Apple Box


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.

Track listing

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 – 3:09
  6. "Greenman" – 6:17
  7. "Your Dictionary" – 3:14
  8. "Fruit Nut" – 3:01
  9. "I Can't Own Her" – 5:26
  10. "Harvest Festival" – 4:15
  11. "The Last Balloon" – 6:39
;Wasp Star
  1. "Playground" – 4:17
  2. "Stupidly Happy" – 4:13
  3. "In Another Life" – 3:35
  4. "My Brown Guitar" – 3:51
  5. "Boarded Up" – 3:23
  6. "I'm the Man Who Murdered Love" – 3:44
  7. "We're All Light" – 4:39
  8. "Standing in for Joe" – 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 – 3:06
  6. "Greenman" – 6:01
  7. "Your Dictionary" – 3:14
  8. "Fruit Nut" – 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" – 2:02
  4. "In Another Life" – 3:44
  5. "Some Lovely" – 3:57
  6. "Boarded Up" – 2:56
  7. "I'm the Man Who Murdered Love" – 2:36
  8. "I'm the Man Who Murdered Love" – 0:39
  9. "I'm the Man Who Murdered Love" – 3:33
  10. "We're All Light" – 1:14
  11. "We're All Light" – 4:32
  12. "Standing in for Joe" – 2:41
  13. "Standing in for Joe" – 3:34
  14. "Wounded Horse" – 4:22
  15. "You and the Clouds Will Still Be Beautiful" – 3:46
  16. "Lie for a Lie" – 1:43
  17. "Church of Women" – 4:36
  18. "The Pot Won't Hold Our Love" – 1:38
  19. "Everything Decays" – 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"
  2. "Say It"

Personnel

''Apple Venus Volume 1''

;XTC
;Additional musicians
;Production

''Wasp Star (Apple Venus Volume 2)''

;XTC
;Additional musicians
;Production

''Homespun'' and ''Homegrown''