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Track Listings
| 1. Playground Love (With Gordon Tracks) |
| 2. Clouds Up |
| 3. Bathroom Girl |
| 4. Cemetary Party |
| 5. Dark Messages |
| 6. The Word Hurricane |
| 7. Dirty Trip |
| 8. Highschool Lover |
| 9. Afternoon Sister |
| 10. Ghost Song |
| 11. Empty House |
| 12. Dead Bodies |
| 13. Suicide Underground |
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French avant-pop duo Air's third album is the soundtrack to the Sofia Coppola movie about a brace of teenage sisters whose beauty mesmerises the local boys and whose suicides devastate the community. It's a Gothic, faintly silly romantic fantasy about lust for the unattainable, and Air's enigmatic "pure pop" treatment is the perfect musical backdrop. Tracks like "Playground Love" and "Highschool Lover" are deceptively candy-coated pieces of puppy lover's pop, all sighing saxophones and dippy keyboards, while "Bathroom Girl" is a slo-mo vision of beauty. With the spookier synth pulses and black vibes of "Cemetery Party" and "Dark Messages", however, Air get to signal the weirder undercurrents of the movie, while "Dead Bodies" is a full-on Gothic wig-out complete with a sisterly choir from beyond the grave. --David Stubbs
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AIR The Virgin Suicides (2000 French issue 13-track CD album composed for the Sofia Coppola film including Playground Love Clouds Up & Bathroom Girl sealed picture sleeve)
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I am getting married this June, and Playground Love will be the first dance for my husband and I. It is the most beautiful, elegant song I have ever heard. It fits our romance perfectly, I get all teary eyed listening to it, oh, I just love it.
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This soundtrack is unbelievable. I had watched the movie (the virgin suicides) about a million times and had always found an interest in the chosen music, until finally I searched for the soundtrack on the internet. When it appeared, I was shocked. I had been imaging it to be full of the oldies that were also used in the movie but it all came from a band called "Air". As i listened I found it to be so deep and seductive, it almost clears your mind of everything and lets you ponder useless but interesting images and thoughts. I think this is a magnificent and remarkable Cd and personally, its a must-buy.
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I first heard this album a couple of weeks ago, when a new girl entered our office, a design department, and brought this music. I didn't know who they where or what the name of the album or the songs where, and my first impression was: This is excellent. Such desertic landscapes and situations as those in "The End of Evangelion" (when nobody was left in planet Earth and the only survivor cried for his beloved Asuka) came to my mind. The feelings of loneliness and drama are so hard you think this is the end of the world's perfect soundtrack. Excluding the first track (which is much better in the free downloadable version available right here in Amazon), this is perfectly coherent music. They sound as if they had been Pink Floyd's padawans. I felt extremely relaxed and thinked: This is Floyd's line resurrection. However, when I knew the title of this album the true meanings came very clearly. I really really love this music and would highly recommend it to any die-hard fan of Pink Floyd's "Echoes" and "Shine On". However, it is much better if you don't know the title. Do this experiment to someone: Make him/her hear this without telling what it is. Perception is much clearer when it is not obstructed by prejudices.
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Good music, but too dark for Air...
The Virgin Suicides is a really well composed album, and the music bears undeniably Air's mark, however, I was expecting something more relaxed, like Moon Safari. Read more
Published on Jan 18 2003 by Israel Casanovas
4.0 out of 5 stars
amazing...
More like 4 1/2 stars. I fell in love with the book and the movie, and hearing the motion picture score has completed the experience. Read more
Published on Jan 4 2003 by Britain Roth
5.0 out of 5 stars
American Psyche, O it's a French Band
I purchased this album upon spending my last three days in Europe this summer at a Virgin Megastore in Paris for 8 Euros. Read more
Published on Dec 10 2002
4.0 out of 5 stars
There was a movie associated with this?
Being a huge fan of Air, I bought this record just wanting more Air. Only several months later did I actually see The Virgin Suicides. Read more
Published on Dec 7 2002 by Alex J. Avriette
5.0 out of 5 stars
wow
I'm not impressed by much music anymore, but those first few seconds of the film "The Virgin Suicides" made my jaw drop. Read more
Published on Nov 11 2002 by blind joe death
4.0 out of 5 stars
Music for smart people
4 & 1/2 stars. If you are at all interested in the future of music you should look into the Virgin Suicides score. Read more
Published on Oct 26 2002 by Dazzle Dee
5.0 out of 5 stars
extremely moody
i love this album indefinitely. Im not sure how i stumbled upon Air. Probably from a list of Trip hop bands, yet im glad i did. Read more
Published on July 28 2002 by Robert Billy
4.0 out of 5 stars
Haunting and Beautiful
Air has made another astonishing mark in their debut with this lovely peice of work they did for Soffia Coppola's The Virgin Suicides. Read more
Published on May 30 2002 by Stephen M Weathers
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air's best effort
A quick note to the guys in air: Get back to making music like this! I like their instrumental songs alot, but most of the songs on their other albums have guest vocals and it... Read more
Published on April 26 2002 by Curt Richardson
5.0 out of 5 stars
French Side Of The Moon
I must admit, I chuckled at first when I listened to this record. The Floyd references are very apparent throughout. Read more
Published on Nov 15 2001
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