KANSAS : "Nobody's Home"

[hovhannes]

De La Soul brought me here

[MrRhyscrook]

love the violin

[CHINGO1967]

Este album de Punto sin Retorno es de los mejores de Kansas...Esta canción me trae muchos recuerdos cuando era un niño...me da nostalgia...es una de mis preferidas...Me encanta..Por cierto tengo 44 años

[NYABINGHI2]

what a shame no millions vieuws, i got a tatto of the lyrics so nice !!!

[antredchat]

very moving ,magical band

[Vmartin70EZ]

this music this song changes according to the listeners hope and dreams but one constant is that it tunes your spirit into a good vibrational state of being called love. Love is everything there is.

[Mikeyadig1095]

Fuckin" Classic I Love it

[johnnyg71667]

i found these guys when i was about 12. my uncle gave me a copy of song for america and it was all over

[DrFeelRotten]

We're about to feel the sparks of the tempest seeing events unfold..maybe they were right and nobody will be home soon.. Well, i guess dream we get wiped off this shithole anyway..

[autopsiante]

Really amazing.

[mohawk920]

The immense quality of rock music that came out of the 70's is just unexplainable.Kansas might be the most unique of them all.The range and diversity of some of their ensembles is epic epic stuff. Kansas had a hell of a run with Songs for America,Masque,Leftoverture, and they crowned it off with Point of Know Return.We are fortunate for having this band. Mohawk -Philadelphia Pa..

[3y3candi]

Music after 1990 are mostly crap. After 2010 it could kill me just by listening to those some.

[3y3candi]

Thank for keeping this great music Allive. I was not home when they came.

[KANSASuuuuROCK]

* NO BODY = ZERO *

Bless God with Music 2011 *

[zkxv]

We've cheated and lied to each other, stolen whatever we could get away with, fought like knuckle dragging Neanderthals, cut each other off in traffic and flipped off people while driving, used new technology for evil purposes, worshipped at the shrine of the almighty dollar, literally become hypnotized by television, wasted massive amounts of time partying and cheering sports teams....

Is it any wonder how we ended up here ?

[hounddogdrifter]

@zkxv WELL SPOKEN, YOU ARE RIGHT ON TARGET, I JUST HOPE THAT MERCY FINDS US SOON, AND TRANSFORMS US, BEFORE IT IS PAST THE HOUR, OF TIME PAST TIMES. MAY GRACE, AND LOVE SHINE UPON YOU EVERMORE. PEACE.

[RHComputerGeek]

I listened to this song constantly. If you set your record player to move to the beginning of a 45, you'd hit this track spot on. Second side of the album of course.

[hellzbelle222]

hellz ya, that dilla song is whats up, this is actually cannon d tho, they both used it, so did killa cam and vitamin c

[debbiechickie5]

I always thought Steve sounds a bit like Jackson Browne on this one, especially in the beginning...

[pOBrain]

I'm bet the person that uploaded this video has wondered why there has been so many comments about this "dilla" person. haha well I'm sure most Kansas fans might appreciate the essence and beauty in hip hop, but then again........"no one knows"?

[sirmugman]

just the knock on the door that's great

[runeespa]

... be the greatest band of all time...YES- all of us who are so lifted by KANSAS-music, DO AGREE WITH YOU!

[MrEfslrg1]

@runeespa Don´t agree each band has their own style the two are progressive but with different genious,it´s like bach and mozart a giants of music, and every one wrote the history of classic era.

[KidBelmont92]

Lez go, Dave West Dilla dog Collabo!

[runeespa]

ok- thanks for that info- yes, hadn't it been for the cosmic watchers, "secretly being here" and protecting our "sick" earth - all life here had been wiped out long ago.

[borgduck]

@runeespa What are you talking about?  Highlander?!

[eldMM]

youtube is great, i'm not the first person to arrive here via j dilla or de la soul and probably not the first to be pleased to have arrived.

There are civilisations we know nothing about as they dissapeared from our planet, imagine an entire planet with no documented history?

So powerful and oh so scary

I feel like i just read a serious peice of literature right here!!!!

[PosertownUSA]

I uploaded the Dilla song No One Knows, peep my vids.

[NaturalMystic101]

man can somebody bring dilla's version on youtube pleaseeeeeee

[PosertownUSA]

@NaturalMystic101 check out my vids, I just uploaded it.

[TheDimensionalwalker]

yes, kerry livgren expressed many different times and ways that he was not of this planet. His was a pleadien with a mission. Kinda like myself. And many others on this planet. Hehehe. Our mission is of peace, not control. They ones that come to this planet dont seek control, its the ones that were already here that have it. So, dont fear anything

[LuvIzAhl]

If we keep moving in the dorection this greedy race is headed, these words will surely come to pass. WE MUST WAKE UP!

[cckeach7]

What an alien would say if he came to a nuclear-devasted world....epic!

[PowerliftingWSM]

Best song ever! Best band ever! Best vocalist ever! ...what's not to like.

[Quantanthead]

I had forgotten just how beautiful this song really is. I had the album as a youth.

[ChartreuseDragon]

What's it about??? It's about one spark seeing another in the distance, then taking the epic journey to see what beauty it is becoming, only to find that it has extinguished itself. A love lost of sorts, a tragedy.

Regards; CD

[uni213verse]

*Dave West* of De La Soul Produced this track. Was on the shelved MCA Dilla album that featured Dilla spittin over some of his fav producers beats. Dilla forever...

[xlmidi]

@uni213verse Dave Joliceur of De la soul and Supa Dave West are two different people. Supa Dave West has produced songs for De la soul (including the one you're referring to) but he is not a member of De la. De la soul consists of Dave Joliceur aka Trugoy, Pos, and Maseo.

[PatrickStreater]

Wait till yall hear how I flipped this on my album

*evil laugh*

[Tr0ijay]

Respect to Kansas...but damn J Dilla flipped this beat on that De La Soul track...guess he was a Kansas fan too

[xlmidi]

@Tr0ijay Dilla didnt produce it. Supa Dave West did. There are two versions...The version titled "respect" which features lyrics by De La , and the version titled "No one knows" which features lyrics by Dilla. Supa Dave produced both versions.

RIP - Dilla

[Tr0ijay]

@xlmidi

Good lookin' on that....didn't know at the time I posted

[srvafool]

Another forgotten (by me) awesome Kansas tune. I haven't heard since I got rid of my 8 track player.........

Thanks for posting!

[padraigkilkenny13]

Great Track! Thanks for posting.

[Undadogg69]

Great Song!

[Zmw192]

has anyone herd" respect "by de la soul?? Dilla made this song a really dope sample

[Undadogg69]

Just listened to it. Nothing but HEAT!!!! I had to hear the original to see where it came from.

[Zmw192]

i know right? one of the dopest beats by Dilla...

[NikoBellicRockDude]

1 of the best bands ever

from the best times.. :'(

[gabeyhar]

My father played Kansas (Leftoverture) regularly in the late 1970's, but I had no true understanding of their brilliance and unique contributions to the world of music. I had not heard this particular song until just now - amazing but consistent with much of their work.

[Mariannelfk]

One of the greatest bands in history...without a doubt!!!! Hearing this song again just proves it another time!

[ericleekramersr]

TWI'MTA

[mobyboy]

A requiem was never signed, no elegey was read. no monument was curved in stone in memory of the dead -

Thats LYRICS

[BurgerShack92]

this is so dope. Dave West & Dilla!

[PatrickStreater]

@BurgerShack92 Patrick Streater also

[Michael0oo]

I hear a sample of this in the song, "Respect" by "De La Soul" this is so ill!

[PomonasDarkKnight]

me too, just came from that same song :D

[liebchenXO]

~sigh~ my dad raised me on this... brings back memories of truely epic road trips...

[dieselheart001]

Another really DEEP song by the fellas...

[DragoBalboa]

One of the BEST bands EVER!!!

This vid was well done (good classic photos of the guys too) !!!

There will never be another band as KANSAS.

Period.

~D.B.

[Gofboats]

Behold, I stand at the door and knock

[hawkhandsaw]

Robby's violin solo in the middle always brings tears to my eyes-it's so achingly beautiful, as well as the lonliness in Steve's incredibly sensitive singing.

[KolerikRocks]

dust in the wind is another beautiful yet haunting song

[Str8IndianHair]

1:00

[daniel14]

Dilla.

[TheBeatMedic]

Can someone Explain to me what this song is about?

[runeespa]

i interpret it as a starmessenger coming to a planet by a starship/ufo- to which he had a far connection to, but something had happend in the meantime...YES- something to think about...

[TheBeatMedic]

LOL.... thank you for ur insight.... (I always liked this song.... i just didn't know what the heck it was talking about! ) lol

[IcouldBNE1]

@runeespa In Kerry's book he says it's about aliens who come to Earth with a message of peace only to discover noone was alive because of a nuclear war.

[QuietstormRising]

@runeespa This could be about detactment and reconnection. It's funny how we can be surrounded by many and live a singular existance.

[RHComputerGeek]

@QuietstormRising Well said...I feel more lonely at a party than at home...when I'm alone, there's not much i can do...but even in a room full of people I'm alone, I find that harder...

[QuietstormRising]

@RHComputerGeek I too feel alone often times. The world becomes difficult to grasp when you see the evil men do. There isn't in the way of reason why, it just is. This song is reminiscent of how people view us from a distance as oppose to how we see ourselves in the moment. This reminds me of the painful concept of perspective. In the world of modern music, these songs stand as a very sad testament to what music used to be and how it moved us. Don Mclean and American Pie said it all.

[mobuscon]

google: lost colony

[cckeach7]

@TheBeatMedic A star-traveler sent as an emissary finds a world whose civilization has wiped itself out. a precautionary tale from the cold war.

[kathyscv1]

@TheBeatMedic I have listened to for 40 years.! Each time I listen it means something different.That is the brilliance of this band! I don't analyze it I just listen.So today it means to me that we are all teachers and still today so many people are not home. And I also came to learn (all I could on this earth) The world that I was sent to reach has got no future now.I will continue to follow them in concert!I hope they know there are many people home! So thank you Kansas! Brilliant!

[wakclips]

There's No Place Like Home, Dorthy! LOl..

WC

[saphiregin]

20 comments?!?! What happened to all the good guys? Communism is dead, capitalism is dying. Terrorism is a fact. What happened to my generation?

[wakclips]

We are here Bro!

I have played this post several times and always get so caught up in the Magic of Kansas and forget to compliment. Sorry, never want to let the Next Best Generation Down!

WC

[Yoetah]

I love these lyrics!!!

[Yoetah]

"Kansas self-produced their follow-up to Point Of Know Return. The 1979 album Monolith featured lyrics influenced by The Urantia Book:"

[KANSASuuuuROCK]

Runeespa ROCKS !

Oh Yeah... Kansas Too : )

[Frozenfrog13]

what an eerie thought...nobody else...at all...in all eternity...

[mtaygoldin]

Walsh´s singing sends chills down miy spine on this one. He´s the best!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He´s also Totally underrated, but i think it´s better that way.

[dropbombs2009]

good song. but for you bitter bitches chirping about shit that doesnt matter. get the fuck outtah kansas. and grow up.

[josepharake]

Good to see this on YouTube..nicely done.

[TheBeatMedic]

PSA (hip hoppers) J Dilla used this track for the song "No one Knows" look it up!

(btw,this is good song)

[taaffeman124]

nope, supa dave used it for the dilla song "no one knows".....

[The4EverYoung85]

@taaffeman124: And for the De La Soul song "Respect" off the Japanese cut of their "Impossible Mission" mixtape

[sunboyfun]

I find it hard that the band would hate this song. I think it is one of the "A-list" Kansas songs for sure. I read Kerry Livgren even saying the mid section was one of the best things they came up with. This ranks right up there with "Hopelessly Human" and "Cheyenne Anthem" in terms of those majestic masterpieces from the late 70's.

[rickyon]

I agree with you on matching this up with "Hopelessly Human" and "Cheyenne Anthem" both similar masterpieces but there are many majestic masterpieces that rank with or above this one or the other two you mentioned!

[martel732]

I love the song, too; but I do see how the band might believe the song didn't fit musically with other stuff they were writing at the time.

[jcron42]

good post

[TrejosEd]

An other poem, deep, poetical, exquisite!

[rbaum741]

Great Job Runee! Great Mix. THANKS ! w-POTSW o r g

[Tralman1965]

Thanks for this runeespa.

[pfjk47]

9th grade memories. Great song and great album. Thanks Kansas.

[lutherheggs]

The band hates this song but I think it is up there with their best

[ke2323]

i think kansas hated alot of their early material, never realizing how great it really was at the time. or even now.

[TrejosEd]

indeed. they were timeless jewels!