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 . The French edition of Rolling Stone magazine placed The Virgin Suicides at number 49 on their list of the 100 essential French rock albums. In 2014, NME placed the album at number 11 on their "61 of the Greatest Film Soundtracks Ever" list. In 2019, Pitchfork placed the album at number four on their "Top 50 Best Movie Scores of All Time" list.
12-556: Empty House may refer to: "Empty House", 2000 song by Air from The Virgin Suicides "Empty House", 2019 song by Doll Skin from Love Is Dead and We Killed Her "Empty House", 2019 song by Low Roar from Ross "Empty House", 2020 song by Neck Deep from All Distortions Are Intentional "Empty House", 2016 song by Relient K from Air for Free "Empty Houses", 2007 song by Garry Schyman from BioShock " The Adventure of
24-445: A mathematics student. Before founding Air, Godin played in the band Orange, with others such as Jean-Benoît Dunckel , Alex Gopher , Xavier Jamaux, and Jean de Reydellet . He and Jean-Benoît have been working together since they were teenagers in the 1980s. Contrary to the popular belief, the name of the band Air does not stand for "Amour, Imagination, Rêve" (love, imagination, dream), but rather for description of their music which
36-478: A recording studio near Paris called Studio de Saint‑Nom, and asked a friend—freelance engineer and former Plus XXX assistant Stéphane 'Alf' Briat—to work as a sound engineer on that project. Their full-length debut studio album Moon Safari , released in 1998, was propelled to chart success by the singles " Sexy Boy ", " Kelly Watch the Stars " and " All I Need ". Its mixture of synths, strings and guitar made it
48-412: 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EP on 180-gram red vinyl, the two-disc deluxe edition of The Virgin Suicides on CD, a 16-page booklet featuring an unpublished Air interview, a film poster, a replica VIP laminate pass and a download card. According to Jean-Benoît Dunckel , the album was recorded quickly. At first the music was inspired by the film and an attempt was made to synchronise the music with scenes from
60-463: The Empty House ", Sherlock Holmes short story "The Empty House", 1906 short story by Algernon Blackwood The Empty House (novel) , 1978 novel by Michael Gilbert Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Empty House . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to
72-658: The band Hot Rats (with members of Supergrass ) at the Cité de la Musique in Paris. 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,
84-548: The duo describes as "airy" (in French aérien ). In the beginning, it was a one‑person project. Godin, then an architecture student and amateur musician, was asked by a childhood friend to write a song for a compilation to be released by Source, a small French independent label. "Modulor Mix", a tribute to Le Corbusier , was recorded on Godin's Portastudio , and appeared on the Source Lab album in 1995. With several remixes, it
96-427: The film; towards the end of the process, the intention was to craft songs which could be listened to on their own. The Virgin Suicides received generally positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic , which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 77, based on 16 reviews. In a 2020 review of the score, NPR 's Paula Mejía praised
108-400: The intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Empty_House&oldid=1185066884 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages The Virgin Suicides (score) On 3 June 2010, Air performed the full score with
120-555: The liner notes of The Virgin Suicides . Sales figures based on certification alone. Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. Nicolas Godin Nicolas Godin (born 25 December 1969) is a French musician best known for being one half of the music duo Air . Godin was born in Paris, Île-de-France, France, and studied architecture at the École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Versailles , along with soon to be musical partner, Jean-Benoît Dunckel ,
132-559: The music for capturing the spirit of being a teenager, concluding, "Listening to the Virgin Suicides score on loop hasn't been so much an exercise in nostalgia, or even a means of escape. Reliving it is more of a prescient reminder—one I needed to hear as a teenager, and that I could use again today—that now is not forever." All tracks are written by Nicolas Godin and Jean-Benoît Dunckel , except "Playground Love", written by Gordon Tracks , Godin and Dunckel Credits adapted from
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#1732772211155144-492: Was re‑released on British label Mo' Wax in 1996. Following this small success, Godin asked his friend Jean-Benoît Dunckel , a classically trained pianist, to join him in Air. Together, they produced further 'maxi‑singles' for Source, with titles like "J'ai Dormi Sous L'eau", "Les Professionnels", "Casanova 70" and "Le Soleil Est Près De Moi". Finally, in 1997, Source asked Air to record a whole album. The duo spent several months in
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