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