The Music

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                                   Original Motion Picture Score by AIR

 1. Playground Love                           8. Highschool Lover (Theme from The Virgin Suicides)

 2. Clouds up                                    9. Afternoon Sister

 3. Bathroom Girl                            10. Ghost Song

 4. Cemetery Party                         11. Empty House 

 5. Dark messages                          12. Dead Bodies

 6. The Word 'Hurricane'                13. Suicide Underground

 7. Dirty Trip

Ben The Slayer REVIEWS: A wonderfully atmospheric selection of tracks that is perfectly suited to the film; top marks to French duo Air for coming up with this beautiful score. I'd never heard anything by Air before listening to this, but Sofia Coppola is a big fan which is why she chose them to write the score. the tracks are incredibly varied; most have a dark, depressing tone to them to match the film, whilst others like Playground Love are relaxing tracks you can chill out to. My favourite track is Empty House, which plays in the film every time Cecilia's ghost appears to the neighbour boys - there's something about the sample that Air use that I really like.

All in all, an excellent album and a must for fans of the film: 9/10  

 

 

                                   The Virgin Suicides Soundtrack

 1. Magic Man - Heart                                    8. A Dream Goes On Forever - Todd Rungren

 2. Hello It's Me - Todd Rungren                     9. Crazy On you - Heart

 3. Everything You've Done Wrong - Sloan   10. Playground Love (Vibraphone Version) - Air

 4. Ce Matin-La - Air                                     11. Come Sail Away - Styx 

 5. The Air that I Breath - The Hollies                          

 6. How Can you Mend A Broken heart? - Al Green                

 7. I'm Not In Love - 10cc

Ben the Slayer REVIEWS: As the film is set in the seventies, the soundtrack is naturally a collection of seventies radio hits. I've recently been getting into music of this era (60s/70s) and I really like this album - it can be interpreted as the light side compared to the dark side of the depressing score by Air. Air themselves feature with two tracks on the album, one a vibraphone version of the opening score track Playground Love which gives it a more dreamy quality, and the other a new track called Ce Matin-La. My favourites are the two tracks by Heart and the downbeat but lovely How Can You mend A Broken heart? by Al Green. The one let-down is Come Sail Away by Styx - the version by Cartman from South Park is much better!

A very nice album. Overall: 8/10  

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