Virgin Suicides

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.

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

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

9/10… ambient pop / downbeat / *2000

Excellent cover art, I really like that aspect of it! It's been years since I saw The Virgin Suicides but I honestly don't really remember the music from it. There were some of these songs that sounded familiar, but if you'd asked me where I knew them from I wouldn't be able to tell you. Kind of a creepy, eerie vibe to this which I liked. Kind of background music but not in a way that made me tune it out. Not sure I'd listen to it again, but I don't regret having heard it.

Det album har något

Som en morgon man försovit sig så man får skippa frukosten och trängs hungrig på tunnelbanan, sen blev det helt plötsligt Håkan Hellström här är mitt liv låten det va riktigt oväntat. Håkan har ju samplat skiten rakt av mer eller mindre, Ce Martin la vs här är mitt liv (?). Bästa låten på skivan iaf. 2/5

GOATED COVER. I mean its just beautiful, one of the best covers I have seen so far. This album is fantastic, which really surprised me. And even more so I KNOW IT ALREADY ??? No idea how, but I have heard Dirty Trip and Ghost Song more times than I can remember. And this is a PERFECTTT album for Halloween, which as of writing, it is Oct 29. Man this album is just great, it is very sad, in both the instrumentals and the extremely surprising final song. Seriously was not expecting what the final song had to offer at all, and one of the first times I want to give a "no spoilers" for an album. The song names scream horror, and the only reason this is not a 5 is because I personally will not add anything to my playlist, its just too dark for everyday listening. Best Song: Dirty Trip. Worst Song: Clouds Up.

Please don’t- and call a hotline

How much can one album convey without words? Just listen to this album and you will see. Its story is laid out in its composition: a lovely beginning, a quick turn to sorrow, a slow buildup to a crescendo again, and then tragedy once more. Air perfectly expresses these events in their music, and I went deeper because it is so intriguing. I was surprised with how much I could extrapolate just from the song titles. Now, not every song is wonderful, but most are well made. It could be more dramatic, but I’m content with the result.

Great movie, amazing music. But this album is still a soundtrack album. With a lot of track durations between 2-3 minutes , making it more sound snippets only heard in context with the movie. As stand alone album I would rate it a 3 star, but the amazing shivering closer "Suicide Underground", were the context of the movie is woven with the music lifts it to a 4 star rating.

Album #190: The Virgin Suicides (film score) - Air Genre (W): Ambient, chill-out, progressive rock, electronica, electropop Singles: Playground Love I have not listened to this album before. Thoughts?: I was surprised to get a film score for an album. But I found it pretty relaxing, although at times it got boring. Interesting release. Favorite tracks: Playground Love, Clouds Up, Cemetary Party, Dirty Trip, Highschool Lover, Dead Bodies, Suicide Underground

Not bad at all.

Something different. There have been mostly instrumental type albums so far but don’t think I’ve had an actual film score yet. Vocals right away, not what I was expecting. There’s definitely a low key vibe. Just slower beats on a lot of it. First song was solid with vocals. It gets different after that. Somewhat a variety in sound between songs too. Mostly all that slower ambient sound. Definitely interesting background music. It’s all pleasant enough and fine. And don’t mind encountering something like this on the list. Just don’t really feel it earns a higher rating. At its best? Feel like maybe a 3. Some songs are pretty good. But overall, this type of background music is largely forgettable to me. Probably a 2. Maybe a 3.

Do I think this should be on this list? No. Do I think this is incredible album and you should definitely listen to it if you saw the movie? Yes yes yes absolutely. This movie has really big inpact on me and I think about it at least twice a week. This isn't my first listen to the album. This is my default album when I don't know what to listen to and also i like to play it when im studying. If you dont like this album and think it shouldn't be here it's okay and I get you. But everybody must admit that Playground Love od Highschool Lover (it's instrumental sibling) is worth a listen. Also if you haven't seen the movie GO WATCH IT!

I've been meaning to watch the movie for like forever, I guess I probably should now. Update: Watched movie, really good movie and this soundtrack adds a lot to it, however my rating of the album isn't changing

I’m not against listening to a soundtrack for this list, especially not one as good as this. There are some obvious highs on here, most notably the opener and lead single “Playground Love,” a fantastic song that walks a thin line between ominous and endearing. Pretty much everything else here, from the second song to the last song, is some sort of ambient type of track. That’s not a bad thing. But it brings it down, in a way. I’ve never seen this movie by the way. I like the big song from this album but I don’t particularly love nothing else here. I like “Highschool Lover,” the song which “Playground Love” developed from. I like the ending of “The Word ‘Hurricane’” but it’s not long enough, and I don’t like the spoken word passage very much. I like some of the rockier cuts, even if they’re a bit short and the riffs can be a bit uninspired. Overall it’s nice, it’s pleasant, I don’t know for sure if it deserves its place on this list, but I’d recommend it to a friend. 6.5/10 DOES IT BELONG ON THE LIST: NO REASON: NOT SUPER RELEVANT AND ALSO THERE’S A BETTER AIR ALBUM ALREADY ON HERE WHAT WOULD I REPLACE IT WITH: Dots and Loops by Stereolab

Never heard of the movie, but it sounded very pink floyd-esque.

pretty fun

It's ok

Chill enough in the background, but compared to the highs on Moon Safari I’m not feeling quite as much excitement here. Surely the movie that this was created for would help with the ambiance, but on its own it’s just okay. I did notice Thomas Mars from Phoenix on the first song though, sort of a hidden cameo for him before they really blew up.

I don't think anyone needs to hear this before they die. I don't think anyone needs to hear it at all. I have very strong opinions on what "is an album" - and while I recognize that this is technically an album. I don't believe many people would buy this and put it on. I'm not saying it doesn't have merit. But it's a soundtrack, it's a score. There are settings and scenes - no songs.

Great band and album. Definitely a vibe. Not always in the mood. Solid nonetheless. Great soundtrack especially when first released.

Light as Air.

Easy listen with some decent trance like chilled out vibes. A bit repetitive without too much variation between songs lowers the score to a 3/5. World listen to again though. Nice sounds.

I had really high hopes for this album with the opening songs and the atmosphere it was building and then it just drifted into regular film score music which I found disappointing.

Bar the first song which is cool, it's an album of instrumentals. And it's an album of boring instrumentals at that.

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

Not bad for an album. But amazing as a movie soundtrack. Might have to check out the film. Nothing i would add to the playlist though.

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