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Hong Kong: Music Part of the Places of a Lifetime series from Traveler magazine

Compilations and classic songs that put you in mind of the city, from our iTunes city playlist.

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Compilations:

Chungking Express Soundtrack
With covers of songs by Cocteau Twins and the Cranberries performed by Faye Wong, who also starred in the film.

Gold Classic
Teresa Teng, one of the city's favorite female singers, reprises classic Chinese torch songs, in Mandarin.

Legendary Chinese Hits—Tsui Ping
Part of a series of re-releases by EMI Hong Kong, this one by a legendary Taiwanese singer popular in Hong Kong.

Pancakes Can Panic
Album by one-girl band is pure pop music, fun and listenable.

In the Mood for Love Soundtrack
Full of nostalgic tunes harking to 1950s and '60s Hong Kong.

Let Me Re-Introduce Myself
Eason Chen is one of the recent innovators of rap music in Cantonese. This is his Mandarin crossover album, with heavy borrowing from the stylings of rap singers in the West.

Legendary Chinese Hits—Chow Hsuan
One of the Shanghainese stars whose music  was  brought to Hong Kong by the immigrants who flooded into the city in the 1950s.

 

Classic Songs:

1. "Kowloon Hong Kong" by The Ronettes
2. "Nonsense Poetry" by The Pancakes
3. "Shei Lai Ai Wo" by Teresa Teng
4. "Light a Cigarette to Start a Day" by Abraham
5. "The Wandering Songstress" by Chow Hsuan
6. "Quizas, quizas, quizas" by Nat King Cole (from In the Mood for Love soundtrack>
7. "Under Lion Rock" by Simon Tam
8. "Chase" by Leslie Cheung
9. "The Moon Reflects My Heart" by Teresa Teng
10. "Love You, or Don't Love You" by Leon Lai

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