Here is a short list of some of my favourite melodies.
ACID JAZZ / LOUNGE / ECCENTRIC
Freakpower - Husband, Tune in Turn On Cop Out
Beck - Broken Train, Beautiful Way, Midnight Vultures, Debra
Air - Sexy Boy Album, Premiers Symptomes Album
Moby - Everything is wrong Album, Porcelain, Run On
Aphex Twin - Moon Kid, Alberto Balsalm, Cow Cud is a Twin, Next Heap with
St Germain - Rose Rouge, So Flute, Land of
Chill Out Mix 2000 - Homerun Ubershow by The High Llamas (Schneider TM Remix)
Delirium - Karma Album, Poem Album
Les Nubians - Demain, Makeda, ...Whole Album
Koop - Waltz for Koop
Morcheeba - Big Calm Album only
- Heartfixer, You're so Special (Like everybody else)
Fila Brazilia - Jump Leads Album, Pork 031 Album, Another Late Night Album, Wavy Gravy
Shirley Basey Remixes - Big Spender, Light my Fire
Mr. Oizo - FlatBeat
US3 - Cantaloop
Jamiroquai - Virtual Insanity, Alright, Cosmic Girl
Macy Gray - I Try
?? - Indigo, Fun for Me
AfroBeat - Find Your State of Mind
Corduroy - Mini
Mother Earth - Jesse
The Wise Guys - The Executive Suite Album
Guy Ritchy Movies - Snatch Album, Mean Machine Album, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Guns Album
Tarrantino Movies - Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs
Smoke City - Underwater Love
Deeelite - Groove is in the Heart, Pussycat Meow, ESP
Portishead - Dummy album
The User - Symphony #2 for Dot Matrix Printers
CLASSIC JAZZ
Louis Armstrong - A Kiss to Build A Dream On, Ain't Misbehaving, Nearness of You
Ella Fitzgerlad - Summertime
Diana Krall - Peel Me a Grape, Popsicle Toes, S'wonderful
Nat & Natalie King Cole - Route 66
Edith Piaf - The Very Best of Edith Piaf Album From Capitol Records
Frank Sinatra - Under Your Skin, The Coffee Song
Dean Martin - Valore, Sway, That's Amore
Louis Prima - Just a Gigolo, Jump Jive an' Wail, 5 mths 2 wks 2 dys, Embraceable You
Joni Mitchell - Both Sides Album
Cassandra Wilson
INTERNATIONAL
Marc Belanger - CANADIAN-QUEBECOIS (Te Quitter C'est Trop Difficile)
Mario Pelchat - CANADIAN-QUEBECOIS (Tu es le bleu du ciel)
Cathy Ryan - CANADIAN-MARITIMES (Somewhere Along the Road)
Moxy Fruvous - CANADIAN-ENGLISH (King of Spain)
Barenaked Ladies - CANADIAN-ENGLISH (If I had a Million Dollars)
Primeaux & Mike - CANADIAN-NATIVE (Walk in Beauty Album)
Serge Gainsbourg - FRENCH (Du jazz dans le ravin Album, Comic Strip Album)
Peter Hapka & Michael Horacek (Mohlo by tu byt i lip) - CZECH REPUBLIC
Misia - PORTUGUESE (Ritual Album)
Eros Ramazzotti - ITALIAN (In ogni Senso Album, Dove c'e Musica)
Stan Getz - BRAZILIAN Bossanova (Girl From Ipanema, Agua de Beber)
Bebel Gilberto - BRAZILIAN Bossanova (TantoTempo Album, TantoTempo Remixes Album)
Gigi - ETHIOPIAN Gigi Album
Cubanismo - CUBAN Jesus Alemany Album
Gipsy Kings - SPANISH Greatest Hits Album
Mabulu - MOZAMBIQUE Soul Marrabenta Album
Jamuha - MONGOLIAN Mongolian Folk Song and Dance Ensemble
Thai Elephant Orchestra - THAI Dave Soldier & Richard Lair
Amelie - FRENCH Music by Yann Tiersen
Pannonhalma Chants - HUNGARIAN Gregorian Chants
Buddhist Meditation - KOREA The Buddhist Meditation Music of Korea by Kim Young Dong and the Song Kwang Temple Monastery
Music From the TeaLands - ASIA Putomaya Series
Cajun - LOUISIANA AMERICAN Putomaya Series
Mexico - MEXICAN Putomaya Series
OPERA / MUSICALS / CLASSICAL
Carmen - L'amour est un Oiseau Libre
Phantom of The Opera - The Music of the Night, Think of Me, All I Ask of You
Cats - Memory
Les Miserables - On My Own
Joseph & Technicolour Dreamcoat
Yo-Yo Ma - Simply Baroque
ALTERNATIVE / EASY ROCK
Eric Clapton - Unplugged Album, Change the World, Swing Low Sweet Chariot
Van Morrison - The Best of Album from Exile Productions (Moondance, Brown-Eyed Girl)
Eels
Smashing Pumpkins
Turin Breaks
Counting Crowes
The Beatles - Number 1 Hits Album, Buffalo Bill
Queen - Don't Stop me Now, Killer Queen, Crazy Little Thing Called Love
Blue Rodeo - Greatest Hits, Lost Together
Tracy Chapman - Talking 'bout a revolution, For my Lover
Tom Petty - Wildflowers Album
U2 - Joshua Tree Album, Achtung Baby Album, Pop Album
Travis - The Invisible Band Album
Sting - Englishman in New York, Fragile
George Michael - Careless Whisper, Freedom Album
Leonard Cohen - Ten New Songs Album
Billy Joel - Lullaby, The Piano Man
Bob Dylan - The Best of Album from Sony Music Direct
Simon & Garfunkel - The Best of Album from Sony Music (Feelin' Groovy, Cecilia,...)
Enya - A Day without Rain Album, The Memory of Trees Album
Smoother - East Side
Sheryl Crow - A Change, Winding Road
Ben Harper - Suzy Blue, Steel my Kisses From You
Sugar Ray - Fly
The Cure - Why Can't I be You?
David Usher - Unholy Dirty and Beautiful, Personal Jesus, Enjoy the Silence, Trickster
Depeche Mode - Dr. Strangelove, Someone Who Cares
Tea Party - Fire in the Head
Nirvana -
Green Day -
REGGAE / CALYPSO / SOCA
Chaka Demus&The Pliers - Tease Me, Twist and Shout, Man Smart Woman Smarter, Boom Smilin'
Harry Belafonte - Kingston Town, Coconut Woman, Jump in the Line
Bob Marley - This is Love, No woman no cry, Could you be loved
UB40 - The Way You Do the Thing You Do, Kingston Town, Can't Help Falling in Love
Various Calypso - Doggie, Dollar Wine
Shaggy - Freaky Girl, It wasn't me, Angel, Oh Carolina
RETRO - DISCO/SOUL
Barry White - Greatest Hits (From Mercury Records)
James Brown - 20th Century Master Greatest Hits
...many, many more (one day I'll take the time to write all these down)...
RETRO - ROCK
Blue Swede - Hooked on a Feeling
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama
Alanah Myles - Love is, Still Got This Thing For You
Tears For Fears - Shout, Everybody Wants to Rule the World, Woman in Chains
Jon Bon Jovi - Livin' on a prayer, Bad Medicine
INXS - New Sensation
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