With many of my fishing holes located about an hour drive from home, the two-hour round trip ride has taken on a more significant role in the fishing adventure. The pre-dawn drives are a further extension of some “me” time as I get control of the radio and don’t have to endure the occasional forays into the tunes of my younger batch of the good old generation gap.

Since I dig music as much as fishing, it’s always fun to combine these two passions. And that’s what I’m gonna do for today’s posting with a rundown of the Top 10 tunes that graced the airwaves on my latest fishing trip. I’ve got half a dozen presets on the dial and a few others upstairs that I can check when I get out of my regular range. I flip through the stations waiting for a tune that makes me stop, listen and, of course, sing along (remember I’m flying solo most of the time). Those are the tunes that make the cut and eventually get whittled down to what I’m calling my “Top 10 Trip Tunes.”

Here’s the first half of the countdown for September 2, 2017 with the important data and my two cents.

10. “Bad Medicine” – Bon Jovi (1988) – Guilty pleasure here, should be ashamed but I’m not, the fun for me is the number of medical references one can work into a set of song lyrics. Count ‘em some time and let me know.

9. “For What It’s Worth” – Buffalo Springfield (1967) – “There’s something happening here, but what it is ain’t exactly clear.” And the beat goes on. I’m sure there were plenty of fools among the 60’s crowd but some of today’s idiots have taken protest to a whole new level.

8. “Talk Dirty to Me” – Poison (1987) – Me and a couple buddies used to hustle back from the cafeteria at Knox College to catch the evening video request countdown on MTV in hopes that this one made it again. Got made fun of, sure, “but I like it and I know you like it too.”

7. “Moondance” – Van Morrison (1970) – Gotta dig a tune with “fantabulous” in the lyrics, it’s a portmanteau, you know. And, if you listen real close, I don’t think he’s actually singing about dancing.

6. “Goodbye Stranger” – Supertramp (1979) – “And some they will and some they won’t, for some it’s just as well.” I still get a chuckle out of those lines although not sure what I thought of them back in 1979 when I purchased the album pictured here.

(Note: RIP, Walter Becker of Steely Dan (1950-2017), one of my all-time favorites.)

Tune in tomorrow for the Top 5 of the countdown. Talk to you later. Troy