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Released
  
31 October 2005

Length
  
215:02

Label
  
Idea

Genre
  
Pop rock

Language
  
English

Recorded
  
January–August 1998 (volume one); April–December 1999, Idea Studios, Wiltshire and Chipping Norton Recording Studios, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom (volume two); Home studios of Colin Moulding and Andy Partridge (volumes three and four)

Apple Box is a box set by XTC compiling Apple Venus Volume 1 and Wasp Star (Apple Venus Volume 2) along with their respective demo albums Homespun and Homegrown. It is the third box set of their career following Transistor Blast: The Best of the BBC Sessions and Coat of Many Cupboards, released by Idea Records.

Contents

UK CD: IDEACD 007

All songs written by Andy Partridge, except where noted.

Apple Venus Volume 1
  1. "River of Orchids" – 5:53
  2. "I'd Like That" – 3:50
  3. "Easter Theatre" – 4:37
  4. "Knights in Shining Karma" – 3:39
  5. "Frivolous Tonight (Colin Moulding) – 3:09
  6. "Greenman" – 6:17
  7. "Your Dictionary" – 3:14
  8. "Fruit Nut" (Moulding) – 3:01
  9. "I Can't Own Her" – 5:26
  10. "Harvest Festival" – 4:15
  11. "The Last Balloon" – 6:39
Wasp Star (Apple Venus Volume 2)
  1. "Playground" – 4:17
  2. "Stupidly Happy" – 4:13
  3. "In Another Life" (Moulding) – 3:35
  4. "My Brown Guitar" – 3:51
  5. "Boarded Up" (Moulding) – 3:23
  6. "I'm the Man Who Murdered Love" – 3:44
  7. "We're All Light" – 4:39
  8. "Standing in for Joe" (Moulding) – 3:42
  9. "Wounded Horse" – 4:11
  10. "You and the Clouds Will Still Be Beautiful" – 4:18
  11. "Church of Women" – 5:06
  12. "The Wheel and the Maypole" – 5:55
Homespun
  1. "River of Orchids" – 4:10
  2. "I'd Like That" – 4:47
  3. "Easter Theatre" – 4:52
  4. "Knights in Shining Karma" – 3:38
  5. "Frivolous Tonight (Moulding) – 3:06
  6. "Greenman" – 6:01
  7. "Your Dictionary" – 3:14
  8. "Fruit Nut" (Moulding) – 2:44
  9. "I Can't Own Her" – 5:06
  10. "Harvest Festival" – 5:17
  11. "The Last Balloon" – 5:17
Homegrown
  1. "Playground" – 4:25
  2. "Stupidly Happy" – 3:45
  3. "In Another Life" (Excerpt of original demo) (Colin Moulding) – 2:02
  4. "In Another Life" (Jug band version) (Moulding) – 3:44
  5. "Some Lovely" – 3:57
  6. "Boarded Up" (Moulding) – 2:56
  7. "I'm the Man Who Murdered Love" (Early 'other song' cassette idea) – 2:36
  8. "I'm the Man Who Murdered Love" (Tamla version excerpt) – 0:39
  9. "I'm the Man Who Murdered Love" – 3:33
  10. "We're All Light" (Early cassette idea) – 1:14
  11. "We're All Light" – 4:32
  12. "Standing in for Joe" (Lounge version) (Moulding) – 2:41
  13. "Standing in for Joe" (Moulding) – 3:34
  14. "Wounded Horse" – 4:22
  15. "You and the Clouds Will Still Be Beautiful" – 3:46
  16. "Lie for a Lie" (Cassette demo) – 1:43
  17. "Church of Women" – 4:36
  18. "The Pot Won't Hold Our Love" (Early cassette idea) – 1:38
  19. "Everything Decays" (Early cassette idea) – 2:26
  20. "The Wheel and the Maypole" – 5:33

Purchase of the box set also provides instructions for downloading two non-album XTC tracks:

  1. "Spiral" (Partridge)
  2. "Say It" (Moulding)

Personnel

  • Pete Ashworth – photography
  • Ian Cooper – mastering
  • Steve Gullick – photography
  • Valerie Phillips – photography
  • Andrew Swainson – design

    • Apple Venus Volume 1

    XTC
  • Dave Gregory – piano, keyboards, keyboard programming, guitars, backing vocals (Gregory left the band during recording)
  • Colin Moulding – vocals, bass guitar
  • Andy Partridge – vocals, guitars
    • Additional musicians
  • Mike Batt – orchestral arrangements for "Greenman" and "I Can't Own Her"
  • Haydn Bendall – keyboards
  • Guy Barker – trumpet and flugelhorn solo on "The Last Balloon"
  • Nick Davis – keyboards
  • Prairie Prince – drums, percussion
  • Steve Sidwell – trumpet solo on "Easter Theatre"
  • All arrangements played by The London Sessions Orchestra under their leader Gavin Wright
    • Production
  • Haydn Bendall – original production, engineering
  • Nick Davis – additional production, engineering, mix
  • Simon Dawson – mix assistance
  • Alan Douglas – recording engineer
  • Barry Hammond – recording engineer
  • Tim Young – mastering

    • Wasp Star (Apple Venus Volume 2)

    XTC
  • Colin Moulding – vocals, bass guitar
  • Andy Partridge – vocals, guitar
    • Additional musicians
  • Caroline Dale – cello
  • Nick Davis – keyboards
  • Simon Gardner – flugelhorn
  • Patrick Kiernan – violin
  • Peter Lale – viola
  • Holly Partridge – backing vocals on "Playground"
  • Prairie Prince – drums (2, 3, 4, 12)
  • Chuck Sabo – drums (1, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
  • Kate St. John – oboe
  • Matt Vaughn – programming
  • Gavin Wright – violin
    • Production
  • Haydn Bendall – recording engineering
  • Nick Davis – producer, mixing, recording engineering
  • Simon Dawson – mix engineer
  • Alan Douglas – recording engineering
  • Barry Hammond – recording engineering
  • Bob Ludwig – mastering

    • Homespun and Homegrown

  • Andy Partridge
  • Colin Moulding

    • References

    Apple Box Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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