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Can someone list each army and list it under either melee or shooty?

Umm it really depends on the list you face... but I'll see what I can do from a really general standpoint:
Blood Angels - Definitely Melee
Chaos Daemons - Melee
Chaos Space Marines - Leaning towards melee, but can be shooty
Dark Eldar - Leaning towards melee, with lots of shooting
Eldar - More shooty I'd say
Grey Knights - They can do melee well, but they're better at shooting
Imperial Guard - Shooty
Necrons - Leaning towards shooty
Orks - Melee
Sisters of Battle - Shooty
Space Marines - Fairly balanced
Space Wolves - Leaning towards melee, although you'll find really shooty lists too
Tau - Shooty
Tyranids - Melee

There are a few you forgot up there:

Grey Knights - Leaning towards melee with strong shooting.
Sisters of Battle - Shooty. Can be semi-melee.
Black Templars - Melee. Can be semi-shooty.
Dark Angels - Balanced

I agree with Andilus with the possible exception of his assessment of Necrons. I believe that Necrons are "leaning towards shooty" in the same way that the Pope is "leaning towards Catholocism." That is, of course, just my opinion.

I feel Blood Angels are leaning towards melee, but can be shooty
Imperial Guard Very Shooty, can be mixed (Blob Squads)
Grey Knights Balanced highly shooty, VG melee

I would say DE are balanced - if anything they would lean shooty in my opinion over melee - probably balanced is the smart answer.

@Jimsolo - probably the most competitive current Necron builds are melee oriented now to the best of my awareness. Certainly most Wraithwing and C'tan/Destroyer Lord exploits feature melee backed by Monoliths while the Warriors stand around picking their noses.

Space Wolves: Shooty, with exelent Counter Assualt Ability

Andilus Greatsword wrote:Tau - Shooty

Totally wrong. They are obviously a huge melee army [/sarcasm]

Andilus Greatsword wrote:Space Wolves- Leaning towards melee, although you'll find really shooty lists too

This one I don't agree with. Counter-attack a melee army does not make. I would say they are more shooty leaning towards melee.

BA: Balanced, Melee or Shooty depends on builds
GK: Balanced, lots of great range weapons, force weapons on everyone
IG: Shooty, with possible supporting melee elements.
Dark Eldar: Balanced, they are fragile, but can dish out lots of damage whether at range or melee depends on builds.
Eldar: Shooty, due to the fact most their melee units compare poorly against newer codex units.
Vanilla Marines: Balanced, the Jack of all trades.
Chaos Marines: Balanced, leaning more towards melee than Vanilla
Orks: Melee horde, with some good range support
SW: Balanced, they are great at shooty, but can build melee lists too.
Necrons: Shooty, mostly, possible melee though I've never seen in IRL.
Tau: Shooty, kind of their whole thing
Tyranids: Melee horde, with assault weapon range support.
BT: Melee, but can be surprisingly shooty due to their older edition point cost and structure.
SoB: Shooty, close range.

Jimsolo wrote:I agree with Andalus with the possible exception of his assessment of Necrons. I believe that Necrons are "leaning towards shooty" in the same way that the Pope is "leaning towards Catholocism." That is, of course, just my opinion.

That's an awesome quote. I'm adding it to my sig.

On topic -- a lot of armies have the option of doing both.
- You can build a very respectable shooty BA list using razorback spam.
- IG blob squads can be scary to assault if they have 5 PWs and their stubborn. You need to bring a LOT to the field to take them down.
- An Eldar list with a squad of banshees assaulting a doomed unit is highly effective at killing MEQ.
- You can build a shooty ork list. A kan wall backed by 45 lootas brings a lot of shooty to the party.

Jimsolo wrote:I agree with Andalus with the possible exception of his assessment of Necrons. I believe that Necrons are "leaning towards shooty" in the same way that the Pope is "leaning towards Catholocism." That is, of course, just my opinion.

Yeah, I agree for the most part, but Necrons have some really scary CC monsters (C'tan, Wraiths, Lords with Warscythes).

That they do. And sorry for misspelling your name. It's fixed now. Normally I'm better than that.