Apple Box

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)

• 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 Session 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