My desert island discs top 100 continued: 50-41.

50. Black Ticket Day - Ed Kuepper. Ex-Saints guitarist’s wall of sound was a lost diamond glistening in an early ‘90s pit of mulleted musical stupidity.

49. Open Up Your Heart - G. Wayne Thomas. From the soundtrack of Morning of the Earth, a psychedelic oceanscape with a searing guitar swirling outro over orchestral ornamentation. Made the Beach Boys’ surfery rhymes sound ordinary.

48. I’ll Never Smile Again - Daddy Cool. After scandalising parents with the 1971 release of Sex, Dope, Rock’n’Roll: Teenage Heaven, Ross Wilson retaliated by issuing a track first recorded by Frank Sinatra in 1940, turning it into a slow doo-wop blues lament, showcasing his voice’s incredible range and completely confusing parents, and possibly their children.

47. It's All in the Game - Tommy Edwards. Number one in Australia in a mid-century musical purple patch against the Platters, Elvis Presley, Nat King Cole and Buddy Holly.

46. The Israelites - Desmond Dekker and the Aces. Burst out of the radio in 1969 leaving a scattering of Beatles, Cowsills, Monkees and Archies in its wake.

45. Ode to Billy Joe - Bobbie Gentry. Like all good writing there is more left out of this song than in it.

44. I've Got to Have You - Carly Simon. While the girls were playing Carole King's Tapestry for the millionth time in 1972, the boys were lusting over Carly Simon's voice - described as 'primal' by Rolling Stone.

43. All I Really Want To Do - The Byrds. Two minutes and seven seconds of Byrds' swirling guitar and choral harmony mastery.

42. Surrender - Elvis Presley. Rewrote the rockabilly, rock, rhythm and blues and gospel songbooks and then showed Mario Lanza how to sing.

41. Save the Last Dance For Me - Ben E. King. Shiveringly beautiful version of the Pomus/Shuman track.