+ in the railway industry and, to my ears, This Song still sounds at the beginning like a heavy freight train getting under way out of a rail yard. That magnificent harmonica throughout the song sounds like a locomotive air horn whistling through the night. The ending, winding down the pace, sounds like that train's tempo slowing to arrive at its destination (having TAKEN the 'Long Way Home'), and the very last note breathed by the harmonica sounds like the sigh of locomotive air brakes setting up, tight, as it finally stops.
as an engineer I know what your saying to be true..never thought this song like that
Thanx 4 that
Beautiful, Nathan. I definitely relate to the start of it as being railway related, but I see it as a train off in the distance; we can hear it....but not yet see it.
Nathan, I heard this song today and kept repeating the harmonica parts, thinking of a train running throughout and the end, its final destination. When I read your post, I couldn't believe someone articulated exactly what I was thinking.
Very nice way of putting it, never thought of it that way.
I was thinking about this the other day. I knew exactly what it sounded like. Love train whistles.
THIS ALBUM IS A MASTERPIECE 😍😍😍
This song takes me back to my teen years. Simpler times. Different world now.
I can totally relate. This album came out when I was 13. I'm still not tired of it
Much much different world now. I'm 39 I should of been back then....
Alway's been a fan since the 70s me and all my friend's LOVED ROCK & ROLL but when Supertramp came on the radio NOBODY bothered to change it we just looked at each other and listened then went back to partying..................GREAT times those 70s & 80s were!!!!!
I'm so glad and proud i'm born at the end of the 70's: i had the best music and songs, ever. Now, they only have shit...Can i, please, go back then?
roger hodson is pure genius
My daughter says this is one of the most important pieces ofmusic for her. As her loving father I respect this...hope I have been ok for her and that home is always near...love Supertramp and my daughter(s)...perhaps I could have taken a different journey, except I may not have had my 2 beautiful girls xx
Proof our music was the best 😎
Wonder how many people would agree that music today is just not up to scratch!!! 😃
At 56, give me some Morrissey, Fleetwood Mac, Roxy Music, Gerry Rafferty & Simple Minds ANY DAY to the carp we are at times Subjected too!!! Woof.... 🙍
Take care everyone 🌼🌻🌼🌻🌼
Sent with Gentle Effect
How true!!! You know true music. Nice work sir!!!
Cant hit the agree button enough...
Yeah carp is a pretty ugly useless fish to be exposed to...I kid..and I agree!
@@lumpyheadcarini7553 Thanks Wise Guy!! 😂 Your the first to bring up my mistake! Was supposed to be Crap!! You take care now you hear!! 🙌
I dont call it music at all its just computer's
Great to see Supertramp rediscovered... Quite breathtaking melodies coupled with a poignant lyricism made them stand head and shoulders above their 70's peers. Kind of timeless tbph. Great post. Thankyou.
I love the ending of this song. Like a train finally coming into a train station after a long day of hauling. This is something missing in the music of today, an easy, slow exit like this.
I found this on a 45 at an antique store this past weekend. $2 of gold! No scratches, sounds great!
Love me some supertramp! I may only be 36 but this music is the best, I grew up on this music, my parents knew what was good music, Classic rock is real music, not junk that all the kids listen to
I AM 57 NOW AND I CAN remember being in in my early twenties when the song was popular when I think about who I could have been who I should have been only if I had more time rock on Supertramp in 2019
Hey I'm with you I'm 59 still remember blasting their songs in my car...those lyrics are priceless...
Hey I'm with you I'm 59 still remember blasting their songs in my car...those lyrics are priceless...
Chris Hall CHRIS! You’re repeating yourself....again
Oops it posted twice.... Oops it posted twice... again
Hey, I'm 70 and still remember this song like yesterday.....loved it...my brother used to play it in his band!! Great memories...... =)
I could listen to this album a million times and never get tired of it. 😊
I hear that.
Very nice, Supertramp, unfortunately, a very underestimated group
Not by Stingray Music-they played that song on their '70s channel.
Not in Québec, they are very popular. And still.
the best! RJ
Underestimated ?? Explain to me why?
The thing about you tube is all music, is just a touch of a button away.
Like this pure classic...
Supertramp removes the songs immediately though
@@kumrumb watch them quickly then lol
@@kumrumb those petty sons of bitches love to strip the internet of any version of this song. Now that it went from 10k views to about 800k in two weeks it's almost time to wait 5 months for someone to upload another copy.
What a shame not to be able to listen freely
@@Adam-zb5kk well you have to download it before it goes down or buy Spotify like apps. Songs like these are one of the reasons I still pay for it. There was no other way a 19 year old Turkish guy would know about supertramp. Glad Spotify recommended this to me.
how long before they start censoring the song's we love
A seriously underrated song, and an incredibly creative album cover from the days when album covers were an art form all their own. Today's youth don't know what's been lost.
Logan Eades BRAVO!
album covers still exist... you know that, right?
Not the way they did. A 33 album had a lot of room for creativity. A CD cover is barely 1/6th the size.
Earlier music like this song touches a part of you that today's music completely misses
Luv it
its was because of the standard people use to manage, today there's a veeery diferent standard. . . also it took more time to produce it
@@steelyman08 There's a time bias as well. Plenty of crap was released back then as well. The great music survives through time, the crap is forgotten. In 40 years, people will be saying the same thing about today's music as people now say about the 70s.
Let me introduce you to muse kid
...Perfectly said..." Touche "
Another of my "favorites". So hard to choose favorites with Supertramp-So many good songs, so little time. lol...
I am 43 and grew up listening to Supertramp. And this song became my anthem of my childhood and most of my teens.
Supertramp : Wow, I miss you, guys! One of the Best Groups Ever! It's almost as if you cannot believe your ears! Just how could any musical group produce such a perfect sound? I know I sound like an old codger when I say this, but nothing around today can come close to the musical excellence shown by this group!
Matthew Roberts Hi Foxwoods is going to be having Roger Hodgson from Supertramp on 2/14/20. Super excited! He is on a Breakfast in America tour 2020. You. Should look into it! Good luck if you choose too!
Dec 23, 2019...still one of the greatest songs ever!!!
Cheers
cheers Brother
Merry Christmas...and still one of my favs
I agree wholeheartedly
Another great band from my youth. Wow 70s musicians truly changed the art of music. What a great times we had. The music talent was endless. How I miss it. The greatest, yet bittersweet memories for this old dude. ✌️🎼
Saw Supertramp in concert (OKC) after Breakfast in America. Scored a free LP. Good times! Great band/great concert. There's nothing wrong with taking the long way home--it beats having no way home.
My childhood is coming back 😊😊😊😊❤️❤️
i was 12 years old in 1979 & sesame street was still a hit show as was 321 contact,the electric company was airing the last 2 seasons in reruns back to back.
The haunting end. My mind drifting back trying to recall who I was, home but a dream I once had.
This Song Takes me to Spring 1980 with my new Son in my lap looking out the window trying to think into all the things he & I may do in Life together.
Never could I have dreamed that we would become Commercial Snapper Fishermen, Hunting,
Night Diving for Flounder, Ect Ect.
& what a great life I have had with all three of my children.
Don't let life pass you by. DIVE...
One of my best !memories of my beloved E!izabeth Powell is introducing my 2nd daughter to the album breakfast in America album. Driving down t the freeway singing our hearts out to "take the long way home. Thank you supertramp. Elizabet hforever31,2019
@@Alessandra.19 Thank You for sharing that.
Amazing how a song will take you to a certain place & time that you may have forgotten.
beautiful story .... it is November 2019 and I am expecting my third girl in a few days...I share with my 4 and 1.5 yo old girls this luscious music and think of how our lives will unfold together. So grateful for this beautiful music.
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Well all the best wishes for you and your family.
I hear from my three most every day. What life is truly About...
They are blessed with a great Dad...
I’m late fifties and in the seventies to a friend of a friends house. Totally different from what I was used to, and he singled me out and told me, you have to listen, you have to hear and see their music. I listen and try to hear and see their view. Used to have a cassette and now a disk.
And? Waiting! Nvm, problably got it all wrong. You Go, Cookie!
It must have been incredible to hear this for the first time back then.
So you think you're a Romeo
You're playing a part in a picture show
Well, take the long way home
Take the long way home
But you're the joke of the neighborhood
Why should you care if you're feeling good?
You take the long way home
Take the long way home
But there are times that you feel
You're part of the scenery
All the greenery is coming down, boy
And then your wife seems to think
You're part of the furniture
Oh, it's peculiar, she used to be so nice
When lonely days turn to lonely nights
You take a trip to the city lights
And take the long way home
Take the long way home
You never see what you wanna see
Forever playing to the gallery
You take the long way home
Take the long way home
When you're up on stage
It's so unbelievable
Unforgettable, how they adore you
But then your wife seems to think
You're losing your sanity, oh, calamity
Oh, is there no way out?
Does it feel that your life's
Become a catastrophe?
Oh, it has to be for you to grow, boy
And when you look through the years
And see what you could have been
Oh, what you might have been
If you'd had more time
So when the day comes to settle down
Well, who's to blame if you're not around?
You took the long way home
Take the long way home
Take the long way home
Take the long way home
Take the long way home
Take the long way home
Take the long way, take the long way
Take the long way home
You took the long way home
Long way home, long way home
You took the long way home
You took the long way home
Took the long way home
You took the long way home
I'm a 1984 baby, I'm here 2020 03/31 good music love
I'm two years behind you, brother. '86ed here. 😁👍
The tenor sax solo in the middle is a great moment in pop music.
I am a 12 years old kid. And i still know this song today. its great.
one of the best intro,s ever ...
oh God, what a true moment to think back you have all been through ever since...
For those wondering, the musicians are lead and backing vocalist-keyboardist-guitarist Roger Hodgson, bassist Dougie Thomson, drummer Bob Siebenberg, keyboardist-backing vocalist Rick Davies, woodwind player John Helliwell, and programmer Gary Mielke.
Perfect song for driving & getting lost in the desert...when Home’s the last place you want to be.
I heard that! 😂
You put it perfectly.
One of the best of all time! That harmonica.
Hay muero con esta canción era adolescente y me tanta alegría lo Vi en una propaganda en televisión del auto citroen ,,,,, hermosa
Yo tambien!!!
Y yo, de jovencita!! Ay!! cuantos recuerdos!!
I saw the whole Band in Zurich... Sorry, the date, 1983/84. I love alle the songs, ingredible!!!😍😍😍❤❤❤❤🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀 I hope soooo strong, the Band will come as sooon as possible to Zurich!!😍😍😍🍀🍀🍀🐞🐞🐞❤❤❤❤ All I need have love!!!
Love this. Classic Rock. I'll be singing this forever. Love and Peace to all .
Love and peace to you, too, Dani!
An absolute masterpeace in every way.
Absolutely
Driving around in my teenage years. Sitting by my boyfriend's side. ( Soon to be husband at the time). Thank you for introducing me to this group baby. I know your waiting in heaven for me.
Damn, I was reading all these happy super tramp posts and now that I read yours, it hit me in the feels.
Totally agree with that. I was born in the mid 70s so it wasn't a teen thing for me, but I've listened to them just as much as Jane's Addiction, PJ, AIC and Sound garden.
"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'd had more time"
.....damn......
That's exactly how I feel about my life. Whenever I hear that part of the song I just want to cry. Very beautiful and powerful song, I love it.
What I find amazing, when I heard this song when it first came out, I never heard those lines. Now at 64, those are the lines that jump out.
Absolutely Magnificent Masterpiece, music at its very best, Master Musicians
Ça me donne des frissons. Ça me rappelle quand on partait en vacances avec mes parents.
Still the greatest start to any song ever and a really fun tune!
These were the songs of an era that will never be repeated... I am so glad I was born in the 60s got the best of all music periods by far!
For sure!
40 years ago and still listening to this awesome song
Me too!
The soul of rock is weak but it's still there....
This song always makes me sad. But it's such a brilliant song.
Best line in the song "when you look through the years and see what you could have been, what you might have been, if you had had more time. " It's so true that it hurts now that I am older and didn't accomplish what I wanted to.
@trish john
we all accomplished what we came here for my friend,life is just a game.
Grew up in the inner city, around age 11 my parents got separated but several years later decided to get back together, sell everything and move to the country and buy a farm. I was only 15 at time and didn't care for the idea so I ran away. That got old real fast so after about two weeks I hitched a ride back to the farm. I'll never forget this song when it came on the radio of the car I was in going down the highway staring out the window. Got home and dang my parents didn't even know I was gone! Left for the Air Force after graduation, married my high school sweetheart and now I'm 56 and live in the country with the love of my life, go figure. "lonely days turn to lonely nights take a trip to the city lights"
So many people get slowly addicted to living in the fast lane of "the city lights". Always spending more money on cheap thrills, never gaining perspective about why they wake up the next day, still needing to get their "happiness" from spending money day after week after year. Taking the higher roads through life rarely involve that, so common, instant gratification element that can easily become a habit. Illogical rationalizing of their values and lifestyle then becomes their normal daily habit too.
My dad used to play supertramp all the time when i was kid
I’ll never forget driving home from my summer job last summer on the highway with this song on full volume, good times!!!!
good on you, dude
One of the all time classics to define the late 70's.
I listen to this while I'm working and it makes me feels like I'm on Vacation.... And that's where I want to stay...
Return to the Very Best Music Decade, 70s, FACT
One of the most beautiful songs ever written!
To the counselor at Maple Grove, West Bloomfield, circa 1987 working midnights. You played this album on repeat every night for 6 straight weeks while we slept. Thanks.
Drove Route 66 in 2013 all the way from Chicago to Santa Monica and we played this album a couple of times .... fantastic driving album
The bass-guitar is amazing in this song. One of my favorite bands of all times. I love it.
They used key bords and synths
@@markbarbuto36 i hear a bass guitar too
Ahh! The sweet sound of my youth...I took the long way home!🎼🎧🎵🎤😎👍👍👍👍👍👍💎
I was never a big Supertramp fan, thinking , they were a 10CC replica, but this song always fucks me up with memories.
This whole album was one of my first picks for the car CD on a long drive; never got tired of it.
I could listen to that harmonica for the rest of my life.
Me too
Get out my head !!
Lush innit
just love so much also!
With the passing of Eddie Money and Rick Ocasek we remember to...Let the good times roll🤘
End of a special era.😢
Too bad Roger Hodgson and Rick Davies won't resolve their differences, and give us back the Supertramp, we all know and love.
Rodger Hogson quería música más sicodelica experimental que hablara de drogas y alucinaciones , Rick Davis quería hacer más Rock convencional progresivo con toques de blues , no tan Desordenado , bueno ahí vinieron las desavenencias y que no se pusieran de acuerdo y terminarán con la banda
Late Fall '79 brought me here.....took a very different and challenging road.....and what a difference it made!....even to this day.....2/20....Thanks to all that made it possible along the way.
Sorry for not answering each of your comments. I do not know English. Thank you for your time watching the video. Forever SUPERTRAMP !!
thanks
Thank you for posting this wonderful song.
This song just freezes me. Soooo amazing
I bet many celebrities live these lyrics every day of their lives🤔🇺🇸
the intro of this song,when they start the piano, it gives me goosebumps, just listening to classic rock music with my dad,i grew up on this music, still listening to classic rock. i'm 39 years old, and remembrance of my dad 2006. r.i.p. Dad i love you. somthing i will never get rid of.
Back to the days when a VINYL album came out and we bought it that day! Love it ❤️
Enjoy the moments of this 1979 Supertramp classic! I know I will, and am right now! They're going to be short, so I'm drinking them all up, while they're still here!
Love the harmonica. Sets the stage for the song.
I'm 83--what great memories this brings back. Music is magic, musicians are magicians.