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1	In music, a medley is a piece composed from parts of existing pieces, played one after another, sometimes overlapping. They are common in popular music, and most medleys are songs rather than instrumental. A medley which is a remixed series is called a megamix, often done with tracks for a single artist, or for popular songs from a given year or genre.
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3	Often a component of a track providing AlbumClosure. See also CreditsMedley. Compare FadingIntoTheNextSong.
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5	!!Examples:
6	* ''Series/ComedyCentralRoastOfPamelaAnderson'': The music video at the start of the show, titled "''What We Like About Pam''" is a musical medley consisting of "Looks that Kill" by Motley Crue, "My Humps" by Music/TheBlackEyedPeas, "Lady" by Music/LennyKravitz, and "So Damn Hot" by Ok Go.
7	* ''"Just a Gigolo"''[=/=]''"I Got Nobody"'' by Louis Prima in 1956. Other artists that made cover versions are the Music/VillagePeople and Music/DavidLeeRoth.
8	* Anything by Stars On 45.
9	* ''Music/DschinghisKhan'' have release a few medleys based on their hit songs.
10	* Music/WeirdAlYankovic has released numerous medleys, each covering about a dozen songs [[InTheStyleOf in a very polka-influenced style]].
11	* The aptly titled [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RBFaBGqvPQ Kick ass Guitar solo]] by Steel Panther.
12	* Website/NicoNicoDouga Medleys are quite popular and have quite a few variations.
13	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cepXLReu1aU Here's a choir version]]
14	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xz0PaPpmGa8 Welcome to Automatic Mario]]
15	* Music/{{Metallica}} performed a 15-minute medley of songs from their first two albums (sensibly titled Kill/Ride Medley) in their 1994-1995 concerts, consisting of "Ride the Lightning", "No Remorse", "Hit the Lights", "The Four Horsemen", "Phantom Lord", and "Fight Fire With Fire". It remained in the set on their ''Load'' and ''[=ReLoad=]'' tours from 1996-1998, but with "Phantom Lord" replaced with "Seek and Destroy", as captured on their ''Cunning Stunts'' live DVD. From 1991-1993, they would perform the "Justice Medley", consisting of four songs ("Eye of the Beholder", "Blackened", "The Frayed Ends of Sanity", "...And Justice for All") from their ''...And Justice for All'' album. A rendition of this was featured on the ''Live Shit: Binge and Purge'' live album and DVD.
16	** They also do a medley of early Mercyful Fate material on ''Garage Inc'', containing "Satan's Fall", "Curse of the Pharoahs", "A Corpse Without Soul", "Into the Coven", and "Evil".
17	** The "Ronnie Rising Medley", consisting of four Dio-era Music/{{Rainbow}} songs ("A Light in the Black", "Tarot Woman", "Stargazer", and "Kill the King"). It was originally recorded for the 2014 Music/RonnieJamesDio tribute album ''Ronnie James Dio- This Is Your Life'', and later released on the deluxe edition of ''Hardwired...to Self Destruct''.
18	* Music/{{GWAR}} has done a medley of their entire first album at a few shows (probably an answer to fans that complain they never play anything from it anymore).
19	* Dream Theater did a live medley of arena rock anthems on the ''Change of Seasons'' EP.
20	** And it's got nothing on their Instrumedley. Google it.
21	* Music/TheBeatles combined the songs on the second side of ''Abbey Road'' into one long medley.
22	** Their album ''Love'' is essentially one long medley with few pauses between the songs.
23	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cobFXU41cNo "Vector to the Heavens"]] from ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts358DaysOver2'' is a medley of "Musique pour la tristesse de Xion", "Kairi", and "Dearly Beloved".
24	* Music/TheSpinners have two notable medleys: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4-llyypOxk Working My Way Back to You/Forgive Me, Girl]]" and "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0UndZRNQ-k Cupid/I've Loved You For a Long Time]]".
25	* OneHitWonder Cat Mother And the All Night Newsboys' hit "Good Old Rock n Roll" is a medley of 50's hits. The song's producer? None other than Music/JimiHendrix.
26	* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LANwIgpha7k Age of Aquarius/Let the Sunshine]]'' is a medley by The 5th Dimension.
27	* Todrick Hall did an official [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0qVT_PMhnY medley]] of all the songs from ''Film/TheGreatestShowman''.
28	* Listen to a classic rock station long enough, and you will likely hear "Devil In A Blue Dress/Good Golly Miss Molly" by Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels. Depending on the station, you might even hear the version that includes "CC Rider".
29	* Music/MichaelJackson regularly performed a medley of Jackson 5-era material in concert, consisting of "I Want You Back", "The Love You Save", and "I'll Be There". On his [=HIStory=] World Tour from 1996-1997, he also performed a medley of three songs ("Rock With You", "Off the Wall", and "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough") from his ''Off the Wall'' album.
30	* In ''{{Webcomic/Homestuck}}'' a few important songs are medleys of other songs:
31	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyDdV8eIHGE Descend]], the song that plays at the end of Act 4, is a medley of many, many other songs. How many? [[http://www.formspring.me/FwugRadiation/q/169536600592638964 Here's the list]]. (The last song on the list - marked with a ??? - is from a currently unreleased song known as Penumbra Phantasm. However, that music would also be used in Umbral Ultimatium, which starts with the ending of Descend.)
32	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ckr6KyZoS58 Cascade]], the song that plays at the end of Act 5, is composed of four separate songs: Cascade (Beta) ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0Mso1fdqEs originally another composer's take on Descend]]), [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktuDYYtbs2s Flare]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXRN_P9miUc Savior of the Dreaming Dead]], and Black Hole / Green Sun (a remix of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3cReQRgYxg Black Rose / Green Sun]]).
33	** [[http://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/rex-duodecim-angelus Rex Duodecim Angelus]], a song from the official albums, contains the {{Leitmotif}}s of most of the trolls.
34	* The Australian Voices do a medley consisting of a classical style piece that's actually made up of fragments of 35 different pop songs. It's called [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpMKpOe4ORs Tra$h Ma$h]] and it's ''awesome''.
35	* "The Blow in a Row" by Music/{{Rage\|Band}} from the album ''10 Years in Rage'', which is a medley of songs from their past seven albums.
36	* As Music/{{Genesis\|Band}} slowly moved away from their progressive rock roots and into their hitmaking period, they would perform medleys of their earlier epics. In perticular was the medley on ''Three Sides Live'', which would begin with "In The Cage", incorporate the synth solo from "The Colony Of Slippermen", move into the instrumental section of "The Cinema Show", then end with "...In That Quiet Earth" and "Afterglow" Often sections from "Firth Of Fifth" and ''Music/SuppersReady'' would be included, too.
37	** A so-called "[[Film/TheBluesBrothers Blues Brothers]]" medley, incorporating "Turn It On Again" with medleys of soul and pop classics from TheSixties with the band wearing CoolShades and fedoras, ended their shows in the mid-to-late '80's.
38	* Music/{{Queen}} regularly featured medleys in concert for much of their career. The songs included varied over the years. Songs commonly featured in them included "Killer Queen", "Death on Two Legs", "You're My Best Friend", "I'm in Love With My Car", and "Get Down, Make Love". In addition, throughout the 1970s they would also play a medley of rock 'n' roll songs from the 1950s as an encore, starting out with "Jailhouse Rock" and going into "Stupid Cupid", and "Be-Bop-A-Lula". Other songs were occasionally included, such as "Shake, Rattle, and Roll", "Tutti Frutti", and "Lucille".
39	* The boss theme for Lord Passion in ''VideoGame/{{MOTHER 3}}'' is a medley of the first movement of Beethoven's Symphony No. 5, Bach's Toccata in D Minor, the "Hallelujah" chorus from Handel's ''Messiah'' oratorio, and the first movement of the "Spring" violin concerto by Vivaldi.
40	* The music for the final stage of the arcade ''VideoGame/{{Battletoads}}'' rearranges the first stage's theme (which is [[BossRemix also the boss theme]]) with bits of the second, third, and fourth stages' themes weaved in.
41	* Music/AmyGrant has one called "Ageless Medley" which covers many of her own songs.
42	* ''Straight No Chaser'' has a medley in every single one of their Christmas albums.
43	* The ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' series loves its medleys. While the first two games have no medleys, the series later grew to have many.
44	** The orchestrated remix album from ''Melee'' includes three medleys. One of them is composed of ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' music, and another is nearly fifteen minutes long.
45	** ''Brawl'' included a few medleys in the game itself, including:
46	*** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime''
47	*** The ''VideoGame/WarioWare'' series
48	*** ''Franchise/{{Kirby}}'' [[MiniBoss mid-boss]] battle themes
49	*** ''VideoGame/KidIcarus1986''
50	*** A generic {{Retraux}} medley of NES tunes
51	** ''3DS/Wii U'' went all out with these (along with a new 8-bit medley of NES tunes and the medleys from ''Brawl'', we have medleys from:
52	*** ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros1''
53	*** ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBrosTheLostLevels''
54	*** ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros3''
55	*** ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld''
56	*** ''VideoGame/MarioPaint''
57	*** ''VideoGame/BalloonFight''
58	*** ''VideoGame/DuckHunt''
59	*** ''VideoGame/WreckingCrew''
60	*** ''VideoGame/LuigisMansion'' and ''VideoGame/LuigisMansionDarkMoon''
61	*** ''VideoGame/FireEmblemMysteryOfTheEmblem''
62	*** ''VideoGame/NintendoLand''
63	*** ''VideoGame/PaperMarioStickerStar''
64	*** ''VideoGame/MarioKart''
65	*** ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles1''
66	*** ''VideoGame/WiiSports'' series
67	*** ''The Mysterious Murasame Castle''
68	*** Every single NES ''{{VideoGame/Mega Man\|Classic}}'' game
69	*** Two medleys of various Creator/BandaiNamcoEntertainment games
70	** ''VideoGame/SuperSmashFlash 2'' has a medley from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask'' for its Clock Town stage.
71	** Version 0.9 of ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosCrusade'' has a medley of music from the ''Franchise/{{Bomberman}}'' series. Version 0.8.4 also had a medley from the ''VideoGame/WarioLand'' series. It's likely that it, along with its stage, will be readded in a later version.
72	* ''[[VideoGame/MarioAndSonicAtTheOlympicGames Mario & Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games]]'' includes two medleys (from ''VideoGame/SuperMarioLand'' and ''VideoGame/SuperMario3DLand''). The previous game also has a medley of all three acts of Splash Hill Zone from ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog4''.
73	* The second track from {{Music/Brentalfloss}}'s Flossophy album is a medley of music from ''VideoGame/EarthBound1994''.
74	* The Cake at Stake jingle used in the final episode of ''WebAnimation/BattleForDreamIsland'' is a medley of the show's previous Cake at Stake jingles, with the eliminated contestants giving out the "Cake at Stake" of the jingle.
75	* ''[[VideoGame/PokemonMysteryDungeonExplorers Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time/Darkness]]'' gives us the Blizzard Island Rescue Team Medley. It's comprised of Mt. Freeze Peak, Sky Tower, Mt. Thunder, and Thunderwave Cave's themes from the [[VideoGame/PokemonMysteryDungeonRescueTeam previous game.]]
76	* ''[[VideoGame/{{Stinkoman20x6}} Stinkoman 20x6's]]'' eighth level stage music is made up of segments of all the previous level's music, played at a higher pitch. This is fitting since Level 8 (or Level -0) is a MinusWorld made of glitchy, discordant pieces of the previous seven levels, with some wonky physics thrown in to boot.
77	* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyRecordKeeper'' had a special festive-themed medley of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' music as the main menu music during the 2015 Christmas season.
78	* The "In The Dead of Night" suite by Music/{{UK}} is a medley of "In The Dead of Night", "By The Light of Day" and "Presto Vivace and Reprise".
79	* Mike Mareen's "Powerplay Mix" is a megamix of his singles "Love Spy", "Agent of Liberty", and "Dancing in the Dark".
80	* The 12" single of Music/SoftCell's cover of Gloria Jones' "Tainted Love" combines it with a cover of Music/TheSupremes' "Where Did Our Love Go?".
81	* Bronski Beat medleyed Music/DonnaSummer's "I Feel Love" with John Leyton's "Johnny Remember Me" as [[AlbumClosure the finale of their debut album]] ''The Age of Consent''. The 12" version, featuring Marc Almond of the aforementioned Soft Cell, adds in Summer's "Love To Love You Baby".
82	* Music/{{BT}}'s ''Ima'' album features "Sasha's Voyage of Ima", a 42-minute megamix by fellow progressive house/trance DJ-producer Sasha, incorporating "Embracing the Future", "Quark", "Deeper Sunshine", "Loving You More", "Nocturnal Transmission", and "Tripping The Light Fantastic" in that order.
83	* In ''VideoGame/{{Lemmings}}'', the song "Ten Green Lemmings" is a medley of the British children's song "Ten Green Bottles", Music/FryderykChopin's "Funeral March", and the "Bridal Chorus"(AKA "Here Comes The Bride") from Music/RichardWagner's ''Theatre/{{Lohengrin}}''.

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