Album #9
Album: The Virgin Suicides Artist: Air Released : 1999 Label : Record Makers, Source, Virgin Genre: Ambient/progressive rock A soundtrack? On my 1001 album list? Well not mine, but still, you get the joke. Boy howdy, this was a trip. I never saw The Virgin Suicides , but I feel like I know the movie from this soundtrack alone. I joked at the start, with "Playground Love" that it felt like a lounge song... just as the brass came in. The album became a soundtrack to a long drive and it was perfect. Bravo. Musically, the album has few to no lyrics, yet evokes such a beautiful picture of youth, innocence, and loss therein. I was absolutely gobsmacked when the final track "Suicide Underground" broke that near-complete absence with commentary about the death of several young women by suicide (the titular "virgin suicides"). Even though the album, to that point, had painted a nostalgic brush of high school and the pains of growing up, this track fit in a pl...