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Apple Venus, Volume 2: Wasp Star by XTC
Apple Venus, Volume 2: Wasp Star is an album by XTC, released in 2000. 1 song from it has charted on rock radio countdowns, with 5 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “I'm The Man Who Murdered Love”, on 5 lists with a best position of #26.
Wasp Star (Apple Venus Volume 2), released in May 2000 on Cooking Vinyl, is XTC plugging back in. Andy Partridge dubbed it the "eclectric" twin of 1999's Apple Venus Volume 1, and the rock songs here had mostly been written between 1994 and 1996. By now XTC was down to Partridge and Colin Moulding, Dave Gregory having quit during the Volume 1 sessions, with Nick Davis producing.
It's a bright, wiry, guitar-stung record, full of the knotty hooks the pair had been perfecting for decades, and "I'm the Man Who Murdered Love" struts like a hit from a better-run universe. The spin-offs kept coming, the demo version Homegrown in 2001 and the instrumental Waspstrumental in 2002, but in 2006 Partridge declared the partnership finished, which left this fourteenth studio album as XTC's final word.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Apple Venus, Volume 2: Wasp Star on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I'm The Man Who Murdered Love | 5 | #26 | – | 2000–2016 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.