The Virgin Suicides (score)

The Virgin Suicides
Film score by Air
Released	23 February 2000
Recorded	1999
Genre	Psychedelic rock downtempo ambient
Length	40:27
Label	Record Makers Source Virgin
Producer	Air
Air chronology
Moon Safari (1998) The Virgin Suicides (2000) 10 000 Hz Legend (2001)
Singles from The Virgin Suicides
"Playground Love" Released: 17 January 2000[1]

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	77/100[2]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[3]
Entertainment Weekly	B+[4]
NME	8/10[5]
Pitchfork Media	7.2/10[6]
Rolling Stone	[7]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[8]

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.^[9] The French edition of Rolling Stone magazine placed The Virgin Suicides at number 49 on their list of the 100 essential French rock albums.^[10] In 2011, British music magazine NME placed the album at number 11 on their 61 greatest soundtracks of all time list.^[11]

To celebrate the 15th anniversary of the film The Virgin Suicides, a deluxe edition of the album was released in June 2015 as a two-disc set and a super deluxe box set. The former contains two studio outtakes on disc one and a bonus disc of previously unreleased live recordings, while the latter includes the album on 180-gram red vinyl, an exclusive picture disc featuring previously unreleased live recordings, the "Playground Love" EP on 180-gram red vinyl, the two-disc deluxe edition of The Virgin Suicides on CD, a 16-page booklet featuring an unpublished Air interview, a film poster, a replica VIP laminate pass and a download card.^[12][13][14]

Legacy

The album was included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.^[15]

Track listing

All songs written by Nicolas Godin and Jean-Benoît Dunckel except "Playground Love", written by Gordon Tracks, Godin and Dunckel.

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Playground Love"	3:32
2.	"Clouds Up"	1:30
3.	"Bathroom Girl"	2:25
4.	"Cemetary Party"	2:36
5.	"Dark Messages"	2:28
6.	"The Word 'Hurricane'"	2:33
7.	"Dirty Trip"	6:12
8.	"Highschool Lover" (theme from The Virgin Suicides)	2:42
9.	"Afternoon Sister"	2:24
10.	"Ghost Song"	2:16
11.	"Empty House"	2:58
12.	"Dead Bodies"	2:59
13.	"Suicide Underground"	5:52

Japanese edition bonus tracks[16]
No.	Title	Length
14.	"Bathroom Girl" (demo version)	4:14
15.	"Playground Love" (vibraphone version)	3:50

Personnel

Credits adapted from the liner notes of The Virgin Suicides.^[17]

• Air – production, recording
• Stéphane "Alf" Briat – mixing
• Hugo Ferran – saxophone (track 1)
• Pascal Garnon – drum recording
• Mike Mills – drawing
• Brian Reitzell – drums (tracks 3, 6, 7, 12, 13)
• Gordon Tracks – drums, vocals (track 1)

Gordon Tracks is a pseudonym of Phoenix lead singer Thomas Mars.^[18]

Charts

Chart (2000–01)	Peak position
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[19]	37
Dutch Albums (MegaCharts)[20]	89
French Albums (SNEP)[21]	34
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[22]	26
Irish Albums (IRMA)[23]	27
Scottish Albums (OCC)[24]	23
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[25]	51
UK Albums (OCC)[26]	14
US Billboard 200[27]	161

Chart (2015)	Peak position
Hungarian Albums (MAHASZ)[28]	27

Certifications

Region	Certification	Certified units/Sales
France (SNEP)[29]	Gold	113,000[30]
United Kingdom (BPI)[31]	Silver	60,000^^
^^shipments figures based on certification alone

Release history

Region	Date	Label	Ref.
Japan	23 February 2000	Toshiba-EMI	[16]
Germany	25 February 2000	Record Makers Source Virgin	[32]
France	28 February 2000		[33]
United Kingdom			[34]
United States	29 February 2000	Astralwerks	[35]

15th anniversary deluxe edition

Region	Date	Format	Label	Ref.
France	15 June 2015	2-CD box set digital download	Aircheology Parlophone	[36][37][38]
United Kingdom				[39][40][41]
Germany		Digital download	Parlophone	[42]
United States	16 June 2015			[43]
Japan				[44]
	17 June 2015	2-CD	Warner	[45]
Australia	19 June 2015	2-CD box set digital download		[46][47][48]
Germany		2-CD box set		[49][50]
United States	23 June 2015	2-CD	Rhino Parlophone	[51]

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