The Virgin Suicides (score)

The Virgin Suicides
Film score by
Air
Released23 February 2000 (2000-02-23)
Recorded1999
Genre
Length40:27
Label
ProducerAir
Air chronology
Moon Safari
(1998) 		The Virgin Suicides
(2000) 		10 000 Hz Legend
(2001)
Singles from The Virgin Suicides
  1. "Playground Love"
    Released: 17 January 2000[6]

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.[7] The French edition of Rolling Stone magazine placed The Virgin Suicides at number 49 on their list of the 100 essential French rock albums.[8] In 2014, NME placed the album at number 11 on their "61 of the Greatest Film Soundtracks Ever" list.[9] In 2019, Pitchfork placed the album at number four on their "Top 50 Best Movie Scores of All Time" list.[10]

On 3 June 2010, Air performed the full score with the band Hot Rats (with members of Supergrass) at the Cité de la Musique in Paris.[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EP on 180-gram red vinyl, the two-disc deluxe edition of The Virgin Suicides on CD, a 16-page booklet featuring an unpublished Air interview, a film poster, a replica VIP laminate pass and a download card.[12][13][14]

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  2. ^ a b Roberts, Chris (2015). "Air: The Virgin Suicides". Prog.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference pitchfork was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ Strong, Martin (10 October 2006). "Air". The Essential Rock Discography. Canongate Books. pp. 15–16. ISBN 1-84195-860-3.
  5. ^ Shapiro, Peter (2003). "Air". In Buckley, Peter (ed.). The Rough Guide to Rock (3rd ed.). London: Rough Guides. pp. 13–14. ISBN 978-1-84353-105-0.
  6. ^ "Playground Love". Amazon. United Kingdom. Retrieved 11 August 2015.
  7. ^ "Brits 2001: The winners". BBC News. 26 February 2001. Retrieved 26 February 2012.
  8. ^ "Les 100 disques essentiels du rock français selon Rolling Stone". Rolling Stone France (in French). No. 18. February 2010. ISSN 1764-1071.
  9. ^ "61 Of The Greatest Film Soundtracks Ever". NME. 8 January 2014. Retrieved 13 August 2019.
  10. ^ "The 50 Best Film Scores of All Time". Pitchfork. 21 February 2019. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
  11. ^ "Air et Hot Rats (Supergrass) jouent "The Virgin Suicides"" (in French). Cité de la Musique. Retrieved 8 August 2019.
  12. ^ "The Virgin Suicides – 15th Anniversary Deluxe Edition" (Press release). Rhino Media. May 2015. Retrieved 11 August 2015.
  13. ^ Steffen, Chris (30 June 2015). "Giveaway: Air, 'The Virgin Suicides' 15th Anniversary Box Set". AllMusic. Retrieved 11 August 2015.
  14. ^ Scheetz, Cameron (12 June 2015). "Win the new vinyl boxset commemorating The Virgin Suicides' 15th anniversary". The A.V. Club. Archived from the original on 21 November 2019. Retrieved 13 August 2019.