The Virgin Suicides
by Air
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Air bestography
The Virgin Suicides is ranked 4th best out of 13 albums by Air on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Air is Moon Safari which is ranked number 235 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 6,635.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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The Virgin Suicides track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 79 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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The Virgin Suicides rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 7 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  imacgill | Top 100 Music Albums of 2000 | 54/100 | 2 |
| 2026 |  JoaoMoreira | Top 62 Music Albums of the 2000s | 48/62 | 5 |
| 2026 | BraddlesHendo | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 61/100 | 40 |
| 2026 | Untitled | Top 22 Music Albums of 2000 | 19/22 | 1 |
| 2026 | JoaoMoreira | Top 7 Music Albums of 2000 | 6/7 | 1 |
| 2026 | LittleM1971 | Top 90 Music Albums of 2000 | 77/90 | 1 |
| 2026 | juanr1096 | Top 68 Music Albums of 2000 | 44/68 | 2 |
| 2026 | Mrump | Top 30 Music Albums of 2000 | 16/30 | 3 |
| 2026 | javicho07 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s | 20/100 | 16 |
| 2026 | stevengnz | Top 100 Music Albums of 2000 | 60/100 | 2 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 134 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 407 | |||
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The Virgin Suicides ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 06/22/2026 15:30 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,696 | 70/100 |
| ! | 06/07/2026 17:51 | libbyshuss | 99 | 79/100 |
| ! | 06/05/2026 03:39 | stareaterogni0n | 583 | 71/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 11% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.5/100, a mean average of 74.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.5.
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The Virgin Suicides forum mentions
BestEverAlbums 08/22/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5412): By BraddlesHendo
Liedzeit 10/31/2025 15:11 in What album are you listening to? (cont.)
NoisyBeast 01/19/2023 20:49 in What album are you listening to right now?The Virgin Suicides comments
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Air provides a psychedelic caress between the disassociative culture that gave us ambient music and the idealistic and naive world of post war America which gave us The Birth of Cool. Synthesizers pulsate in a vast but colorless world of texture like a throbbing Ansel Adams photo; then angelic voices and soaring guitars drip from the sky like water color. All done with the subtlety and garishness of a flirtatious look that lasts a second too long.
Wow! One of the most disappointing albums in the history of popular music! I'm not sure they ever recovered (commercially) and the record company promoting as the big follow up to 'Moon Safari' didn't help. Certainly any thoughts that Air were the great white hopes for the future of music were definitely put on hold. The music is a bit wafty and ambient, it's a bit like candyfloss - looks OK, first bite's really exciting, it's completely insubstantial, soon forgotten and might make you feel sick. "Playground Love" is pretty good, "Bathroom Girl" is a bit better - darker and stranger, "Highschool Love" is also not bad, but a bit creepy. (Edited)
I take it back. I listened to this before I saw the movie, great and powerful work.
After listening to Playground Love I thought a fantastic album is expecting, but I found this one disappointing. (Edited)
This album can feel a little bit dull and boring at times. This is mainly due to the lack of layers present as the music can feel a little simple. It needs that extra bit of magic, which could be adding an extra instrument or adding more of a hook to some of the songs to make them more enjoyable and less repetitive. However, there are some moments where the music really shines as you get flourishes of the quality we are used to. This is mainly evidenced on Highschool Lover and Playground Love which are infectious and fun. Other than these 2 tracks, the rest seems like filler content in my opinion. Overall, there is definitely a lot of enjoyment you can get out of this album by playing it in the right setting but in terms of quality it is quite weak.
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