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Apple Venus Volume 1 is the thirteenth studio album by the English band XTC, released in 1999. It was the first on the band's own Idea Records label through Cooking Vinyl and distributed in the United States by TVT Records. It reached #42 in the UK.[citation needed] As with the two previous albums, the album's title appears to have been taken from a verse from a song on Nonsuch ("Then She Appeared"):

Then she appeared
Apple Venus on a half open shell

In 2002 XTC released an instrumental version of the album entitled Instruvenus.

Apple Venus Volume 1 was the last XTC album to include Dave Gregory as a member of the band. He departed the band during the recording sessions.