Cool Sounding Melodies

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I'm talking about melodies here that sound cool, even in their simplest form, with just the one tone at a time being played. I wonder what the secret is to creating them. I have the melodies written in their simplest forms:

Edvard Grieg, Concerto in A Minor. At the start of the concerto, there is a very cool descending melody. Too bad the rest of the concerto sucks. I have it here:

http://www.geocities.com/cornince/griegconcertoam.png

Yoko Shimomura, Battle Against Smithy (F# Minor). At the start of the piece is a cool organ fugue. The rest of the song's pretty good too:

http://www.geocities.com/cornince/shimo ... thyfsm.png

Hiroki Kikuta, Boss Battle for SoM (D Minor). There is a segment of it that sounds really cool:

http://www.geocities.com/cornince/kikutabossdm.png

I wonder what the trick is to making such concise, intense melodies. Any thoughts?

To me, the truly great pieces of music don't even seem to be songs, they're more like things in nature that have always existed, they're in the air to be plucked out by the people who can hear them.

One example is the piano backing of Something Corporate's Konstantine. The pattern of notes is so different from any other song they or anyone else have written, and yet it still works so perfectly. I can imagine the guy who first played that stopped and took a good look at his fingers for a long time. The only other one I can think of off the top of my head is Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata.

What!! ! The whole concerto is beautiful in my opinion.

Melodically the slow movement is one of the best piano concerto slow movements I can think of ~ easily equalling those of Beethoven.

Whoops! I didn't mean "sucks" as in it was poorly composed, I meant it as that my expectations after hearing that starting cool melody were disappointed. It was not what I had expected after hearing that cool melody.