| Artist |
Air |
| Album Title: |
The Virgin Suicides |
| Album Cover: |
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| Primary Genre |
Electronic |
| Format |
CD |
| Released |
02/28/2000 |
| Label |
Source Records / Virgin |
| Catalog No |
7243 8488482 6 / CDV 2910 |
| Bar Code No |
7 24384 88482 6 |
| Packaging |
Jewelcase |
| Tracks |
| 1.
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Playground Love (3:32)
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| 2.
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Clouds Up (1:30)
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| 3.
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Bathroom Girl (2:25)
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| 4.
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Cemetary Party (2:36)
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| 5.
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Dark Messages (2:28)
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| 6.
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The Word 'Hurricane' (2:33)
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| 7.
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Dirty Trip (6:12)
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| 8.
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Highschool Lover (2:42)
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| 9.
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Afternoon Sister (2:24)
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| 10.
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Ghost Song (2:16)
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| 11.
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Empty House (2:58)
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| 12.
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Dead Bodies (2:59)
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| 13.
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Suicide Underground (5:52)
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| Date Acquired |
03/08/2011 |
| Personal Rating |
 |
| Acquired from |
MovieMars.com (Amazon) |
| Purchase Price |
7.06 |
Web Links |
All Music Guide Entry:
Discogs Entry: |
Notes |
Notes:
Printed in the EU (back inlay)
Made in the EU (disc)
℗ & © 1999 Aircheology
Under exclusive licence to Virgin Music, a division of EMI Music France
Credits:
Illustration [Drawing] – Mike Mills
Mixed By – Stephane "Alf" Briat
Producer, Composed By, Performer – AIR
Recorded By – AIR
Recorded By [Drums] – Pascal Garnon
Written-By – G. Tracks (tracks: I), Jean-Benoît Dunckel, Nicolas Godin
Companies, Etc.:
Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Aircheology
Copyright © – Aircheology
Licensed To – Virgin Music
Published By – Revolvair
Published By – Delabel Editions
Published By – MCA Publishing
Pressed By – www.imsgroup.it
Distributed By – Virgin
Barcode and other Identifiers:
Barcode (Text): 7 24384 88482 6
Barcode (Scanned): 724384884826
Label Code: 03098
Matrix / Runout: IMS www.imsgroup.it 8488482
Rights Society: bel BIEM
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Analyzed Folder: Air - The Virgin Suicides_dr.txt
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DR Peak RMS Filename
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DR07 -0.07 dB -09.12 dB 01 - Playground Love.flac
DR09 -0.07 dB -11.17 dB 02 - Clouds Up.flac
DR07 -0.07 dB -09.63 dB 03 - Bathroom Girl.flac
DR09 -2.01 dB -13.10 dB 04 - Cemetary Party.flac
DR11 -0.10 dB -17.22 dB 05 - Dark Messages.flac
DR07 -0.07 dB -10.75 dB 06 - The Word ‘Hurricane'.flac
DR08 -0.07 dB -09.66 dB 07 - Dirty Trip.flac
DR10 -0.07 dB -12.59 dB 08 - Highschool Lover (Theme From the Virgin Suicides).flac
DR09 -0.07 dB -10.43 dB 09 - Afternoon Sister.flac
DR10 -0.07 dB -14.64 dB 10 - Ghost Song.flac
DR08 -0.07 dB -10.36 dB 11 - Empty House.flac
DR06 -0.07 dB -06.94 dB 12 - Dead Bodies.flac
DR07 -0.07 dB -09.25 dB 13 - Suicide Underground.flac
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Number of Files: 13
Official DR Value: DR8
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| Reviews |
All Music Guide Review by John Bush:
Two years after the arrival of their debut album, the French twosome Air returned, not with a proper sophomore LP, but with The Virgin Suicides, a full soundtrack to the directing debut of Sophia Coppola. Only one track, "Playground Love," has vocals, and that comes from an outsider (Gordon Tracks) who sounds more like the Auteurs' Luke Haines than Beth Hirsch, the only real vocalist employed previously. The trademarked Air sound is for the most part unchanged; as on Moon Safari, producers Godin and Dunckel rely on contemplative electronic mood-music in a minor key, heavy on the analog synth and organ yet with plenty of traditional textures (guitar, brass, strings, live-sounding drums) in keeping with lounge music and space-pop from the 1960s and '70s. And though all the music here is as meticulously detailed as the tracks on Moon Safari, the soundtrack cultivates an atmosphere more in league with traditional scoring -- instead of focusing on pop songs in an electronic context, Air constructed these tracks as mere soundbytes, simple themes with little embellishment on the basic ideas. Of course, that's perfectly in keeping with the secondary role soundtracks should play to truly serve the movies for which they're composed. Listeners eager for a second dose of the exquisite electronic pop found on Moon Safari will be pleased with much of The Virgin Suicides, but will probably have to wait until Air's proper follow-up to find more evidence of their greatness.
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