Catching up on the fishing reports also means keeping up with the Trip Tunes feature as it returns for 2025.

5. Come On Eileen – Dexy’s Midnight Runners (1983)
An MTV classic that was different even among the wide range of different that was Music Television in those early years when the channel stuck to music videos. A different delivery and sound combined with a different look in the video, it was definitely a hit. Number One, in fact. And forty years later, I still have no grip on many of the lyrics. Of course, the intent is loud and clear. Like most songs, it’s a love song.

4. Too Young to Fall in Love – Motley Crue (1984)
I guess that I would have been a high school junior when this tune was gaining popularity with my peers and caught my ear. Admittedly more of a pop or light rock guy, this hair band thing got me hooked and I was a fan of the genre through the rest of the decade. Funny thing, as I approach sixty, I’ve realized that I was a fan long before The Crue and their brethren took the stage. At this time, I would direct you to give a listen to Sweet and their catalog of tunes. You can thank me later.

3. Uncle John’s Band – Grateful Dead (1970)
My brother, Bub, is a true Deadhead and currently provides me with a weekly Grateful Dead tune to check out as he prepares for a trip to Vegas to catch Dead & Company. All the tunes he suggests are first listens to me as my Dead knowledge covers maybe ten songs. This tune remains my favorite Dead song while Bub’s suggestions have also added “Black Muddy River” to my listen list.

2. Feelin’ Stronger Every Day – Chicago (1973)
The band has reinvented its sound over the course of nearly sixty years but for my money, the old Chicago was the best Chicago. I did like many of the tunes during their 1980s Peter Cetera led resurgence, but it is tough to beat songs like this one. And you’ve gotta love those 1970s rock/pop tunes with horns as a prominent feature.

1. Lady Madonna – The Beatles (1968)
Let me start by saying that there are not enough Beatles songs on the radio (at least on my local presets) and the variety is also lacking. I have tracked the Beatles songs that I hear on the radio over the last two years with Come Together (16 plays) and Back in the USSR (9 plays) leading the way by far. Fine tunes but I would encourage programmers or DJs to do better. For instance, this tune that I’ve heard once this year and twice last year. Two and a half minutes of The Beatles doing what The Beatles did best as I will be singing the tune for the rest of the day.

Next up, is the Monday Top 5 Update as the bass are biting. Talk to you later. Troy