Apple Venus Volume 1
by XTC
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Apple Venus Volume 1 is ranked 5th best out of 30 albums by XTC on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by XTC is Skylarking which is ranked number 375 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 4,389.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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Apple Venus Volume 1 track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 81 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Apple Venus Volume 1 rankings
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Apple Venus Volume 1 ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 07/22/2026 21:04 | daCritic | 4,587 | 73/100 |
| ! | 05/31/2026 20:43 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,371 | 70/100 |
| ! | 03/16/2026 02:20 | stareaterogni0n | 538 | 71/100 |
| ! | 03/01/2026 15:17 | BoxFL | 2,766 | 51/100 |
| ! | 02/19/2026 15:01 | Jakor | 5,449 | 70/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 3% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 76.9/100, a mean average of 76.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.2/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.5.
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Many New Wave bands who continued into the nineties (and beyond), and who kept releasing new music, disappointed me. Maybe because you can only fall in love for the first time once, or maybe because the angry young man gets religion and\or smokes so much his vocal chords can't belt out the tunes like they once did. (I'm looking at you, Ian McCulloch.) But XTC is different. This is actually my favorite XTC album. Every song is good, even the one "My Dictionary," about Andy Partidge's divorce. My favorite track is "Green Man", which is a Beatlesque orchestral paen to a pagan agricultural god. Come to think of it, maybe I've gotten religion too . (Edited)
Favorite Tracks:The Last Balloon
flamingyesdept 05/03/2016 16:14 | #165113 | TOP COMMENT
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River of Orchids, Easter Theatre and I Can't Own Her are the three best songs XTC ever did
Necharsian 05/06/2012 04:43 | #41608 | TOP COMMENT
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Ahhhhh inconsistency :( my nemesis once again. I love some songs here, but some... not so much. Tis a shame. Overall it's still good though.
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