100 top songs: 90-81.

90. Oh Girl - Chi-lites. Seventies soft soul couldn’t get any better. Even the harmonica cried

89. You’re My World - Cilla Black. The shy quaver in Cilla Black’s mocha-sexy voice rocketed this to No 1 in Australia. Twice

88. Golden Miles - Healing Force. Overflowing with distorted, honey-soaked L100 Hammond notes hovering around Charlie Tumahai’s powerful vocals. Oozes progressive 1971 Doors-style ambience

87. Lady Scorpio - Strangers. Obscure aural piece of jangly winter 1969 from band with roots at Glenroy High School

86. Kings of the World - Mississippi. Arguably and ironically Little River Band’s best song, a gliding-harmony-drenched, orchestrated and distorted guitar meteorite that fell out of 1972, and recorded under its former name.

85. You’ve Got What it Takes - Marv Johnson. Doo-wop artist discovered by Berry Gordy topped Australian charts for 16 weeks in 1960

84. Darling Be Home Soon - Slade (live). Pre-punk rockers turned the John Sebastian song upside down and took no prisoners on the way through - Noddy Holder can scream on key without fail. Slade had huge appeal when the studied fussiness if not outright pretension of progressive rock - and some glam artists - started to pall. Which was often

83. Come Dancing - Kinks. Post-British Invasion nostalgia trip redolent of music hall and calliope, sung barrow-boy style. Kinks’ last hit and arguably one of their best

82. C. C. Rider - Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs live at Sunbury. Industrial-strength clamour forged from molten girders or possibly even molten guitars. See Lobby Loyde #74

81. Wings of an Eagle - Russell Morris. Soaring strings hover in an eight-miles-high spectral glide over Morris's almost-yodel. Overplayed - will probably be a commercial for Kmart if not already - but still spectacular.