I'm making a Virgin Suicides mix...

...and I'm trying to add songs that go with Air's score. I can guess what at least a couple of their influences were for the score and here's what I have so far:

Pink Floyd - Any Colour You Like, Speak to Me/Breathe (obvious)
Genesis - Hairless Heart, Cuckoo Cocoon
Steve Miller Band - Fly Like An Eagle

And then I have some stuff from the La Planete Sauvage and Les Gants Blancs du Diable soundtracks that I think make sense. Can anyone recommend any other stuff that would work? Is there any place where they cited their influences for the score?

Oh and Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy

I meant No Quarter, from the album Houses of the Holy. No post editing on ilm eh

Max Roach - January V
Hope Sandoval - Suzanne
Nino Rota - O' Venezia Venaga Venusia
Lindstrom & Prins Thomas - Feel Am
Slade - If this world were mine

You have to put on some Goblin.

1974 CKLW chart surveys:

http://www.ct30.com/big30/1974/1974.html

Probably not much help Air-wise, but it does show what the Lisbons would have been hearing on the radio.

I have been semi-obsessed with this soundtrack this summer.

Omega - don't keep me waitin
'Far East Family Band' maybe?
Alan Tew - night watch
though too much uplifting and no feel for winter, some vibraphone bits:
Dave Pike - walkin' down the highway in a raw red egg; visions of spain
Shawn Lee & Clutchy Hopkins - dollar short

...'Dark Messages' has a similar intro like 'Sportif' - Heights of Abraham

Great idea, but I'd approach it from another angle (same as Andy K, I think): other things that could have been in the amazing playing-songs-over-the-phone sequence ("Hello It's Me," "So Far Away," etc.). A few that would have fit in perfectly: Badfinger's "Day After Day," Harry Nilsson's "Without You," the Carpenters' "Superstar," Bread's "Everything I Own," Rod Stewart's "You Wear It Well."

Spirit's "Fog" plays over the beginning of Jacques Demy'sModel Shop - I'd be a little surprised if Air hadn't been thinking about this track when they made that score. Used to be a clip of this on YouTube, but it seems like it's gone now.

John Carpenter's Escape From New York theme

Wow this is great, thanks all. And clemenza, I thought about that for another mix -- the saccharine AM Gold stuff.

A few that would have fit in perfectly: Badfinger's "Day After Day," Harry Nilsson's "Without You," the Carpenters' "Superstar," Bread's "Everything I Own," Rod Stewart's "You Wear It Well."

Co-sign 100% on Badfinger, Carpenters, and Bread (though I'd personally maybe choose "Make it With You" at least for this scene). A bit iffy on the other two. Not a huge fan of "Without You" to begin with, but regardless, it strikes me as a bit too operatic-intense for that scene. I love "You Wear It Well," but it seems a bit jaunty or breezy or something (the sentiment is of course perfect: "since you've been gone/it's hard to carry on"). Having a brain-block trying to come up with others, though: maybe "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face," maybe Pagliaro's "Some Sing, Some Dance"?

"First Time" for sure, although being so off-the-chart slow--it's like Satie or some other kind of ambient music--it might be tricky to pull off. I second-guessed myself on "You Wear It Well" too. You picked out the exact line I was thinking of--it's the boys who offer up that one--and in the end, I think the scene could accomodate it. There's lots of '72-era soul that would work: Al Green, Stylistics, Chi-Lites, etc. I want to make a Gentle Giant joke here, but I got in trouble on another thread for doing that.

Couldn't find the phone scene on YouTube, but these'll do:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrxQvni2xXM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSRmWTeSDng