Virgin Suicides

Pretty cool for a movie soundtrack, great background music. Makes me want to check out the movie

Pleasant enough but it basically is just background music. Obviously it is probably better in the context of a film score but it was nothing to get excited about.

Ethereal and great music at work.If you saw the movie, you recall how beautifully interwoven these songs are. Haunting. A nice background soundtrack to a busy day

I'm sure this is fine with the movie that goes along with it, but by itself it's lacking

I need to watch the movies

Damn

Really cool vibe throughout, but one annoying track. I really dug Moon Safari and this album doesn't disappoint. It's very engaging for a movie score, and it makes me want to see the flick.

First time listen, but very familiar with Moon Safari. So unfortunately I can't help but compare it to that, which means I wasn't that enamored with it. But enough on there to intrigue me and encourage me to give it another go. Last track simultaneously moving and creepy.

Kinda cool!

Air's first album is a 100% listen and should be on this list and I'd recommend it. This album doesn't add much to what they came up with first St time round.

Very good record. Amazing soundtrack for a great movie!

Film scores are a genuinely underappreciated listening format — music that was built to serve a specific emotional world and succeeds well enough to stand completely apart from it. The Virgin Suicides is the clearest argument for that proposition in Air’s catalog, Sofia Coppola’s debut giving Nicolas Godin and Jean-Benoît Dunckel a narrative framework that their pure pop records don’t always have, and the music rising to meet it with genuine grace. The sonic palette is the same one that earned Moon Safari a four — Rhodes and Wurlitzer warmth, lush analog synthesis, everything slightly melancholic and beautiful simultaneously. What the film score context adds is coherence and purpose, the atmospheric drift that can feel aimless on a pure electronic record given somewhere specific to go. “Playground Love” is the vocal anchor, Gordon Tracks’s voice giving the most conventionally song-shaped moment a warmth that the instrumentals earn differently. The groovy moments that surface throughout give the record more dynamic range than a pure mood piece would have — Air finding the pocket within the atmosphere rather than staying in one emotional register throughout. Moon Safari delivered where electronic records usually don’t. The Virgin Suicides delivers in a slightly different way — less immediate, more patient, the film score DNA giving it a unity that rewards the full listen rather than individual tracks. A four that the warmth and the occasional groove earn honestly, and a reminder that some of the best listening exists in formats that don’t always get treated as serious music.

Always interesting to see a band where you know one album very well (moon safari) do something else. The virgin Suicides doesn't come close to that album, but it is a very cool record still.

4/7

I like a few songs by Air but this album meanders a bit too much. Perhaps if I watch the film then I would understand this a bit more.

I didn't know this band. A few good track. A fair album overall.

My 2nd Air album from the generator. I didn't take the album as music only: given the cover and Wikipedia suggesting the album is particularly celebrated as a soundtrack, I took the side-trip to consider the movie (and book on which it was based), which ended up seeming inevitable given extent of ?narration in the closer, Suicide Underground. Putting aside my negativity about the schtick of the movie, I would say this is <high quality background music> (damning with faint praise) - over which the colossus of Pink Floyd looms heavily. The musicianship, working through prog-ish chord changes, is not bad - the drumming is a consistently pleasing feature - but the overall effect is rather "why am I listening to this?". I couldn't help thinking at several points of Boards of Canada, whose albums (to the extent I know them) leave this one standing limply in the dust. It's Okay, 6/10.

This has been the biggest surprise so far for me. I absolutely detested the other Air album on here (1 star), so expected to hate this too. I really enjoyed this album though. Interesting, varied and enjoyable. This should get the props over Moon Safari.

***a good, easy listening album

Muy chido

Big 3

Okay so I’ve never heard of this and I listened to it three times including the last song maybe 5 or 6 times. I was so gripped by the story telling and the tone of the music. Loved it and very interesting to read the story.

I haven’t seen the movie. I imagine this band coming from the same brain space that led Brian Eno to create ambient, which generally means I enjoy them. Not sure I’d replay this particular album though.

Really good album! Forgot how good the soundtrack was to the Virgin suicides!

This was really cool. What a cool project. I’ll never see this movie

Ej

Maybe if I saw the film, this soundtrack would have been better.

I mean, Playground Love by Air! What a start. And since it's the original motion picture score, it makes sense that there would be a lot of instrumental music here. I never saw the movie, but the more this played, the sadder it got. The last 'song', a narrative of what had happened, yikes. Not sure I want to see it ... ever.

A genuinely very interesting album to listen to! Had some good tunes and some interesting instrumental tracks! 4/5 ⭐️ 277/1081

I actually rather enjoyed the dreamy, sometimes ethereal sounds of this album, which was surprising considering that I didn’t watch the movie or know anything about it. I wonder what the (historical? contextual?) rationale behind adding this soundtrack album to this 1001 album list is.

En ihan ymmärrä miksi tämä soundtrack-levy on valittu tälle listalle. Varsinkin kun tämä soundtrack koostuu melkein pelkästään instrumentaalikappaleista. Musiikissa ei varsinaisesti ole mitään vikaa, se vain ei jätä vahvaa muistijälkeä. Tätä levyä voin suositella vain bändin tai leffan faneille. Tekisikin mieli katsoa Virgin Suicides-leffa uusiksi monen vuoden tauon jälkeen.

Pretty cool. Anytime you get a soundtrack like this, I think it's sort of destined to fall middle of the pack. By definition it can't be too interesting or attention-grabbing. But this is really lovely, and very cool. Super atmospheric and very interesting for a movie score. Fave tracks: - Playground Love - Bathroom Girl - The Word Hurricane - Highschool Lover - Dead Bodies

Great soundtrack, great album not as much

This was solid, interesting.

para ser un soundtrack esta impecable, me dieron ganas de ver la peli 8/10

A good soundtrack to a good movie, alternately hampered and elevated by its context. The film gives Air some strong material to work with, but the narration that closes the album is long and dour and designed to be read once in the novel or heard once in the film. No one listens to those John Cale Velvets spoken-word things more than a few times before skipping them, and it was a mistake to put that sort of thing here as the final track.

Пинкфлойдоподобный саундтрек.

lots of pink floyd influence

Not for me

I mean, its good for a soundtrack, I guess?

Familiar with the film, but haven't seen it. This soundtrack stands on its own pretty well. 3.4/5.

It sounded exactly like the movie score that it is. The final track was well done enough to almost make me want to see it.

Clearly the mob wanted to appease their little Sophie by getting this on the list. Just another electronic album that no one would buy without a movie attached to it. If a soundtrack needs to be on this list, where is Star Wars?

I enjoyed this album esp Dead Bodies. I def felt like I should be high while listening to it.

This was actually good and interesting. I probably wouldn’t seek out a film score to listen to on its own but this is nice and does paint a picture (generally mysterious). Now I want to watch the movie

I normally love movie soundtracks, but this one did nothing for me

Interesting to have a movie score on here. While it is more in line with an instrumental electronic pop album, it still begs the question: why is the best movie score of all time, aka the lord of the rings score, not on here?

Un disco bonito. Ya me gustaban Air, y este disco como banda sonora no termina de ser lo mismo. Es una música triste como la película. aparte del tema de la intro me gustan otros con un aire muy Can como Dead Bodies. Es un 3,5 alto, pero subiré a 4.

simplemente: chef kiss.

I am sure there is some deeper meaning in this album that I just wasn’t hearing while listening to it or pay attention to, but the album was not for me.

It was fine background music, but nothing special.

I will be listening to more Air.

This certainly was interesting and very striking at the end. I'm not sure I'll go back to it, but it is certainly very cool

Decent opener Playground Love feels like the exposition of an opera giving me a hint of what's to come. Ethereal chaser with Clouds Up on the nose there. I do wonder if people conflate a good movie or great movie with a good score or great score. Of course they do, it's why I loved the soundtrack to Dragon The Bruce Lee Story it was all about Elvis Stojko. Let's add sweeping guitar to Bathroom Girl Pink Floyd. 24 tracks shock at seeing is becoming clear. Maybe a condensed version of the best of would have done this album better service. Instead we're getting these snippets of things without the context of the screen. These don't stand on their own very well. Not compelling enough. The score should tell its own story, but these seem to need the action on screen to make sense thereof. Cannot recommend this to anyone I wouldn't even want it as background music. Not without some merit tho so a 2.

It’s intriguing. I haven’t seen the movie and neither has Ben. Interested in looking into their other music.

I didn’t pay attention much when I clicked on this album, and I remember thinking, “this sounds like the credits of a movie”. For those purposes, I think it works well. It is repetitive, but it also made me want to check out the movie too.

I am familiar with Air and Sexy Boy song, but, I should have known, this is a soundtrack for the film The Virgin Suicides by Sofia Copolla who loves French bands (and even married the vocalist of Phoenix). This is an ok album, the atmospheric pop is good for background music and there were some interesting highlights such as the Suicide Underground and The Word Hurricane (and now I only realised the title trackc also tells the story of the film) but I feelnit is very 00s coded and a little push to put it on the list. Now I will have to watch this film... 3/5

This was quite chill, listened while on a walk and that was quite nice. It was quite interesting but I am not sure I would choose to listen to it again.

Moody and unique

When I first saw the wiki for this describe a movie soundtrack done by a French electronic band I rolled my eyes.... At first glance this doesn't sound like essential listening. But right from the first track I did get sucked in. It does feel like a movie soundtrack rather than a stand alone album, but still works as a piece of music. There is a central theme to this music that is pretty cohesive through the album that really drives it along. Some real earie vibes... and great driving drum grooves. I should probably watch this movie!

I remember enjoying the Virgin Suicides film in high school, but I couldn’t remember a single other thing about it. I read the synopsis for a quick refresher and I’m curious how well it would hold up for me almost 2 decades later. As far as the music on the soundtrack goes, it’s alright. It quickly faded into the background and I have no doubt the moody and melancholic vibes worked well in context of the film. That said, it doesn’t make for the most exciting album to listen to and I don’t think it deserves a place on a list of 1001 albums you need to hear before you die.

Yes, I've seen the movie. I'm also foggily familiar with Air's album Moon Safari. I thought this was a little disappointing as a standalone album. The music is good, but the voiceovers from the movie don't add much to the experience.

amei muitíssimo. entrou na biblioteca.

It’s fine for a soundtrack, but it’s still a soundtrack. I’m not going to this again and again like I would for “Shaft” or “Superfly” or “Purple Rain” or “Kindergarten Cop” though.

600/1089 - What a weird piece of talking gum. Also Air is pretty great, cool downtempo sound with the guitar pedals on synths.

Uhhhh, yeah…..soundtracks are back ground noise, usually kinda pointless without the foreground action, and as an added bonus it’s French, mercifully almost all instrumental. I didn’t have to skip anything so plus 1 for that, but not really sure why this album is on the list. If we can’t have Live Albums why have Sound Tracks?

Mostly very tedious. Dead Bodies had a spark of life in it.

Good

Unerwartet besonders. Nice instrumentals

Air is a kind of quiet favorite of mine. The electronica/ new age/ Euro vibe thing they have going on is quite nice to me. The movie they based the album on is a tough go... It's like I like the music but man... bummer of an inspiration. So as long as I completely disconnect the two this is "once again" sublime and wonderful. If I struggle, as I have lately emotionally in general, it makes it tougher. Maybe my suggestion would be listen to the album and enjoy it but don't connect it to anything soundtrack wise.

Its cool for a soundtrack. I swear ive heard ghost song before, but i cant find where.

I didn’t get it. Fine listen but it didn’t have a wow factor. It was actually hard to pay attention to.

Honestly, this ripped. Shocked at how much I liked it. Added the movie to my Letterboxd watchlist immediately.

Decent for a soundtrack.

trevligt

A lot of this reminds me of early Floyd. I think it would make more sense in the context of the film, so I guess add that one to my watch list.

Ambient-y music, like other Air stuff. Never saw the movie, album is ok. Not waking me up after a long weekend. 3*

An epic album from their golden age. Easy 5 stars.

I think the music would make more sense with the movie

Very atmospheric, moody, ambient-leaning pieces. Some very pretty, fleshed out tracks like Playground Love are mixed with shorter, transitional interludes. Makes sense, this is a soundtrack afterall, but the overall atmosphere is consistent, dreamy and soft. Bathroom Girl, Dirty Trip, High School Lover and Playground Love are all great songs that also work as standalone listens. The rest of the album, while pretty, doesn't really leave a lasting impact. It works as a soundtrack and is a good listen, but probably not something I would return to much.

Moon Safari is better

I played this a lot when it came out. I was already an Air fan, and had seen them live, and possibly brought the album before I saw the movie at the cinema. So very happy to revisit this, although it’s not been too long since I last played it.

Working in a high street music shop in the 90s/early 2000s, I heard a bit too much of their first album and this one, for me, struggles to shake that off. I do love the follow up, 10,000Hz Legends, which I think might be an overlooked masterpiece so I take an opportunity to plug that 🙂

A hard album to rate - but in the end I decided that making me think of Pink Floyd, The Beatles and Roger Waters at different points was a good thing.

приятный, но как фон

This is not really my genre, but I think it is so atmospheric. I’ve not seen the film, but I have read the book and the music definitely fits the mood of that. I was happy when the saxophone showed up on the first track and disappointed that it didn’t make another appearance. But on the whole, despite electronic music not really being my thing, I really enjoyed this. It was good to have on while working and it was just so effective at creating a mood. Fav song: Playground Love Least fav: The Word Hurricane

I've read the book but never seen the film so I assumed I'd never have heard any of the album before, but the first few notes started to play and I realised I've heard them many many times on tiktok edits. Musically I don't love the album and I don't see myself coming back to it but I really appreciate the cinematic quality and the emotion within it. Maybe knowing the story makes me appreciate the album more but I think either way it's a great example of the power of music in emotional storytelling- maybe that's why the tiktok editors like it. Favourite song: Playground Love Least: The Word Hurricane

Nope. Not my jam. Good while watching the movie not as good listening alone

As a soundtrack, this would be an easy 5 stars, unfortunately though this is 1001 albums to listen to before you die, not 1001 soundtracks. This is an excellent collection of moody chill jams, but sometimes it can feel a little too background music. Stripping things back means that there is nothing too obtrusive to distract from the film, but it can feel like there is too little happening. I am someone that likes ambient music, but great ambient replaces everything removed with interesting textures etc, whereas this doesn't really replace the drums etc with anything. Great for a soundtrack, but it can be a little boring as an album.

not as good as Joni Mitchell’s Blue

"It didn't matter in the end how old they had been / Or that they were girls / But only that we had loved them" I love AIR, especially "Moon Safari," which I was introduced to through this 1001 albums project, so I had equally high expectations for this album (despite it being a film score). I knew "Playground Love" was in this album, but I was under the false conception that "Cherry Blossom Girl" was as well. I found the album to be very underwhelming, and filled more with atmospheric scene-setting tracks rather than fully fleshed out songs like those of "Moon Safari." I actually decided to watch Coppola's Virgin Suicides today as well as a result of this album's random generation of the day. I noticed how key the soundtrack was in the movie, but also that only about 6/13 of the tracks made an appearance. More prominent in the film than most of the album's tracks (Besides "Playground Love") was AIR's ce matin la from Moon Safari, 10cc's I'm not in Love, Heart's Crazy on You, and Styx's Come Sail Away. Sloan was also prominently featured in the film, and the frequency of their songs may rival that of AIR in the film. The album was disappointing, but because of "Playground Love," as well as the sheer quality of the Virgin Suicides movie, coupled with my love for AIR, I can't justify any lower than a 3/5

After the first song I genuinely forgot it was playing. Fine for a movie soundtrack, but you don’t necessarily interact with movie soundtracks the same way you do an album, right? You wouldn’t put even the best DnD manual up next to Dostoyevsky. It’s a qualitatively different thing.

The Virgin Suicides is a rare example of a great book, adapted to a great movie, with a great soundtrack. Air really capture the sadness of the story perfectly. As a soundtrack it's a 5/5, but as a standalone album I'll take a star off.

Loved a bit of instrumental music, rare in this project. Good writing music

Sometimes moody, sometimes weird.

Highlights: Playground Love, Deadly Bodies. 2.1

норм, вайбово, пока 3, но мб повышу балл посмле просмотра фильма.

The Virgin Suicides is a score composed by French electronic music duo Air for the 1999 film of the same name by Sofia Coppola. It was released on 23 February 2000 by Virgin Records. The album was nominated for Best Soundtrack at the 2001 Brit Awards. The French edition of Rolling Stone magazine placed The Virgin Suicides at number 49 on their list of the 100 essential French rock albums. In 2014, NME placed the album at number 11 on their "61 of the Greatest Film Soundtracks Ever" list. In 2019, Pitchfork placed the album at number four on their "Top 50 Best Movie Scores of All Time" list. According to Jean-Benoît Dunckel, the album was recorded quickly. At first the music was inspired by the film and an attempt was made to synchronise the music with scenes from the film; towards the end of the process, the intention was to craft songs which could be listened to on their own. The Virgin Suicides received generally positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 77, based on 16 reviews. In a 2020 review of the score, NPR's Paula Mejía praised the music for capturing the spirit of being a teenager, concluding, "Listening to the Virgin Suicides score on loop hasn't been so much an exercise in nostalgia, or even a means of escape. Reliving it is more of a prescient reminder—one I needed to hear as a teenager, and that I could use again today—that now is not forever."

Good music to play while drawing🎨I felt so classy

Really decent album to have playing in the background when you’re just relaxing. Standout song was dirty trip.