Wasp Star (Apple Venus Volume 2)
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| Studio album by XTC | ||||
| Released | 23 May 2000 | |||
| Recorded | April–December 1999, Idea Studios, Wiltshire and Chipping Norton Studios, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom | |||
| Genre | Pop rock | |||
| Length | 50:54 | |||
| Language | English | |||
| Label | Cooking Vinyl | |||
| Producer | Nick Davis | |||
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Wasp Star (Apple Venus Volume 2) is an album by XTC. It is the second volume of the Apple Venus set. The album was originally intended to just be called Apple Venus Volume Two however, at the request of the record company it was inserted into the subtitle of another title.[citation needed] It was released on Cooking Vinyl/Idea Records on 23 May 2000.
It reached No. 108 on the Billboard Top 200 Album chart,[citation needed] No. 2 on the CMJ Adult Album Alternative chart in the United States,[citation needed] and No. 6 on the Indie Albums chart in the UK.[citation needed]
To date, Wasp Star is the last studio album released by the group. This album was the first album featuring only Partridge and Moulding as XTC. Partridge's daughter Holly made her singing debut on record singing backup vocals in the song "Playground"; she now sings and plays guitar in the English pop-rock group The SheBeats.
In 2002 XTC released an instrumental version of the album entitled Waspstrumental.
[edit] Track listing
[edit] UK CD: COOKCD 194
All songs written and composed by Andy Partridge, except where noted.
| # | Title | Length |
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| 1. | "Playground" | 4:17 |
| 2. | "Stupidly Happy" | 4:13 |
| 3. | "In Another Life" (Colin 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 |
[edit] Personnel
- 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
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